Web resources outside Columbia
Listed below are web pages that may be of interest to 21stC readers -- that is,
anyone who's interested in research and the ideas that research generates. 21stC wishes
to help people find these sites but cannot vouch for the accuracy of all information contained in
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Academic sites
Professional organizations
Publications
Arts/inventions/communities/ideas
Tools for online research
Academic research and interdisciplinary sites outside Columbia
- American Studies
Web,
Yale
- Association of American
Universities
- Committee on the
Conceptual
Foundations of Science, U. of Chicago
- Crossroads American Studies
project,
Georgetown
- The English Server,
Carnegie-Mellon
- Guide to
college and
university homepages, MIT
- Human-Languages Page,
Willamette U.
- Humanist
discussion group on humanities computing, King's College London and Princeton
- MIT Media Lab
- Program for the Human
Environment,
Rockefeller U.
- Program on Science,
Technology,
and Society, North Carolina State
- Project MUSE, Johns Hopkins
- Serendip, Bryn Mawr
- American Academy of Arts and
Sciences
- American Association for the Advancement
of
Science
- American Center for Physics
- American Library Association
- American Society of
Journalists
and Authors
- Association for Support of Graduate
Students
- BioMedNet (free subscription
required)
- The British
Academy
- Carnegie Institution of
Washington
- Community of Science
- Complexity International
- Environmental Literacy Council
- EnviroWeb
- Federation of American Scientists
- Genetics Society of
America
- Greenpeace International,
Amsterdam
- Institut Pasteur,
Paris
(English version)
- Institute of Physics
- Albert and Mary Lasker
Foundation
- MedWeb
- NASA Information
Services
- National Academy of Sciences/National
Academy of
Engineering/Institute of Medicine/National Research Council
- National Association of Scholars
- National Center for Biotechnology
Information
- National
Institutes of Health
- National Institute of Environmental
Health
Sciences library site
- National Institute of Standards and
Technology
- RSA (Royal Society for the
Encouragement
of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce)
- The Santa Fe Institute
- Scholarly Societies
Project
- Science Service, educational
organization
- Skeptics Society
- Smithsonian
Interdisciplinary Research Programs
- TechNation
- World Health Organization
- Young Scientists
Network archive
- Academe This Week,
Chronicle of Higher Education
- Ann Schaffner, "The Future of
Scientific
Journals," from Information Technology and Libraries
- Annals of Improbable Research
- Archipelago, an
international journal of literature, arts, and opinion
- Arts & Letters Daily,
guide to notable online essays (interdisciplinary, largely but not exclusively in the
humanities)
- Association of
American University Presses catalog
- Axcess
- Bad Subjects, a journal of politics and contemporary culture
- BioMedLi nk: Journals and Publications
- BookWeb
- Boston Book Review
- Configurations, a journal of literature, science, and technology
- Critical Inquiry
- Critical Thought
- CTHEORY (Theory, Technology, Culture)
- Earth
- Electronic Journal of Sociology
- Electronic Journals catalog, academic division
- The Electronic Newsstand
- Enterzone
- EurekAlert!
- Feed
- FutureNet (European e-zine)
- Intellectual Capital
- Granta
- InterJournal consortium of refereed science/engineering journals
- Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
- Journal of Information, Law, and Technology
- Journal Of Irreproducible Results
- Lingua Franca
- LM (formerly Living Marxism), UK
- London Review of Books
- Nature
- New Scientist, UK
- New York Review of Books
- The Onion, parodic news magazine
- Online Bookstore
- The Philosophers' Magazine
- Physical Review
- Postmodern Culture
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Psychiatry On-Line
- Psycoloquy
- Salon
- Materials for Scholarly Journals at the Crossroads: A Subversive Proposal for Electronic Publishing, forthcoming from the Association of Research Libraries' Office of Scientific and Academic Publishing
- Science (requires subscription or AAAS membership for full-text articles)
- Science Tribune, Paris
- The Scientist gopher
- SciTech Daily Review, guide to scientific essays online (offshoot of Arts & Letters Daily)
- Slate (requires subscription for most articles)
- Web Review
- Wired
- Word
- Bad Subjects, a journal of politics and contemporary culture
- Phil Agre's Network Observer
- ArtsWire, NY Foundation
for the Arts
- The Art of
Renaissance Science, hypermedia project, CUNY
- BrainWave,
simultaneous debate on libertarianism at four major online sites (Electric Minds,
Feed, Salon, and ZDTV's The Site)
- Civnet
- Columbia University Interactive Arts Festival
1999 (April 6-9, organized by the Computer Music Center, the Fritz Reiner Center for
Contemporary Music, and the Alice M. Ditson Fund)
- The Cyborganic Gardens
- Iguide
- EDGE, interdisciplinary discussion group organized by
science-writing entrepreneur John Brockman
- eSCENE 1997 Contents (online
fiction)
- Global Business Network (futurists,
visionaries, and scenario planners)
- GLOBAL IDEAS BANK
- Mark Harden's Artchive
- Internet Arts Museum for free
(IAMfree)
- Jump City
- Just The News, over 100 direct audio/video links
worldwide (uses RealAudio)
- Leonardo, International Society of the Arts, Sciences and Technology
- Bodleian Library, Oxford U.
- CenterWatch clinical trials
monitoring service
- Central Intelligence Agency
country maps and publications
- Dogpile multiple search engine
- FACSNET, Foundation for American
Communications
- GrantsNet, AAAS/Howard Hughes
Medical Institute
- Institute for Scientific Information, publisher of databases including Current Concepts and assorted specialty citation indexes
- Medical World Search
- The Mining Company, collection of
specialty sites created by volunteers/enthusiasts
- National Library of Medicine
- New Riders computer reference works
- New York Public Library
- Online Computer Library Center reference
services
- ProfNet database of expert
sources
- Reference.com, custom
search engine for online discussion fora (Usenet newsgroups and mailing lists)
- Science Culture index
to human/social sciences, Paris
- Starting Point
- TILE.NET guide to
LISTSERV discussion groups
- UnCover document search and
delivery service, CARL Corporation
- Virtual Pharmacy,
Martindale's Health Science Guide
- Web Dictionary
of Cybernetics and Systems
- whatis.com, glossary and guide to
information technology
- WWW Virtual
Library, Bioscience/Medicine