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Revision as of 19:56, 15 September 2014
Why pester some busy search engine looking for your favorite research materials? ;-)
This list is a freely shared work-in-progress which makes no claims other than being a few of the favorite "go to" resources of its highly eccentric author. Steal it. Fork it. Credit it as your karmic needs require. I'll share an Evernote notebook with these same materials once the list settles a bit further. Or use the awesome Evernote Clearly browser plug-in to snag it right now. Thanks for visiting. I'd enjoy knowing you were here.
What's the point of this list?
I was motivated to start building out this list when I was thinking about the workflow of most amateur encyclopedic contributors, which is: start writing, then find some sources to justify what you've written. This is not the way serious researchers work. You want your article to be inspired FROM the sources, not just "decorated" with them. So, let's put the focus back where it belongs: source-based research. "After all," wrote Umberto Eco in Serendipities: Language and Lunacy (1998), "the cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopaedia."
Have a suggestion?
If you have a suggestion, you're welcome to make it on the Talk page. Thanks!
"Google is not a synonym for research."
Novelist Dan Brown
Academic
The Chronicle of Higher Education
WorldCat
WorldCat Lists
Emergent Academic Resources
- Open Syllabus Project (API access only)
Archives
Archives Hub
Archives for London
National Archives (UK)
National Archives (US)
arXiv.org
Folger Shakespeare Library Digital Image Collection (75,000 images/CC licensing)
Genealogy Bank
History Is A Weapon (Useful for researching historical sources, but the site itself is not rigorously edited enough to be used as a source itself.)
OpenCulture.com
Prelinger Archives (over 60,000 "ephemeral" films)
TED
WikiLeaks
Audio
Cartographic
- Big Map Blog
- British Library Department of Cartographic and Topographical Materials
- Cartographic archives of the British Museum
- Gallica (National Library of France cartographic collections)
- Levanthal Map Center at the Boston Public Library
- Library of Congress Geography and Map Reading Room
- Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division of the NYPL
- David Rumsey Map Collection
- USGS Historical Topographic Map Explorer
Geospatial
NOAA Digital Coast
GeoData(R)@Berkeley
NOAA National Geophysical Data Center
USGS National Map
OpenGeoPortal Project
Historical
Connected Histories (federated search of British historical sources 1500-1900)
Musical
- MuseScore.com sheet music collection
- Open Goldberg Variations
- Petrucci Music Library (A project of the International Music Score Library Project)
Temporal (Timelines)
Video
Booksellers and Reviews
Booksellers
- Advanced Book Exchange
- Alibris
- Folio Society
- History Book Club
- Powell's Books (Portland, OR)
Book Reviews
Also see: Libraries below.
Broadcast Sources
Aljazeera America
Associated Press
British Broadcasting Service
Democracy Now!
National Public Radio
Reuters
Economics
Economist magazine Intelligence Unit
Economist magazine Markets and Data
International Groups and Agencies
BRICS Information Centre
G8 Information Centre
G8 Official Site
G20 Information Centre
G20 Official Site
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
New Development Bank (BRICS)
World Bank
World Trade Organization
Governing, Regulating, Human Rights Agencies
Africa
In Progress
Asia
In Progress
Central America
In Progress
Europe
In Progress
International
Amnesty International
United Nations
World Health Organization
Middle East
In Progress
North America
- Canada
- United States of America
- Mexico
South America
In Progress
South Pacific
In Progress
Journals
Archives and Indexes
- Cogent Open Access journals
- DeepDyve (great for independents without access to university library) $
- Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
- Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR)
- Wiley Online Library $$$
- ProjectMuse (access limited to federated institutions)
- Questia $
- Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR)
- Taylor and Francis $$
- Taylor and Francis Open Access
Distinguished
- Harvard Law Review
- Nature (International Journal)
- New England Journal of Medicine $$
Topical
- Botany
- Fremontia (California Native Plant Society)
- Botanical Studies (OpenAccess Journal)
- American Journal of Botany
- New Phytologist
- Fremontia (California Native Plant Society)
- Geography
- The California Geographer
- Mapping The World (T&F/Free Access)
- The California Geographer
- Science (General)
- Technology
- 2600-The Hacker Quarterly
- Communications of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)
- 2600-The Hacker Quarterly
Libraries
Biblioteca Vasconcelos
Bodleian Library
British Library
Digital Public Library of America
ibiblio: The Public's Library and Digital Archive
Library of Congress
New York Public Library
Open Library
Prelinger Library
Project Gutenberg
WikiSource
World Digital Library
Major University Libraries
Also see:
(University of California) Berkeley Library
Duke University Libraries
Harvard Library
New York University Libraries
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries
Yale University Libraries
Magazines
ArcNews (Geospatial IT industry news from ESRI, Inc.)
The Atlantic
Audubon (magazine of the Audubon Society)
The Economist
Humanities (Magazine of the NEH)
National Geographic Society
The New Yorker
Smithsonian
WIRED
Museums
British Museum
Getty Research Institute
Hermitage Museum Digital Collection (St. Petersburg, Russia)
Smithsonian Museums
Museums of Art
- apexart
- Ashmolean Musem (Art & Architecture/Oxford University)
- California Palace of the Legion of Honor (San Francisco)
- The Contemporary Arts Museum of Houston
- Denver Art Museum
- de Young Museum (San Francisco)
- Fine Arts Museums of Belgium
- Guggenheim Museums (Findings Blog)
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
- Louvre (Paris)
- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
- Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles)
- Museum of Modern Art (MoMA New York)
- Nasher Museum (Durham, NC)
- National Museum of Australia
- The National Gallery (UK) (London)
- National Gallery of Art (US) (Washington, DC)
- Philadelphia Museum of Art
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Newspapers
Archives and Indexes
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers
- Newspaper Archive ("World's Largest Collection")
- World-Newspapers.com
Daily
- Financial Times
- The Guardian (UK, US, AUS editions available)
- International Herald Tribune
- New York Times
- The Telegraph
- The Times
- Wall Street Journal
- Washington Post
Investigative Journalism
Other Encyclopedia
Artcyclopedia
Encyclopedia Britannica
Citizendium
Encyclo.co.uk (Sources)
Genderpedia.net
Grove Music Online (the authoritative musicological resource; available through some libraries) $$$
New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture (print only)
Scholarpedia
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
WorldBook
Reference
Central Intelligence Agency World Factbook
Oxford English Dictionary $$ (free access available to OED Online via some local libraries)
Reference.com
Software (for Encyclopedic Research)
Evernote (knowledge management)
Gephi (cluster graphs)
Google Earth (GIS)
Google Ngram Viewer (historical word usage trends)
Google Scholar (journal index)
Knight Lab TimelineJS
MapStory (map stories)
Mendeley(reference manager/PDF organizer)
Network Workbench (cluster graphs)
Open Knowledge Foundation Frictionless Data (data)
ProPublica Tools/Data Store (data)
School of Data: Seven Ways To Create A Storymap (map stories)
- CartoDB OdysseyJS
- ESRI ArcGIS Story Maps
- Leaflet Playback plugin
- JourneyMap (Leaflet plugin)
- Knight Lab StoryMapJS
- OKFL TimeMapper
- Tour Builder (for Google Earth)
Serendip-o-matic (digital artifact exploration)
Timeglider (timelines)
Tor Project (anonymizer)
Wikimedia Projects
Zotero (reference management)
Unrecoverable and As-Yet-Unrealized Sources
...But new materials are continually being scanned, and the same methods that build a compelling historical argument one year may undo the argument the next because of new fodder for the keyword searches. In some cases, the answers to historians’ questions may lie forever out of reach, because they were printed in very minor publications that will never be captured by Google or ProQuest; or printed in sources now lost, like the newspapers in the British Museum destroyed by a German bomb in World War II; or discussed orally without ever being printed anywhere; or printed and digitized but expressed in discourse whose semantics cannot be matched by Boolean searching of words and phrases.
Fred R. Shapiro, Yale Law School
"Who Wrote The Serenity Prayer?"
The Chronicle Review (May 2, 2014)
Recommended Reading
The Uses of Being Wrong by Daniel W. Drezner
Ignorance: How It Drives Science by Stuart Firestein
The Professor and the Madman : A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English dictionary by Simon Winchester (US). Also see: The Surgeon of Crowthorne by Simon Winchester (UK)