Acadamia & Reference Directory

Wikipedia's Main Topic Classifications
A list of Wikipedia's major topic classifications. They are used throughout Wikipedia to organize the presentation of links to articles in its various reference systems, including Wikipedia's overviews, outlines, glossaries, lists, portals, indices, and categories.
JSTOR Home
Provides access to a vast digital library containing academic journals, books, and various primary source materials for research and study.
Project Gutenberg
The pioneering digital library of over 60,000 free e-texts—ranging from classic literature to foundational historical and philosophical works—available in multiple formats for research and study.
Project MUSE
Provides a digital collection of scholarly journals and books from university presses and other academic publishers.
Perseus Digital Library
A comprehensive digital library providing access to a vast collection of ancient Greek and Latin texts, alongside their translations and scholarly resources. It offers advanced tools for deep reading, research, and analysis of classical literature and related studies.
Oxford Art Online
The online gateway to Grove Art and the Benezit Dictionary of Artists, providing biographies, thematic essays, and image links for art-historical scholarship.
Grove Music Online
The definitive reference for music research, featuring thousands of signed articles on composers, performers, genres, and music theory, alongside critical discographies.
H-Net: Humanities & Social Sciences Online
An international interdisciplinary forum hosting over 200 scholarly email discussion networks, book reviews, and resource guides across all humanities fields.
Humanities Commons
An open-access scholarly network that provides profiles, group collaboration spaces, and a repository for preprints, teaching materials, and conference papers in the humanities.
Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)
Aggregates digitized collections from U.S. libraries, archives, and museums—offering thousands of primary sources, images, and manuscripts for humanities research.
Europeana
Europe’s digital platform bringing together cultural heritage objects—books, artworks, audiovisual materials—from institutions across the continent, all freely searchable and viewable.
HathiTrust Digital Library
A partnership of academic and research institutions offering a collaborative repository of millions of digitized titles—books, journals, government documents—for full-text searching and preservation.
Exoplanet Archive
An online repository maintained by NASA’s Exoplanet Science Institute, offering up‑to‑date data on confirmed exoplanets, their host stars, and survey missions.
Morbid Anatomy
One blog turned a public research library and cabinet of curiosities; a series of exhibitions, books, films. and public events and for a time a stand-alone museum. Explores the intersections of art, medicine, death, and culture through a variety of programs including lectures, exhibitions, classes, and films. It also maintains a dedicated library for research.
BLDGBLOG
Explores ideas and theoretical concepts related to architecture, urban environments, and the future of landscapes.
The Map Room
Provides regular commentary and news on a variety of topics related to cartography and geographical information.
Powerhouse Museum
Australia's largest museum group focuses on the intersection of arts, design, science, and technology, engaging communities with contemporary ideas.
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Houses one of the world's largest and most inclusive collections of American art, serving as a center for the study and appreciation of artistic heritage, features blog and digital exhibits.
The Oregon Encyclopedia
1000s of well researched articles on significant individuals, places, institutions, events, peoples, and artistic expressions and history for the State of Oregon.
Oregon Timeweb
An interactive project that lets create a timeline detailing historical events and developments within Oregon, created by the Oregon historical society.
Oregon History Wayfinder
An interactive map detailing historical narratives and events of Oregon.
Rare Book Room
Offers digitized, high-resolution scans of rare and first-edition books. It provides access to a collection of significant historical and literary works.
Digital Book Index
Provides a comprehensive index and search capabilities for a 165,000 eBooks. It serves as a guide to online texts, organizing them by keyword, author, title, subject, and publisher.
SFE: SF Encyclopedia Home Page
A comprehensive reference resource dedicated to the genre of science fiction. It provides extensive information on authors, themes, media, and various cultural aspects of the genre.
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