Reference Spark
Links to Web Search and Reference Sites
- Contents of This Page:
- Introduction
- Internet Political Search Sites
- Books and Booksellers
- Internet Search Tools
- Publishing Media
- Electronic Media Search
- Reference
- Index to Spark Pages
Introduction
If you have read the introductory remarks on any of the other Spark pages you will be aware that I have a habit of surfing away gaily into the early hours to the neglect of my pet project. This project is to gather together in one place a collection of good links for politicially conscious people of left wing disposition.
I spent a lot of time searching through the sites on this page out of curiosity, but at least here I think I have managed to achieve some sort of reasonable result. There is much more to be found, and I could do with all the help I can get. If you can assist in this project please email me with the URLs of relevant material, along with a short informative comment on each one. In return (should you so so desire) I will acknowledge you by name as the source of the link, and provide an email link to you, or even a hyperlink if you have a relevant page of your own.
Finally, the introductory section of the Spark Homepage is also relevant to an understanding of the objectives underlying the content and design of these pages.
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Index to Spark Pages
Internet
Political Search Sites
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Books and Booksellers
- Cambridge University Press Catalogues etc.
- Children's Literature Web Guide Books for children, children's writings, electronic texts, articles on children's literature. Everything.
- Classics Archive Many texts in electronic form and good links. Searchable database.
- Datatext Archives Electronic texts from Data Text Processing Ltd.
- The English Server Electronic texts on humanities subjects. Mainly literary.
- Loompaniacs Gopher site. Long single page catalogue. Alternative books.
- The Internet Bookshop 750,000 titles available to order. Titles cross-referenced by subject. Links to other bookstores.
- International Thompson Publishing Large database of books to order.
- Berkeley Digital Library Sunsite University of Berkerly California project providing English language texts of medieval works.
- The On-line Books Page Based at Carnegie Mellon University. Electronic texts and excellent links to other electronic text resources. 1,200 English works. See especially the section on banned books.
- Oxford University Text Archive
- City University of London School of Informatics.
- The Tech Classics Archive Classics archive at MIT. (The Tech, which hosts this resource, is an MIT magazine. You can access its homepage by deleting the directories in the URL (i.e. delete all after '.edu/' and go to that location).
- Shakespeare Internet Resources Other Shakespeare resources, also at MIT.
- Ventana A commercial site offering information, software, computer books (and disks).
- Virginia Electronic Texts Archive Mainly English language electronic texts from the University of Virginia, but also including some French, German, Japanese, and Latin.
- Wiretap Electronic text library includes UN, as well as US and other government, documents. Good links. But you need to read well down into the page before you come to the useful gopher and ftp resources.
- Wyvern Business Bookshop Practical business books.
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Libraries
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Internet Search Tools
- All-In-One-Search Provides access to over 200 net search engines, including all the main ones. If you can't see the search engine you want below then go here. On second thoughts go here anyway. When your search is complete you will be logged on to the home of the search tool you have chosen.
- Alta Vista Internet Search
- Censor Bait On MIT. Items the censors don't want you to see. There are a lot of interesting links here; but be warned: if you are easily offended by the forthright expression of violence, hatred, and other anti-social sentiments, then some of the links provided are not for you.
- Clipart Start your search for clipart here.
- Dejanews Research Service Searches for topics available in any Usenet group.
- Galaxy Galaxy is a guide to world-wide information and services. Search from subject lists or use a word search.
- Four11 Directory Services Search of specialised white pages listings. You must register, though its free. Input your own listing.
- Global Network Navigator Many search services.
- Harvest Keyword browse and search. Also contains thousands of home pages.
- The Huge List
A large, list-based search index.
- Infoseek Superlative search engine. Searches Usenet and various commercial listings. Searches web text. But you pay $10 a month after the first free month.
- Internet Resources Meta-Index A loosely categorised meta-index of resource directories and indices available on the internet.
- Internet World Wide Web Index by subject. Also UK police page dedicated to stopping child pornography. Difficult to access.
- Justin's Links from the Underground Fiction, sex, politics, drugs, etc. etc. etc. Very idiosyncratic site.
- Lookup Give a name and find an email address. Access difficult.
- Lycos Database Superlative search engine maintained by Carnegie Mellon University.
- Muscat Experimental search engine.
- Places for Parents Parents, children, and the net. A good site, with a robust attitude to what children should, and should not, see on the net.
- The Progressive Directory ConflictNet, EcoNet, LaborNet, PeaceNet, WomensNet. Linking world wide resources.
- Subject Orientated Clearinghouse Search from menus.
- UK Internet Sites UK Internet Resources. Hosted by Tardis at the University of Edinburgh, it is currently undergoing reconstruction after hardware failure, and appears not to have all its listings (WWW Document Tree) back on-line yet.
- Veronica Gopher menus from all around the net. Veronica = Very Easy Rodent Orientated Netwide Index to Computer Archives.
- W3 Virtual Library An enormous index of subjects in alphabetical order.
- WebCrawler 350,000 indexed documents. Keyword search.
- Who's Who on the Internet Lists individuals and homepages.
- World Wide Yellow Pages Exactly that. search or browse by heading, location etc.
- Web Tools Internet software of all kinds for all platforms. However, the last couple of times I tried to access this site I was given a message that the server may be down.
- WWW Worm Offers several ways to search the web.
- Yahoo Indispensible tool.
- Yanoff's List Useful.
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Publishing Media
- Africa On-Line Magazine covering African and African-American affairs..
- The Age (Australia) Australian and international news.
- American Prospect Magazine A US liberal magazine. Interesting articles.
- British Medical Journal (UK)
- FAIR: Campaign for Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (USA).
- Center for Civic Networking (USA) Internet publishing assistance for community and non profit groups.
- Clarinet News (USA) Subscription news service.
- Discover Magazine (USA) Articles on science and technology..
- The Economist (UK) UK weekly newspaper. Very liberal and market oriented on economic isues and very right wing politically. Tends to be didactic.
- Electronic Policy Network (USA) Timely information and leading ideas on national policy and politics. It has an interesting magazine called 'Idea Central' and many interesting links to liberal (in the American sense) resources in economic and social policy.
- The Electronic Telegraph (UK) UK daily newspaper. Conservative. Its free, but you must register.
- The Financial Times Group (UK) The UK business, financial, and economic newspaper.
- Galway Advertiser (Ireland) Galway local newspaper.
- Gazeta Online (Poland) Poland's biggest daily. In polish. Tends to time out before access is gained.
- George Magazine Online (USA) John Kennedy Jounior's irreverent political magazine. Articles and links to other US political resources.
- Green Left Weekly A weekly paper from Australia which aims to be a 'proudly independent voice committed to human and civil rights, global peace and environmental sustainability, democracy and equality. By printing the news and ideas the mainstream media won't, Green Left Weekly exposes the lies and distortions of the power brokers and helps us to better understand the world around us. The paper brings together in its content, distribution and readership a broad range of progressive activists and organisations. It is now Australia's leading alternative newspaper, providing local, national and international news, analysis and discussion on a wide range of issues'.
- Guardian Online (UK) UK Daily Newspaper. Liberal.
- IGC Headline News Gopher site run by The Institute for Global Communications. Ecologically aware. Covers Third World, racism, environment etc.
- HotPress Irish magazine largely devoted to the music scene, but with provocative articles on social issues.
- Inquisitor Magazine (USA) Media-watch publication. Promotes the paper issue, so only a small number of articles and reviews.
- Irish Emigrant Gopher site of news for Irish emigrants.
- Irish Times The Irish liberal newspaper. Generally a good site, but badly indexed. The home page, unfortunately, is cluttered with competitions and special offers, so this URL will bring you the current issue and you can take it from there. The articles are excellent, as would be expected from a paper of record, and many of the journalistic pieces are progressive or left leaning. See especially: Fintan O'Toole, Nuala O'Faolain, and John Watters. Vincent Browne is also very provocative, though conservative.
- Meanderings Journal of African-American politics and culture. Name is being changed to 'Gravity'.
- Left Business Observer This is a monthly newsletter on economics and politics in the U.S. and the world at large. The site contains some articles from back issues. This looks to be worth checking out.
- Mercury Centre Electronic newspaper from the USA, concerned with the future direction of commercial on-line publishing.
- The Mojo Wire A progressive American magazine dedicated to peace, equal opportunities, and exposure of anti-democratic groups. A very professional and well presented site.
- Nesurfer Digest Lots of web wisdom.
- New Socialist This is an on-line version of a new Canadian magazine called 'New Socialist'. It espouses a revolutionary socialist view, in a critical Leninist/Trotskyist tradition. It also has good links to other socialist resources, especially relating to Canada.
- New Statesman (UK) UK, liberal to left, political magazine.
- New York Timesfax Condensed, eight-page version of the paper. Needs to be downloaded, and viewed with a special programme (Adobe Acrobat), available free, online.
- One Alternative black newspaper. Contains links to news briefings from the ANC.
- Peoples Weekly World This is the newspaper of the Communist Party of the USA. A very useful and informative perspective on US and world affairs.
- Political Science Quarterly A US political science journal. 'Founded, in 1886 the "Political Science Quarterly" is the most widely read and easily accessible scholarly journal on government, politics, and public policy, both international and domestic'.
- The Portal (USA) Interesting electronic magazine with a tendency towards left-wing or alternative politics.
- The Press Association
- Private Eye UK satirical magazine. Site not kept up to date.
- An Phoblacht - Republican News Link to the current issue of the Sinn Féin newspaper, plus an archive of past issues.
- The Seed (UK) Ultra left magazine (Includes Spunk Press, Class War, and Freedom Press). Guide to anarchist publications and links to anarchist sites. (See also 'Spunk Press' below).
- Social Science Japan Newsletter of the Institute of Social Science of the University of Tokyo. A good source for Japanese politics, economics, and social issues.
- Scallywag. Political satire from the UK
- The Scientist 'The Newspaper for the Life Sciences Professional': Hosted by the University of Pennsylvania Library. Links to the current issue, with an archive going back to June 1995, and a link to a gopher site going back to 1992. A search engine is also included. Well worth a visit.
- Smithsonian Institute Magazine
- Spunk Press Anarchist Resources. Mostly subversive. It includes the text of the Unabomber manifesto. (See also 'The Seed' above).
- Teacher Talk (USA) This is a magazine for teachers.
- The Times and Sunday Times A very well presented site. You must register, but its free (yet).
- Times Higher Education Supplement Internet Service Just like the printed version. Good links to research bodies etc.
- Time Warner Online Magazines (USA) This is Pathfinder, a well presented site, with a wide variety of Time Warner publications. A bit heavy on graphics, and the articles a bit bland, but well worth a visit to judge for yourself, or just to explore. And there is plenty to explore.
- Voice of America ftp and gopher site.
- Z Net Z is an independent political magazine of critical thinking on political, cultural, social, and economic life in the United States. It sees the racial, sexual, political, and class dimensions of personal life as fundamental to understanding and improving contemporary circumstances, and it aims to assist activist efforts to attain a better future. It also contains the Noam Choamsky Archive, a public collection of files (articles, interviews, lectures, reviews, etc.) by and about Noam Chomsky. (At the moment it only contains ``political'' material; the science half of his work is not represented in the Archive).
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