Interdisciplinary Sites

On this page, you'll find sites from learned institutions in a wide range of subject matter

This page:
Museums | Open Archives / Digital Libraries | Prizes

Colleges and Universities

• See Education

Libraries

• See Books and Libraries

Museums

Web Directories of Museums:

• Museum Sites Online
• Museum.com - Search for museums by category, by place, or by keyword; also find specific exhibits
• Museum Stuff - Directory of museums by place and by topic
• Museums in Israel
• World Museum Community

Specific Museums:

• British Museum, London
• Smithsonian Institution
• Collections Search Center
• Explore Your Interests - Artifacts from the collections on almost every subject (formerly Encyclopedia Smithsonian)

Museums and Zoo:

All Washington, D.C., unless otherwise noted.

• African American History and Culture Museum
• African Art Museum
• Air and Space Museum
• Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center, Chantilly, Va.
• American Art Museum
• American History Museum
• American Indian Museum
• American Indian Museum Heye Center, New York
• Anacostia Community Museum
• Arts and Industries Building
• Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York
• Freer Gallery of Art
• Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
• National Zoo
• Natural History Museum
• Portrait Gallery
• Postal Museum
• Renwick Gallery
• Sackler Gallery
• Smithsonian Institution Building, The Castle

Virtual Museum:

• Web Exhibits

Open Archives / Digital Libraries

These sites collect all kinds of scholarly materials — preprints, e-prints, dissertations, library collections — and make them available in searchable archives. Much of this material, however, cannot be found with general search engines. Also, What is Open Access? by Charles W. Bailey, Jr

Archives of Archives:

• Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) - A collection of state/regional and subject-matter hubs of digital materials [dp.la]
• Subject List
• Primary Source Sets - Materials selected for educators and students on specific subjects
• Europeana - Treasures from libraries, archives, museums, and universities of Europe
• Internet Archive - Audio, video, live music, software, texts, archived web pages

Exemplars:

• Library of Congress Digital Collections
• American Memory - Collections of American history and culture
• New York Public Library Digital Collections
• Gallica - Digital library from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France
• Trove - Emphasizes Australian materials, such as newspapers, theses, archived web sites (National Library of Australia)
• World Digital Library - Treasures from national and academic libraries
• Ibiblio - Collections in many subjects
• Open Content on JSTOR - Open access books and journals; journals out of copyright

Search Engines:

• CORE (COnnecting REpositories) - "Aggregating the world's open access research papers," this is an index of millions of documents from thousands of journals and repositories
• OAIster - A database of millions of documents in hundreds of open-archive repositories
• ARC: A Cross Archive Search Service - Experimental index of various archives (Old Dominion University)
• BASE: Bielefeld Academic Search Engine
• e-Prints UK Search - Searches U.K. open archives
• JURN - "Millions of free academic articles, chapters and theses"; searches open access journals and institutional repositories
• Public Knowledge Project Open Archives Harvester - Database of open-archive repositories, many of them in Spanish and Portuguese

Directories, etc. of Open Archives:

• IMLS Digital Collections Registry (University of Illinois)
• OAI Registry at UIUC
• OAI Viewer - Choose an open-archive repository, get some recent records, even an RSS feed if you want. This is an experimental project from OCLC
• Open Access Directory - Lists of open-access journals and repositories
• OpenDOAR: Directory of Open Access Repositories
• Registry of Open Acccess Repositories (ROAR) (eprints.org, University of Southampton)

Background, How-To:

See also

• Metadata Schemas
• Metadata for Web Sites
• Inside CDL - Best practices, glossaries, etc. from the California Digital Library
• Open-Access Bibliography by Charles W. Bailey, Jr. (regularly updated)
• Open Archives Initiative (OAI) - Find out more about the OAI-PMH metadata standard, which makes open archives work together
• Preserving Access to Digital Information (PADI) - How and why to preserve digital materials (National Library of Australia)
• The Signal - Library of Congress blog about its digital projects

Prizes

Nobel Prize:

• Nobel Prize - Official site
• Nobel Prize Internet Archive
• Nobel Prize Winners in Literature

MacArthur "Genius Grants"

• MacArthur Fellows Program - They give out half a million dollars — out of the blue — to people who are talented in their fields. Maybe you'd like to nominate me for excellence in Web pages?

Scholarly Societies

• See Ask a Group: Associations