LIBRARIES & RESEARCH SITES

Infomine Scholarly Internet Resource Collections

http://infomine.ucr.edu/

Database of Internet resources in the human and social sciences as well as the sciences. 

Encyclopedia of the Orient

http://lexicorient.com/e.o/index.htm

This site enables you to search by names or by countries.  It also allows a text search.  The only online encyclopedia dedicated exclusively to North Africa and the Middle East.

The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language

www.bartleby.com/61/

Language is important.  Here you will find over 90,000,000 entries with language and etymological notes, and 70,000,000 audio pronunciations.  On the opening page is a quote from Samuel Johnson:  “I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth and that things are the sons of heaven.” 

World Free Dictionaries and Searches and Arts Dictionaries

http://www.stars21.com/freemorn/index.html

Here you can find a downloadable offline dictionary (DOS & Windows versions).  You can also search for images and pictures merely by inputting key words, download digital images, do music searches, song lyric searches, and searches in the areas of fine arts and architecture.    

Poetry Search Engine

www.everypoet.com/

If you think poetry is irrelevant, think again.  The word ‘poetry’ comes from the Greek word ‘poein’ meaning ‘to make or to do.’  This site contains an immensely rich archive of the works of the best-known poets and information about their lives.  There is also a poetry search engine linked to thousands of sites including “Links to Every Poet.”