but should these fail, there is a last resort:
If you are looking for someone you think might have contributed to a Usenet newsgroup over the past few years, then you can get their address from
and if they are an academic attached to a tertiary institution, then it's a piece of cake. Just go to:
In addition:
- Electronic Newstand Homepage
The Electronic Newstand represents 'your single Internet source for the widest selection of articles from the world's leading magazines, newsletters, newspapers, catalogues, and more! Browse for free, subscribe for less'.
- The Utne Lens
Describes itself as 'A Field Guide to the Emerging Culture'
- The Times group of newspapers and supplements is available now, and you can even fill in a list of subjects and key terms to 'cutomize' your own personal newspaper. Presently available for free, but presumably it will start to come with a lot of advertising one of these days. For other newspapers, check via
Looking for news from around the world?
- Net Scout Services Homepage offers both a search system and 3Ws information system that is a kind of hybrid resource guide and search system.
- Evolution and Science News will keep you up to date with what's being published in Nature, Science, etc
- And if your thinking of taking a vacation, then Cyber Café Guide will let you know if you can continue to use your mail etc. when you're there.
General Academic Resources
- Project Gutenberg Home Page
The intention at this site is to make available in what they term 'plain vanilli ASCII' format any book which is out of copyright (roughly any author who has been dead for over 50 years). This site is pretty good on classics and philosophy texts.
- The Internet Public Library
'A library of and for the Internet community, and an experiment trying to discover the unique hybrid of librarianship and the Internet'. Not only is this a useful reference resource, but is a paradigm example of what a graduate class can achieve, and thus represents what we must aim to create here in our chosen territory (see also the Cultural Studies resource at Carnegie-Mellon University listed below).
- Online Books and Texts
An understated resource for locating electronic text versions of a wide array of academic materials
- Roget's 1911 Thesaurus
Self explanatory, and still useful even these days when a Thesauraus is part of the whistles-and-bells accompaniments of most wordprocessing packages. Check out their link to the Dictionary project for a salutory lesson
And when the going gets tough, this is where the tough go looking for a job
- The Times Higher home page
- The Chronicle of Higher Education
General Resource Locators for the Social Sciences, Humanities and Psychology
- Craig McKie (Research Engines for the Social Sciences)
- Craig McKie (Roadmap for Research)
- Social Science Information Gateway
A searchable database of 'quality information services over the networks' that is funded in the UK by the Economic and Social Research Council and eLib.
- Cognitive and Psychological Sciences
an 'index to Internet resources relevant to research in cognitive science and psychology'.
- Resources for Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
This is a very comprehensive source on practically every Psychology Department in the world that has a World-Wide-Web page, and is regularly updated. The only problem is that rather than the list being organized by sub-groups or sub-pages, it is just one, alphabetical list; consequently, it is very long.
- PsychWeb
By contrast, a resource built at Georgia Southern University that does not have a specific research focus, but includes a massive set of links to a wide array of psychology resources.
- Interpsych
'A non-profit making, voluntary organization established on the Internet with the aim of promoting international scholarly collaboration on interdisciplinary research and intervention efforts in the field of psychopathology'. And it is interdisciplinary.
- Cultural Studies and Critical Theory
A self-explanatory resource. But there is more. Remove the last designator from this URL (ie, delete 'Theory.html' ) to get a guaranteed view of a massive set of materials and information in the humanities - in philosophy, rhetoric, history, feminism, etc. And this site also serves as an example of what an academic community can build in the course of its 'terran' work.
- QualPage
A collection of resources for qualitative researchers. This is a developing goldmine
- Voice of the Shuttle: Philosophy Page
This is a direct link to a specific area of the more general resource listed later.
- Non-Cartesian Cognitive Science
'Traditional Cognitive Science is Cartesian in the sense that it takes as fundamental the distinction between the mental and the physical, the mind and the world, the subject and the object. It is this Cartesianism which leads to such claims as that cognition must be representational and that what sets cognizers apart is the fact that they exhibit "aboutness".
It is the aim of this page to bring together non-Cartesian approaches to the study of cognition. That means that the main point which holds this page together is the idea that mind and body form a unity, not a union. Guttorm Floistad (1983) speaks of Spinozism to allude to non-Cartesian approaches to the mental. Under that heading, there is room for many different themes....' - Narrative Psychology
'This page focuses upon narrative perspectives in psychology and allied disciplines and provides an interdisciplinary guide to bibliographical and Internet resources concerned with "the storied nature of human conduct" (Sarbin, 1986) broadly conceived. It also archives materials from the course, PSY 444 Narrative Psychology, which was first taught at LeMoyne College, Syracuse, NY, in the Spring, 1996 and is next scheduled for Spring, 1997.'
- Nijmegen
Cultural Psychology Group
- Postmodern: From Nihilism to Utopia
'This document contains the most comprehensive listing of Postmodern Thought on the Web today! Along with links to other ideological meccas, this author will take you on a journey into the postmodern world, the likes of which you have never experienced before.
So buckle in, strap on all your attachments to modern reality, and be ready for your arbitrary presuppositions to be peeled from your disillusioned grey matter.' - The Multicultural Pavilion at the University of Virginia provides an emerging set of links to resources in a wide field concerned with contesting the dominant assumptions of 1st World discourse practices and their hegemony.
- And if you want a source of qualitative data, then look no further than the UK House of Commons Debates,
Journals and Other Resources of Interest
- Electronic Journal of Sociology
- Journal of Mind and Behavior
- Theory and Psychology
- Journal of Constructivist Psychology
- The Journal of Collaborative Therapies
- Radical Psychology Network
- International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology (IACCP)
- Ethnomethodology Newsletter Index
- Cultural-Historical Psychology
- Society for Descriptive Psychology
Other Academic (and Non-Academic) Groups Exploring Internet Possibilities
- The GlobalPsych Institute
'The basic aims of the organization are:
To enhance by any means the individual's capacity to communicate knowledge, ideas, and experience in the fields of health (particularly, but not only, mental health), behaviour, cognition, and education (particularly continuing and distance education as influenced by the internet).
To enhance the individual's capacity to contribute to knowledge, ideas and experience in the fields of health, behaviour, cognition, and education.'
This is a developing resource not dissimilar in its philosophy to that which animates this site, but with aims to encompass the entire range of psychology, and provide support for, and access to, techniques and resources to exploit the Internet. And you thought we were being ambitious... - The Open University Knowledge Media Institute
'A key theme in Knowledge Media is that conventional media 'content' is in itself less important than the dynamic means of accessing, sharing, and creating knowledge'. A 'state-of-the-art' umbrella for distance eductaion technology and philosophy centred in the Open University, UK.
- IATH
- University of Chicago Philosophy Project
This is what we are using as a model to develop towards.
- Carnegie-Mellon University Undergraduate Programs
An excellent example of how to integrate course information and electronic resources, which is as it should be from a University that has been at the forefront of integrating computer technology into its everyday work.
- The World Lecture Hall
- Apple Higher Education: The Apple Virtual Campus
Presently, a remarkably disappointing site, but who knows what the future holds?
- New Tools for Teaching, by James O'Donnell
'This page leads to others that introduce, describe, and exemplify new Internet-based resources for teaching that are already available and in the main astonishingly easy to use.'
and now for somethings completely different, (though you could always check out Monty Python if you felt like it). - Psybernet
- City of Bits
- The sprawl
- The Hub
- Writing the Information Superhighway
- Virtual Communities
Relevant Technology for Developing a 'Virtual Faculty'
Hardware and other bits that make things work
- CU-SeeMe Desktop Videoconferencing
- New World Media
- VocalTech Web Service: Internet Phone Division of Educational Technology
- RealAudio Homepage
- Macromedia: Interactive Multimedia Using Macromedia's Shockwave for Director®
General information, software and associated guides
The following are not listed in order of usefulness, but order of discovery. They are all useful (or if not, thought provoking at least)
- A Beginner's Guide to HTML Documents
- Internet Tools Summary
- Web Developer's Virtual Library: WWW Development
- Running A WWW Service - 4 HTML
- List elements in HTML
- HTML Validation Service
- Netscape Navigator Extensions to HTML
- WAMP
- Web Developer's Virtual Library: Graphics
- Color Ramper
- The DiGiTAL ASYLUM Image Gallery
- The PostMaster - Announce Your URL Everywhere!
- Submit It!
- HTML converters
- HTML Writer Home Page
HTML Writer is an excellent editor for windows pc's. It lacks a few bells-and-whistles, but is (currently) downloadable for no fee, and it does what it's supposed too without locking Windows up. It's used for these pages.
- How do they do that with HTML?
Not another HTML writing guide: this site concentrates on how to do all the flashy, fun stuff like backgrounds, sounds, dynamic documents, browser detection, gif animation - all the things that aren't in our pages.
- Submit-All
- The Internet Remote Printer Server
Free faxes via the internet, provided by a telephone company
- The first issue of the Journal of Information Law and Technology is now online. This is intended to be
'a "living" journal which is not merely be text on screen but will include multimedia features and encourage lively debate among readers. The first issue includes refereed articles on the special feature on data protection and a number of other topics. It includes a first ever demonstration of WWW Hansard online outside the Houses of Parliament. As deliberate experiments in consultation, it includes the first draft report of the Second BILETA Inquiry into Information Technology in Legal Education as well as the Issues Consultation Papers of the Lord Woolf Inquiry into Access to Civil Justice.
The project is part of the Electronic Law Journals Project funded under the Electronic Libraries Programme and intends to develop a series of law journals under a single environment.
The journal should be of interest to academic and practising lawyers as well as non-lawyers interested in information technology and law. We will welcome comments and suggestions.
jilt@strath.ac.uk or editor@themis.law.warwick.ac.uk'
Possible Models for Future Developments
- University Online
'University Online, Inc. is in the business of serving the needs of educational institutions and corporate campuses who wish to put their programs online on the World Wide Web. University Online (UOL) will set up a custom online service that meets the needs of the institution. UOL will provide access to its vast library of interactive online courses in business, technology, sciences, language arts, and basic skills. In addition, UOL will customize its student enrollment and learning management software; real time classroom; bulletin boards; and seamless integration with the Web'.
- Virtual Online University
'Virtual Online University, Inc. is a non-profit corporation offering a novel and effective approach to academic excellence, professional development and life-long learning. Combining the latest advances in computer mediated communication with the most recent research in learning theory, we've developed a Virtual Educational Environment that significantly extends the effectiveness of both learners and instructors. Rather than earning credits in isolation, this interactive electronic campus allows students to collaborate, debate, and learn from fellow students and instructors via a distinctly new model for distance education.'
- Globewide Network Academy
'GNA is a worldwide non-profit consortium of educational and research organizations Our mission is to improve education by creating a marketplace for courses as well as to offer administrative and technical services to organizations and individuals who are presenting online courses. We are actively seeking new members.'
- The New School for Social Research
The New School for Social Research in New York is offering over 90 online courses in their autumn semester of 1996. The teaching model is a combination of paper-based readings, on-line academic commentaries, and electronic discussion groups. Pieces on the experience of teaching in this mode by academics running courses make interesting reading.
Just For Fun: And part of the fun is picking randomly
- Andy Goldsworthy
- Uncle Bob's Kids Page
- HyperDoc: The Visible Human Body
- Spider Pick of the Day
- The Vatican
- The Electronic Postcard Rack
- Left-hand Turn Game - Bill New
- Welcome To HotWired!
- T-Bone Burnett
- Primate Gallery
- The Unofficial Philip K. Dick Home Page
- Internet Movie Database
Drop us a line if you know of other sites you think we should list here. Thanks.
- Comments to A.J.Lock@massey.ac.nz
- Department of Psychology, Massey University , New Zealand
- URL: http://www.massey.ac.nz/~ALock
- last changed Thursday, 6 March, 1997
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