Electronic research tool, humanities and social sciences (fwd)
Prof S.R.L. Clark
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 12:05:49 +0100
From: Nick Walford <n.wa...@britac.ac.uk>
The British Academy has opened PORTAL, a directory of online resources in
the humanities and social sciences:
http://www.britac.ac.uk/portal
Please let your colleagues know about this new service for scholars and
researchers, launched to mark the Academy's centenary.
PORTAL . . .
* offers scholars easy access to online information about research
resources in all areas of the humanities and social sciences.
* is intended primarily for post-graduate or post-doctoral workers,
but covers resources of interest to a wider community.
* only includes sites which demonstrate high quality and potential
utility to the academic community, responsible ownership and
up-to-date state.
* covers the whole range of subjects within the Academy's remit,
across the humanities and social sciences.
* links to different types of resource including texts of major works,
images of artworks and artefacts, datasets, maps, and dictionaries
and encyclopaedias.
PORTAL covers a wide range of subjects across both the humanities and
social sciences, including
* African and Oriental Studies
* Archaeology
* Classical Antiquity
* Early Modern History to C1800
* Early Modern Languages and Literature
* Economics and Economic History
* History of Art and Music
* Law
* Linguistics and Philology
* Medieval Studies: History and Literature
* Modern History from C1800
* Modern Languages, Literatures, and Other Media
* Philosophy
* Political Studies: Political Theory, Government and International
* Relations
* Psychology
* Social Anthropology and Geography
* Sociology, Demography and Social Statistics
* Theology and Religious Studies
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