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Information Sources

Secular Web Sites

How the Internet is helpful for research

The Internet is a loose amalgam of thousands of computer networks reaching millions of people all over the world. For this reason, it is a useful tool for people research. However, like any tool, it requires some level of expertise. This guide presupposes you know the basics of accessing the Internet and the costs involved. The purpose of this guide is simply to give you some help in finding your way around, along with some starting places to look for information on peoples.

Libraries/Universities:

American<> Universities – http://www.clas.ufl.edu/CLAS/american-universities.html
Canadian<> Universiites – http://watserv1.uwaterloo.ca/~credmond/univ.html
Center for All Collegiate Information – http://www.collegiate.net/
Doctoral<> Dissertations – http://www.umi.com/hp/Products/Dissertations.html
Harvard Forum for<> Central Asian Studies – http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~centasia/
International<> Universities – http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/cdemello/univ.html
International<> Universities, YAHOO Listing – http://www.yahoo.com/Education/Universities/
University of Maryland Information<> Database – http://www.itd.umd.edu
Michigal<> University Microfilm Library – http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/collections/microfilms/
The Virtual Library-<> http://vlib.stanford.edu/Overview.html
Asian<> Studies WWW Virtual Library – http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html

Demography<> & Population Studies Virtual Library

Indonesia<> WWW Virtual Library

Papua<> New Guinea WWW Virtual Library

Vietnam<> WWW Virtual Library
Indigenous<> Peoples Virtual Library – http://www.halcyon.com/FWDP/wwwvl/indig-vl.html
Latin American Studies<> Virtual Library – http://lanic.utexas.edu/las.html
Russian and Eastern<> European Virtual Library – http://www.pitt.edu/~cjp/rees.html
WWW Virtual Library – http://vlib.org/overview.html<>

Government and Political Information Sites:

Library of Congress – http://lcweb.loc.gov/<>
Catalogs at the Library<> of Congress – http://lcweb.loc.gov/catalog/
Country Studies/Area<> Handbooks – http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html
US Census Bureau – http://www.census.gov/<>
World<> Factbook: http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/nsolo/wfb-all.htm
United Nations Information-<> http://www.undcp.or.at/unlinks.html
US Embassy Home Page -<> http://www.embpage.org/
US State<> Department Travel Warnings – http://travel.state.gov/travel_warnings.html
US State Department – http://www.state.gov/<>

General WEB Search tools:

Altavista – http://altavista.digital.com/<>
Dogpile – http://www.dogpile.com/<>
Infoseek – http://www.infoseek.com/Home?pg=Home.html&sv=N3
Excite – http://www.excite.com/<>
Electric Library: http://www2.elibrary.com/id/2525/search.cgi
Global Yellow Pages – http://207.51.123.250/search.rote
LookSmart-<> http://mulwala.looksmart.com:8080/?comefrom=netscape&divert
Netscape<> Search – http://home.netscape.com/home/internet-search.html
Northern Lights search<> engine – http://www.nlsearch.com/search.html
Magellan – http://www.mckinley.com<>
Four<> 11 Internet White Pages http://www.four11.com/cgi-bin/Four11Main?Four11Home&referral=netsearch
Lycos search engine – http://www.lycos.com/<>
WhoWhere? – http://www.whowhere.com/<>
BigFoot – http://www.bigfoot.com/<>
Open Text Index – http://index.opentext.net/<>
Open Text Web Index -<> http://www.opentext.com
Research<> It – http://www.iTools.com/research-it/research-it.html
Yahoo search engine – http://www.yahoo.com<>
WebCrawler – http://www.webcrawler.com<>

General Research Information:

Arab World: http://www.arabland.com/<>
Asian Studies – http://www.arabland.com/<>
Encyclopedia Britanica -<> http://www.ebig.com/
Clearinghouse<> for Subject-Oriented Internet Resource Guides – http://http2.sils.umich.edu/~lou/chhome.html
Human Languages Page -<> http://www.june29.com/HLP/
PSG Gopher – International<> Connectivity information, gopher://gopher.psg.com:70/
Population/Demographics<> Etc. Research Sites – http://www.psc.lsa.umich.edu/library/resources.shtml
Translation Dictionaries – http://dictionaries.travlang.com/
Las<> Alamos Research Library Translation Dictionaries – http://lib-www.lanl.gov/infores/genref/foreign.htm
Social Science Gateway – http://www.esrc.bris.ac.uk/Welcome.html<>
Lonely Planet Travel Guide – http://www.lonelyplanet.com<>
Social Science & Pacific/Asian Studies-Austrailian National University – http://coombs.anu.edu.au/<>

Anthropology:

WWW<> Virtual Library,Anthropology – http://www.usc.edu/dept/v-lib/anthropology.html
American Anthropological<> Association – http://www.ameranthassn.org/
Anthropology<> and Archeology Net Resources/Stanford:
http://www.yahoo.com/Social_Science/Anthropology_and_Archaeology/
University<> of Washington School of Anthropology: http://weber.u.washington.edu/~anthro/anthrohome.html

World Cultures:

Geographical<> List of Servers – http://www.fisk.edu/vl/WWW/Geographical.html
Summary List – http://vlib.stanford.edu/Servers.html
World Map of Web Sites – http://www.vtourist.com/webmap/
Web Sites for the Cities of the World – http://www.city.net/

Africa:

Africa<> Home Page – http://www.unicc.org/untpdc/incubator/africahp/africaws.html
African<> Studies – http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/AS.html
African<> studies/Links – http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Home_Page/WWW_Links.html
African<> religious studies – http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/About_African/ww_relig.html
African<> Libraries – http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/About_African/ww_libr.html
NomadNet – http://www.interport.net/~mmaren/index.html, (Somalia, the Horn of Africa, peacekeeping, and relief and economic development)
Western Saraha – http://www.btinternet.com/~donald.mac.html<>

Arab Countries:

Arab Countries’Web Sites – http://www.liii.com/~hajeri/arab.html<>
Arabic Web Resources – http://fas-www.harvard.edu/%7Emunson/other.htm<>
Arabic Info – http://www.darthmouth.edu/~kadhim (E-mail News. To subscribe, send the message: subscribe arabic-info to: [email protected])<>

Asia:

Asia – http://www.asia1.com.sg/<>
Asian<> Explorer – http://www.asiaville.com/asian_explorer/index.html
Asia<> News Network – http://www.asiaville.com/news_network/index.html
Asia<> Week – http://www.pathfinder.com/@@rHsltAYA5TjgeDaE/Asiaweek/
Bali – http://werple.mira.net.au/~wreid/bali_p1a.html
Cambodia – http://www.asiaville.com/asian_explorer/exp_camb.html

Central Asia:

Virtual<> Memory of Central Asia – http://www.unesco.org/webworld/asicent/capmem.htm

China:

China Map – http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/china.html<>
China Educational and Research Center – http://www.net.edu.cn/<>
China Home Page – http://www.net.edu.cn/china/index.html
Chinese Historical and Cultural Project – http://www.chcp.org/
Chinese Philosophy – http://mars.superlink.net/user/fsu/philo.html
Chinese News Digest Server -<> http://www.cnd.org/
World<> Wide Web Sites for Chinese – http://www-personal2.engin.umich.edu/~lkchen/china1.html

Europe:

European Home Page – http://s700.uminho.pt/europa.html
Cyprus – http://www.ucy.ac.cy/cyprus/cyprus.html
Slovenia – http://www.ijs.si/slo.html<>
Post Soviet<> and Eastern Europe – http://solar.rtd.utk.edu/~ikallen/pssri.html

India:

Indian Art – http://www.ncb.gov.sg/nhb/alam<>
India on Internet – http://www.allindia.com/<>
India Online – http://IndiaOnline.com/<>
Punja Tour Planner – http: //calcuttapolice.allindia.com
Durga Punja – http://www.allindia.com/durga/<>

Indonesia:

Indonesian<> Homepage – http://www.umanitoba.ca/indonesian/homepage.html
Bimasakti – http://www.bimasakti.com/<>

Japan:

Japanese Information – http://www.ntt.co.jp/japan/index.html<>
Japan Information Resources-<> http://fuji.stanford.edu/JGUIDE/
Japanese News – http://www.asahi.com/english/english.html
Japan Times – http://www.japantimes.co.jp/<>

Kazakastan:

Kazakstan Map: – http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/commonwealth/Kazakhstan.jpg<>

Latin America:

The Brazilian<> Society – http://www.cf.ac.uk/uwcc/suon/brazil/braz-soc.html

Middle East:

The Center for Middle Eastern<> Studies – http://menic.utexas.edu/mes.html
Maps<> of the Middle East – http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/middle_east.html
Jerusalem Mosaic – http://jeru.huji.ac.il/jerusalem.html
Lebanon – http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/lebanon-faq/top.html
Pakistan – http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/pakistan-faq/faq.html
Turkey FAQ – http://www.express.net/tr-faq/<>

Philippines:

Filipino Express<> On-line – http://www.filipinoexpress.com/Community.HTML
Manila Times – http://www.portalinc.com/manilatimes/
Philippine New Link -<> http://www.philnews.com/
Sunday Punch – http://www.dagupan.com/punch/<>
Sunstar Daily – http://www.gsilink.net/home/sunstar/

Russia:

Friends and Partners – http://solar.rtd.utk.edu/friends/home.html
Russia on the Web – http://www.valley.net/~transnat/
Latest<> news from Russia – http://citm1.met.fsu.edu/~glenn/russia/russia.html
Russian Research Centre – http://www.kiae.ru/menu.html
Russia Today – http://www.russiatoday.com/<>
Window to Russia – http://www.wtr.ru/<>

Sri Lanka:

Sri Lanka<> Home Page – http://suif.stanford.edu/~saman/lanka/sri_lanka.html
Sri Lanka Information – http://www.cm.cf.ac.uk/Slanka/sl_home.html

Tajikistan:

Tajikistan general information: http://www.angelfire.com/sd/tajikistanupdate/

Thailand:

Thailand Country<> Information – http://emailhost.ait.ac.th/Asia/infoth.html

World Statistics:

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html<>
www.prb.org/prb/index.html#is<>
www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html<>
home.worldonline.nl/~quark/index.html<>
travel.state.gov/<>

World Religions:

Muslim:

Edmonton Islamic Resources – http://syed.afternet.com/
http://www.islam.org.au/
Islamic Software,<> “The Alim” – http://www.islsoftware.com/html/the_alim.html
Islamic Resources WWW Server – http://latif.com
Islamic Society<> of Stanford University – http://www-leland.stanford.edu/group/ISSU
DUNYA: The CyberMuslim Information – http://www.uoknor.edu/cybermuslim

and its HyperQur’aan<> Project –

Islamic<> Information & News Network – gopher://gopher.caltech.edu/1ftp%3aftp.cco.caltech.edu%40/pub/calmsa/

Christian<> Muslim Responses – ftp://ftp.cco.caltech.edu/pub/calmsa/christ.islam
“What<> the Bible says about Mohammed” – ftp://ftp.cco.caltech.edu/pub/calmsa/muhammed.bible

Muslim<> Students Association – gopher://cwis.usc.edu/11/Campus_Life/Student_Orgs/MSA/

Sahih<> Bukhari Hadith Database – gopher://cwis.usc.edu/11/Campus_Life/Student_Orgs/MSA/Intro/Bukhari

Abdullah<> Haydar’s Hadith Database – gopher://umcc.umcc.umich.edu/11/ftp/users/amh/Hadiths/
Nida’ul Islam Intellectual Magazine – http://www.islam.org.au/
bit.listserv.muslims FAQ – http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/bit-muslims-faq/faq.html

Hindu:

Bhagvad Gita – http://www.iconsoftec.com/gita/

Global Hindu Electronic Network – http://www.hindunet.org/

Buddhist:

Journal of Buddhist Ethics -<> http://jbe.la.psu.edu/
Buddhist<> Collection – http://www.biologie.uni-freiburg.de/~amueller/religion/buddha.html
International Meditation Centres – http://www.webcom.com/~imcuk

Tribal:

Tribal Voice – http://www.tribal.com/default.htm

Jews:

Judaism – http://www.internets.com/jewish.htm
A-Z of Jewish Australia<> on the Internet – http://www.join.org.au/a-to-z.htm
Judaism and Jewish<> Resources – http://www.shamash.org/trb/judaism.html
Judaism(including<> comments about missionaries)
Holocaust-<> http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/holocaust/top.html
Dead<> Sea Scrolls – http://sunsite.unc.edu/expo/deadsea.scrolls.exhibit/intro.html
Jerusalem Information – http://shum.cc.huji.ac.il/jeru/jerusalem.html

Zoroastrianism:

Federation of Zoroastrian Associations of North America – http://www.fezana.org

Trad’l Zoroastrianism – http://www.zoroastrianism.com


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