Murray State University Libraries

Internet Resources:

• Journalism, Communications & Media

  • AJR NewsLink - Provides links to major media-print and broadcast; organizations, newsletters and well-selected www directory; searchable section for news stories from the American Journalism Review database.
  • Broadband and Cable
    • http://www.broadbandinfo.com/
    • http://cabledatacomnews.com/
    • http://www.broadbandweek.com/index.htm
  • Cable TV related organizations:
    • http://www.cablelabs.com
    • http://www.ncta.com/
    • http://www.ctam.com/
    • http://www.scte.org/
    • http://www.cablecenter.org/
    • http://www.onetvworld.org/
  • Encyclopedia of Television’ first edition
  • Google's news site which includes international press links. Great resource.
  • Media Research Center - The nation's largest and most respected conservative media watchdog organization
  • National Press Club - Searchable site by individual, organization, subject.
  • National Public Radio - Home page for the permanent nationwide interconnection of non-commercial stations; est. by Congress.
  • Student Press Law Center - Dedicated to providing legal help and information to the student media and to journalism educators.
  • USUS-The Usually Useful Internet Guide for Journalists - Site designed to teach journalists & students the best methods of research on the web.
  • Virtual Institute of Information - From the Columbia Institute for Tele-information; on-line research facility for independent research in telecommunications and mass media; searchable database of submitted publications.
  • Communication Studies Resources - University of Iowa Department of Communications Studies; excellent web directory of all aspects of communications.
  • Journalism Ethics - San Francisco State University Department of Journalism page on journalism ethics; selected articles by subject.
  • Nielsen (portals to all businesses)
  • Nielsen Media Research

  Linguistics

  • Center for applied linguistics - Private, non-profit organization; includes research,  teacher education, analysis and dissemination of information, design and    development of instructional materials, technical assistance, conference planning, program evaluation, and policy analysis.
  • The Linguist List - Home page for the publication The Linguist;  directory, research;  includes a large directory of electronic listservs in the subject.
  • The Linguistic Society of America - Information about professional meetings, conference and job opportunities, publications, and more.
  • Linguistic Fieldwork Preparation: A Guide for Field Linguists - A comprehensive web-resource for the benefit of the linguistic community at large, from those who teach courses in field methods, endangered languages, and language revitalization, to those who do or wish to conduct field research" (from site).
    

  Literary Theory/Criticism

  • Literary Resources-Theory and Criticism - Part of the Literary Resources collection maintained by Rutgers; web directory to principal sites.
  • Online Literary Criticism collection - Contains 4689 critical and  biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period.
  • Whos's Who in Critical Theory - Provides biographical and other information on major theorists; maintained by Southern Oregon University.
  • Voice of the Shuttle – Literary Theory Resources - A comprehensive list of theory web resources including glossaries, encyclopedias, lecture notes and more.
  • Introduction to Modern Literary Theory (Dr. Kristi Siegel) - Brief explanations, key terms, and suggestions for further reading.
    

  Literature

  • General sites, covering all aspects
    • American and English Literature Internet Resources - Southern Oregon University web directory; annotated.
  • Literary Index - Provides both an overview and a review of the more significant collections of Internet literary resources of interest to scholars, students, and lovers of literature.
  • Literary Resources on the Net - Part of the Literary Resources collection maintained by Rutgers, annotated.
  • WWW Resources for English and American Literature - Indiana University web directory; not annotated, but broken down by theme and period.
  • Voice of the Shuttle - One of the oldest and most extensive web directories in the humanities; emphasizes both primary and secondary (or theoretical) resources; annotated
  • Almanac of Literary Information - Interesting general use website, with chatroom, calendar, events, etc.
  • Literature by period
  • 16th Century Literature
  • 17th Century Literature
  • 18th Century Literature
  • Romantic Period
  • Victorian Period
  • Twentieth Century
  • American Lit sources
  • American Literature to 1900
  • Digital/Out-of-print/Foreign Language Books
  • ALibris.com - leading global supplier of hard-to-find books, out-of-print, used, foreign-language, and collectible.
  • On-Line Books - Maintained by University of Pennsylvania; searchable index to electronic books, series.
  • Schoenhof's Foreign Books, Inc. - offers the largest selection of  foreign-language books in North America.
  • Project Gutenberg - An ongoing project to build an enormous library of electronic books which could be viewed or downloaded for free.
  • Associations
  • Modern Language Association - For over a hundred years, has worked to strengthen the study and teaching of language and literature.
  • Academy of American Poets - supports American poets at all stages of their careers and to foster the appreciation of contemporary poetry.
  • Theatre - SEE ALSO THEATRE SECTION LISTED UNDER FINE ARTS
  • Inter-Play - index of late 19th-century to modern plays in collections, anthologies, and periodicals in a variety of languages; maintained by the Portland State University Library. Check the Racertrac catalog for individually-published plays.

  Modern Languages and ESL

  • German Studies Web
  • French Resources
  • Spanish Resources
  • Asian Studies WWWVirtual Library
  • American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages - Dedicated to the improvement and expansion of the teaching and learning of all languages at all levels of instruction; annotated webdirectory under Resources.
  • Center for Multicultural, Multilingual Research - Organized research unit at the University of Southern California; well annotated web directory of resources.
  • Dave's ESL Café - The Internet's meeting place for ESL/EFL students and teachers from around the world; links, curriculum assistance, jobs, etc.
  • ERIC Language and Linguistics Clearinghouse - One of the many ERIC Clearinghouse sites in education; access to the entire ERIC database available at ERIC/FirstSearch.
  • Foreign Language Teaching Forum:WWW Resources for Language Teachers - Supported in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities; annotated web directory for teachers "so that we don't all have to reinvent the wheel".
  • Internet TESL Journal - Monthly web journal; Articles, Research Papers, Lessons Plans, Classroom Handouts, Teaching Ideas & Links.
  • Curricular Resources in ESL - Annotated web directory to curricular assistance sites.
  • ESL Researcher - professional general site; sharing information among ESL researchers all over the world.
  • Resources by Language - The portion of the Voice of the Shuttle dedicated to sites in non-English language literature; annotated.
  • Lesson Plans and Resources for ESL, Bilingual and Foreign Language Teachers - Nicely maintained site, sponsored by professor from California State University; annotated links.
  • Native Web - Resources for Indigenous Cultures around the World
  • Online Directory of ESL Resources - ERIC Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics has partnered with the National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education to create this searchable online database which contains links to over 300 Web sites, online publications, publishers, instructional materials, listservs, databases and other resources related to the field of English as a Second Language.

Rhetoric, Speech, and Composition

• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations - Searchable site of the print index to quotations.
• Forest of Rhetoric - intended to help beginners, as well as experts, make sense of   rhetoric --definitions and examples of specific terms, the purposes of rhetoric, etc.
• Rhetoric and Composition - composition assistance, plus links to works of classical rhetoric, articles on literacy and education, etc.
• Composition and Writing hotlist - interesting set of links providing guides, elements of style, common errors, tools kits, etc.
• Resources for writers and writing instructors - lengthy annotated lists of guides, manuals, tool kits, etc; maintained by Rutgers.