Languages
"World Citizen Project"
http://edcen.ehhs.cmich.edu/wcp/
This site is meant to represent a global village on the Web, but if that is so, something has happened to the village. A few links are present, including a recording of someone saying "Welcome to the World Citizen Project." Unfortunately, it's another haunted house experience--nobody home--behind a promising banner. Hopefully, this village is still under construction, although, if that were the case, some mention of it would have been helpful.(Vol. 1 No. 2, May '96)
Literature
"American Literature"
http://www.en.utexas.edu/~daniel/amlit/amlit.html
The site was developed as part of an American Literature class. Visitors may
access online texts, student comments and analysis, transcripts of discussions,
and student projects. Four units respectively focus on 'American Stories'
(e.g. by Melville, Hawthorne), Naturalism/Realism, Drama (Lorraine Hansberry's
"A Raisin in the Sun") and 20th century American poetry. Most of this
site has a hierarchical rather than a network structure: the literary texts aren't
directly linked to commentary. An exception is "Legend of Sleepy Hollow,"
where buttons throughout the text allow you to read or make comments on the
respective passage. (Vol. 1 No. 1, April '96)
"American Verse Project"
http://www.hti.umich.edu/english/amverse/
The American Verse Project--a collaboration between the University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative (HTI) and the University of Michigan Press--provides access to an archive of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920. So far, the archive features more than 30 books, including poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson and William Cullen Bryant. The texts may be copied freely by individuals for personal use, research, and teaching, and may be linked to in Internet editions of all kinds, including for-profit works. Scholars interested in adding to these texts are asked to seek the permission of the University of Michigan Press.
(Vol. 1 No. 3, June '96)
"Contemporary American Poetry Archive"
http://camel.conncoll.edu/library/CAPA/capa.html
This is a site containing the entire contents of ten books of poetry that are out of print. It is an extremely modest site given the possible scope referred to by its title. The user is given no additional information about each author beyond his or her name, the particulars regarding the book's publication, and, of course, the poems. If widely expanded and appropriately arranged, the site could really begin to hold out the promise of providing visitors with a valuable resource; as it stands, it resembles a lonely message in a bottle floating randomly on the sea of cyberspace.(Vol. 1 No. 2, May '96)
"Digital Dante"
http://daemon.ilt.columbia.edu/projects/dante/commedia/frontispiece.html
The Digital Dante project, sponsored by Columbia University's Institute for Learning Technologies and edited by Jennifer A. Hogan, "translates" Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy into cyberspace, combining the literary text with images and criticism. The site features the Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso in the original Italian text and in the English translation by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The text is effectively laid out in three columns: the Italian original is displayed in the left-hand column and the English translation in the center one, while the third column contains links to notes, annotations and images referring to the respective passage. (Vol. 1 No. 2, May '96)
"Virtual Henry V"
http://sec-look.uiowa.edu/henry/preface.html
This multimedia annotated text of Shakespeare's play was created by
John Huntley, William Dix, Amy Bess, Joan Huntley
and Matt Bevers. From the main table of contents, listing Acts and Scenes,
you may access the text of the play which is hyperlinked to glossary-like
commentary, exhibits and still photos. Further links lead to QuickTime clips from
Kenneth Branagh's film version of the play as well as Laurence Olivier's
performance. (Vol. 1 No. 1, April '96)
Medicine
"The New England Journal of Medicine"
http://www.nejm.org/
This weekly online journal, published by the Massachusetts Medical Society, reports on the results of important medical research worldwide. It is a valuable resource for everybody involved and/or interested in the medical field. The Journal includes the complete texts of many features from the printed version as well as selections from other articles. The Web edition comes out every Thursday of the week. The site also provides access to abstracts from original clinical research reports and health policy research reports, along with the names and institutional affiliations of the authors.
(Vol. 1 No. 10, February '97)
Music
"The American Music Center"
http://www.amc.net/amc/index.html
Maintained by "The American Music Center," this site provides valuable information on organizations for musicians, grants to support people in the field, and on future musical
competitions. The Center maintains a circulating collection of concert music and jazz scores by composers from the USA, and a non-circulating collection of recordings. The site's 'Scores' section--a helpful guide to finding published and unpublished scores and librettos--features lists of musical works, and allows users to search the scores listed by instrumentation or the composer's last name.
(Vol. 1 No. 2, May '96)
Mythology
"Encyclopedia Mythica"
http://www.pantheon.org/myth
If you're looking for information on "Excalibur" or "Mjollnir," this is the site you should visit. The "Encyclopedia Mythica" contains over 1800 definitions of gods and goddesses--from various cultures, including Greek, Japanese and Etruscan--supernatural beings and mythical objects from all over the world. A small part of the encyclopedia is devoted to mysticism and the occult. Visitors to the site may browse through the encyclopedia or search the sources used to compile the database. Considering the range of its subject, the site is fairly inclusive as well as frequently updated. (Vol. 1 No. 7, November '96)
Oceanography
"Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute"
http://www.mbari.org/
This site by the non-profit Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), a private oceanographic center, provides information on the institute and its projects as well as on current oceanographic research. The impressive amount of data collected here ranges from 'Midwater Ecology' and 'Sea Surface Chemical Mapping' to 'Tectonic & Hydrological Studies' and 'Bay Mapping.' Visitors can also listen to Dolphin, fish or whale sounds.(Vol. 1 No. 2, May '96)