General Reference -- Information Sources
Search engines: www.google.com is hard to beat. Do try the advanced, news, and image search options.
Online Reference
Many excellent reference works...
an encyclopedia, gazetteer, and thesauri, dictionaries, composition books, World
Fact Book... may be found at: www.bartleby.com/reference/....
Nonfiction section: (includes full
texts of many classics in the social sciences) at
www.bartleby.com/nonfiction/
More Classic texts online: http://gutenberg.net/
http://directory.eliterature.org/html/dirinfo.shtml.en
Good academic metasites
INFOMINE:
http://lib-www.ucr.edu/
BUBL Link:
http://bubl.ac.uk/link/
ANTHRONET
http://www.anthro.net/
World...
One World -- Canadian home page at http://en.ca.oneworld.net/article/frontpage/153/882 -- is a very useful online news source, which coordinates an enormous quantity of international information. Very useful for getting another perspective on what's going on in the world, particularly about ecological crises, social unrest, and marginalized people, including human rights violation situations. In their own words: "OneWorld is dedicated to harnessing the democratic potential of the internet to promote human rights and sustainable development. OneWorld has a vision of equitable and sustainable distribution of wealth amongst the world's population, underpinned by global attainment and protection of human rights and by governance structures which permit local communities control over their own affairs."
New York Times Science Pages -- Everything from archaeology to cloning: www.nytimes.com/library/national/science/index-specials.html
BBC News Online: http://news.bbc.co.uk/ Excellent news coverage on everything, and a great science section too.
Discover Magazine at www.discover.com has some accessible popular science. Full text is available for some articles.
The UN's International Human Rights Instruments are all listed here, at www.unhchr.ch/html/intlinst.htm, along with notes on their state of ratification. (N.B. not all nations have ratified all UN Declarations or Conventions.) Here are a few which are particularly relevant to anthropology's various branches.
* Universal Declaration of Human Rights
* Resolution of Permanent Sovereignty over Natural Resources
* Convention (No. 169) concerning Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Independent Countries
* Universal Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights