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Accounting
Accounting Students
The research guide at Accounting Students includes links to Big Six firms, Beta Alpha Psi chapters, federal and state tax sites, and educational resources at universities and colleges worldwide.  But students will also appreciate the practical of such articles as "How Do I Sell Myself to Recruiters?" and "Writing Tips for Non-Writers."
www.accountingstudents.com
American Studies
American Studies Crossroads Project
The American Studies Crossroads Project provides access to online libraries, primary texts, and special collections relevant to the field.  Search through current and back issues of American Quarterly or abstracts of American Studies dissertations, or find out how to subscribe to the most popular American Studies e-mail discussion lists.
www.georgetown.edu/crossroads
Anthropology
Anthropology Resources to the Internet
With as many links as there are artifacts at an Egyptian excavation, Anthropology Resources on the Internet points to sites on archaeological, linguistic, cultural, and physical anthropology.  Dig a little deeper for links to journals and field schools, as well as an e-mail directory of anthropologists.
www.nitehawk.com/alleycat/a-index.html
Architecture
Cyburbia.org
What do you call a well designed site with thousands of links to Internet resources for the built environment, including a bookstore, a discussion board, and a 'zine called Place?  Cyburbia.org, of course.
www.arch.buffalo.edu/pairc
Art History
The Art History Research Centre
According to the introductory essay at the Art History Research Centre, "It will become more important that researchers check the net in addition to the traditional media with store information of interest to art historians."  Check here for the best links to articles, academic journals, collections, and museums on the Web.
www-fofa.concordia.ca/arth/AHRC/index.htm
Biology
The Biology Project
If your professor is a total bore, this site, sponsored by the University of Arizona, is a wonderful alternative way to learn basic concepts, from biochemistry to molecular biology.  Colorful illustrations let you visualize such things as cell mitosis as if you were small enough to be there.  Each topic links to related sites on the Web.
www.biology.arizona.edu
Business
Virtual International Business and Economic Sources (VIBES)
Want to wow your professor with your next paper on international patents?  Visit this one-stop shop for global, national, and regional sites related to business topics from banking to trade issues.
www.uncc.edu/lis/library/reference/intbus/vibehome.htm
Chemistry
General Chemistry Online!
Atoms and ions and gases, oh my!  Sponsored by Maryland's Frostburg State University, General Chemistry Online! makes chemistry a breeze to study, with its basic online text that's fully hyperlinked to sources around the Web.  You'll also find a cheeky Chemistry Exam Survival Guide, a pop-up link that brings up the periodic table of the elements, and tutorials aplenty.
antoine.fsu.umd.edu/chem/senese/101
Classics
Electronic Resources for Classicists
This is an astonishingly complete site with links to every classics page online, whether the subject is the Bibliotheca Latina or the Ovid Project.  You'll even find fonts and software to display what's Greek to you.
www.tlg.uci.edu/~tlg/index/resources.html
Computer Science
Computer Science Undergraduate Tutor Service
Need help on a complex problem?  Richard Suchoza's site can give you an in-depth answer (in a week to 10 days) or at least guide you toward the solution (within 2 days).
ww2.netnitco.net/users/suchoza/tutor.htm
Creative Writing
Inkspot
Author Robert Cormier once said:  "The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon.  You can always do it better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile."  This site will help students of writing do exactly that, as well as acquaint them with more practical aspects of the craft, such as marketing their work.
www.inkspot.com
Cultural Studies
Sarah Zupko's Cultural Studies Center
For those lucky few allowed to write term papers about popular culture, Sarah Zupko's site will help them wax academic about everything from Star Trek to post-Soviet subculture.
www.mcs.net/~zupko/popcult.htm
Drama
The Intuitions College Theatre Guide
Find links to the full texts of plays, or locate sources on scriptwriting, actor networking, and even costume design. Also, visit the home pages of college theater companies nationwide.
dilphin.upennn.edu/~intuiton/guide/newguide.html
Economics
EcEdWeb
The name stands for Economics Education Web, and the sire lives up to the name, with links to a wide variety of resources for economics education at the K-12 and undergraduate levels.  EcEdWeb points to every site you're likely to need to study the subject, from The Wall Street Journal's Classroom Edition to the World Bank Group's home page.
ecedweb.unomaha.edu
Engineering
ICE: Internet connections for Engineering
ICE is Cornell University's trim index of sites covering all the hard sciences.  It includes subsections on aerospace, biological, civil, electrical, mechanical, nuclear, and quality engineering.
www.englib.cornell.edu/ice/ice-index.html
English
The Voice of the Shuttle:  English Literature Main Page
The Voice of the Shuttle has links for the student researching works taught in English and American literature courses.  It covers Anglo-Saxon, medieval, Renaissance, and Victorian writing, as well as contemporary works.  Locate writers from Alice Walker to Oscar Wilde.
humanitas.ucsb.edu/shuttle/english.html
Ethnic Studies
Diversity and Ethnic Studies:  Virtual Community
Instead of trifling with colorful graphics and metaphors that are so condescending as to be insulting (e.g., rainbows equal progress), this site offers its visitors a focused set of links to resources pertaining to the African-American, Asian-American, American Indian, and Latin-American communities.
www.public.iastate.edu/~savega/diweb2.htm
History
Mr. Jenkins' History Links
Because history is always in the making, Mr. Jenkins has designed this site to help high-school and college students with the "endless search for quality historical research material."  Well-organized links connect visitors to the ancient world, the modern world, and more.
www.snowcrest.net/jmike
International Relations
STRATNET: Strategic Studies Network
It's not a small world after all, but STRATNET can be a student's compass for navigating the complex world of international relations, security, and politics.  Whether you need to know more about arms control, human rights, or NATO, you'll find enough information to create world peace or at least write a paper on it.
www.stratnet.ucalgary.ca
Linguistics
Ethnologue
For quick facts on more than 6,700 languages spoken in 228 countries, refer to this formidable database, where you can learn the linguistic classifications for such obscure dialects as Abnaki-Penobscot.
www.sil.org/ethnologue
Mathematics
S.O.S. MATHematics
Forget about asking Dr. Math-the credo at S.O.S. MATHematics is, "You can only learn Mathematics by doing Mathematics!"  With pencil in hand, review work sheets on collegiate and precollegiate math at this site from the University of Texas at El Paso.  If you're beyond algebra, trigonometry, and calculus, refer to the section on other math-related Web sites.
www.math.utep.edu/sosmath
Music
Sibelius Academy:  Music Resources
Seems as though there's not much else to do in Finland except compile the cleanest set of music links around.  Put up by the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, this site has links to music education, theory, research, and schools in more than 37 countries.
www.siba.fi/Kulttuuripalvelut/music.html
Philosophy
Episteme Links
Woody Allen once lamented, "Can we actually 'know' the universe?  My God, it's hard enough to find your way around in Chinatown!"  Fortunately, this site isn't hard to comprehend at all.  Find pointers to great thinkers from Anaxagoras to Ludwig Wittgenstein, plus texts, papers, journals, newsgroups, and of course, humor.
www.epistemelinks.com
Physics
The Internet Pilot to Physics
Pick a trajectory, any trajectory.  The Internet Pilot to Physics won't lead you off course.  Its Physics Around the World database is searchable (or browsable by category:  Computing, Media, Companies, and so forth).  Note the Virtual Laboratory section, which links directly to sites where applets and virtual-reality modeling are utilized to demonstrate such complicated physics concepts as projectile motion and radioactive decay.
www.tp.umu.se/TIPTOP
Political Science
The Jefferson Project
With links to the right, the left, the radical, and the libertarian, as well as political personalities and issues and activists, this site has all the government resources you'll ever need.
www.voxpop.org/jefferson
Psychology
Psych Web
Students won't go insane here by trying to find resources appropriate to their course of study.  Everything is neatly arranged by category, including books, brochures, and scholarly journals.  Psych majors will love the careertip sheets, with advice on such topics as Suggested Courses to Acquire Skills Employers Want.
www.psych-web.com
Religion
Religion Religions
Religious Studies
This faithfully updated page is subdivided into easily grasped topics, from Afro-European and Asian traditions to new and alternative religions.  Each of the page's sites has been reviewed and remarked upon by this page's creator, who is an associate professor at the University of Florida.
www.clas.ufl.edu/users/gthursby/rel
Sociology
The SocioWeb:  Your Independent Guide to Sociological Resources on the Internet
"The sociologist, in his quest for understanding, moves through the world of men without respect for the usual lines of demarcation."  Good thing SocioWeb doesn't subscribe to this Peter Berger dictum, or else the site wouldn't be such an orderly arrangement of links to sociological theory, research, and education.
www.socioweb.com/~markbl/socioweb
Women's Studies
Inform:  Women's Studies Resources
Housed at the University of Maryland at College Park, this is a vast storehouse of primary research materials as well as secondary indexes of links  Among the offerings are a reading room with full texts of papers and books by and about women and a film section with feminist reviews of mainstream and independent movies.
www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Topic/WomensStudies
Zoology
BIOSIS:  Internet Resource Guide for Zoology
BIOSIS seems deceptively spare at first glance, but click around for a while and you get the sense that if all the worthwhile animate-life sites were spread out like branches from a tree, this site would be squarely planted at the root.  Locate sites on every living thing, from chordates to vertebrates.
www.york.biosis.org/zrdocs/zoolinfo/zoolinfo.htm

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