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Philosophy

Episteme Links: Philosophy Resources on Internet
Episteme Links is superior because it provides the quickest access to actual content without sending users through endless loops of other link pages or taking too long to load. Highly recommended, undergraduates through faculty.

PHILWEB: Philosophy Resources On & Off line
With sections devoted to 15 branches of philosophy, philosophical methodologies, 4 historical eras, 22 regions and hundreds upon hundreds of philosophers and other theorists, PHILWEB is a massive pathfinder to print and electronic information in philosophy. This breadth is impressive, even taking into account the Webmaster’s overly expansive notion of the subject. For each topic, figure, region, era and methodology, there are relevant association, academic departments, research institutes, conferences, journals, Web portals, course syllabi and important primary and secondary works.

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP)
The SEP is a freely accessible online encyclopedia of philosophy maintained by Stanford University. Each entry is written and maintained by an expert in the field, including professors from over 65 academic institutions worldwide. The Encyclopedia was created in 1995, with the explicit aim of providing a dynamic encyclopedia which is updated regularly and so does not become dated like other print encyclopedias.

Photography

The American Museum of Photography
This site contains works from 1939 to World War I. “Special Exhibits” includes “Masterworks of Photography (early photographs of importance), “An Eye for the World” (photographs by Shotaro Shimomura, 1934-35), “At Ease” (a collection of daguerreotypes), “Bricks and Light” (architectural photographs from 1845-1915), “Small Worlds (small card photographs from the 1860s and ‘70s) and “Selections” (a compilation of interesting early photographs). This site offers outstanding examples of photography in an artistic layout that is very clear and easy to navigate, fulfilling its claim as a “A Museum without Walls…for an Art without Boundaries”. The photographs and pages load quite fast. Altogether, it is a beautiful use of the medium and highly recommended for anyone interested in the history of photography.

Map Finder
A site to find various aerial photos of locations, businesses and directions world wide.

Photo Study Collection Database
Supports scholarships and research into the visual arts, architecture, and related fields of study on-site in Los Angeles and through the Internet. Digital Resources offer Web sites of artists and collections in the Research Institute, including images and thorough descriptions. A very comprehensive site, easy to navigate, and fast loading.

Photofinder
A database to find and order digital aerial photos in the U.S.A.

Prints and Photographs Online Catalog
The Library of Congress has collected photographs for more than 100 years and the Prints and Photographs Division provides access to more than 65 percent of the holdings, providing documentation for about one million images available online. Readers can also order copies of the photographs. Searching the collection is relatively easy. One can search keywords in text fields or by author, title, subject or the number assigned to each photo. A list of major collections on the search page allows browsing. The site includes information about each of the 54 collections along with the number of photographs presently available. The site will be an extremely useful tool for scholars and others interested in viewing some or part of the collection.

Physics

Atmospheric Optics
Webmaster Les Cowley, a retired physicist, is an expert on atmospheric optics. The site was started in 1998 and is still being expanded. The site intends to show and explain various phenomena seen in the atmosphere. The pictures included are beautiful in of themselves, but it is the accompanying explanation that makes this site most useful. For each phenomena discussed there are numerous pictures and a straightforward explanation. There are also directions on how to see the phenomena for oneself. Navigation of the site could not be easier. The home page includes links to all the major areas in the site, and these links are available in a column down the left hand side of the window for each area. This site is highly recommended.

College Physics for Students of Biology and Chemistry
This site is maintained by Prof. K. Koehler at the University of Cincinnati. It is a hypertextbook aimed at first-year undergraduate physics students who have knowledge of algebra and are majoring in biology, chemistry or one of the health-related fields. Some of the links lead to outside Web resources. The Table of Contents offers a traditional treatment of mainly classical physics: Mechanics, Electricity & Magnetism, Fluids, Waves, Thermodynamics and Quantum Phenomena. Each section has links to symbols and abbreviations used to assist students. There are embedded applets throughout the text to help explicate the material discussed and to provide practice examples for instant feedback. The quality and reliability of the content is good. Navigation is quick and easy with useful links.

Einstein Light
This is a cool Web site that presents the complex ideas of Einstein's theory of relativity as clearly and simply as possible. Einstein's theory is central to the understanding of time, space, matter and energy, yet many people do not understand the basic ideas. This site uses multimedia modules with clever Flash animations to help rectify this situation. The Web site consists of five main parts discussing Galileo on mechanics and relativity; Maxwell on electricity and magnetism; Einstein on relativity; time dilation, which follows from relativity; and E=mc2.  The site is easy to navigate. There is a menu on the right side of the screen, as well as key links in the center. Subtitles are available in seven languages besides English. The editors of Scientific American chose this site as one of their 25 favorite sites of 2005. It was also one of the Yahoo! Picks of the Year for 2005.

Physics Central
Maintained by the American Physical Society, Physics Central is an attempt to communicate to the general public the excitement and importance of contemporary physics. There are weekly updates on advances in physics, description of new research, and brief biographies of people engaged in research and teaching. The main page offers six subsites: People in Physics, Physics in Pictures, Physics News, Physics Links, How Something Works; and Essays from Physicist Authors. Each subsite has an archive. The presentation is attractive without being unnecessarily colorful. There are a Search site and a Contact site, useful features for those interested in more information or references to other sites. This site is an excellent resource for students and laypeople alike.

Psychology

American Psychological Association
The American Psychological Association’s Web site is an outstanding source of information about psychology and psychological resources on the Internet. Straightforward and uncluttered, with just the right amount of information on its home page, it is easy on the eye and easy to navigate. Links on the homepage are organized into a number of boxes that allow visitors to find information on the APA, its affiliate organizations, careers in psychology, conferences, consumer issues, articles about psychology in the news, and the latest research on important social issues.

Dr. John Grohol’s Psych Central
Psych Central is a comprehensive compilation of Web resources by well-qualified editors on topics related to psychology, psychiatry, and social work. The apparent purpose of Psych Central is promotion of less-than-mainstream Web resources from self-help groups, voluntary or private service providers, and individuals.


Encyclopedia of Psychology
The site offers approximately 2000 links. Recently added resources include Autism Fact Sheet, Neuroscience News, and 3SmartCubes, which offers IQ and personality tests. Links are grouped in 8 areas, one of them the highly intuitive and ever-popular Underlying Reductionistic Machinery. (i.e. neural and chemical machinery underlying behavior).


International Personality Item Pool
This site compiles materials (all by experts) found in the public domain; material is comprehensive, including more than 325 scales placed into some 200 content categories. Navigation is extremely intuitive and the index is straightforward, so locating relevant scales and assessing their reliability and validity is quick and easy.
An excellent resource for anyone interested in personality, this site demonstrates to students the qualities if good research by citing references and providing easy, up-front information on reliability and validity. Practitioners will appreciate the site’s rapid and free access to public domain personality measures useful in initial screenings.

National Center for PTSD
Although an agency of the US Department of Veterans Affairs, the National Center for PTSD attempts to be the clearinghouse for all information and activities related to posttraumatic stress disorder; it is not just for veterans. This Web site is a comprehensive educational resource, offering fact sheets, FAQs, information on numerous assessment measures, useful indexes, and many links.
The site’s 27 Topics in PTSD include Appearance, Accidents, Active Military Duty, Child Abuse, Sexual Assault, War, and Women. All are indexed and consist of fact sheets. Most important, a direct link leads to the free searchable PILOTS database on traumatic stress literature, a valuable resource bringing together literature on PTSD from many disciplines.

National Institute of Mental Health
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) sets priorities for the nation’s federally sponsored research agenda, awarding grants and contracts for biomedical research on mind, brain, and behavior. This site provides the full picture of NIMH’s research efforts, offering facts, employment opportunities, organizational detail, and a brief history.
The site’s home page includes full-text reports on timely topics. The tabs across the top of the page access a variety of information. Of these, Health Information will be particularly useful to the public : here one finds information about symptoms, diagnosis, and treatments of prevalent mental disorders and sections on children, older adults, suicide prevention, etc.

The Personality Project
This is an excellent resource with an interesting mix of academic and nonacademic links. The site offers links to articles, student papers, syllabi, search engines, personality tests, departments with personality programs, and information on the American Psychological Association. A very comprehensive online project for personality psychology.

PsychScholar
This excellent, no nonsense gateway will take those interested in psychology to a wide variety of Internet resources. Web master John Krantz split the site into two partially overlapping parts: “Psychological Scholars” and “Budding Psychological Scholars”. Within the former are links to sites featuring information and resources related to mental health, research, and research opportunities, online journals, teaching, demonstrations and demonstration software, and information about how to track down (mostly academic) psychologists on the Web. The latter contains links that quickly connect students to course-related resources, online, research, and information about careers in psychology.

Social Psychology Network
This site is an outstanding portal to the world of social psychology on the internet. It features links to a wide variety of resources of use to both professionals and students. Its interface is well designed and its links are extremely easy to navigate.
Illustrating social psychology’s commitment to engaging real-world issues, links to information about the psychological aspects of current events appear under a prominent banner titled Psychology Headlines. An excellent Web-based source of information about social psychology as a discipline and body of knowledge.

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