Nodes  

Prefatory note  (^)

The Virtual Library is one covering, via the network, the documentary resources of the entire world.

The Virtual Libraries are myriads, like the number of users, as each one builds his/her own personalized library trough a selection of Nodes of documentary resources.

The Nodes are units of documentary resources of general or specific type, concerning fields of knowledge. An organized set of notes results in a Net.

General resources (^)

Cilea. Virtual Library (Italy)
Virtual Reference Desk for library operators of universities.
http://www.virtual-library.it/
List of Italian Virtual Libraries at:
http://www.virtual-library.it/SPT--BrowseResources.php?ParentId=271 

Cyberstacks
Catalogue of resources presented and organized on the basis of the Library of Congress classification.
http://www.public.iastate.edu/%7ECYBERSTACKS/

Infomine : Scholarly Internet Resource Collection
More than 11000 selected links on every kind of topics. A website from the Library of the University of California, Riverside.
http://infomine.ucr.edu/

New York Public Library
Guide to documentary resources on the Web.
http://www.nypl.org/links/

OLIP : Oxford Libraries Information Platform
Gateway to catalogues, repositories, resource centres.
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/oxlip/

Reference works  (^)

Information Please
Almanachs, Encyclopaedies, Dictionaries, and much more.
http://www.infoplease.com/alm

Martindale's Reference Desk, The
A bit of everything in a gigantic web site.
http://www.martindalecenter.com/

On-line Dictionaries
Dictionaries available to the online user in more than 150 languages.
http://www.yourdictionary.com/

e-Texts  (^)

ABU (Association des Bibliophiles Universels)
Electronic books mainly in French.
http://abu.cnam.fr/

Athena : books, literature, arts, science, mineralogy
More than 3700 texts in full version in a web site hosted in Switzerland.
http://un2sg4.unige.ch/athena/html/athome.html

Biblioteca
A well organized Italian web site.
http://www.liberliber.it/biblioteca/index.htm

Miguel de Cervantes (Letteratura Spagnola)
The Spanish contribution to the realization of electronic books.
http://cervantesvirtual.com/

Project Gutenberg
The most famous and the oldest (1971) project in the production and diffusion of e-texts (more than 6000 titles available).
http://promo.net/pg/

The English Server (Iowa State University)
A cooperative of voluntary individuals, active since 1990, that has made available on the net many texts especially in the area of the human sciences.
http://eserver.org/ 

The Internet Public Library
A gateway towards many collections of electronic texts.
http://www.ipl.org/div/books/index.html

The On-Line Books Page
Listing over 30,000 free books on the Web, classified by authors, titles, subjects.
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/

Literature (^)

American Literature, Keele
Many e-texts on American literature from XVIII century to current times.
http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/as/Literature/amlit.html

Artful : American and French literature
Around 1880 texts of French literature classics.
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/ARTFL/

Book Lovers : Fine Books & Literature
Books, literary criticism and biographies of authors from many countries
http://www.xs4all.nl/~pwessel/

Les Bibliothèques Virtuelles Humanistes
List of XVI e XVII centuries texts.
http://www.bvh.univ-tours.fr/liste.asp?ordre=auteur&offset=0

Letteratura
An Italian web site on European literatures with many links.
http://www.mclink.it/n/letter/mondo.html

Project Runeberg
Classic literature of Northern Europe.
http://www.lysator.liu.se/runeberg/
For other useful lists on literature see:
http://www.lysator.liu.se/runeberg/admin/foreign.html

Wess Web : electronic text collections in Western European literature.
Classic texts of European literatures and links to many other web sites.
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/wess/etexts.html

Social Sciences  (^)

Ethnographic Studies Resources
Electronic resources organized by the Library of Congress (USA).
http://lcweb.loc.gov/folklife/other.html

Intute: social sciences
A collection of academic resources
http://www.intute.ac.uk/social sciences/

Social Sciences Virtual Library
List of Directories and Journals
http://www.dialogical.net/socialsciences/index.html

Sociosite
A gateway to web sites on the social sciences.
http://www.sociosite.net/

Technology  (^)

Intute: science, engineering, technology
A collection of academic resources
http://www.intute.ac.uk/sciences/

Grainger Engineering Library
USA sites on engineering
http://search.grainger.uiuc.edu/top/

RUDI : Resource for Urban Design Information
Resources on Urban Design from Brookes University, Oxford
http://www.rudi.net/

SciCentral : Gateway to the Best Science and Engineering Online Resources [engineering]
http://www.scicentral.com/E-02engi.html

Medicine (^)

Bibliothèque Médicale de Rouen
Access to periodicals and other resources on medicine
http://www.chu-rouen.fr/documed/bibchu.html

Intute: health & life sciences
Academic resources on health
http://www.intute.ac.uk/healthandlifesciences/medicine/

Medline
The resource par excellence in the field of medicine.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi

Medweb Community (Emory University)
Documents on medicine and assistance on health services.
http://www.medweb.emory.edu/MedWeb/SPT--Home.php

Salus
Italian web site on medicine, pharmaceutical remedies and therapies.
http://www.salus.it/

History (^)

American Memory
The history of the United States.
http://memory.loc.gov/

Eurodocs : primary historical documents from western Europe
Documents on Europe in the Middle Ages and during the Renaissance.
http://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Main_Page

Online Medieval Classical Library, The
The most famous documents on classic and medieval civilization.
http://omacl.org/

Gallica
Documents (texts and images) about France from the Middle Ages to the XIX century.
http://gallica.bnf.fr/

Geography  (^)

Alexandria Digital Library
Almost everything you want to know about the universe and planet earth.
http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/other-sites/

Country Studies (The Library of Congress)
Information about more than 100 countries.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html

National Geographic Maps
The maps of the National Geographic.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/maps/

Virtual Geography Department, The
The web site of the Department of Geography of the University of Texas, Austin.
http://www.colorado.edu/geography/virtdept/contents.html  

For a wider selection of resources go to:
Problemistics : selected tools

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