Subject gateways
A subject gateway is an Internet service which lists on-line resources for a particular subject area. The resources included will have been reviewed by subject specialists before they are included.
Humanities
Biz/ed is aimed at students, teachers and researchers in economics and business.
Forced Migration Online (FMO) provides instant access to a wide variety of online resources dealing with the situation of forced migrants worldwide.
A gateway for geography, including geo-spatial data & resources
The IHR provides resources for historians
The UK's largest collection of digital research data in the social sciences and humanities
The World Trade Organisation website includes links to their own research and analysis materials as well as links to other policy, research and data sites
The aim of the Eldis website is to share the best in development policy, practice and research. You can browse the latest editorially selected content from over 7,500 development organisations
A database of links for humanities research
The Arts and Humanities Data Service is a UK national service funded by the JISC and AHRC to collect, preserve and promote the electronic resources which result from research and teaching in the arts and humanities.
GEM allows you to quickly and easily search for educational resources, such as lesson plans and curriculum units. GEM draws from some of the country's best museums, universities, and government programs, including NASA, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, the National Science Foundation, and the Exploratorium in San Francisco.
A national gateway linking to descriptions of archives in UK Universities and colleges.
English
A national gateway linking to descriptions of archives in UK Universities and Colleges.
A collection of links to sites on the Internet dealing especially with English and American literature.
Languages
iLoveLanguages is a comprehensive catalog of language-related Internet resources. The more than 2400 links at iLoveLanguages have been hand-reviewed to bring you the best language links the Web has to offer. Whether you're looking for online language lessons, translating dictionaries, native literature, translation services, software, language schools, or just a little information on a language you've heard about, iLoveLanguages probably has something to suit your needs.
Philosophy and Psychology
The main purpose of this site is to act as a guide and a gateway to philosophy resources on the Internet.
This Web site contains lots of psychology-related information for students and teachers of psychology.
Religion
This site holds over 5000 definitions of gods, goddesses, supernatural beings, legendary creatures and monsters from Greek, Roman, Hindu, Celtic, Etruscan, Japanese, Persian and Norse mythology, Legend and folklore.
An interesting site devoted to the study of the Bible, most specifically the New Testament. It has an excellent set of resources to religious texts. Links include portrayals of Jesus in film and an online classical Greek language course. The ‘Judaica’ section also has links to Old testament resources such as the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Apocrypha.
Calendar of major religious festivals and celebrations with links to information on the origins, beliefs and customs of the World’s major religions.
Science
Chemdex is a directory of chemistry on the internet since 1993
Links for the subject of Chemistry
This is a gateway to science resources
Scirus is the most comprehensive scientific research tool on the web. With over 410 million scientific items indexed at last count, it allows researchers to search for not only journal content but also scientists' homepages, courseware, pre-print server material, patents and institutional repository and website information.
A guide to Physics on the Web
A website from the Institute of Physics.
The Internet Directory of Botany is an index to botanical information available on the Internet.
A free membership service which allows you to search journals and databases.
A mechanical engineering gateway.
Maths and Computing
Welcome to the Research Gateway where you can search reports, articles and research papers from the British Education Index specifically selected related to Mathematics. Many of the resources are freely available through this site.
TechXtra is a free service which can help you find articles, books, the best websites, the latest industry news, job announcements, technical reports, technical data, full text eprints, the latest research, thesis & dissertations, teaching and learning resources and more, in engineering, mathematics and computing. TechXtra searches parts of the Web that Google doesn’t.
Links for the subject of Mathematics
The Reproductive Health (RH) Gateway provides health professionals a fast and easy way to search for relevant and reliable reproductive health information.
Arts and Creative subjects
The architecture, planning and landscape information gateway
This Gateway includes over 1,000 websites relating to moving image and sound materials.
The largest site for contemporary art, art news, art history, contemporary artist and gallery portfolios, online since 1995
VADS maintains a searchable archive of digital resources for use by the visual arts community for learning , teaching and research. Resources include The Imperial War Museum art collection, London College of Fashion archive, Documentary Photogrpahy computer-aided learning program, Bretton Hall's Halliwell and Basic Design collections.
The MCS (pronounced 'mix') site is an award-winning portal or 'meta-index' to internet-based resources useful in the academic study of media and communication.
The Arts and Humanities Data Service is a UK national service funded by the JISC and AHRC to collect, preserve and promote the electronic resources which result from research and teaching in the arts and humanities.
A gateway to information for the construction industry.
Aims to contain the best online directory of architecture.
This site hosts selections from Sight and Sound magazine and offers informed comment on a variety of cinematic material. The film links gateway also features a useful listing of available databases, organisations within the field and archives.
A variety of resources relating to film.
Sports, Leisure and Tourism
The Countryside Recreation Network is a Network covering the UK and Republic of Ireland. CRN gives easy access to information and people concerned with countryside and recreation related matters.
Here you can find market intelligence, including the latest inbound visitor statistics, tourism trends, forecasts, analysis and commentary.
The World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) is the forum for business leaders in the Travel & Tourism industry. This site includes links to research articles.
Law
This site provides a very useful set of links to legal resources, designed to be of use to the legal community in the UK and Ireland. It was set up in 1995 and is one of the very few independent legal web sites in the UK.
Infolaw is one of the leading UK legal web gateways.
AccessToLaw is a gateway site, providing annotated links to selected UK, Commonwealth and worldwide legal web sites. Over 1400 sites are currently included.
Lawlinks is designed to help you find your way around legal resources on the internet.