SOME FREE RESOURCES ON THE WEB

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American Memory Collections - Library of Congress collection of early photographs, sounds and movies (transferred to downloadable audio and video)

UCLA streaming video archive of presentations by new media artists about their work and by cyberculture theorists.

Television archive of the events on 9-11, streaming video of the original broadcasts

Internet Moving Images Archive, downloadable digital video files from the Prelinger Collection - industrial and institutional films from the mid-20th century.

Online Audio and Video Recordings - University of California-Berkeley - includes talks, interviews, and readings by people such as James Baldwin, Michel Foucault, Margaret Mead, Bill Clinton, Noam Chomsky, and many others. Plus more historic speeches and audio productions, streaming video files (e.g. an interview with Malcom X in 1963) and a list of links to other such media resources on the web.

Montevideo archive of excerpts from the history of video art

Jack Lynch’s Literary Resources on the Net

World Time different time zones, another world time link, and world time using European-style 24hour clock.

Voice of the Shuttle English Literature Main Page, edited by Alan Liu

Electronic Literature Directory - extensive database of electronic texts, their authors, & their publishers

Internet Resources for Literary Studies

The Electronic Text Centre - at the University of Virginia for downloadable electronic texts in multiple formats including palm pilot.

Alt-X on-line network - "e-books" for free download.

Other collections at U of Virginia including fabulous online music and audio links

project gutenberg etexts or browse the actual content listings here

Shareware Music Machine - music software

Classical sheet music downloads

Concordances to over 500 ‘great books’.

large collection of computerized texts at The Oxford Text Archive.

Orbis Latinus: comprehensive information on the old Latin language and the Neo-Latin or Romance languages.

FreeIndex listings of webmaster and Internet related free stuff

Human Genome Project:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/omim/

http://bioinformatics.weizmann.ac.il/cards

Shareware is an extremely important part of Internet culture. Here are a few places among many other sites (of individuals, organizations, corporations and other institutions) offering freeware or shareware:

http://www.tucows.com

http://www.allmacintosh.com

http://www.shareware.com