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China Doctoral Dissertations Full-text Database is the most comprehensive, highest quality, continuously updated doctor dissertations database in China. It collects dissertations from 404 doctor degree grantors. Series and Subjects: Mathematics/Physics/Mechanics/Astronomy; Chemistry/Metallurgy/Environment/Mine Industry; Architecture/Energy/Traffic/Electromechanics, etc; Agriculture; Medicine & Public Health; Literature/History/Philosophy; Politics/Military Affairs/Law; Education & Social Science; Electronic Technology & Information Science; Economics & Management. They are further divided into 168 Subject databases.

The Sickly Taper is the illustrious brainchild of the late Dr. Frederick S. Frank, former Professor Emeritus at Allegheny College, and Gothicist extraordinaire. The Sickly Taper is now run out of the Department of English Language, Literature, and Creative Writing at the University of Windsor under the direction of Dr. Carol Margaret Davison with the assistance of Betsy Keating, Neil Wood and Jen Ferguson. In order to ensure its ongoing role as the world's most comprehensive and authoritative online bibliography of Gothic scholarship, we ask that Gothic scholars and aficionados keep us apprised of relevant Gothic-related publications and productions. Please acquaint yourself with our indexing categories and feel free to suggest possible classifications for your scholarship. As cross-indexing can be nothing short of a Gothic nightmare in terms of its confusion and propensity to mushroom to monstrous size, please limit your suggestions to a single category.

Rewordify.com is powerful, free, online reading comprehension software. It helps people understand difficult English faster, and helps them learn words in new ways.

Power Thesaurus is a fast, convenient and comprehensive online thesaurus. It's crowdsourced, meaning it has been built by a community of writers for writers. The synonymic and other associations are suggested, rated and used by its visitors.

Accessible Archives utilizes computer technology and a large team of conversion specialists to provide easy to use access to vast quantities of archived historical information previously available only in microformat, hard copy form or as images. Diverse primary source materials reflecting broad views across American history and culture have been assembled into comprehensive databases. Developed by dedicated instructors and students of Americana, these databases allow access to the rich store of materials from leading books, newspapers and periodicals then current.

Poet, printmaker, visionary, the British artist William Blake (1757-1827) made work that is both profoundly personal and universal. Tate Britain is now presenting the most comprehensive exhibition of Blake's work ever held (9 November - 11 February 2001). The aim is to show Blake as an artist, as a poet and as a man. William Blake Online is designed to enrich your experience of the exhibition by introducing some of Blake's artistic and poetical works, his life story and the London that he knew. The site follows the four exhibition sections, but includes a fifth section, Learning Tools, designed especially for teachers' and students' needs

The main purposes of this virtual library are to list women's history institutions and organizations, locate archival and library collections, and provide links to Internet resources on women's history. In addition, also included are a list of women's studies journals and a few comprehensive link collections useful as a starting point for searching the Internet for women's studies in general.

This Web page gives access to a comprehensive, year-by-year bibliography of the works of postcolonial critic and public intellectual, Edward Said (1935-2003). Said established his reputation as an groundbreaking critic of Western attitudes to the Orient with his book "Orientalism" (1979). The site references reviews of Said's works, books and special issues of journals about Said, and critical references to Said and his work, from 1964 until 2000.

LUXONLINE is a web resource for exploring British based artists' film and video in-depth. Luxonline is the single most extensive publicly available resource devoted to British film and video artists. Streaming video clips, new writings, past articles and biographies provide a comprehensive contextual background to the artists featured on the site.

Calibre is a free and open source e-book library management application developed by users of e-books for users of e-books. It has a cornucopia of features divided into the following main categories: Library Management - E-book conversion - Syncing to e-book reader devices - Downloading news from the web and converting it into e-book form - Comprehensive e-book viewer - Content server for online access to your book collection

Practical Chinese Reader is perhaps the most widely used textbook for students of elementary Mandarin Chinese. This online companion to the written text was devised by Xie Tianwei of California State University, Long Beach, and contains quizzes, reading comprehension questions and grammar tests that help students learn outside the classroom

Celebrating and documenting the creativity of Asian, Black, Latina, and Native women, VG is one of the internet's most comprehensive and well-respected academic databases for women artists of color. We provide innovative teaching and research tools for accessing a global community of women writers of color living and dead, obscure and renowned. The site reaches backward and forward to place readers, thinkers, students, and educators on a bridge which connects the gaps that exist in literature, society, and culture. Through our student-generated profiles, essays, reviews, and interviews, you can engage with artists whose works put faces on difficult and important issues ranging from immigration to racial prejudice, gendered violence to community resistance.

Learning Chinese online is an excellent annotated directory of Internet resources for teachers and students of Mandarin Chinese. From the main page, the directory is divided into sections covering different aspects and experiences of learning Chinese, from tools for total beginners, to resources for more experienced learners. For example, users will find annotated links to websites with online listening comprehensions, help with character-recognition, and a guide to Chinese online dictionaries

The Thomas Gray Archive is a long-term research project dedicated to studying the life and work of eighteenth-century poet Thomas Gray (1716-1771). The Archive, hosted by the Bodleian Library, Oxford, strives to preserve and to make accessible a comprehensive corpus of high-quality, electronic primary sources and secondary materials. By using open, interoperable standards and formats widely used in the digital humanities, the Archive offers a structured platform for scholarly communication and collaboration and is developing as a living forum with the discussions, annotations, and contributions shared by the scholarly community. The Thomas Gray Archive is a freely accessible, educational resource solely intended for teaching, research, and study.

One of the most comprehensive sites about Tolkien's invented languages

provides comprehensive biographical & bibliographical information on 4,500 Irish writers along with extracts from their works and commentaries upon them

RASCAL is an electronic gateway to research resources in Ireland. You can use this web-site to search and browse information about the wide range of research and special collections held in libraries, museums and archives across the region. The Directory consists of comprehensive descriptions of collections available to researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences recording details of content, location, format, and access. Links to institutions' on-line catalogues and other digital resources are provided where appropriate

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.

The goal of this project is to create comprehensive online coverage of the lexicons of the early Germanic languages