Biblical Resources The following is a short list of Biblical resources on the internet. Many of the links (such as BibleGateway) are to mega-sites with hundreds of links. If you have other resources that you would like to see added, please contact the Director of Library Services as (212) 870-1213 Sumarian, Akkadian, Aramaic, Hebrew, Moabite, Phoenician, Ugaritic, Greek and Latin . Translations of ancient manuscripts, with links to transcriptions of the original text Parallel English, French, German and Latin versions of the Bible. Search the Bible in several languages and editions, including Korean - allows phrase searching as well as searching by passage or single word. Links to a large number of bibles and bible study aids. Index to Biblical commentaries and texts available on the web. Text in Greek, Spanish, Latin, English, French, Italian and German. Very good search engine, allows you to search by passage, commentary and word. Results are linked to Strong's concordance and lexicon. Passages are displayed in English and in the original Hebrew or Greek. Allows you to look at the passage in the original language. Excellent concordance and parsing. Unfortunately the Hebrew text is not pointed. Collection of searchable Bibles, includes a number of editions in many different languages. Can view results in a parallel display through power search. Will search and display the original language, although Hebrew text is unpointed. Government Resources General Comprehensive database of governmental institutions on the World Wide Web: parliaments, ministries, offices, law courts, embassies, city councils, public broadcasting corporations, central banks, multi-governmental institutions etc. Includes also political parties. Online since June 1995. Contains more than 17000 entries from more than 220 countries and territories as of June 2002. United States The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education, produces the world’s premier database of journal and non-journal education literature. The ERIC online system provides the public with a centralized ERIC Web site for searching the ERIC bibliographic database of more than 1.1 million citations going back to 1966. More than 107,000 full-text non-journal documents (issued 1993-2004), previously available through fee-based services only, are now available for free. ERIC is moving forward with its modernization program, and has begun acquiring materials for addition to the database. Of special interest are demographic table by ethnic group. The official portal to all departments of the U.S. government. Korean Resources An excellent Harvard site with links to major academic and commercial online sites in South Korea. Of especial importance is the links to the national library assembly library with its database of thesis’s and dissertations. An extensive list of resources through the University of Hawaii, divided by subject. Several broken links and several databases licensed to UH. This website duplicates much of the information of other sites, but it contains a large section on Korean Christianity which is not available on most other sites. Korean Libraries Designed for acquisition and analysis of materials related with Korean Studies. 116,240 precious old documents and Korean classics including domestic master's and doctoral degree dissertations in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities. 264,100 volumes of domestic, Chinese, Japanese and western materials. The goal of KSDC is to manage and accumulate various kinds of social data sets in order for academic developments of social sciences. The foundation of the institution in Korea is necessary in managing and accumulating various data sets in the age of globalization and information. The institution keeps and offers both national and international data sets related to social sciences. There's a Korean and an English version. Designed for bibliographic searches in the area of political science, economics, international relations, anthropology, psychology, geography, social work, sociology, social education and other social sciences disciplines. Collection: 17,010 materials including master's and doctoral degree dissertations and journals. A total collection: 1,500,000 volumes including Korean, Japanese and Chinese classics. Also in English. Total collection: more than 1,500,000 volumes (including domestic doctoral/master's dissertations), and 103,700 titles or items of other materials, such as periodicals, newspapers, CD-ROMs, microforms, audio/visual tapes and laser disks. Comprehensive collection: 3,912,809 Collection: 1,107,000 volumes and a fully computerized library system. Korean Seminary and University Libraries Information maintained by Mahidol University, Thailand Korean Government Data [Top] Search Engines Columbia Library Web AltaVista – searches Web sites and Usenet newsgroups with advanced Boolean and field search options. See also: Babel Fish, the Yahoo translation service. AOL Search - engine that defaults to AND logic and offers an Options template for easy search construction; has an option to view results by popularity; offers a directory based on the Open Directory Ask Jeeves - submit questions in plain English and view suggested relevant sites; also offers the Open Directory ranked in order of popularity Google - ranks pages by tracking the links from pages ranked high by the service, including results from the Open Directory Project. Google offers a number of Services & Tools that are worth exploring, including: Google Groups, a Usenet newsgroup archive Google Language Tools, for locating pages written in particular languages and located in specific countries and a translation service Google Scholar, beta offering that offers the full text, abstracts, and/or citations to scholarly materials including books, journal articles, documents in academic repositories and the free Web. This link will allow you to access the full text of articles in journals to which the Libraries subscribe when you are off campus. Google Search: Unclesam, a searchable database of U.S. government Web sites (.gov and .mil) ranked by link popularity Google Web Directory, which uses Google ranking technology with the Open Directory Project Lycos - emphasizes search results from the Open Directory and offers Web sites from the FAST Search index MSN Search - Microsoft's search engine that offers searches of the general Web as well as some deep Web sources; includes a Search Builder that includes an option to retrieve results based on recent updates, popularity and exact or approximate match SearchEdu.com - service that limits results to the .edu, domain; also offers to search well-known dictionaries, encyclopedias, almanacs, etc. Other search engines from the same source include: SearchGov.com - .gov domain SearchMil.com - .mil domain [Top]
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