World Wide Web sites

Societies and associations

Economic History Services

This is the site of the Cliometric Society. It contains information on conferences, the society's members, and on various initiatives. There also are two sections on the Economic History Association and the Business History Conference respectively.

New Home Page Association for History and Computing

Site of the Association for History and computing (AHC)

Universities and institutes

CBIhome.htm

Site of the Charles Babbage Institute at the University of Minnesota. It contains interesting links with other sites dealing with computer history.

Census Bureau Home Page

The site contains information on the economy, the demography, and the geography of all the American
states. There is also a large number of data.

Economics WWW Page at Helsinki

Economics home-page at the University of Helsinki.

gopher://gopher.susx.ac.uk/1/sussex.dir/academi...

Site of the Science Policy Research Unit of the University of Sussex. It contains information on the Research Unit's publications, on its members and their research. Everything is in gopher format.

Labyrinth WWW Home Page

Site for research in medieval history, edited by Georgetown University.

LSE WWW server

Site of the London School of Economics.

Main Menu of the Institute of Historical Research in London

Home page of the Institute of Historical Research in London.

Merit - University of Limburg, NL

Site of a Dutch research institute concerned with economics and technological change. It is certainly one of the richest sites on the web. It contains a large collection of recent papers, data on several indicators, and a collection of cartoons to which anyone can contribute.

The World Bank Home Page

Site where it is possible to find information on the initiatives promoted by the WB: publications of CD-ROM, journals, books, research projects, and data.

U. of York: Institute of Railway Studies

Site of the Institute for Railway Studies at the University of York (UK). It contains several information on the history of transport, including various links with other institutes.

Museums

IMSS - History of Science Museum - Florence, Italy

Site of the museum which contains information on the museum's activities and collection.

The Science Museum London.

This site contains information on the museum collection, and it is possible to view some of the most important objects in detail. It is also possible to do on-line searches in the library.

Publishers

Association of American University Presses Catalog

Site of the Association. It is possible to do search by subject on more than 45,000 titles.

Blackwell's Bookshops

Site of the Blackwell publisher. It is possible to do on-line searches on volumes published by Blackwell.

Cambridge University Press UK

Contains information on books and journals.

Cambridge University Press USA

Contains various information on books and journals.

Econbase top level

Site of the Elsevier/North Holland. It is possible to find articles on 32 economics journals that are published by them.

Oxford University Press

This is the site of the renouned English publishers. At the moment it does not contain many resources, but should be implemented quite rapidly.

The MIT Press

Site of the Massachusetts Insitute of Technology Press. It contains information on all the publishing initiatives of the Press. It is possible to do searches by author and subject on the entire archive. It is also possible to make orders via e-mail.

The University of Chicago Press

Site of the University of Chicago Press which contains information on all publishing news.

Journals

Business History Review

This is the site of the Harvard journal, containing the indexes and the abstracts of the last issues.

History and Theory Home Page

On-line journal which deals with methodolody, history of philosophy and historiography. It contains the index of the journal issues but it is not possible to read the articles.

Latin American Economic History Newsletter

Newsletter edited by the Committee on Population and Quantitative History of the Conference on Latin American History at the Department of History of the College of the Liberal Arts at Penn State. It contains the old issues of the newsletter in text format, while the last issue is available in hypertext format.

Student Economic Review Homepage

Journal edited and written only by students of the Department of Economics of Trinity College, University of Dublin. It is one of the first journals written by students. Articles are available in text or hypertext format.

The Times Higher home page

Site with academic job advertisements.

Hypertext papers

History of Chrysler

A brief history of Chrysler with pictures of the models from 1920 to today.

A Brief History of Algebra and Computing: An Eclectic Oxonian View

History of algebra and of the computer. It is an example of an essay planned for Internet in hypertext.

Al Roth's Game Theory and Experimental Economics Page

History of Money from Ancient Times to the Present Day

History of money, edited by a librarian of Exeter.

History of the Light Microscope

This is an example of an hypertext essay on the history of the light microscope from its origins to 1900.

Technological Change & Railway Systems

Hypertext paper on history of railways.

The American Revolution and the struggle for Independence

Hypertext project on American history from the Revolution up to the First World War.This is one of the first experiments in "collective writing". In the site, the editors invite others to contribute to its development by sending hypertext essays on the topic.

Collections of papers

Economics Working Paper Archive

Site edited by the Department of Economics of Washington University. It offers economics papers subdivided into 22 research areas. Many papers are available in Postscript or Acrobat format.

The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

Collection of papers on monetary issues edited by the Federal Reserve Bank.

UToronto/Eco Working Paper Archive

Collection of economics papers divided by subject and with research by author and subject.

WoPEc --- Working Papers in Economics

This site contains a collection of more than 870 economics papers. The most imporant function offered is the possibility of doing research by key words in the entire collection.

Sources and data archives

Archives & Archivists

Contains a very long list of archival resources, mainly American ones.

AsapWeb - ASAP Information and services

Australian Science Archive Project.

Biron

One of the richest data archives edited by the ESRC.

Esrc Data Archive Home Page

Site of the Economic and Social Research Council, where it is possible to find archives containing data on historical and economics issues, as well as on the other social sciences.

gopher://nber.harvard.edu:70/11/.pwt56

Penn World Tables edited by R. Summers e A. Heston. The site contains macroeconomic data for more than 150 countries from 1950 al 1988. It is possible to download the data in various formats.

Groningen Historical Electronic Text Archive

GHETA is a project aiming at making available sources for historical research. At present therer are some bibliographies, data, and other material in Gopher format.

http://info.mcc.ac.uk/Science_Engineering/CHSTM...

Site of England's national archive for computer history, at the University of Manchester. There is a list of the documents that are available.

Netherlands Historical Data Archive

NHDA aims at circulating material of historical interest, and promotes the use of new techniques for the collection of sources of various sorts.

Online Catasto of 1427

Archive on the land register of Florence for the years 1427-1429, with possibility of on-line search. For a quick viewing, it is advisable to defuse the image loading, as the home-page contains an image of 720 Kbyte.

Scottish Economic History Database, 1550 - 1780

Database of economic history for Scotland during the period 1550-1780.

The Historical text archive

This site contains a variety of information and texts of historical interest, such as the Mexican constitution and texts of Hungarian legislation.

Utenlandske dataarkiv

This site contains a list of many archives in the world where it is possible to find material for the social sciences. It has a clickable map from which it is possible to start the searches.

Software archives

Catalogue of Economics Software

Catalogue of software and of electronic sources edited by the CTI of the University of Bristol. It contains information on a wide range of software, from that for complex mathematical models to software for didactics. For some programmes it is possible to download demos. It is also possible to do search by key word on the whole archive.

CodEc - Programs for Economics and Econometrics

This site contains information on applied economics and econometrics programmes.

CSUSM Windows World

This site contains shareware programmes for Windows, and is edited by the California State University, San Marcos. It is possible to do searches by key word inside the archive. Programmes are not of academic interest only.

Reviews of resources

Economics Resources

Economics Web Sites

A list of sites for economics at the Duke University (USA).

Gateway to World History

A review of resources for historians.

General History Sources/Sites

A general review of resources for historians edited by Dennis Boals.

Glen Segell's Internet History HTML

A very extensive review of resources for historians edited by Glen Segell.

History

Site of resources for historians.

Information Resources for Historical Research

On-line resources for historians, edited by the European Institute University in Florence.

Resources for Economists on the Internet

This is the most exhaustive review of Internet resources for economists. It is edited by Bill Goffe at the University of Southern Mississipi, and is periodically updated.

Social Science Information Gateway - SOSIG

Collection of resources for the social sciences.

Www services for historians

Resources for historians edited by the AHC.

Wwwvl History of Science, Technology and Medicine - Overview

Review of resources for the history of science and of technology. It is edited by Tim Sherratt for the ASAP.

On-line searchers

Various

Economist Jokes

Collection of jokes on economists.

History of Mathematics: Aristotle

Possible text search.