Bibliographical

• Rede Nacional de Pesquisa. A Portugese site, based in Brazil. Lots of info, links, and the opportunity to access the Biblioteca Virtual de Língua e Literatura, um repositório experimental da Rede Nacional de Pesquisa.. Home page will also be available in English.

• Media Theory. The home page of a dedicated lecturer, committed to keeping this site very much alive. Full with on-line resources, for learners and teachers. Links to sites of the Media and Communications Study Site, the Association for Media, Communication and Cultural Studies, and a list of publications on the issue of Media Studies. If media are your interest, this site is worth wandering through.

• Smart Library on Urban Poverty. State-of-the-art knowledge on decades of academic research on the causes and consequences of urban poverty is now at the fingertips of anyone with an Internet connection. In an easily accessible and understandable format, the Smart Library on Urban Poverty Research brings information on urban community, urban poverty and the family, urban poverty and the economy, and work and welfare into homes, schools and offices around the world.

• ERIC Clearinghouse. Search this rich bibliographic database on educational resources to review the article/document descriptors, or read the on-line digests of a large selection of the available material.

• Interversity.
  "The most radical alternative to school would be a
  network or service which gave each man [sic] the
  same opportunity to share his current concern with
  others motivated by the same concern.
  Do you recognize Ivan Illich? Interversity is a site of interest for thinkers. It is about convergence of education and the net & the radical reconfiguration of both. Also: a bibliography of books and other references with comments from readers. The site has not been updated recently, but it is still of interest.

• The Gutenberg Project. This is a serious effort to provide on-line access to electronical versions of public domain material. From Shakespeare to an English translation of the Koran, you find it here!

• Library Support for Distance Learning. This site is an effort to provide easy access to web-accessible resources dealing with library support for distance learning. In addition to links to general sites on distance learning, you will find:
  • Links to about 20 Web-accessible papers/articles that I've selected to help people think critically about distance learning generally.
  • Links to 50+ Web-accessible papers/articles/reports dealing specifically with library support for distance learning.
  • Links to more than 60 individual library sites, with examples of how the these different libraries offer services to distance learners.

• The "No Significant Difference Phenomenon". This site provides selected entries from the book, "The No Significant Difference Phenomenon" as reported in 355 research reports, summaries and papers -- a comparative research bibliography on technology for distance education.

• University Microfilms, Inc.. If you've got the money to pay for their services, it is a resource worth looking into. Access to dissertations, periodicals, newspapers, and journals. UMI, is one of the world's largest information archivers and distributors to users -- via microform, paper, CD-ROM and online.

• Distance Education at a Glance. Everything you ever wanted to know about Distance Education, but could find no-one to ask: In order to help teachers, administrators, facilitators, and students understand distance education, the Engineering Outreach Department at the University of Idaho has developed this Distance Education at a Glance series of guides.

• Moderators. Resources for Moderators and Facilitators of Online Discussion. This page is a growing set of resources for moderators and moderators-to-be of online discussion in both academic and non-academic settings, including full text articles.

• ELDIS Project. An activity by the British Library for Development Studies, at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex. A comprehensive database with full text, on-line articles on issues relevant to development.

• Bibliographies: Media Literacy and Technology. A Thorough listing of resources on the issue of media literacy: "Media literacy is concerned with helping students develop an informed and critical understanding of the nature of the mass media, the techniques used by them, and the impact of these techniques..."