General research sites are on the left

Academic Libraries & Online Catalogues

• American Memory Collection (Library of Congress)
• Braintrack University Sites
• British Library OPAC
• BUBL Information Service
• COPAC
• Gabriel - Gateway to Europe's National Libraries
• Ingenta (index of journal articles)
• Library of Congress Online Catalog
• LibWeb (Libraries on the Web)
• Music Education Resource Base (Canada)
• New York Public Library online catalogue
• NISS Data Services
• NSMI Library (National Sports Medicine Institute)
• Public Libraries of Europe UK Office for Library and Information Networking 
• UK Public Libraries on the Web
• University of London Library online catalogue
• University of Surrey Roehampton online catalogue
• Useful library/research links
• Westminster (music) Library

Arts Organizations

• Arts and Business (business partnerships with the arts)
• Arts Council of Great Britain
• Council of Europe: Cultural Co-operation
• Digital Heritage & Cultural Content (EC)
• ENICPA (European Network of Information Centres for the Performing Arts)
• EUCLID (European & International cultural information service)
• IFFA (International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies)
• Regional Arts Boards
• Theatre Dance UK (British Council companies listing)
• UK Theatre Web (searchable listings)

Citing & Referencing

None of these will be definitive, but by the time you've followed all the links to other sites about referencing, you'll be an expert.

• Bibliographic Database management (Wisconsin)
• Citing electronic sources (WWW Virtual Library)
• Citation Guides (UCL)
• Citing References (Reading)
• Citing References from Electronic Sources (Birmingham)
• Cite them right (U.of Northumbria)
• Evaluation of reference management software
• Harvard Citation Guide (Leeds Metropolitan)
• IFLAnet Citation Guides for Electronic Documents
• ISO 690-2 Standards for Citing Electronic Documents
• Overview of personal bibliographic software (Oxford)
• The Harvard System (Bristol)

Copyright, Licensing, Performance Rights

• ACLS (Authors Licensing and Collecting Society)
• ASCAP (ACE on the Web) - try it, you'll love it!
• British Music Rights: Links & Acronyms
• CLA (Copyright Licensing Agency)
• Copyright guide for music theatre works
• Copyright of Choreographic Works (Julie van Camp)
• Creative Commons
• Equity
• ERA (Educational Recording Agency)
• Fasttrack (The Digital Copyright Network)
• HMSO guide to Crown Copyright
• Intellectual Property (UK Government site)
• JISC/TLTP Copyright Guidelines (pdf)
• MCPS (Mechanical Copyright Protection Society)
• Musicians' Union
• PAMRA (Performing Artists' Media Rights Association)
• PPL (Phonographic Performance Ltd)
• PRS (Performing Rights Society)
• UK Copyright Service
• UK Patent Office
• WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization)

Education Sites

see also PGCE links

• AQA (Assessment and Qualifications Alliance
• AHRB (Arts & Humanities Research Board)
• AskEric (search facility for ERIC q.v.)
• BEI (British Education Index)
• DeLiberations on Learning & Teaching in Higher Education
• DfES (Department for Education and Skills)
• Educational Research Links
• ELIA (European League of Institutes of the Arts)
• Eric (Educational Resources Information Center)
• Europa Education and Training (Socrates, Erasmus etc.)
• European SchoolNet
• Eurydice (Information Network on Education in Europe)
• GEM (The Gateway to Educational Materials)
• Graduate Teacher Training Registry
• Guardian Education Pages
• HEFCE (Higher Education Funding Council for England)
• HEPI (Higher Education Policy Institute)
• HESA (Higher Education Statistics Agency)
• Institute for Learning & Teaching in Higher Education
• LSC (Learning & Skills Council)
• Metier
• National Curriculum online
• NGfL (National Grid for Learning)
• NERF (National Educational Research Forum)
• NFER (National Foundation for Educational Research)
• OECD - Education, Employment, Labour and Social Affairs
• PALATINE (Performing Arts Learning and Teaching Innovation NEtwork
• QCA (Qualifications and Curriculum Authority)
• TeacherNet
• Teacher Training Agency
• UCAS

ESL/EFL/EAP

And not just for ESL students either- lots of interesting stuff about the English language here for native speakers. 

• Activities for ESL students (1000+ quizzes etc)
• BBC News Style Guide - excellent and free
• Computer assisted language learning links
• English Grammar online (Edufind)
• English Structure for Academic Purposes
• ELT Web - Resources for English Language Teaching/Learning
• Internet Grammar of English (UCL)
• Ruth Vilmi's language help
• Self-study quizzes for ESL students
• Using English for Academic purposes

Government Sites (UK)

• Culture in the UK: Goverment Structure and Responsibilities (from City University)
• Department of Culture, Media and Sport
• Her Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO)
• UK Government online (open.gov.uk)
• UK Legislation (from HMSO)
• UK National Statistics (Official Site)

IT Skills

• Downloading, Installing, Graphics etc. - online tips
• Online tutorials in Word, Internet, Email etc.
• Typing Master - online typing course
• Typing test - find out your wpm online
• Typing tutor - online and free
• Webopedia - excellent glossary of IT terms
• Webmonkey HTML cheatsheet
• Windows Annoyances - the alternate to F1
• Free MS Word tutorials - worth a look

Online Courses

• BBC Free online training courses
• MIT open courseware
• OpenLearn Free online materials from the Open University

Study Skills

• A rule book for arguments
• Computer aided memory training
• GNU Student Help Pages (for geographers, but still good)
• Guide to Grammar and Style
• Learning to learn
• Online dictionary of Library and Information Science
• Open University Learning Skills
• Overcoming Procrastination
• Philip Tagg's Assignment and Dissertation Tips (scroll down for link)
• Purdue Online Writing Lab
• Putting Things Off (Procrastination) - how to stop doing it
• Research Methods Knowledge Base
• Rhetoric and argument
• Sample essays (with tutors' comments - very handy!)
• Silva Rhetoricae (The Forest of Rhetoric)
• Strunk's Elements of Style
• Study Guides & Strategies (UST, Minnesota)
• Study Skills Survival Guide (South Bank University)
• U. of Southampton Study Skills guide - concise & useful
• University of Sussex Language Institute Study Skills guide
• Writer's Handbook: Academic writing
• Writing centre handouts (U. of North Carolina)

Web Skills

• BBC Webwise
• Education and research using internet
• Evaluating internet sources
• Finding Information on the Internet (Berkeley) *ESSENTIAL*
• Internet Instructor - virtual web tutorial
• Internet for the Performing Arts: Online Tutorial from the RDN

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About this page

Dance sites are on the right

Dance Education

• BAALPE (British Association of Advisors and Lecturers in Physical Education
• CDET (Council for Dance Education and Training)
• Dance Education Web
• NDEO (National Dance Education Organisation)
• SCODHE (Standing Conference on Dance in Higher Education)

Dance Links Pages/Directories

• Artifact
• Arts.com (dance links section)
• Artslynx International
• Balletcompanies
• Cyberdance
• Dance Links
• Danceweb (searchable UK directory)
• Internet Dance Database (iDanceDB) [French]
• LIPA Subject Resources page: Dance
• PALATINE Dance Web Resources and reviews
• PRISM from Palatine
• Sapphire Swan Dance Links
• UK Dance Exchange (class listings/calendar)

Dance Magazines and Journals

• Ballet Magazine (formerly Sovietsky Balet)
• Ballet in Russia Magazine
• Ballett International/Tanz aktuell
• Balletto Oggi
• Dancing Times
• Dance Europe
• Dance Expression
• Dance Magazine
• Dance Now
• Dance Teacher Now
• Danza en Español
• Les Saisons de la Danse
• Playbill Online (US)
• Playbill Arts (Dance Features)
• Pointe Magazine
• Research in Dance Education
• Stagebill
• Tanz-Danse.ch (Switzerland)
• The Stage

Dance Notation

• Alliance of Dance Notation Educators
• Benesh Institute
• CALABAN (Computer-aided Labanotation) Benesh Institute
• DNB (Dance Notation Bureau)
• ICKL (International Council of Kinetography Laban/Labanotation)
• Laban Lab
• Labanwriter software
• LODC (Language of Dance Centre)
• Macbenesh (Dancewrite)
• Notation (Laban & Benesh) - in French

Dance Organizations

• Association for Dance Movement Therapy UK (ADMT)
• American Dance Guild
• ANDA (Association of National Dance Agencies)
• BIG (Ballet Independents' Group)
• British Association of Teachers of Dancing
• British Ballet Organisation
• British Dance Council
• BIG (Ballet Independents Group)
• BTDA British Theatre Dance Association
• CID (International Dance Council (Unesco)
• Classical Greek Dance Association
• Dance UK
• Dancesport UK
• Dance Teachers Online
• Foundation for Community Dance Online
• IADMS (International Association for Dance Medicine & Science)
• IDO (International Dance Organisation)
• IGMD (International Guild of Musicians in Dance)
• ISTD (Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing)
• IDTA (International Dance Teachers Association)
• NATD (National Association of Teachers of Dancing)
• National Dance Agencies (UK) [list from London Dance]
• NDA (National Dance Association)
• NDCA (National Dance Council of America)
• NDTA (National Dance Teachers Association)
• RAD (Royal Academy of Dance)
• The Place
• UK Alliance Ltd (United Kingdom Alliance of Professional Teachers of Dancing)
• Youth Dance England

Dance Research

• Allison de la Rue Collection at Princeton (Romantic Ballet)
• AHRB Research Centre for Cross-cultural Music and Dance Performance
• Archives Suisse de la Danse
• Arts Archive (Dynamic listing)
• Australian Dance Collection
• Ballets of Frederick Ashton (Ashton Archive)
• Ballets Russes (in French, but well worth it)
• CORD (Congress on Dance Research)
• CPR (Centre for Performance Research) (Aberystwyth)
• CCDR (Cross-cultural Dance Resources)
• Centro de Documentación de Música y Danza (in Spanish)
• Dance Films Association
• Dance Heritage Coalition
• Dansmuseet [Dance Museum] (Stockholm)
• Deutsches Tanzarchiv Köln
• DHDS (Dolmetsch Historical Dance Society)
• EADH (European Association of Dance Historians)
• ERIC (Health, PE, Recreation & Dance Divison]
• EFSDS (English Folk Song & Dance Society)
• EUDRID (European Dance Research Information Directory)
• GTF (Gesellschaft für Tanzforschung)
• Internet Broadway Database
• IHDP (Institute of Historical Dance [NL])
• Intute: Arts & Humanities
• JISC Resource Guide for the Arts & Humanities
• Letter of Dance, The (Early Dance newsletter online)
• МАЛЕНЬКАЯ БАЛЕТНАЯ ЭНЦИКЛОПЕДИЯ
• NRCD (National Resource Centre for Dance [Univ. of Surrey])
• PADS (Performing Arts Data Service)
• PAL (Performing Arts Library)
• PeoplePlay UK (Images from the Theatre Museum)
• Preserve (US Dance preservation organization)
• Rescen (Centre for Research into Creation in the Performing Arts)
• Rendance (Renaissance Dance Homepage)
• Rudolf Nureyev Foundation (Dance Medicine)
• SCA Renaissance Dance Homepage
• SDHS (Society of Dance History Scholars)
• SDR (Society for Dance Research)
• SIBMAS (International Association of Libraries and Museums of the Performing Arts)
• Sonny Watson's Dance History (mainly social dance)
• The Stravinsky Database (music & dance)
• Tchaikovsky Research
• Theatre Museum (National Museum of the Performing Arts)
• Western Social Dance (Library of Congress article)

Dance Schools

• Arts Educational Schools London | Tring
• Artschools-europe (database)
• Central School of Ballet
• Doreen Bird College of the Performing Arts
• Elmhurst
• English National Ballet School
• Laban Centre
• Laine Theatre Arts
• London Contemporary Dance School
• London Studio Centre
• Performers College
• Rambert School
• Royal Ballet School
• Urdang Academy

Dance Sites/E-Zines/Weblogs

• Article19
• Artsjournal.com (Dance pages)
• Artsalive (Canada): Dance section
• For Ballet Lovers Only (about the Kirov/Bolshoi)
• Ballet.co
• Ballet Alert!
• Centre National de la Danse
• Culture Kiosque (Dance)
• DanceArt.com
• Dance Web Europe
• Danza en Español
• Estelle Souche's Dance Pages
• Great Dance Weblog
• London Dance
• The Winger (professional dancers' weblogs)
• Voice of Dance

Dance Students Pages

• Public Funding Bodies for Students (UK)

Dance Studios

• Chisenhale Dance Space (studios etc.)
• Danceworks (open class studios in London)
• Pineapple (London, UK)

Dance Supplies

• Dance Books
• Dance Horizons
• Dance wear shops (on Londondance)

Dance, New Media & Technology

• Buy a Class
• Big Room
• Capturenet
• Dance and Technology bibliography
• Dance Technology Zone
• Dance and Technology Links
• Digital Arts Network
• Digital Performance Archive (Nottingham Trent University)
• Future Physical
• Lifeforms (Credo-Interactive software)
• Media & Dance
• Poser Software (Curious Labs)