Some Potentially Useful Links

• Google
  http://www.google.co.uk/
• AltaVista
  http://uk.altavista.com/
• AltaVista's Translation Service
  http://babelfish.altavista.com/
• Lycos UK
  http://www.lycos.co.uk/
• Mamma
  http://www.mamma.com/
• MetaCrawler
  http://www.metacrawler.com/
• Yahoo! UK & Ireland (Actually a directory)
  http://uk.yahoo.com/
• Cultural Heritage Search Engine
  http://www.culturalheritage.net/

• NISS Services (National Information Services and Systems) - now on HERO
  http://www.hero.ac.uk/niss/
• Chemsoc - A chemistry portal site
  http://www.chemsoc.org/
• Chemistry: WWW Links for Chemists
  http://www.liv.ac.uk/Chemistry/Links/links.html
• Conservation OnLine
  http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/
• CHIN - Canadian Heritage Information Network
  http://www.chin.gc.ca/English/index.html
• The Getty Conservation Institute's Information Center
  http://www.getty.edu/conservation/resources/infocenter.html
• Other Conservation Sites listed by the Getty Conservation Institute
  http://www.getty.edu/conservation/resources/othersites.html
• CBA guide to UK archaeology online
  http://www.britarch.ac.uk/info/uklinks.html
• Archaeology on the Net - Archaeology Resources
  http://www.serve.com/archaeology/
• ArchNet: WWW Virtual Library - Archaeology
  http://archnet.asu.edu/
• ARGE (Archaeological Resource Guide to Europe)
  http://odur.let.rug.nl/~arge/
• WWW Virtual Library: Museums around the World
  http://icom.museum/vlmp/index.html
• WWW Virtual Library: Museums around the UK
  http://www.mda.org.uk/vlmp/index.htm
• Aviation Museums in the UK
  http://www.aeroflight.co.uk/mus/uk/ukmus-home.htm
• Wikipedia's list of Transport Museums
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_transport_museums
• Key Sources for Students of Restoration and Conservation
  http://www.lgu.ac.uk/as/library/ilrc/key_rest.htm
• Horology - The Index
  http://www.horology.com/
• Horology - Repair and Restoration Sites
  http://www.horology.com/ht-repai.html
• Digital Collections: Museums and the Information Age
  http://www.suzannekeene.info/infoage/index.htm
• The WWW Virtual Library Home Page
  http://vlib.org/Overview.html
• The Internet Public Library Reference Center
  http://www.ipl.org/
• Society for Archaeological Sciences Home Page
  http://www.socarchsci.org/

• CHIN - Canadian Heritage Information Network
  http://www.chin.gc.ca/English/index.html
• CHIN - BCIN Bibliographic Database
  http://www.bcin.ca/
• AATA - Art and Archaeology Technical Abstracts
  http://aata.getty.edu/NPS/
• Imperial War Museum Collections Online Database
  http://www.iwmcollections.org.uk/
• London Transport Museum Photographic Collection
  http://photos.ltmcollection.org/ixbin/hixclient.exe?_IXDB_=ltm&search-form=main/home.html&submit-button=search
• Hampshire County Council Museums Service Catalogue
  http://www.hants.gov.uk/museum/collections/index.html
• Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Collections Search Page (over 130,000 entries)
  http://museum-server.archanth.cam.ac.uk/Collections/access.html
• Petrie Museum, UCL Search Page
  http://www.petrie.ucl.ac.uk/search/main/index.php
• SCRAN - Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network (subscription required)
  http://www.scran.ac.uk/
• The Fleet Air Arm Archive - Preserved and Surviving Aircraft and Warbirds
  http://www.fleetairarmarchive.net/Aircraft/Preserved/Introduction.html
• Conservation of the Wright Flyer (a PDF file)
  http://crm.cr.nps.gov/archive/23-02/23-02-6.pdf
• Duxford - Conservation
  http://www.iwm.org.uk/duxford/living1.htm
• Restoration at the Strategic Air and Space Museum
  http://www.strategicairandspace.com/Restoration/restoration.html
• British Trolleybus Database
  http://www.trolleybus.co.uk/
• MDA Archaeological Objects Thesaurus - Contents
  http://www.mda.org.uk/archobj/archcon.htm
• MDA wordHOARD - terminology and thesauri resources in the UK and beyond
  http://www.mda.org.uk/wrdhrd1.htm
• The Getty Conservation Institute Newsletter (Getty Conservation)
  http://www.getty.edu/conservation/resources/newsletter.html
• The Getty Conservation Institute PDF Publications
  http://www.getty.edu/conservation/resources/reports.html
• The Getty Research Library Catalog
  http://library.getty.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&PAGE=First
• The Smithsonian Center for Materials Research and Education
  http://www.si.edu/scmre/
• Cultural Resource Management
  http://crm.cr.nps.gov/
• The Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies
  http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/conservation/jcms/
• Pest Research and Education - Museums, Archives and Libraries
  http://www.nrm.se/forskningochsamlingar/premal/discussionlist.4.141a32f1071230b1ca8000337.html
• The Current Archaeology Data Centre
  http://www.archaeology.co.uk/directory/index.htm
• The Archaeology Data Service
  http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/
• CAMEO (Conservation and Art Material Encyclopedia Online)
  http://www.mfa.org/_cameo/frontend/home.asp
• Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (US)
  http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/atsdrhome.html
• National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Chemical Safety Data
  http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/chemical-safety/default.html
• Material Safety Data Sheets
  http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/safety/msds.htm
• ChemFinder Chemical Searching
  http://chemfinder.cambridgesoft.com/
• Beilstein CrossFire - a chemical information system
  http://www.mimas.ac.uk/crossfire/
• NIST ONLINE Reference Databases
  http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/database.htm
• Corrosion Source
  http://www.corrosionsource.com/index.htm
• WebElements - The Periodic Table on the Web - at Sheffield University
  http://www.webelements.com
• MIMAS Home Page (Manchester Information and Associated Services)
  http://www.mimas.ac.uk/
• zetoc on MIMAS (British Library Electronic Table of Contents)
  http://etoc.mimas.ac.uk/zetoc/
• EDINA (Edinburgh Data and Information Access)
  http://edina.ed.ac.uk/
• OPACS list on HERO (Online Public Access Library Catalogues)
  http://www.hero.ac.uk/reference_resources/opacs_in_britain_and_ireland_3795.cfm
• National Art Library at the V&A
  http://ipac.nal.vam.ac.uk/
• Consortium of Online Public Access Library Catalogues (COPAC) - data from the Consortium of University Research Libraries
  http://copac.ac.uk/copac/wzgw
• Research Libraries Group (US)
  http://www.thames.rlg.org/toc.html
• Index to Theses (GB and Ireland)
  http://www.theses.com/
• JSTOR
  http://www.jstor.org
• Periodicals Archive Online
  http://pao.chadwyck.co.uk/
• ISI Web of knowledge
  http://portal.isiknowledge.com/portal.cgi
• Google Books
  http://books.google.co.uk/
• Google Scholar
  http://scholar.google.com/
• Scirus
  http://www.scirus.com/
• United Kingdom Official Publications
  http://www.ukop.co.uk/info/index.html
• Wikipedia
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
• Acronym and abbreviation list - find out what all those annoying acronyms actually mean!
  http://www.ucc.ie/cgi-bin/acronym/

• AIC
  http://aic.stanford.edu/
• BAFRA
  http://www.bafra.org.uk/
• UKIC (see ICON)
  http://www.ukic.org.uk/
• SSCR (see ICON)
  http://www.sscr.demon.co.uk
• IPC (see ICON)
  http://www.ipc.org.uk
• NCCR
  http://www.nccr.org.uk/
• ECCO
  http://www.ecco-eu.info/
• The member organisations of ECCO (i.e. European Conservation/Restoration bodies):
  http://www.ecco-eu.info/
• CCI
  http://www.cci-icc.gc.ca/main_e.shtml
• ICOM-CC
  http://icom-cc.icom.museum/
• ICCROM
  http://www.iccrom.org/eng/news/iccrom.htm
• ICOMOS
  http://www.icomos.org/ICOMOS_Main_Page.html
• ICON
  http://www.icon.org.uk/
• IIC
  http://www.iiconservation.org/
  Studies in Conservation - http://www.earthscan.co.uk/defaultSINC.asp?sp=&v=6
• The Institute of Conservation Science
  http://www.instituteofconservationscience.org.uk/
• The British Horological Institute
  http://www.bhi.co.uk/
• The British Aviation Preservation Council
  http://www.bapc.org.uk/
• The European Aviation Preservation Council
  http://www.aeronauta.com/eapc/
• E-FAITH - European Federation of Associations of Industrial and Technical Heritage
  http://www.e-faith.org/
• See also many other sites listed on CoOL at
  http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byorg/orgs.html
• And those listed on culturalheritage.net at
  http://www.culturalheritage.net/cgi-bin/search/hyperseek.cgi?search=CAT&Category=No-profit%20Corporations%3AArt&Qualifier=

Conservation Companies

• James Moss Horological Conservator
  http://www.antiqueclockconservation.com/
• Plowden & Smith
  http://www.plowden-smith.co.uk
• Sylvester Crowley - Wales
  http://www.btinternet.com/~s96/watchmender/

• Fisher Scientific UK Web Catalogues
  http://www.fisher.co.uk/catalogues/index.htm
• VWR International (Merck/BDH)
  http://uk.vwr.com/
• RS-UK
  http://www1.rswww.com/
• Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann - Conservation and Museology
  http://www.bh.com/conservation/
• James & James/Earthscan
  http://shop.earthscan.co.uk/GroupList/mcs/GroupID/5/GroupName/Heritage%20Conservation/v/dc7d33de-f25c-4dfb-833c-974b1549de24
• Maney
  http://www.maney.co.uk/
• Routledge/Taylor and Francis
  http://www.routledge.com/
  http://www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk/html/index.asp

• The conservation-research discussion list
  http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/conservation-research.html
• The transport-conservation discussion list NEW
  http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/transport-conservation.html
• The iconnect list - for ICON members
  See 'Publications' on the ICON web site - http://www.icon.org.uk/
• ICON discussion forum
  http://www.icon.org.uk/forum/1/
• The pacr-news list - for information about the Professional Accreditation of Conservator-Restorers
  http://www.pacr.org.uk/pacr-news.html
• Cons DistList
  http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byform/mailing-lists/cdl/
• texcons for textile conservators
  http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byform/mailing-lists/texcons/
• ICOM-CC-L list
  http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/icom-cc.html
• The PRE-MAL discussion list (Pest Research and Education - Museums Archives and Libraries)
  http://www.nrm.se/forskningochsamlingar/premal/discussionlist.4.141a32f1071230b1ca8000337.html
• The skillsnetwork for European Aviation Museums
  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/skillsnetwork
• Searching for a JISCmail discussion list
  http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/
• Search the Kovacs Directory (Directory of Scholarly Electronic Conferences)
  http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/kovacs/
• Search LISTSERV lists
  http://www.tile.net/lists/
• Search LISTSERV and non-LISTSERV lists
  http://www.liszt.com/
• Creating free discussion lists on Yahoo! Groups
  http://groups.yahoo.com
• Plowden & Smith Advice Line
  http://www.plowden-smith.co.uk/adviceline/
• Historical Clock and Watch Research Bulletin Board
  http://www.clockswatches.com/bboard/wwwboard.html
• Clocksmiths Yahoo! Group
  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/clocksmiths/
• Yahoo! Chat (A way of chatting to people in real-time on-line)
  http://chat.yahoo.com/
• Yahoo! Messenger (another way of chatting to people in real-time on-line)
  http://messenger.yahoo.com

• Google Newsgroup search site
  http://groups.google.com/