The links here lead to a few well-known sites that summarize and link into the most current and interesting articles on the web. Most are updated daily or at least weekly. Most of these articles are freely available on the web, but you may have to use the Electronic Journals List as well. If you need a refresher on how to use this, look at the Basic Overview in the Information Literacy Workshop and scroll towards the bottom of the page.

Arts & Letters Daily

Daily report of news in art and literature. Includes reviews of new books, essays and articles.

SciTech Daily

An updated review of science and technology developments - the latest trends, breakthroughs, background, analysis and information.

Slate

Links to articles selected by the editors of Slate as being especially important

The Week

Reviews opinion on popular topics, and provides links to the original articles. Great links for political cartoons too!

Idea of the Day

Articles from different websites collected by the New York Times staff.

The Issue

An attempt to "cull the blogosphere for its wise insights, probing analyses, and diverse perspectives, drawing together a borderless newspaper."

The Opinionator

The Opinionator from the New York Times provides a guide to the wide world of newspaper, magazine and Web opinion.

Op-Ed Pages

Links to the opinion and editorial pages of many newspapers around the world.

Eurozine

Multilingual cultural e-zine that links up and promotes over 100 cultural journals from all over Europe. It includes non-English articles. If you want to see some instant translations, look at: Google Translate.

signandsight.com

The English language service of perlentaucher.de, the largest cultural online magazine in German language. They find and translate into English interesting articles from Europe on all topics. This link goes to their Magazine Roundup.

A little different is the section In Essence from the Wilson Quarterly, which summarizes articles in some of the more scholarly journals. Unfortunately, these links are not online, but the contents of the In Essence section is available. If you find something of interest, you can then access the journal through the Electronic Journals List.