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	Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature - http://www.chs.harvard.edu/mpc/ One of the largest repositories of South Slavic heroic song; located at Widener Library, Harvard University; online exhibition of photos, song transcriptions, and video.
	Indiana University Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology - http://www.indiana.edu/~folklore/ Established 1962 by Stith Thompson and Richard Dorson; specialities include language and literature, folk and traditional arts, and ritual and belief.
	Fife Folklore Archives - http://library.usu.edu/folklo/ Home to Utah State University's graduate Folklore Program. Catalog of resources including audio and manuscript.
	National Centre for English Cultural Tradition - http://www.shef.ac.uk/natcect/ Part of the University of Sheffield, UK. Details of current research projects and courses offered.
	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Curriculum in Folklore - http://www.unc.edu/depts/folklore/ Program description, searchable manuscripts, and news.

	Center for Folklore and Ethnography, University of Pennsylvania - http://www.sas.upenn.edu/folklore/ Undergraduate and graduate programs in folklore and folklife. Events announcements and links.
	University of California at Berkeley, Folklore Program - http://ls.berkeley.edu/dept/folklore/ Description of the program, news, events postings, and links.
	University of Missouri Center for Studies in Oral Tradition - http://oraltradition.missouri.edu/ Academic site fostering the interdisciplinary growth of Oral Tradition Studies, a highly complex field derived from the older and more defined areas of folklore, anthropology, literary studies, and linguistics.
	University of California at Berkeley, Department of Folklore - http://ls.berkeley.edu/dept/folklore/Folk.HTM The home page for UC-Berkeley's distinguished Department of Folkore.
	Indiana University Folklore Collection - http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=329 The Indiana University Bloomington Libraries Folklore and Ethnomusicology Collection home page contains general Folklore references, a list of links to other sites, and a description of the Collection.

	Cultural Analysis: An Interdisciplinary Forum on Folklore and Popular Culture - http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~caforum/ A peer-reviewed internet and hadcopy journal dedicated to investigating expressive and everyday culture; based at the University of California, but global in scope.
	Memorial University of Newfoundland Department of Folkore - http://www.mun.ca/folklore/about/ Presents information about bachelor's, master's and doctoral degree programs in folklore, including course descriptions. It also provides faculty, staff and student contact numbers and related folklore links.
	Academic Programs in Folklore on the Internet - http://www.afsnet.org/aboutfolklore/wherestudyFL.cfm Ph.D and MA programmes in universities (U.S. centric).
	Western Kentucky University Programs in Folk Studies and Anthropology - http://www.wku.edu/folkstudies/ Description of course studies and a reading list.
	Folklore Program - http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~flr/ Course description, information on their masters and doctorate programs, and faculty pages.

	Folklore and Mythology at Harvard - http://fas-www.harvard.edu/~folkmyth/ Information on their program and searchable electronic archives.
	Jewish Folklore in Israel - http://www.folklore.org.il/ A history of the development of academic Folklore studies in Israel with additional links to many other sites, both Jewish and Folkloric.
	Australian Folklore Research Unit - http://www.ari.curtin.edu.au/afr_index.cfm Archiving, researching, teaching, and related activities at Curtin University of Technology in Perth, Western Australia.
	Oral Tradition, Popular Lore, and Mythology Studies at UCLA - http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/opm/ Educational site presenting a wide variety of material on folklore, art, medicine, music, religion, and dance.
	Baltic Institute of Folklore (BIF) Home Page - http://www.folklore.ee/BIF/ The Institute was founded by the academic folkloric institutions of the three Baltic states - Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania - in 1995 to coordinate folklore studies and research. Includes archives, a newsletter, academic contacts, and conference information.

	Folkloristics - http://vanha.hum.utu.fi/folk/english.html Discipline within the Department of Cultural Studies at the University of Turku, focusing on fieldwork-oriented research on the folklore and religion of the Finno-Ugric peoples.
	Southern Folklife Collection - http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/sfc1/ An introduction to online cultural resources offered by the Manuscripts Department, Academic Affairs Libraries, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: finding aids and guides, databases, photographs, sound recordings, and exhibits.

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