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Associations, Institutions, Etc.

• English Department Homepages Worldwide
• NCTE: National Council of Teachers of English Homepage
• Resources of Scholarly Societies: Literature

Books & Publishing

• Association of American University Presses
• AwardWeb (links to major literary awards sites, national literature awards, science fiction, children’s awards, etc.)
• Book Lovers (fine books and literature)
• Book Reviews: Getting Started Guide (Cleveland State University)
• BookWire (book review publications, bestseller lists, book awards, industry news, author tours, bookseller and publisher indices, trade organizations, book websites, book catalogs, online reading groups)
• Bowker's Awards Database (winners & nominees of more than 400 awards)
• London Review of Books (some full text)
• New York Review of Books
• New York Times Book Review (full text available through New York Times database)
• Ohio Center for the Book
• The On-line Books Page
• The Times Literary Supplement (some full text; newspaper available in Current Periodicals)
• The Times Literary Supplement Index

CSU English Department

• About the CSU English Collection
• Course Reserves
• Cultural Crossings: Defining the Humanities for the 21st Century
• Department Homepage
• New Acquisitions

Full Texts, Archives, Collections

See also: Poetry: Full Text and Shakespeare

• The Bible in English
• The Bluestocking Archive (18th Century texts)
• British Women Romantic Poets, 1789-1832 (University of California at Davis)
• A Celebration of Women Writers (alphabetical index to authors' home pages and works)
• Documenting The American South (University of North Carolina)
• Eighteenth Century Fiction
• English Prose Drama
• Google Book Search
• The Modern English Collection (University of Virginia)
• Oxford Text Archive (repository of more than 2,000 scholarly editions and literary works)
• Project Gutenberg (public domain editions in ASCII text)
• The Victorian Women Writers Project
• Women Writers Online 1400-1850

For a list of of general collections of electronic books, connect to the Virtual Reference page: Electronic Book Collections.

Journals

• American Literature
• English Language
• English Literature
• EServer Journals Collection

Multicultural Literature

• Native American Authors
• Storytellers: Native American Authors Online
• Voice of the Shuttle: Minority Studies
• Voices From the Gaps (women writers of color)

Poetry

• The Academy of American Poets
• The Atlantic Monthly's Poetry Pages
• Cleveland State University Poetry Center
• The d.a. levy Collection (Cleveland State University)
• Electronic Poetry Center (SUNY Buffalo: contemporary, experimental and innovative poetry)
• Modern American Poetry (a multimedia companion to Anthology of Modern American Poetry, Cary Nelson, ed.)
• Poetry Society of America
• Twentieth-Century Poetry in English

Poetry: Full Text

• African American Poetry (1760-1900)
• American Poetry Database (1600-1900)
• American Verse Project (University of Michigan)
• British Poetry 1780-1910: A Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions (Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia)
• CAPA: Contemporary American Poetry Archive (out-of-print texts)
• Columbia Granger's World of Poetry
• English Poetry Database (600-1900)
• English Verse Drama, 13th-19th Centuries
• EServer Poetry Collection
• An Index of Poets in Representative Poetry On-line (University of Toronto)
• The Poetry Archive (online collection of poets reading their works, including historical recordings; requires RealPlayer)
• 20th Century American Poetry
• 20th Century English Poetry
• William Butler Yeats Collection

Reference Resources

• Bibliography of American Literature
• British Library
• Cleveland State University Virtual Reference Desk (dictionaries, journals, newspapers, citation guides, quotation sources, writers handbooks, Internet guides)
• Columbia Granger's World of Poetry (index to English language poetry,some full text)
• COPAC (access to major British Libraries)
• Dictionary of Literary Biography
• Directory of American Poets and Fiction Writers
• Literary Reference Center
• MLA Directory of Periodicals
• Oxford English Dictionary
• Oxford Reference Online: Literature
  • The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature (Oxford University Press)
  • The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature (Oxford University Press)
  • The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature (Oxford University Press)
  • The Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature (Oxford University Press)
  • The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms (Oxford University Press)
  • A Dictionary of English Folklore (Oxford University Press)
  • A Dictionary of Shakespeare (Oxford University Press)
  • A Dictionary of Writers and Their Works (Oxford University Press)
  • The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English (Oxford University Press)

Research Databases

• Core Research Databases:
  • Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text
  • Humanities International Complete
  • International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text
  • JSTOR (1838- back files only, no current issues)
  • MLA International Bibliography
    
• Additional Databases:
  • American & English Literature
  • American Periodicals Series Online (1740-1900)
  • Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (1920-1997)
  • Arden Shakespeare: Texts and Sources for Shakespeare Studies (ask at Reference Desk of Library)
  • The Columbia Granger's World of Poetry
  • Electronic Journal Center: Arts and Humanities
  • FRANCIS
  • Gale's Literary Index
  • Lexis-Nexis Academic
  • Literary Reference Center
  • Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Database
  • Women Writers Online (1400-1850)

Shakespeare

• Arden Shakespeare: Texts and Sources for Shakespeare Studies (full text) (ask at Reference Desk of Library)
• The Cleveland Press Shakespeare Photographs 1870-1992 (by Lesley Ellen Jorbin, Humanities and Music Librarian at Cleveland State University Library)
• Complete Works of William Shakespeare (full text)
• Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare
• Folger Shakespeare Library
• Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
• Shakespeare in Quarto (British Library's 93 copies of the plays printed in quarto)
• World Shakespeare Bibliography (Ask at Reference Desk)

Specialized Resources

• American Conference for Irish Studies
• Classical & Medieval Studies Subject Portal (Cleveland State University)
• 18th Century English Novel Research Guide (West Virginia University Libraries)
• Electronic Archives for Teaching the American Literatures (Georgetown University)
• Jane Austen Info Page
• Luminarium (Renaissance Literature)
• Romantic Circles (Byron, the Shelleys, Keats and their contemporaries)
• Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Database
• Victoria Research Web (scholarly study of the 19th century in Britain)
• Virginia Woolf Web
• William Faulkner on the Web

Student Guides

See also: Web Directories

• American Writing Gateway
• A Literary Index (Chris Flack, Vanderbilt University: an introductory guide)

Tutorials

• Internet for English (University of Oxford, a "teach yourself" tutorial)

Web Directories

See also: Student Guides

• iLove Languages! (comprehensive catalog of language-related Internet resources)
• Literary Resources on the Net (selected literary links by period, syllabi and course materials, calls for papers, writers' resources, other professional topics)
• Voice of the Shuttle: Literature in English
• Yahoo! Arts: Humanities: Literature

World Literature in English

• Canadian Literature Archive
• Contemporary Postcolonial and Postimperial Literature in English