The English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC)is an international union catalogue listing early books, serials, newspapers and selected ephemera printed between 1473 and 1800. The material is largely in English, though some texts contain a significant amount of Welsh, Irish or Gaelic, and published mainly in the British Isles and North America. The database contains almost 470,000 entries, and represents the holdings of 2,000 libraries world-wide.
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Access biographies, bibliographies, and critical analysis of more than 120,000 authors from every age and literary discipline. Scribner Writer's Series includes 15-20 page signed essays on more than 1,600 authors and literary genres drawn from 13 Scribner print series.
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The Modern Language Association (MLA) International Bibliography on InfoTrac provides access to more than 1.5 million bibliographic citations to journal articles, books, and dissertations from 1963 to the present in academic disciplines such as: language, literature, folklore, linguistics, literary theory and criticism, and the dramatic arts. MLA Bibliography on InfoTrac incorporates the MLA thesaurus as well as the MLA's Directory of Periodicals.
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Academic Search Premier,designed specifically for academic institutions, is the world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 8,200 journals in the collection. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study including: computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more.
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Arthuriana, a quarterly, covers all aspects of the Arthurian story from its advent in the Middle Ages to its present. Contributors to the journal include top scholars in the field, whose scholarship brings new perspectives to Arthurian studies; of special interest to librarians and cataloguers.
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Jouvert: a journal of postcolonial studies is a multi-disciplinary journal published tri-annually on the World Wide Web. Articles cover the textual, cultural and political spheres of postcolonial studies.
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Medieval Forum is an electronic journal for the promotion of scholarship in Medieval English Literature.
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SCN, an official organ of the Milton Society of America and Milton Section of the Modern Language Association, is published as a double issue two times each year with the support of the English Department of Texas A&M University. As a scholarly review journal, SCN publishes only commissioned reviews.
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For comprehensive book review searches, be sure to check article databases as well.
Book Review Digest Plus indexes reviews of current fiction and non-fiction, and provides review excerpts and over 100,000 full text reviews. Book Review Digest Plus brings together the rich data of Book Review Digest, which includes descriptive summaries of books as well as excerpts of book reviews, with all the book review citations and full text of book reviews from eleven other H. W. Wilson indexes.
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An online dictionary of slang from a British perspective, with new slang added every month.
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The ARTFL Project is developing Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (G & C. Merriam Co., 1913, edited by Noah Porter).
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This tenth edition of 1919 contains over 11,000 searchable quotations and was the first new edition of John Bartlett?s corpus to be published after his death in 1905?the new editor, however, choosing more to supplement than revise the work of the first name in quotations.
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This site provides the etymology and history of first names.
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The Middle English Dictionary online offers analysis of lexicon and usage for the period 1100-1500, based on the analysis of a collection of over three million citation slips.
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The Oxford English Dictionary is the authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is a guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.
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Get more rhyming words with Rhymer's 93,000-word dictionary.
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A collection of links to Internet sites dealing with English and American literature.
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Guide to literature resources on the web.
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This website gives full-text access to many literary and scholarly texts written by famous authors and scholars.
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Collection of 2,500 fully digitized children's books published from 1850 to 1900 in the U.S. and U.K.
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The Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts offers a simple and straightforward means to discover medieval manuscripts available on the web.
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Classic Reader offers a large collection of free classic books by authors such as Dickens, Austen, Shakespeare and many others. You can read, search and even add your own annotations to any of the classic books. A selection of author biographies and portraits are also available.
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A database providing critical essays on major authors.
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This database from Rutgers is designed for the study of The Tatler (1709-1711) and The Spectator (1711-1714), two innovative eighteenth-century periodicals, both of which are completely available here.
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Twayne Authors Series: Authoritative monographs on major authors
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The Center for Public Integrity produces investigative journalism about significant public issues with a goal to make institutional power more transparent and accountable.
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The Freedom of Information Center
is a reference and research library in the University of Missouri School of Journalism. Established in 1958, the center now has a collection of more than 1 million articles and documents about access to information at the state, federal and local levels, in addition to a wide collection of online documents accessible through its webpage.
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Indianz.com's mission is to provide news, information, and entertainment from a Native American perspective.
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The International Center for Journalists, a non-profit, professional organization, promotes quality journalism worldwide.
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This resource provides Internet help to journalism students enrolled in courses such as Reporting and Reporting of Public Affairs.
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Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc. is a grassroots nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the quality of investigative reporting.
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Columbia University's Journalism Library homepage contains subject guides and electronic journals in Journalism and Communication, and an index of the most recent five years of Master's projects and M.A. theses completed by graduates of the School.
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The focus of this compilation is to provide a list of Web sites about journalism - as a field of study (particularly continuing education), as an ongoing presence in our culture, and as a profession.
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Resources designed to serve scholars, journalists and other professionals to access information on the Internet.
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Newswise is a database of current news, archives, wire services, and more for journalists and institutions.
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UC Berkeley's Journalism School maintains resources for students, alumni and journalists, including information on internships and jobs for young journalists as well as mid-career options such as fellowships.
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Free research tools for journalists.
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ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.
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The Voice of America is a broadcasting service funded by the U.S. government.
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The Academy of American Poets provides the most important collection of awards for poetry in the United States. Awards are available for poets at every stage in their careers, from first-book prizes to lifetime achievement awards. Guidelines, entry forms, and lists of winners are available online.
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The American Verse Project is a collaborative project between the University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative (HTI) and the University of Michigan Press. The project is assembling an electronic archive of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920.
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With thousands of poems by hundreds of authors, Bartleby.com offers one of the largest free collections of verse on the web.
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An electronic collection of texts from the University of California, Davis.
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Listen to audio of poets reading poems.
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EPC aims to make available a wide range of resources centered on digital and contemporary poetry, new media writing, and literary programming.
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The Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia Library collects SGML and XML texts and images on history, literature, and more.
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MAPS is a forum for the study of modern American poetry.
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The Museum of American Poetics coordinates the American Poet Greats Series.
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Poetry Archives collects thousands of classical poems.
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Each year the MTA and the Poetry Society select poems and post them on New York City's subways and buses.
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Poetry Portal is a directory of worldwide poetry online.
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Poets' Corner is a library of works by hundreds of authors covering thousands of years.
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Representative Poetry Online includes 3,162 English poems by 500 poets from Caedmon, in the Old English period, to the work of living poets today.
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Over 60 volumes of rare lyric poetry, together with reviews, essays and associated bibliographical and biographical material and the complete works of more than 50 authors.
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