Some useful sites on the Web
Quick links to sections below
Search engines || Evaluating web sites || Libraries and archives || Colleges and universities || General categorical lists || Maps || Literary omnibus lists, texts, and concordances || Classics; the Bible || Visual art, aesthetics || English departments || Rhetoric and composition; history of literacy || Linguistics || Lexicography; dictionaries and encyclopedias || Printing and publishing history; history of the book; book arts || Publishers || Creative writing || Literature | Poetry - sound recordings | Fiction | Hypertext fiction | Drama | Criticism | Theory | Miscellaneous || Online journals || Women's Studies || Minority Studies || History || Medieval Studies || Renaissance Studies || American Studies || Eighteenth-Century Studies || Romantic and Victorian Studies || Electronic text, humanities computing || Text Encoding Initiative || World Wide Web | Teaching | Publishing | Codes || Law and copyright || Related readings || Acronyms used in this list
Search engines
Evaluating web sites
Libraries and archives
- University of Minnesota Libraries
- Library of Congress
- New York Public Library
- The European Library (single search engine for catalogues of national libraries of Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Netherlands, Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, along with ICCU [the national central cataloguing institute from Italy] and CENL [the Conference of European National Librarians]).
- The British Library Public Catalogue
- COPAC (selected records from leading university libraries in the United Kingdom and also the British Library)
- National Register of Archives (United Kingdom)
- Public Record Office (United Kingdom)
- National Art Library (Victoria and Albert Museum, London)
- National Library of Scotland
- LibWeb: Library Servers via WWW (Thomas Dowling, OhioLINK)
- Accesses to Major English-Language Libraries World-Wide (Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America)
- Reference: Libraries (Yahoo list)
- Archives and Special Collections on the Internet
- Special Collections on the Web (University of Houston Libraries)
- Commision on Preservation and Access (Council on Library Resources)
- Libraries and the WWW: Selected Resources (Infobahn Librarian; Norman Friesen, University of Alberta)
Colleges and universities
General categorical lists
Maps
Literary omnibus lists, texts, and concordances
- Modern Language Association of America (main organization in the United States devoted to instruction and research in post-classical language and literature; founded in 1883)
- Modern Humanities Research Association (main British organization devoted to the humanities; founded in 1918)
- Selective Bibliography for Humanities Computing (Susan Hockey and Willard McCarty, CETH)
- The Voice of the Shuttle: Web Page for Humanities Research (Alan Liu, University of California–Santa Barbara; an elaborate menu, cross-referenced at only a few points below)
- Literary Resources on the Net (Jack Lynch, Rutgers–Newark; a large collection)
- Literature Resources (M. Manoff, MIT)
- The Online Books Page (John Mark Ockerbloom, University of Pennsylvania Library)
- Books On-Line: Authors (Carnegie Mellon University)
- Project Gutenberg (Michael Hart)
- Internet Library of Early Journals (Universities of Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Oxford)
- Gentleman's Magazine, 1731–50 (searchable)
- Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1757–77 (searchable)
- Annual Register, 1758–78
- Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 1743–63 (searchable)
- Notes and Queries, 1850–69 (searchable)
- The Builder, 1843–52
- English Literature on the Web (Mitsuharu Matsuoka, Nagoya University)
- American Literature on the Web (Mitsuharu Matsuoka, Nagoya University)
- WWW Resources for English and American Literature (Perry Willett, Indiana University)
- Great Books: Texts and Fully Searchable Concordances (William A. Williams, Jr.)
- The Writer's Almanac®, With Garrison Keillor (contents of daily Minnesota Public Radio show, with links to many sites of literary interest)
- List of Electronic Discussion Groups relevant to English studies (Department of English, Southern Illinois University–Edwardsville)
- Humanist Discussion Group (“Humanist is an international electronic seminar on the application of computers to the humanities.”)
- Association for Computers and the Humanities
- Calls for Papers (Department of English, University of Pennsylvania)
Classics; the Bible
- Literary Resources, Classical and Biblical (Jack Lynch, Rutgers–Newark)
- Greek and Latin Classics Internet Resources (Library of Congress)
- The Perseus Digital Library (many ancient Greek and Latin texts and monuments; Tufts University, mirrored at Oxford)
- The Virgil Project (Joseph Farrell, University of Pennsylvania; see also Virgil's Home Page)
- Electronic Resources for Classicists: The Second Generation (Maria C. Pantelia, University of New Hampshire)
- A Glossary of Rhetorical Terms With Examples (University of Kentucky)
- Classics and Mediterranean Archaeology Home Page (Sebastian Heath, University of Michigan)
- The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (Alex Moratorio, University of California–Irvine)
- The Electronic Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (Patrick Sinclair, University of
- Project Libellus (Greek and Latin texts; Konrad Schroder and Owen Ewald, University of Washington–Seattle)
- The Tech Classics Archive (Greek and Latin texts in English translation; The Tech [student newspaper], MIT)
- The Holy Bible, King James Version (Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia)
Visual art, aesthetics
- History of Art (History of Art Department, Birkbeck College, University of London)
- History of Art (Yale University Library)
- Art History Resources on the Web (Chris Whitcombe, Sweet Briar College)
- World Wide Arts Resources (searchable index)
- Iconoclass, Libertas edition (taxonomy of artistic subjects, with links to some instances)
- History of Art Virtual Library (Birkbeck College, London)
- College Art Association
- Warburg Institute (London; history of Classical art)
- Yale Center for British Art
- National Art Library (Victoria and Albert Museum, London)
- The Blake Archive (University of Virginia)
- The Complete Writings and Pictures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti: A Hypermedia Research Archive (Jerome J. McGann, University of Virginia)
- Aesthetics On-Line (American Society for Aesthetics)
- Prints and Printmaking (Michael Greenhalgh, Australian National University)
- Shakespeare Illustrated (paintings of scenes from the plays; Harry Rusche, Emory University)
English departments
Rhetoric and composition; history of literacy
Linguistics
Lexicography; dictionaries and encyclopedias
- Dictionary Society of North America
- SIEHLDA: Société Internationale d'Études Historiques et Linguistiques des Dictionnaires Anciens / International Association for the Historical and Linguistic Study of Early Dictionaries
- LEME: Lexicons of Early Modern English (Ian Lancanshire, University of Toronto)
- Nathan Bailey, Universal Etymological English Dictionary (London, 1736; excerpts; Liam Quin)
- Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (ed. Noah Porter; Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster, 1913; Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language [ARTFL], University of Chicago)
- WordNet: A Lexical Database for the English Language (George A. Miller et al., Cognitive Science Laboratory, Princeton University)
- DICT Development Group (access to dictionary definitions from a set of natural language dictionary databases)
- Webopedia (Jupitermedia Corporation; online dictionary of computer and Internet technology)
- Jean Nicot, Thresor de la langue française (1606; Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language [ARTFL], University of Chicago)
- Denis Diderot and Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts, et des métiers (Paris, 1751-72; Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language [ARTFL], University of Chicago; restricted access: automatically accessible to students, staff and faculty of the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities, thanks to arrangements made by the University of Minnesota Libraries; accessible to others by other arrangements)
- Britannica Online (Encyclopædia Britannica, supplemented by Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 10th ed.; restricted access: automatically accessible to students, staff and faculty of the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities, thanks to arrangements made by the University of Minnesota Libraries; accessible to others by other arrangements [see general access information])
- Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th edition (1911) (includes detailed, premodern accounts of nineteeth-century topics; commerical digitization project in progress)
Printing and publishing history; history of the book; book arts
- A Guide to the Book Arts and Book History on the World Wide Web (University Libraries, The Catholic University of America)
- Book History Online: International Bibliography of the History of the Printed Book and Libraries (Koninklijke Bibliotheek, National Library of the Netherlands; from 1990 onwards)
- Bibliographical Society (U.K.)
- Bibliographical Society of North America
- Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia (includes Studies in Bibliography)
- Printing History: The Journal of the American Printing History Association
- SHARP (Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing)
- Historical Research in Literacy (E. Jennifer Monaghan, Brooklyn College–CUNY; and Douglas K. Hartman, University of Pittsburgh)
- TEXT Reviews (book reviews to be published in TEXT: Transactions of the Society for Textual Scholarship, an annual)
- History of the Book @ Oxford (includes tables of contents of Bibliographical Journals)
- Centre for the History of the Book (University of Edinburgh)
- Scottish Centre for the Book (Napier University)
- Minnesota Center for the Book
- University of Iowa Center for the Book
- Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America (University of Wisconsin)
- Grolier Club (New York; "America's oldest and largest society for bibliophiles and enthusiasts in the graphic arts"; extensive library)
- St. Bride Printing Library (Corporation of London; "the definitive source for typographic information . . .presents all aspects of the printing arts and trades through five centuries of growth")
- The John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera (Bodleian Library, Oxford University; indexed selections from a vast collection of broadsides, advertisements, and other printed ephemera)
- Book Arts Press (Terry Belanger, University of Virginia)
- American Museum of Papermaking (Institute of Paper Science and Technology, Atlanta)
- Printing and Print Culture (Media History Project; Kristina Ross, University of Colorado)
- Book Arts Web (Peter Verheyen, Syracuse University)
- Book Arts in the USA (exhibition; Center for Book Arts, New York)
- A Guide to the Book Arts and Book History on the World Wide Web (Andrew K. Pace, Catholic University of America)
- Arts of the Book (Yale Library Selected Internet Resources)
- The Fine Press Book Association (includes Book information Web Site, developed by Tom Cremers)
- Modern Fine Printing (William S. Peterson, University of Maryland)
- Book and Paper Group (American Institute for Conservation)
- Some printing manuals:
- Joseph Moxon, Mechanick Exercises; or, The Doctrine of Handy-works, Applied to the Art of Printing (London, 1683) [restricted access]
- John Smith, The Printer's Grammar (London, 1755) [restricted access]
- Charles Knight (unsigned), "The Commercial History of a Penny Magazine," Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge 2 (1833), ed. Laurie Dickinson and Sarah Wadsworth (detailed exposition of early-nineteenth-century printing practices)
- William Savage, A Dictionary of the Art of Printing (London, 1835) [Google Book Search; can be downloaded]
- Theodore Low De Vinne, Correct Composition (1902) [Googe Book Search; can be downloaded]
Publishers
Creative writing
Literature
Poetry
- Voice of the Shuttle: English Literature by Genre: Poetry Studies (Alan Liu, University of California–Santa Barbara)
- Poetry Society (British organization, founded 1909)
- British Poetry 1780-1910: A Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions
- English Poetry Full-Text Database (Chadwyck-Healey): documentation
- Electronic Chaucer (Mary Wack, Stanford Humanities Image Archive Project)
- Edmund Spenser Home Page (Richard Bear, University of Oregon)
- Milton-L Home Page (LISTSERV archive and other materials concerning John Milton)
- The Blake Archive (University of Virginia)
- Wordsworth and Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads (Richard Bear, University of Oregon)
- Keats-Shelley Journal
- Emily Dickinson Page (Paul E. Black, Brigham Young University)
- Walt Whitman notebooks (Library of Congress)
- American Verse Project (University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative)
- Electronic Poetry Center (innovative writing; State University of New York -- Buffalo)
- Sound recordings including poetry, mostly MP3 or RealAudio sites:
- Archive: Audio Readings (Norton Anthology of English Poetry)
- LibriVox, "provides totally free audiobooks from the public domain" (Internet Archive)
- SpokenLit, "a collection of verse and prose read aloud, in some cases by the writers themselves, in a variety of languages" (Boston University)
- Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (read by Thomas A. Copeland, Youngstown State University)
- poems by Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift (read by John Richetti, University of Pennsylvania)
- Poets on Poets, "an audio archive of Romantic-period poems selected and read by practicing poets from around the world" (produced by Tilar Mazzao, Colby College, for Romantic Circles)
- HarperAudio!, archive of readings by Robert Frost, T. S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, and others, including some prose selections (HarperCollins)
- Listening Booth (Academy of American Poets)
- Poetry Out Loud (British Broadcasting Corporation)
- The Poetry Archive (U.K.)
- Favorite Poem Project: Americans Saying the Poems They Love (produced by Robert Pinsky, Boston University)
- Poetry Out Loud: National Recitation Contest, selected poems read by Rita Dove and others (National Endowment for the Arts, and The Poetry Foundation)
- The Writer's Almanac®, With Garrison Keillor, daily radio show, features poetry readings by Keillor (Minnesota Public Radio)
- PennSound, "an ongoing project, committed to producing new audio projects and to preserving existing audio archives" (produced by Charles Bernstein and Al Filreis, University of Pennsylvania)
- Wired for Books: Poetry Online (Ohio University)
- Naropa Audio Archive Project, "approximately six thousand hours of audio tapes documenting performances, seminars and discussions conducted at Naropa by many of the leading figures of the U.S. literary avant-garde" (Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Naropa University)
- UbuWeb (avant-garde poetry and prose)
- Podcasting News: Poetry
Fiction
Hypertext fiction
Drama
Criticism
- Sir Philip Sidney, Defence of Poesie (London: Ponsonby, 1595; Richard Bear, University of Oregon)
Theory
Miscellaneous
Online journals
Women's Studies
Minority Studies
History
Medieval Studies
Renaissance Studies
- Renaissance and Early Modern (Perry Willett, Indiana University)
- Project Aldus: An Early Modern Virtual Library and Resource Center (Department of English, Johns Hopkins University; an archive of texts, images, and links to other resources)
- Edmund Spenser Home Page (Richard Bear, University of Oregon)
- Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet (Terry A. Gray, Palomar College)
- Shakespeare on the Internet: Sites of Interest (Michael Best, University of Victoria)
- Shakespeare Illustrated (paintings of scenes from the plays; Harry Rusche, Emory University)
- Shakespeare and the Globe Theatre (Chantal Miller-Schutz, Renaissance Texts Research Centre, University of Reading)
- Milton-L Home Page (LISTSERV archive and other materials concerning John Milton)
- Early Modern Literary Studies: A Journal of Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century English Literature
American Studies
- American Studies Electronic Crossroads (American Studies Association)
- American Studies Web (American Studies Program, Yale University)
- American Literature on the Web (Mitsuharu Matsuoka, Nagoya University)
- American Verse Project (University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative)
- Institute for Early American History and Culture (IEACNet) (Michigan State University)
- NINES: A Networked Interface for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship
- American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library (Library of Congress; indexes "more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections"; multimedia)
- 18th Century American Literature (Perry Willett, Indiana University)
- 19th Century American Literature (Perry Willett, Indiana University)
- 19th Century American Women Writers Web (Tyler Steben, Wayne State University)
- Making of America (University of Michigan and Cornell University; keyword- searchable "digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction . . . particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology . . . contains approximately 8,500 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints"; separate search engines for books and journals; another search engine for the Cornell University Library's contributions; see also Browse and Search Individual Periodicals, which includes a graph showing coverage to date)
- Wright American Fiction, 1851–1875 (Indiana University; "2,923 titles in adult fiction," keyword-searchable)
- Virtual American Biographies, Continental Discovery to 1899 (online version of Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography, ed. James Grant Wilson and John Fiske, 6 vols. [New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1887–89])
- 20th Century American Literature (Perry Willett, Indiana University)
- Voice of the Shuttle: 19th-Century American (Alan Liu, University of California–Santa Barbara)
- Electronic Archives for Teaching the American Literatures (Center for Electronic Projects in American Culture Studies [CEPACS], Georgetown University)
- Voice of the Shuttle: Modern American (Alan Liu, University of California–Santa Barbara)
- Voice of the Shuttle: Contemporary American (Alan Liu, University of California–Santa Barbara)
- Newsletter, Research Society for American Periodicals
Eighteenth-Century Studies
Romantic and Victorian Studies
- NINES: A Networked Interface for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship
- 19th Century British Romanticism (Perry Willett, Indiana University)
- Romantic Links, Home Pages, and Electronic Texts (Michael Gamer, University of Pennsylvania)
- Romantics Chronology (Laura Mandell et al.; includes many Web links)
- Voice of the Shuttle: Romantics (Alan Liu, University of California–Santa Barbara)
- Nineteenth Century Studies Association (international and interdisciplinary)
- 19th Century Authors in UK (Mitsuharu Matsuoka, Nagoya University)
- North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR)
- Gothic Literature: What the Romantic Writers Read (Douglass Thomson, Georgia Southern University)
- Victorian Web Sites (Mitsuharu Matsuoka, Nagoya University)
- 19th Century British Victorian Studies (Perry Willett, Indiana University)
- Voice of the Shuttle: Victorian (Alan Liu, University of California–Santa Barbara)
- Victoria Research Web (Patrick Leary, Indiana University)
- VICTORIA@listserv.indiana.edu (searchable archive of online discussions of nineteenth-century British culture and society, from February 1993 to date)
- Victorian Web Sites (Mitsuharu Matsuoka, Nagoya University)
- The Victorian Web (George P. Landow et al., Brown University)
- Northeast Victorian Studies Association (Glenn Everett, University of Tennessee)
- Calls for Papers–Victorian (Glenn Everett, University of Tennessee)
- British Poetry 1780–1910: A Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions (Jerome J. McGann, University of Virginia)
- William Blake Archive (University of Virginia)
- Wordsworth and Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads (Richard Bear, University of Oregon)
- Keats-Shelley Journal
- Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 1 (31 March 1832) and the series “The Commercial History of a Penny Magazine” (1833) (Laurie Dickinson and Sarah Wadsworth, University of Minnesota)
- Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, various issues published in 1835 (Roger Corrie, University of Rochester)
- Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830–1870 (Centre for Interactive Systems Research; City University, London)
- Victorian Women Writers Project (Indiana University)
- The Dickens Project (University of California)
- Dickens and Victorian Culture (Philadelphia Dickens Fellowship)
- The Dickens Page (Mitsuharu Matsuoka, Nagoya University)
- The Germ: A Hypermedia Critical Edition (Pre-Raphaelite journal; University of Virginia)
- The 19th Century London Stage: An Exploration (University of Washington School of Drama)
- Gilbert and Sullivan Archive
- maps of London in the nineteenth century:
Electronic text, humanities computing
- Association for Computers and the Humanities
- Centre for Computing in the Humanities, University of Toronto
- Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities (CETH), Rutgers and Princeton Universities
- Centre for Textual Studies (CTI), Oxford University Computing Services
- Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia
- Humanist (discussions about computers and the humanities)
- Humanities Text Initiative, University of Michigan
- Hypertext at Brown University
- Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies
- Text Analysis Computing Tools (TACT) (Centre for Computing in the Humanities, University of Toronto)
- Mark Bernstein, A Brief Bibliography of Hypertext
- Terence Harpold, Hypertext and Hypermedia: A Selected Bibliography (1991)
- Scott Stebelman, Hypertext and Hypermedia: A Select Bibliography (1996)
- Allen Renear, Elli Mylonas, and David Durand, "Refining our Notion of What Text Really Is: The Problem of Overlapping Hierarchies" (1993)
- Peter S. Graham, "Intellectual Preservation: Electronic Preservation of the Third Kind" (1994)
- Long-Term Intellectual Preservation: Bibliography (Peter Graham, Rutgers University)
- Hypertext (Martin Ryder, University of Colorado–Denver)
- See also Related Readings (IATH), Hypermedia.
Text Encoding Initiative
World Wide Web
- World-Wide Web Home (CERN)
- The World Wide Web Initiative: The Project (from CERN)
- Announcements of new WWW servers (from CERN)
- Newsgroup: comp.infosystems.www.users
Teaching
Publishing
- Brian Kelly, Computing Service, University of Leeds, Running a WWW Service (a handbook for publishers on the World Wide Web, outlining the history of the Web and foregrounding technical, legal, and pedagogic aspects; addressed to members of the British academic community)
- Web Style Guide (detailed recommendations for designing Web documents; Patrick Lynch, Yale Center for Advanced Instructional Media)
- Gareth Rees, A guide to publishing on the World Wide Web (1994)
- John Price-Wilkin, "Using the World-Wide Web to Deliver Complex Electronic Documents: Implications for Libraries," The Public-Access Computer Systems Review 5:3 (1994): 5–21 (assesses the inadequacies of HTML for scholarly purposes)
- David Seaman, Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia, Campus Publishing in Standardized Electronic Formats: HTML and TEI (1994) (“sound[s] A cautionary note about the wholesale use of HTML as a primary authoring language”)
- Casey Palowitch, Darin Stewart, Automating the Structural Markup Process in the Conversion of Print Documents to Electronic Text (Digital Libraries '95: The Second Annual Conference on the Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries)
- Electronic Publishing and Related Projects (Innovative Internet Applications in Libraries; Todd Middleton, Middle Tennessee State University)
- Journal of Electronic Publishing (University of Michigan Press)
- HTML Style, Design, Philosophy and Aesthetics (University of Iowa Libraries)
Codes
Unicode
SGML
HTML
Netscape
Microcosm
Text editors, word processors
Law and copyright
- Legal Information Institute (Cornell Law School)
- United States Copyright Office
- Communication/Copyright Law and Ethics (Department of Rhetoric, College of Agriculture, University of Minnesota)
- Writers, Artists, and Their Copyright Holders (WATCH) (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at The University of Texas–Austin, and the University of Reading Library, Reading, England)
- Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (Danvers, MA)
- See also Related Readings (IATH), Legal Issues.
Related readings
- Related Readings is a comprehensive bibliography maintained at the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH), University of Virginia.
Acronyms used in this list
- CERN
- European Particle Physics Laboratory, the original home of the World Wide Web
- CETH
- Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities (CETH), Rutgers and Princeton Universities
- HTML
- HyperText Markup Language, a code used to structure documents on the World Wide Web
- IATH
- Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia
- NCSA
- National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a national resource for the World Wide Web
- WWW
- World Wide Web
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