INFORMATION GATEWAYS

Information gateways work in a similar way to library catalogues, in that they allow you to search for information on a specific topic and then direct you to relevant resources on the World Wide Web. They help you to find quality information quickly on the subject you are looking for.

• The Academic Info English Literature Gateway provides an extremely useful list of links to English Literature resources.

• The Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS)  is a national service which collects, preserves and promotes the re-use of electronic resources resulting from research in the arts and humanities.  Two of the services provided by the AHDS are The Oxford Text Archive and The Performing Arts Data Service.

• The BUBL Subject Tree is a good starting point for all subject areas. More specifically, there are links for English Literature, Drama and Theatre.

• The Humbul Humanities Hub offers a collection of high quality links to scholarly resources on the Web. There is a section devoted to English Language & Literature.

INTERNET TUTORIAL FOR ENGLISH

• Internet for English, part of the RDN Virtual Training Site, is a free "teach yourself" tutorial on Internet information skills for students, lecturers and researchers in the field of English Literature.  A guided tour provides links to some of the key Internet history sites. There is also advice on tools and techniques for Internet searching, and on how to evaluate online resources.  

• Childrens Literature Website. Internet resources related to books for children and young adults; includes information on children's book awards, bestsellers and publishers.
  
  
• English Literature on the Web. Thousands of individual writers' works and biographical details are listed according to date of birth.
  
  
• The English Server at Carnegie Mellon University. The Server publishes texts in the arts and humanities, broadly defined. Collections include art, architecture, drama, fiction, poetry, history, political theory, cultural studies, philosophy, women's studies and music and two journals (Bad Subjects and Cultronix).
  
  
• Indiana University: English and American Literature.  Arranged by period and distinguishing between British and American sites, this resource provides access to sites on writers and their works. It also lists printed reference works and links to World Wide Web guides to literature.
  
  
• The IPL Online Literary Criticism Collection contains 2662 critical and biographical web sites about writers and their works and can be browsed by author, title, nationality or literary period.
  
  
• The Literary Menagerie is a site which brings together all the known sites of well-known writers mainly from the 18th century onwards.
  
  
• The WWW Virtual Library: Theatre and Drama is a well-organised menu page providing links to resources in over 50 countries.

FICTION

If you are looking for web sites relating to a specific author, try following the literature links provided by LookSmart. 

Below are links to some recommended sites devoted to individual authors:

Jane Austen	E.M.Forster	D.H. Lawrence
Brontë Sisters	Elizabeth Gaskell	George Orwell
Wilkie Collins	Thomas Hardy	Mary Wollstonecroft Shelley
Joseph Conrad	Aldous Huxley	William Makepeace Thackeray
Charles Dickens	James Joyce	Virginia Woolf

• Try also the extensive list of Fiction Studies links at The Voice of the Shuttle.

If you are looking for web sites relating to a specific playwright, try following the literature links provided by LookSmart.

Below are links to some recommended sites devoted to individual playwrights:

• Try also the extensive list of links on Drama, Theater & Performance Art Studies at The Voice of the Shuttle.

POETRY

If you are looking for web sites relating to a specific poet, try following the literature links provided by LookSmart.

Below are links to some recommended sites devoted to individual poets:

ORGANISATIONS

• The Alliance of Literary Societies
  
  
• The Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies
  
• The English Association

OTHER USEFUL LISTS OF WWW RESOURCES

• English and Related Literature Information Sources (University of York Library)
  

RESEARCH

ELECTRONIC TEXTS

• Bibliomania contains hundreds of searchable full-text works of classic and popular fiction, poetry, drama, short stories, dictionaries, research and religious texts. Reference works include Brewer's Phrase and Fable,  Webster's Dictionary, Dictionary of English Synonymes, Dictionary of Quotations, Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, Roget's Thesaurus and Simonds' History of American Literature.

• The On-Line Books Page.  A comprehensive listing of links to over 10,000 full-text books now available on the World Wide Web, including many texts on literature.  You can either use the search facility or browse by author, title or subject.

ELECTRONIC JOURNALS

All the e-journals listed below are published on the World Wide Web.  This means that the full-text of all the articles from each issue can be accessed electronically - no passwords are required. 

Connotations: a journal for critical debate	Renaissance Forum
Early Modern Literary Studies	Romanticism On the Net
Genders	Theatre Perspectives international
The Medieval Review	Versification
Postmodern Culture

FindArticles.com is a database containing "hundreds of thousands of articles from more than 300 magazines and journals, dating back to 1998". You can search for full-text articles within a specific magazine or within all the magazines in a specific subject category. Alternatively, you can search the entire database.

ELECTRONIC SERVICES

• BHInet, the online version of the British Humanities Index, contains abstracts from daily newspapers, weekly magazines and academic journals, dating back to 1984. Subject coverage includes the arts, literature, cinema, history, religion, and music. For a list of English Literature periodicals indexed on BHInet, click here. N.B. The service is only available from the College network.  [No password required]
  

• Literature Online is a fully searchable library of over 250,000 works of English and American literature. It includes drama, poetry, fiction and prose in full-text. You can search within one of the individual literature collections listed below or you can do a general search across the entire database.  N.B. The service is only available from the College network.  [No password required]
  

  20th Century English Poetry	English Poetry (600-1900)
  American Poetry (1600-1900)	The King James Bible
  Early English Prose Fiction (1500-1700)	Nineteenth-Century Fiction (1837-1870)
  Eighteenth-Century Fiction (1700-1780)	Webster's Third New International Dictionary

   

• PCI (Periodicals Contents Index) Full Text is another online periodicals search service on the Web. Coverage on PCI extends from the first year of publication up to and including 1990. You can even find references to articles published in journals as far back as the nineteenth century. As of this year, some full-text journals are to be added to this service.  For a list of English Literature periodicals indexed on PCI Full Text, click here. Full-text English Literature periodicals already added to PCI Full Text are listed here.  N.B. The service is only available from the College network.  [No password required]

• Web of Science (ISI service) is a service on the World Wide Web which allows you to search by subject for periodical article references and then email the resulting references to yourself. Using the Arts & Humanities Citation Index within WoS, you can search for references to articles on English Literature. Coverage is from 1981 to the present. For a list of English Literature periodicals indexed on WoS, click here. N.B. To access this ISI service, you will need to obtain a personal ATHENS account.

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