Some
of My Favorite Links
General
References
Oxford
English Dictionary
World
Atlas
Encyclopedia
Britannica
African Studies
Database
of African Theses and Dissertations
"The
DATAD database contains citations and abstracts
for theses and dissertations completed in African
universities. The launching database includes works from
all subject areas in ten leading universities and include
abstracts written by the authors." Full access requires
a subscription. Participating universities are from Cameroun,
Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Senegal, Tanzania,
Uganda, Zimbabwe. On the web site of the Assocation of Association
of African Universities based in Accra, Ghana.
Bibliography
of Published Primary Sources in African History
For
a full list with brief annotation of published primary sources
in English and other European languages, see J.D. Fage,
ed., A Guide to Original Sources For Precolonial Western
Africa Published in European Languages , (rev. ed.,
African Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
1994).
English Literature
Early
English Books Online (EEBO)
Contains
digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed
in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America
and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700.
English
Short Title Catalog
The
English Short Title Catalogue provides extensive descriptions
and holdings information for letterpress materials printed
in Great Britain or any of its dependencies in any languageâ€"as
well as for materials printed in English anywhere else in
the world. Coverage is from the beginnings of print to 1800
including all recorded English monographs printed between
1475 and 1700.
Annual
Bibliography of English Language and Literature
Contains
over 850,000 records, covering monographs, periodical articles,
critical editions of literary works, book reviews and collections
of essays published anywhere in the world from 1920 onwards.
Early
Modern Literary Studies: Electronic Texts
Links
to select electronic texts of fifteenth, sixteenth, and
seventeenth century materials which are on the Internet,
as well as others which have bearing upon this time period.
18th
Century E-Texts
Eighteenth-century
works publicly available on the network. "Eighteenth
century is understood extremely broadly -- this very long
eighteenth century runs from Milton through Byron, or thereabouts."
Bibliomania
Searchable
texts of thousands of classic literary works from around
the world, in English translation where appropriate. Also,
several important reference works.
English
Online Resources (Electronic Text Center)
Includes
two collections which mainly comprise publicly accessible
texts: the Middle English Collection and the Modern English
Collection (1500 to date). Based at the University of Virginia.
Luminarium
Anthologies
of Middle English, Renaissance and early 17th century English
literature (1350-1660).
British
Library Manuscripts Catalogues
Not
part of the integrated catalogue
British
Library Integrated Catalogue
Miscellaneous
Searches
UCLA
Article Databases
Online
article databases available through UCLA
OAIster
Search
Use
this to find digital resources from many institutions
Bibliotheca
Universalis
Aims
to put major works of worldwide cultural and scientific
heritage comprising text, images and sound, at the disposal
of the general public using communication and information
technology. Theme: Exchange between Peoples.
Academic Writing
The
History Journals Guide
A
descriptive list of hundreds of journals in history.
Doing
Research: Some Practice Advice
A
website with a number of links to sites that explain how
to do research, technical writing, organize a workshop or
conference, reviewg technical papers, give a talk, and manage
your career as an academic. Includes a link to the author's
own Doing
Research in the Behavioral Sciences
Academic
Writer's Net Resource
Links
to sites on style, such as the Chicago Manual of Style
Roadblocks,
detours, dead-ends and thoroughfares: Creating a road map
to navigate through the research methodology labyrinth
"Creating
the theoretical framework, conceptual tools and design of
a doctoral research project is a very complex undertaking.
The intent of this paper is to help to demystify the process
and give some practical guidance for new researchers in
order for them to avoid (or overcome) obstacles and minimise
the time and effort required to complete their research
proposal and thesis."
The
following are links to a selection of freely available Internet
sites which are known to contain digitised (and in many
cases searchable) texts.
General
and world literature full text
Bartleby
Classics
of literature, nonfiction, and reference. Searchable within
categories (fiction, verse, reference, non-fiction), and
by author, title, or subject.
Electronic
Text Center
Over
5,000 publicly accessible texts on history, literature,
philosophy, religion, history of science, in English and
in other languages (including Latin, Japanese and Chinese).
Based at the University of Virginia.
Humanities
Text Initiative
Texts
in the humanities, e.g. English language and literature,
the Bible, American history, and travel. Based at the University
of Michigan.
Internet
Public Library
Over
16,000 texts searchable by author, title or Dewey Decimal
Classification. The site is especially strong on 19th century
English language items and has a large section on Shakespeare
texts and criticism. Hosted by the University of Michigan.
On-line
Books Page
More
than 13,000 works in English, searchable by author, title
and subject. Hosted by the University of Pennsylvania Library.
Oxford
Text Archive
Scholarly
electronic texts and linguistic corpora across the range
of humanities disciplines, with emphasis on resources of
interest to those working in the literary and linguistic
disciplines (including modern and ancient languages).
Project
Gutenberg
Literature
and reference works in various languages. Searchable by
author, title, language, subject and Library of Congress
class number.
WESSWEB:
Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature
WESSWEB
is a project of the West European Studies Section of the
Association of College and Research Libraries.This page
lists Internet sources for literary texts in the Western
European languages other than English.
Particular
periods Full Text
Online
Medieval and Classical Library
A
collection of some of the most important literary works
of Classical and Medieval civilization. A Berkeley Digital
Library SunSITE Collection.
Internet
Medieval Sourcebook: Full text sources
Full
text sources for mediaeval history. Part of ORB: the Online
Reference Book for Medieval Studies.
English
language and literature Full Text
Alex
Catalogue
Public
domain documents from American and English literature as
well as Western philosophy, searchable by author, title
and date.
Bibliomania
Searchable
texts of thousands of classic literary works from around
the world, in English translation where appropriate. Also,
several important reference works.
British
Poetry 1780-1910 (Electronic Text Center)
British
Poetry 1780-1910: a Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions.
A collection of the Electronic Text Center, University of
Virginia.
British
Women Romantic Poets 1789-1832
Electronic
editions of works published by British women poets between
1789 and 1832. An electronic collection of texts from the
Shields Library, University of California, Davis.
Perseus
Project
Includes
texts relating to the Classics and to the English Renaissance
(including Marlowe's works and Shakespeare's First Folio).
The Perseus Project is based in the Department of the Classics,
Tufts University.
French
Full Text
Gallica
Pages
within the website of the Bibliothèque Nationale
de France that provide access to a large collection of digitised
texts and images covering the period from the Middle Ages
to the nineteenth century. The material can be approached
in various ways, e.g. via a chronology, or themes, or by
searching a catalogue. The site includes language and biographical
dictionaries.
Greek
and Latin Full Text
An
Analytic Bibliography of On-Line Neo-Latin Texts
An
analytic bibliography of Latin texts written during the
Renaissance and later that are freely available to the general
public on the Web.
Online
Medieval and Classical Library
A
collection of some of the most important literary works
of Classical and Medieval civilization. A Berkeley Digital
Library SunSITE Collection.
The
Internet Classics Archive
Over
400 works, mainly Greco-Roman (some Chinese and Persian),
all in English translation.
Bible
and Religion Full Text
All-in-One
Biblical Resources Search
Bible
versions and translations, and related resources. Based
at the Department of Theology, University of Birmingham,
U.K.
Ecole
Initiative
Translations
of Judæo-Christian and Islamic Primary Sources to
1500. The Ecole Initiative is a service of the University
of Evansville.
Philosophy
Full Text
EServer:
Philosophy
Canonical
philosophic texts and links to scholarly philosophic organizations.
Based at the University of Washington.
