- JSTOR Early Journal ContentA selection of journal materials published prior to 1923 in the United States and prior to 1870 elsewhere. It includes discourse and scholarship in the arts and humanities, economics and politics, and in mathematics and other sciences - nearly 500,000 articles from more than 200 journals.
- Lost Titles, Forgotten RhymesHow to Find a Novel, Short Story, or Poem Without Knowing its Title or Author (Virtual Programs & Services, Library of Congress)
- Camelot Project
- The FictionMags Index
- Journal of Ecocriticism
Open access, peer-reviewed online journal published by the Canadian Association for the Study of Humanities and the Environment.
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University of Iowa's International Dada ArchiveDownload 36 Dadaist Magazines from the The Digital Dada Archive (Plus Other Avant-Garde Books, Leaflets & Ephemera) .
- Pulp Magazines Project - The Pulp Magazines Project is an open-access digital archive dedicated to the study and preservation of the all-fiction pulpwood magazine.
- Reading Experience Database
- The Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Database - Provides indexing to articles, books, news reports, obituaries, motion picture reviews and other material about science fiction and fantasy.
- Poetry FoundationFeatures an archive of an archive of 6,000 poems by more than 600 classic and contemporary poets, all freely downloadable, which visitors can navigate with the "Poetry Tool," as well as continually changing journalism about poetry.
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CLA Children's Book Collection - Over 1,800 out of copyright digitized children's books from the UCLA collection.
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BBC - Archive - In Their Own Words: British Novelists - Interviews with remarkable modern writersBBC collection of interviews with some of the 20th Century's most read authors reveals something of those imaginations and the personalities which lie behind some of the greatest modern novels.
Citations
- Common Errors in English Language UsageLists common errors in English usage.
- Tropes & IdiomsA wiki of tropes, called "TV Tropes" because that is where it started, but includes many types of media. Tropes are devices and conventions that a writer can reasonably rely on as being present in audience expectations.
- Index TranslationumThe Index Translationum is a list of books translated in the world.
- The Archive of British Publishing and Printing - University of Reading
- Archives of British Publishers: Weedon List
- Firms out of business
- Publishers Archives U.S.: Albinski List
- The National Archives, 2009 Publishing - Back years available via drop down box.
- Archives & Collections of Publishers Guide
- Duotrope's Digest - Writers' resource listing over 3425 current Fiction and Poetry publications.
- Publishers' Bindings Online
- Mango Languages
An online language learning resource offering the cultural insights to communicate appropriately and fully understand a new language. Choose from 71 foreign language courses, English lessons, and specialty courses that teach cultural differences and etiquette. You must create an account the first time you log in.
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Digital Web Collections
Every year, more literature and humanities-related collections are being made available on the web thanks to grant funding and other initiatives. Look for scholarly sites and use terms such as archive or collection when using a search engine like Google in order to identify any interesting web-based resources that may be helpful in your research. Below are just a few of the wide range of accessible collections available on the web:
- Documenting the American SouthDocSouth contains texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture. Currently DocSouth includes sixteen thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs. Site sponsored by the University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- The First World War Poetry Digital ArchiveA multimedia database of primary source material (manuscripts of poems, letters, diaries, etc) plus contextual information (images, audio and film material from the Imperial War Museum) is browsable and searchable, and freely available. Among the 7,000 digital images are drafts of Robert Graves's poems for Over the Brazier and Fairies and Fusiliers, drafts of Edward Thomas's war poems and diary, correspondence between Vera Brittain and Roland Leighton, the poetry drafts and letters of Isaac Rosenberg, plus the war poetry manuscripts of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon. Through the digitised contemporay artefacts from the Imperial War Museum, the archive widens its remit to include archival resources focusing on the role that women played during the war, imperial troops, and and writing from the Home Front.
- The Robin Hood ProjectContains texts, images, bibliographies, and basic information about the Robin Hood stories and other outlaw tales. The project is sponsored by the University of Rochester and prepared in The Rossell Hope Robbins Library, a medieval studies library located within Rush Rhees Library.
- The Shakespeare Quartos ArchiveA digital collection of pre-1642 editions of William Shakespeare's plays. A cross-Atlantic collaboration has also produced an interactive interface for the detailed study of these geographically distant quartos, with full functionality for all thirty-two quarto copies of Hamlet held by participating institutions.
- The Victorian WebIncludes primary and secondary texts (including scholarly book reviews) in British Victorian economics, literature, philosophy, political and social history, science, technology, and visual arts (painting, architecture, sculpture, book design and illustration, photography, decorative arts, including ceramics, furniture, jewelry, metalwork, stained glass, textiles, and costume. Movements covered include Art Nouveau, Japonisme, and Arts and Crafts.
- The Willa Cather ArchiveContains digital editions of Cather texts and scholarship free to the public as well as creating a large amount of unique, born-digital scholarly content.