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11. OnsiteColumbia Granger's World of Poetry Online

Columbia University Press: This database contains works of poetry (citations and full text) found in anthologies, and volumes of collected works and selected works for individual poets. Also included is bibliographic information for hundreds of anthologies. Supplemental information includes commentaries and biographies. Hyperlinking exists throughout the commentaries, biographies, and poem full text. Users can easily jump from poems to relevant commentary or author biographies when appropriate. A glossary is also provided, giving users detailed definitions for poetry specific terms.

12. FreeContemporary Writers in the UK

British Coucil of the Arts: A searchable database of writers, books and literary awards which contains up-to-date profiles of some of the UK and Commonwealth's most important living writers. The entry for each author may include biographies, bibliographies, critical reviews, prizes and photographs. It is searchable by author, genre, nationality, gender, publisher, book title, date of publication and prize name and date. The site is being constantly updated.

13. FreeCulture and Recreation Portal (Australia)

Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts: This resource provides access to online services and information, from both government and non-government sectors about all aspects of Australian culture, under broad categories such as arts and culture; events and exhibitions; government and community; grants and services; history and heritage; media; books; music; and sport and fitness.

14. FreeDirectory of Archives in Australia

Australian Society of Archivists Inc: Searchable directory of archives in Australia

15. OnsiteEarly American Imprints. Series 1, Evans (1639-1800)

Readex and American Antiquarian Society: Covering American history and literature through the colonial period to 1800, this database is a full-text digitisation of the microform set, Early American Imprints, Series I (1639-1800), which was itself based on the American bibliography of Charles Evans and enhanced by Roger Bristol's Supplement to Evans' American bibliography. For decades, the collection has served as the definitive resource of information about every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America, from agriculture and auctions through foreign affairs, diplomacy, literature, music, religion, the Revolutionary War, slavery, temperance, witchcraft and just about any other topic imaginable. Also available on microform in the Newspapers and Microforms Reading Room.

16. OnsiteEarly American Imprints. Series II, Shaw-Shoemaker (1801-1819)

Readex: Covering every aspect of American life during the early decades of the United States, Early American Imprints, Series II (1801-1819) provides full-text access to the 36,000 American books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the first nineteen years of the nineteenth century. The continuation of Readex's Early American Imprints: Series I, this rich primary source database, based on the authoritative bibliography by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker and now supplemented by thousands of new items, allows students and scholars to explore the development of the American nation as never before. Also available on microform in the Newspapers and Microforms Reading Room.

17. LicencedEarly English Books Online

Bell & Howell Information and Learning: 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 - from the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War. EEBO contains about 100,000 of over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and their revised editions, as well as the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661) collection and the Early English Books Tract Supplement. Key works and authors include: Spenser, Bacon, More, Erasmus, Shakespeare, Boyle, Newton, Galileo, Aphra Behn, Anne Killigrew, and Margaret Cavendish, earliest editions of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Malory's Morte d'Arthur and Nicholas Culpeper's The English Physician (1652), royal statutes and proclamations, military, religious, legal, Parliamentary, and other public documents, almanacs and calendars, broadsides and romances, plus popular pamphlets such as The Trail of Witchcraft, Showing the True and Righte Method of Discovery (1616), Book of Common Prayer (1549), and The King James translation of the Bible (1611). Also available on microfilm at mfm 790 (Newspapers and Microforms Reading Room).

18. LicencedEighteenth Century Collections Online

Gale Group: This 18th century online collection is divided into seven subject areas: history and geography; social science and fine arts - social sciences; medicine, science and technology; literature and language; religion and philosophy; law; reference. It is an ongoing project based on The English Short Title Catalogue, a machine-readable union list of the holdings of the British Library, as well as those from more than 1,500 university, private and public libraries worldwide. Nearly 150,000 English-language titles and editions published between 1701-1800 are available including key works such as Milton's Paradise Lost, Thomas Paine's Rights of Man, Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. Also available on microfilm (reels 1-5600) at mfm 1651 (Newspapers and Microforms Reading Room).

19. LicencedEssay and General Literature Index

H.W. Wilson: Essay and General Literature Index, is a bibliographic database that cites essays and articles contained in collections of essays and miscellaneous works published in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. More than 300 volumes are indexed annually. Additionally, more than 20 annuals and serial publications are indexed. Essay and General Literature Index also provides full bibliographic information on collective titles indexed. Essay and General Literature Index focuses on the humanities and social sciences, with subject coverage ranging from economics, political science, and history to criticism of literary works, drama, and film. Also available in print from 1900 at RF 801.6 ESS.

20. LicencedFiction Catalog

H.W. Wilson: Fiction Catalog is the electronic version of Wilson's standard reference work of the same name. Fiction Catalog is a selective annotated list of fiction for adults that includes both established and contemporary works either written in or translated into English. Out-of-print titles are included, and analytical entries are made for composite works. The catalog is intended for collection development and for readers' guidance and reference service in public and undergraduate libraries. 14th edition, 2000-2002. Also available in print from 1942 at S 808.830016 FIC.

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