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21. FreeFiction Connection

Bowker: Locate works of fiction by searching on Topic, Genre, Stetting, Character, Location or Timeframe.

22. FreeGale's Literary Index

Gale: Gale's Literary Index provides quick and easy access to the printed editions of our 43 literary series. These series contain complete biographies on authors and critical essays on their writings. Many of these series are held in the Library's Reference Collection in the Main Reading Room.

23. OnsiteGlobal Books in Print

R. R. Bowker: Comprehensive database of worldwide English language book, audiobook, and video titles. Also contains books out of print, the full Publishers Authority Database, bestseller database (spanning over 100 years) and a database of author biographies.

24. Onsite(CDROM)Index Translationum

UNESCO: Index Translationum is an international bibliography of translations. It contains approximately 815,000 bibliographic citations of translated books in all domains from more than 100 countries.

25. FreeInternet Library of Early Journals

Universities of Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Oxford: ILEJ, the 'Internet Library of Early Journals' was a joint project by the Universities of Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Oxford, conducted under the auspices of the eLib (Electronic Libraries) Programme. It aimed to digitise substantial runs of 18th and 19th century journals, and make these images available on the Internet, together with their associated bibliographic data. The project finished in 1999, and no additional material will be added.

26. FreeIPL Literary Criticism Collection

Contains over 2500 critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period.

27. LicencedLiterature Resource Center

Gale Group: The foundation of the Literature Resource Center is built on Thomson Gale's three hallmark author databases: Contemporary Authors Online, offering biographical coverage of more than 115,000 writers; Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, featuring entries on all authors appearing in CLC since vol. 95 of the print series and complete profiles of 266 most studied authors from editions prior to vol. 95; and Dictionary of Literary Biography Online, containing more than 10,000 biocritical essays on authors and their works written by academic scholars. The Literature Resource Center also includes selected full-text, excerpted, and commissioned critical material from Gale's respected Literature Criticism and For Students Series. The titles in these series include: Children's Literature Review, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Drama Criticism, Drama for Students, Literature from 1400 to 1800, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Literature of Developing Nations for Students, Literature and Its Times, Novels for Students, Poetry Criticism, Poetry for Students, Shakespearean Criticism, Shakespeare for Students, Short Story Criticism, Short Stories for Students, and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. In addition, users can access current, full-text critical essays on major authors via the Literature Resource Center's link to more than 250 prominent literary journals.

28. OnsiteMLA International Bibliography

Modern Language Association: The MLA International Bibliography is a fundamental research tool for those studying modern language and literature. The Bibliography covers citations from over 3,000 journals and series, monographs, working papers and conference proceedings. Available here through the Literature Resource Center.

29. LicencedNineteenth Century UK Periodicals

Gale Group: 19th Century UK Periodicals is a database using content from the British Library, the National Library of Scotland,the National Library of Australia, and many other sources, to make available digitised versions of key 19th Century UK Periodicals. For the over 180 periodicals currently available, every front page, editorial, article, poem, recipe, advertisement and classified ad that appeared within their pages for the time period available is accessible. Users of the database will be able to search every word on every page. To be released in 5 series, the National Library currently has access to Series 1: New Readerships: Women's, Children's, Humour and Leisure/Sport, and Series 2: Empire: Travel and Anthropology, Economics, Missionary and Colonial.

30. FreeOnline Books Page

University of Pennsylvania Library: The Online Books Page is a website that facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet. Major parts of the site include: an index of thousands of online books freely readable on the Internet; pointers to significant directories and archives of online texts; special exhibits of particularly interesting classes of online books; and information on how readers can help support the growth of online books.

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Our subject guides

"Australian literature: print resources"

The Library holds a wide range of resources related to Australian literature. This guide contains selected print works only.

"Book reviews and literary criticism : print resources"

The Library holds a wide range of resources related to book reviews and literary criticism. This guide contains selected print works only.

"Australian literature: selected websites"

These are general sites for researching Australian literature on the Internet and provide a starting place for researchers in this field. They lead to a diverse range of information on Australian literature resources as well as providing links to other useful sites.