A service of the national Resource Discovery Network, Humbul receives funding from the Joint Information Systems Committee and the Arts and Humanities Research Board to describe online resources for subjects across the humanities, including English Language and Literature.
Humbul and the English Subject Centre are currently discussing the ways in which they might effectively work together, including sharing records about learning resources between services. If you regularly bookmark useful resources for research or include websites on reading lists for your students, we would be keen to know about them. There is the possibility of a nominal payment per description for contributors who would be willing to send Humbul descriptions of resources on a regular basis.
Humbul is currently developing ‘My Humbul’ which will allow you to save searches and be alerted by e-mail to new resources which fit your search criteria; or enable you to dynamically include resource descriptions, including your own annotations, within a web page (which might, for example, be an online reading list).
For further information or to register an interest in submitting descriptions of online resources, contact Dr Michael Fraser, Head of Humbul, Humanities Computing Unit, University of Oxford, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford. OX2 6NN. E-mail: info@humbul.ac.uk
In the meantime, sample descriptions of resources taken from the English section are reproduced below (full records, including information about authors and publishers, are available via the Hub’s own database at http://www.humbul.ac.uk/).
Dickinson Electronic Archives: http://www.iath.virginia.edu/dickinson/
The Dickinson Electronic Archives is creating new electronic editions of the works of the Dickinson family. Access to the works of Emily Dickinson is restricted. However, an extensive range of resources for the study of Emily, Susan and Edward Dickinson is available, including poems, reviews, stories, correspondence, and bibliographies. Also accessible are the Classroom Electric, which seeks to make best use of primary literary resources in undergraduate teaching (with a focus on Dickinson and Whitman), and the Titanic Operas, containing a collection of responses (in verse with descriptive prose) by notable contemporary poets to Emily Dickinson.
Medieval Resources at Humbul: The Medieval Review: http://www.hti.umich.edu/t/tmr/
The Medieval Review publishes reviews of books and other research resources within medieval studies. Reviews are distributed via a moderated email list and archived on the website. The website provides details about subscribing to the email list as well as accessing the archive of reviews dating from 1993 to the present. Reviews may be browsed by year or searched. Reviews cover a range of subject areas: including Chaucer, Heloise and Abelard, witches in the early modern age, Joan of Arc, scribal practice, early English drama, Foucault and Scholastic thought. An average of 100 new reviews are published annually.
Newsletter Issue 2 - August 2001
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