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Resources currently available through EduServ CHEST
The following is a selection of English related resources available from CHEST. To find out more or to see the full list go to: http://www.eduserv.org.uk/chest/datasets/table-index.html
Annotated Bibliography for English Studies : A bibliography of secondary literature in English Studies.
Collins Dictionaries for Academic Research : includes Collins Bilingual Range, Collins English Range for native speakers and Collins COBUILD Range for learners of English as a foreign language
Collins Wordbanks Online : an online Internet service for accessing language data based on the Collins corpora of modern written and spoken text
Wilson Databases for HE : full text databases covering a wide range of subjects, including the Humanities
How to recommend a resource
For those resources not yet available, EduServ CHEST operate a ‘wishlist' so that if a certain number of people express interest in a resource, this triggers an approach to the publisher. The ‘wishlist' enables you to add your ‘vote' for a resource suggested by someone else, or to propose a new one. Alternatively, Jane Gawthrope , the Subject Centre Manager is a member of the JISC Discovery Tools Working Group and ideally placed to make recommendations about new resources. Please email her if you have any suggestions or comments relating to JISC resources. If those involved in English studies are active in recommending resources, this is likely to result in a richer set being available to the community through preferential deals
Items on the EduServ CHEST wishlist currently include:
Ardenonline - The Arden Shakespeare has long been the premier Shakespeare edition, valued by actors, scholars, students and playgoers alike for the quality of its scholarly presentation
British Humanities Index - An international abstracting and indexing tool for research in the humanities, BHI indexes over 320 internationally respected humanities journals and weekly magazines published in the UK and other English speaking countries, as well as quality newspapers published in the UK.
ISI WOS Arts and Humanities Citation Index backfile to 1975 - The ISI ® Arts & Humanities Citation Index ( A&HCI ® ) and Arts & Humanities Search ® provide access to current and retrospective bibliographic information and cited references found in nearly 1,130 of the world's leading arts & humanities journals . The current file is already available.
Times Literary Supplement - is renowned as one of the most respected English language journals focused on the world of literary and cultural activity. Available 1897 forward .
Women Writers Online - a long-term research project devoted to early modern women's writing and electronic text encoding. Our goal is to bring texts by pre-Victorian women writers out of the archive and make them accessible to a wide audience of teachers, students, scholars, and the general reader. We support research on women's writing, text encoding, and the role of electronic texts in teaching and scholarship.
MLA International Bibliography , the fundamental research tool for the humanities, covers international scholarly materials on language, literature, linguistics, and folklore, with coverage since 1963. (Wider coverage than the MLA Bibliography which is already available).
