Links
JISC Resources
The following is a selection of English-related resources available from JISC. To find out more or to see the full list go to:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=collbrowse
Early English Books Online (EEBO)
Early English Books Online (EEBO) makes available online more than 125,000 titles published between 1473 and 1700, starting with the earliest printed works in the English language. It reproduces the works listed in the Short-Title Catalogue I (Pollard & Redgrave, 1475-1640); the Short-Title Catalogue II (Wing, 1641-1700); the Thomason Tracts, a compendium of broadsides on the English Civil War printed between 1640 and 1661; and the Early English Books Tract Supplements. The works can be searched by author, title, printer, publication date, type of illustration, LC subject headings and other fields. Bibliographic records are linked to high-resolution facsimile images of the works, downloadable in Adobe PDF format. The EEBO database comprises TIFF images and their accompanying bibliographic data.
Humanities Databases from Alexander Street Press
The Humanities Database is a core collection of the following resources from Alexander Street Press: Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures and the Environment British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period.
ISI WOS Arts and Humanities Citation Index
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
JSTOR
JSTOR is a not-for-profit organisation in the US dedicated to helping the scholarly community take advantage of advances in information technologies. JSTOR's mission is to: (1) build a reliable and comprehensive archive of important scholarly literature, and (2) dramatically improve access to these journals. Journals are digitised back to the first issue published (many of which date from the 19th century) and continue to a date generally 3 to 5 years from the most current published issue. The gap is called the "moving wall" and represents the time period between the last issue available in JSTOR and the most recently published issue of a journal. The JSTOR Archive now contains the non-current issues of core research journals in eight collections including Arts & Sciences I, Arts & Sciences II, Arts & Sciences III, Language & Literature.
Literature Online
Fully searchable library of more than 290,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, plus biographies, bibliographies and key secondary sources.
Oxford English Dictionary (OED) Online
The Oxford English Dictionary, the world's leading authority on the history and development of the English language since 1150, is now available online. In addition to offering unparalleled access to the wealth of material contained in the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary and 3-volume Additions Series, online publication enables the ‘treasure-house' of the English language to move with the times as never before. For the first time since it was completed in 1928, the Oxford English Dictionary is being completely revised; every word and every sense is being fully reviewed, and new words added, to take account of the latest changes in language and scholarship. New material will be released quarterly, offering online subscribers a unique opportunity to access the latest developments in the English language.
The Core Collection brings together authoritative dictionary and reference titles into a single cross-searchable resource. Includes English dictionaries and thesauri, bilingual dictionaries, English language reference works, subject dictionaries and general reference. Updated quarterly with new books and new editions.
Taylor & Francis Online eBook Library
The Taylor & Francis Group has over 4,000 titles available in the Online eBook Library. With an eBook, students can interact with their research materials - highlighting, annotating, create their own notes and bookmarks, according to their own needs. This comprehensive collection includes the leading titles published by Taylor & Francis, Routledge, RoutledgeFalmer, RoutledgeCurzon, Martin Dunitz and Spon Press. The Online eBook Library is currently grouped by subject areas, one of which is Literature, Language & Linguistics. Details of the subject collections and title listings are available at http://www.tandfjisc.com/Home/html/tandfjisc.asp.
Xreferplus
Includes the following publications:
Language
- A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics
- Bloomsbury Dictionary of Contemporary Slang
- Dictionary of Eponyms, Manser
- Rawson's Dictionary of Euphemisms and Other Doubletalk
- Rawson's Wicked Words
- The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms
- The Bloomsbury Good Word Guide
- The Browser's Dictionary of Foreign Words and Phrases
- The Devil's Dictionary
- The Penguin Rhyming Dictionary
Literature
- Bloomsbury Dictionary of Myth
- Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase and Fable
- Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, Millennium Edition
- Dictionary of Shakespeare, Peter Collin Publishing
- The Bloomsbury Dictionary of English Literature
- The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English
- The Cambridge Guide to Theatre
- The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story
