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Australian and New Zealand Books in Print (ANZBiP), produced by D. W. Thorpe, is a bibliographic database that provides booksellers and librarians with information about Australian and New Zealand books, series of books, imprints and publishers.

Australian Public Affairs - Full Text (APA-FT), is an indexing and full text database. Source documents include a wide range of periodicals, newspapers, scholarly journals, conference papers and books. Subject coverage includes business, health, current affairs, economics, humanities, law, literature, politics and social sciences.

A study resource for Shakespeare's plays, sonnets and other poems. Includes plot summaries, essays, character analyses, quotes, biography, and information about the Globe Theatre.

An index to over two thousand periodicals on a broad range of subjects including arts, business, humanities, social sciences, medicine and the sciences. Many of the articles are available in full text. It is produced in the USA.

Academic Search Premier is an academic multi-disciplinary database which provides full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,500 peer-reviewed journals, offering information dating as far back as 1975. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.

This site allows comparison pricing on new and second-hand books which can be purchased over the Internet. Prices can be displayed in a range of currencies.

This site provides the world's largest Internet bookstore which allows you to find and order books and CDs from overseas and includes reviews of new books. All prices are in American dollars.

This site provides access to a number of poetry anthologies including the Oxford book of English verse and Modern American poetry. Indexes to poems can be searched by author, title or first lines.

Signbank is an interactive dictionary of Auslan (Australian Sign Language). Auslan is the language of the deaf community of Australia.

Provides access to the Australian Literary Database which covers Australian creative writing and Australian writers. Subjects covered by the database include books, poems, short stories, articles and reviews and can be searched by author title, genre or award. The database contains records from 1880s to the current day, with comprehensive coverage from 1988.

This is a draft site to be further developed by a team headed by Professor Elizabeth Webby at the English Department of the University of Sydney and Creagh Cole at the University of Sydney Library, and involving Ross Coleman at the University of Sydney Library, the Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) as a Linkage Partner, John Tranter, and postgraduate students and research assistants.The project will focus on the presentation of original literary material from Australian poets. A secondary focus will be on the presentation of biographical, bibliographical and critical secondary material. The project will eventually provide original texts and basic background information on thousands of Australian poets selected by an advisory committee made up of writers, academic scholars, reviewers, librarians and publishers.

Resources in Australian history and literature at the University of Sydney Library's Scholarly Electronic Text and Image Service (SETIS). SETIS is the creator of digital editions of Australian literary and historical texts and hosts a number of other Australian studies resources.

This site provides a directory of Australian bookshops. The site is arranged into nationwide and state locations and includes online bookshops.

BHI Plus indexes articles from over 300 humanities journals and British newspapers. Subjects covered include architecture, archaeology, art, antiques, current affairs, education, economics, environment, ethics, film, genealogy, history, linguistics, literature, music, painting, philosophy, poetry, political science, religion and theatre.

This site provides a searchable version of Bartlett's familiar quotations. The database can be searched by keyword from a known passage, phrase or proverb.

This bibliographic database indexes and abstracts current English language fiction and nonfiction books for children and adults published or distributed in the United States or Canada. Periodical coverage includes leading magazines from the United States, Canada and Great Britain although at least one review must be from a periodical published in the United States or Canada. Reviews of textbooks, government publications, and technical books in the law and sciences are excluded.

A comprehensive online guide to book reviews from journals and newspapers by Thomson Gale

This site provides information about authors, plus selected information from Publishers weekly.

This site contains an all-in-one search engine for finding out who sells a particular book. It can be used to find new, used, rare and out of print books. The search engine covers Amazon, Bibliofind, Interloc as well as independent booksellers including some Australian bookstores.

This site provides an interface to the many resources available on the Internet focusing on books for collectors.

Links and information about children's literature including the Children's Book Awards and Children's Book Week.

CliffsNotes literature study guides are available to view for free online. Payment is required for downloading and printing.

Columbia Granger's World of Poetrycontains works of poetry found in anthologies, and volumes of collected works and selected works for individual poets. Currently, there are over 500,000 poem citations and 175,300 poems in full text.

Also included is bibliographic information for over 1,800 anthologies. Supplemental information includes nearly 900 commentaries and approximately 450 biographies.

Use this global dictionary to search in 275 dictionaries on the Internet. Translate from 69 source languages into 73 target languages - 400 language combinations.

EEBO is an ongoing project of full texts of publications in the English language produced by printing presses in England and its colonies between 1473-1700.

The collection currently comprises 20 books (23 volumes) including the majority of those published in the first half of the 19th century. The books are keyword searchable, individually or as a collection.

Nearly 150,000 English-language titles and editions published between 1701 and 1800 will be made available online over the course of the next two years. When complete, the product will allow full-text searching of more than 33 million pages of material, in essence, every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas.

This database contains approximately 86,000 essays in over 7,000 anthologies and collections published in Canada, Great Britain and the U.S. Find articles by keyword, subject, title, author, date of publication, or any combination. Search literary criticism by names of fictional characters and titles of literary works.

This database cites more than 249,000 essays in collections back to 1900, published in Canada, Great Britain and the U.S. Subject coverage: humanities, social sciences, including literary works, art history, drama, and film. Search this database by keyword, subject, title, author, date of publication, or any combination.

An encyclopedia of all the languages currently in use throughout the world. Searchable by country or language name, and browsable through maps. For each language, there are details on where spoken, by how many speakers, language family and how the language is used today. Produced by linguistics organisation, SIL International.

A searchable database of articles from more than 300 magazines on a wide range of subjects.

West Australian Department of Education database about fiction for children.

Search full text and extracts of books, contents lists, and locations of books from around the world. Registration required to access some areas of the site.

The site allows users to browse through all 37 of Shakespeare's plays and was introduced in conjunction with Google's sponsorship of New York's 'Shakespeare in the Park,'. Also provides links to related scholarly research, internet groups, and even videos of theater performances of Shakespeare plays.

A guide to more than 80 collections of Australian literary manuscripts in archival institutions.

On this site you will find the British Library's two copies of Johann Gutenberg's Bible, the first book to be printed using the technique of printing which Gutenberg invented in the 1450s. The University of Texas has also digitised its copy of the Gutenberg Bible.

This handbook is produced by Reporters Without Borders, providing handy tips and technical advice on creating your own blog.

This bibliographic database indexes articles from 400 English language periodicals covering a wide range of disciplines in the humanities. Periodicals covered include some of the best-known scholarly journals and numerous lesser known but important specialized magazines. Sources include interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, reviews, and original works of fiction, drama, and poetry.

Full text coverage from selected journals begins in 1995.

Humanities and Social Sciences Retrospective Index 1907-1984 is an important online resource for research in the humanities and social sciences and complements and extends the coverage provided by the Library’s existing subscriptions to Humanities Full Text and Social Sciences Full Text (from 1984 and 1983 onwards respectively).

Contains over 1000 full text classic childrens' books. Books may be searched by age group, theme and language and includes many Australian classics.

A growing library of freely accessible electronic books, documents and texts.

LibriVox provides free audiobooks from the public domain. Also includes text versions.

Lightning Bug was conceived to help young adults engage with story writing. Written with a focus on fostering inspiration, finding voice, developing structure and encouraging an interest in writing. The site is intended to be a writing companion. It is intended to be useful to confident literate young writers, and to those less sure of their writing abilities.

Literary Reference Center contains full text for plot summaries, synopses and work review, articles/essays of literary criticism, author biographies, literary journals, book reviews, classic and contemporary poems, classic and contemporary short stories, author interviews, classic texts, etc. It also includes Merriam Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature, Continuum Encyclopedia of Children's Literature, The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Beacham's Research Guide to Biography and Criticism, The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature, The Literary Encyclopedia, The Columbia Companion to the 20th Century American Short Story, MagillOnLiterature Plus, etc.

Literature Resource Centre contains biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of more than 120,000 authors from every age and literary discipline. Includes full text articles from many of Gale's literature series.

This database provides access to literature, language, linguistics and folklore. Over 3,000 journals are indexed. Monographs, working papers, proceedings, bibliographies and other formats are also covered.

Access via Literature Resource Center. Click on MLA International Bibliography with Directory of Periodicals on the Other Searches menu.

This site aims to provide a complete annotated guide to the scholarly Shakespeare resources available on Internet, and to present new Shakespeare material unavailable elsewhere on the Internet.

MyLanguage provides access to search engines, web directories and news in over sixty languages. MyLanguage is a partnership between the State Libraries of NSW, QLD, SA, VIC, and WA and the NT and ACT Library and Information Services.

This pathfinder site provides links to sites relating to Australian literature. Links to online journals, organisations and associations, resources available in Australian universities and information about the National Library of Australia's literary seminars are included.

NoveList has over 155,000 fiction titles, Recommended Reads reading lists covering both fiction genres and topics, Discussion Guides, suggestions for further reading, Award Lists, etc.

A guide to more than 200 different alphabets, syllabaries and other writing systems, Omniglot also contains details of many of the languages written with those writing systems, and links to a wide range of language-related resources, such as fonts, online dictionaries and online language courses.

This site contains critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period.

Ozlife, produced by the National Library of Australia, is an index to Australian biographical articles and book reviews from major Australian newspapers and select journals. A complete list of newspaper and journal titles indexed in OzLife is available from the main Search/Browse screen.

A practical online tutorial to assist in reading handwriting found in documents written in English between 1500 and 1800. Provided by the National Archives of the UK.

This site provides a searchable catalogue for Penguin Australia titles only, or for all books that Penguin market and distribute in Australia. Search by title, author, keyword, subject, imprint and ISBN. The site also provides profiles for each author (where available) which includes a photograph, biographical details, information on awards and a list of titles published by Penguin.

A web site of poets reading their own work. It is a growing resource and can be browsed by author name, poem title, subject and form.

Project Gutenberg produces books in electronic form which are freely available to the public. This site provides access to over 10,000 texts.

The full text of thousands of books free online, including novels, poetry and short stories. The site represents major authors' works which are no longer in copyright.

An online repository of works printed in English between the 1477 and 1799. Although produced with care and attention, the texts are not represented by the publisher as scholarly editions.

An archive of 2500 of the approximately 7000 languages on the planet.

SETIS provides access to a large number of networked and in-house full text databases, primarily but not exclusively, source texts within the humanities. In addition to these literary, philosophical and religious texts the service is engaged in a number of text and image creation projects.

Use The Shakespeare Collection to access and study an extensive collection of authoritative materials supporting literary, textual, historical, and performance studies. Resources include the complete works, as well as editions and adaptations of Shakespeare's works, other works published during Shakespeare's time, prompt books, the Gordon Crosse Theatrical Diaries, criticism, reviews, images, and reference.

This site allows you to compare early editions of Shakespeare's plays. Also includes background information on Shakespeare's life and work.

This database indexes short stories published in more than 4,200 collections and anthologies, as well as stories in periodicals. It also contains full text of more than 4,000 short stories. Search this database by author, title, subject (i.e. theme, locale, narrative technique and genre), keyword, date, literary technique, source, or any combination.

This database contains bibliographic entries on more than 150,000 short stories published from the 1830s to the 1980s. Use this database to find stories by author, by topics/themes (e.g. mothers and daughters), by genre (e.g. science fiction), by locales where the story takes place (e.g. India, Rocky Mountains) and by names of individuals, peoples, and professions that the stories are about (e.g. Leonardo da Vinci, Apache Indians, dentists).

The Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive contains every page of every copy of the TLS published from 1902 to 2005.

An academic site devoted to Chaucer's Canterbury tales and his life and times with an extensive bibliography.

This site provides a searchable collection of more than 400 classical Greek and Latin texts (in English translation).

This site provides the full text of all of William Shakespeare's plays and some of his poetry. The plays are listed according to their category (history, tragedy or comedy) and includes links to other Shakespeare pages.

A website that facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet. Includes an index of online books, pointers to significant directories and archives of online texts, and special exhibits of particularly interesting classes of online books.

Emphasising both primary and secondary or theoretical resources, this site links to humanities-related resources on the Internet and points toward the transformation of those disciplines as they interact with the sciences and social sciences and with new digital media.

This site provides an Internet bookstore which allows you to find and order books from overseas and includes reviews of new books. All prices are in British pounds.

Welcome to whichbook.net - a completely new way of choosing what to read

This site is useful for scholars and researchers who may need to obtain permission to publish works still protected by copyright. You can search the WATCH file to find contact information for the copyright holders of authors and artists whose works can be found in libraries and archives across North America and the United Kingdom. WATCH is jointly produced by the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at The University of Texas at Austin and the University of Reading Library, Reading, England

An online catalogue of publications offered by the NSW Government for purchase or free download.