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  Academics  —  Academic Departments  —  Language and Literature  —  Student Resources

Student Resources

  • Literary Resources
  • Foreign Language Resources

Writing Resources

BCCC Academic Success Center - Writing

  • BCCC Writing Center

University Writing Centers

  • University of Missouri Writing Center
  • University of Texas at Austin Undergraduate Writing Center
  • Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)
  • Princeton Writing Program
  • Dakota State University Online Writing Lab (OWL)
  • Paradigm Online Writing Assistant
  • Temple University Writing Center
  • Cleveland State Universtiy Writing Center
  • University of Richmond Writing Center

Useful Resources for Composition

  • University of Pennsylvania
  • For more information on websites for writing. visit The Writing Center L121 or call 968-8044.

Literary and Other Resources

  • The Search Engines
  • Major References
  • Literary Resources
  • English Departments
  • Poetry Sites
  • Teaching Resources
  • Online Journals/Reviews
  • Online Books
  • Online Booksellers
  • University Presses
  • Textbook Publishers
  • Local Libraries
  • Research Libraries
  • Bibliography
  • Bibliography  Resources
  • Discussion Groups
  • Book History

1. The Search Engines

  • Alta Vista
  • Lycos
  • Northern Light
  • Google
  • Dogpile
  • AskJeeves
  • Excite
  • Metacrawler
  • Magellan: http://www.magellan.com
  • Infoseek: http://www.infoseek.com
  • Yahoo
  • HotBot

2.  Major References

  • Britannica
  • OED
  • Reference Desk
  • Digital Reference Shelf
  • Webster’s Dictionary
  • Internet Public Library
  • Infoplease
  • Fowler's (1908)
    Cambridge History of Literature

3. General Literary Resources

  • Voice of the Shuttle
  • MLA:   http://firstsearch.oclc.org/dbname=MLA;FSIP
  • IPL Literary Criticism
  • American Literature on the Web
  • Resources in English Literature:   http://www.lib.cmich.edu/bibliographers/billmiles/english.htm

4. English Department Home Pages with Links

  • New York University
    University Of Massachusetts

5. Poetry Sites

  • Academy of American Poets
  • Poetry
  • Poetry Society of America
  • Poets and Writers:  http://www.pw.org

6. General Teaching Resources

  • National Council of Teachers of English
  • American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
  • Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  • Web Museum: http://metalab.unc.edu/wm/
  • Recorded Books:  http://www.mp3lit.com

7. Online Journals and Reviews

  • Times Literary Supplement:   http://www.the-tls.co.uk/
  • Chronicle of Higher Education: http://www.chronicle.com
  • Bookreporter: www.bookreporter.com
  • The Electronic Newsstand: http://www.enews.com
  • Ecola Newsstand: http://www.ecola.com

8. Online Books

  • Bibliomania:   http://www.bibliomania.com/
  • Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/
  • Great Books Online: http://www.Bartleby.com
  • netLibrary:   http://www.netlibrary.com
  • Project Bartleby:  http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby
  • The Etext Center: http://dcs.library.virginia.edu/digital-stewardship-services/etext/
  • The WWW Virtual Library:  http://vlib.org
  • The Online Books Page:  http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/

9. Online Booksellers

  • Amazon:http://www.amazon.com
  • Barnes and Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com
  • Borders:  http://www.borders.com
  • Penguin Books: http://www.penguin.com/
  • Random House:http://www.randomhouse.com/
  • The Scholar's Bookshelf:   http://www.scholarsbookshelf.com
  • Antiquarian Book Network: http://www.antiquarian.com/
  • Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America: http://www.abaa-booknet.com
  • Books-Rare: http://www.books-rare.com/
  • Internet Bookshop: http://www.bookshop.co.uk/hme /hmepge.asp
  • BookSearchEngine: http://www.BookSeachEngine.com
  • Abebooks: http://www.abebooks.com

10. Selected Major University Presses

  • American Association of University Presses: http://www.aupresses.org/
  • Cambridge University Press: http://www.cambridge.org/
  • Columbia University Press: https://cup.columbia.edu/
  • Duke University Press: http://www.duke.edu/web/dupress/
  • Harvard University Press: http://www.hup.harvard.edu/
  • Johns Hopkins University Press: https://www.press.jhu.edu/
  • Princeton University Press: https://press.princeton.edu/
  • Stanford University Press: http://www.sup.org/
  • University of California Press: http://www.ucpress.edu/
  • University of Chicago Press: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/
  • University of Michigan Press: http://www.press.umich.edu/
  • University Press of Virginia: http://www.upress.virginia.edu/
  • Yale University Press: http://www.yale.edu/yup/

11. Prominent Textbook Publishers with Web Resources

  • Prentice Hall: http://www.prenhall.com
  • W. W. Norton:  http://www.wwnorton.com
  • Houghton Mifflin: http://www.hmco.com/
  • Bedford: www.bedfordstmartins.com
  • St. Martins: http://us.macmillan.com/smp
  • Penguin: http://www.penguin.co.uk/
  • Addison Wesley Longman: http://www.awlonline.com
  • Library of America: https://www.loa.org/

12. Prominent Local Libraries

  • Free Library of Philadelphia:  http://www.library.phil a.gov/
  • Tri-State College Library Cooperative:   http://www.tclclibs.org/
  • Temple University Library:   http://www.library.temple.edu/
  • University of Pennsylvania:   http://www.library.upenn.edu/
  • Rosenbach Museum and Library:   http://www.rosenbach.org
  • Rider University Library:   http://library.rider.edu
  • Pennsylvania State University Library:   https://libraries.psu.edu/
  • Winterthur Library: http://www.winterthur.org/
  • Community Public Libraries: http://www.bucks.edu/library/
  • Princeton University:  http://www.princeton.edu/main/library/

13. Selected Research Libraries

  • Beinecke Library, Yale University : http://www.library.yale.edu/beinecke/brblhome.htm
  • Bodleian Library: http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/
  • University College Dublin:  www.ucd.ie
  • British Library: http://www.bl.uk/
  • Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/HRC/HRHRC/
  • Harvard University Library: http://lib.harvard.edu/
  • Huntington Library and Art Gallery: http://www.huntington.org/
  • The Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/
  • New York Public Library: http://www.nypl.org/ 
  • University of Illinois Library: http://www.library.uiuc.edu
  • University of Michigan: http://www.si.umich.edu/academics/resources/libraries
  • University of California at Berkeley: http://lib.berkeley.edu/
  • Vanderbilt University Library: http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/
  • Folger Shakespeare Library:   http://www.folger.edu
  • Newberry Library:  http://www.newberry.org
  • Independent Research Library Association:   http://www.lindahall.org

14. Bibliography

  • Association for Documentary Editing: http://www.documentaryediting.org/wordpress/
  • The Bibliographical Society of London: http://www.bibsoc.org.uk/
  • The Bibliographical Society of America:  http://www.bibsocamer.org/
  • Bulletin of Bibliography: www.greenwood. com/bob.htm
  • Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America:  https://bibsocamer.org/publications/papers/

15. Bibliographical Resources

  • Manuscripts, Books, and Maps: The Printing Press and a Changing World: http://communication.ucsd.edu/bjones/Books/booktext.html
  • Smithsonian’s Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web: http://www.sil.si.edu/SILPublications/Online-Exhibitions

16. Book History

  • National Center for the Book: http://www.read.gov/cfb/
  • University of Oxford Early Printed Books Project: http://bav.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/early-printed-books
  • Toronto Centre for the Book: http://bhpctoronto.com/tcb/

Suggestions for additional listings should be directed to rusnakm@bucks.edu.

Foreign Language Resources

Spanish

General Spanish Learning and Study Sites

  • http://www.studyspanish.com

Spanish Newspapers and Media

  • http://cnnenespanol.com

German

German Newspapers and Media

  • http://www.faz.de

Italian

Italian Search Engines and Portals

  • http://www.yahoo.it
  • http://www.dada.it
  • http://www.inwind.it
  • http://www.msn.it
  • http://www.kataweb.it
  • http://www.lycos.it
  • http://www.excite.it
  • http://www.altavista.it

University Programs with Extensive Web Resources

  • http://www.rci.rutgers.edu:80/~italian/ links.html
  • http://www.italian.ucla.edu
  • http://www.leeds.ac.uk/italian/sis/ bulletin/urls.html
  • http://frit.indiana.edu/undergraduate/italian/circolo.shtml
  • http://italian.as.nyu.edu/page/home
  • http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies
  • http://www.unibo.it

General Italian Learning and Study 

  • http://www.hmco.com/college/languages/italian/resources/italian.htm

Italian Newspapers and Media

  • http://www.cnnitalia.it
  • http://www.repubblica.it
  • http://www.panorama.it
  • http://www.italiaradio.it
  • http://www.rai.it
  • American English as a Second Language
  • Bucks County Poet Laureate
  • Creative Writing
  • Global Studies/World Languages
  • Guided Studies/Undecided Resources
  • Journalism
  • Staff Directory
  • Research Conference
  • Student FAQs
  • Student Resources
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