Student Resources
Writing Resources
BCCC Academic Success Center - Writing
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
- 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
5. Poetry Sites
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
Spanish Newspapers and Media
German
German Newspapers and Media
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
Italian Newspapers and Media