FINDING OUT WHAT IS IN THE LOCAL LIBRARY SYSTEM ON YOUR TOPIC:

The Rosenthal Library Website at Queens College:

http://forbin.qc.edu/Library/

The CUNY Libraries Common Catalogue:

http://apps.appl.cuny.edu:83/F

The New York Public Library Website

http://www.nypl.org/catalogs/index.html

SOMETIMES YOU NEED TO FIND OUT IF SOMETHING EXISTS

BEFORE YOU CAN FIGURE OUT HOW TO LOOK FOR IT LOCALLY

OR ORDER IT THROUGH INTERLIBRARY LOAN

Other Major Libraries you may not be able to visit,

but whose catalogues can be very useful in finding out whether a particular book or document exists:

The Library of Congress Online Catalogue

http://www.loc.gov/catalog/

The British Library Public Catalogue

http://blpc.bl.uk/

The French National Library Public Catalogue

http://www.bnf.fr/

LITERATURE (AND CRITICAL THEORY) ON THE WEB

The On-Line Books Page at Penn

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/

The English Server at the University of Washington

http://eserver.org/

Project Gutenberg

http://www.gutenberg.net/

The Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/

About e-texts and their varieties:

Center for Electronic Texts for the Humanities Workshop Paper

http://www.ceth.rutgers.edu/intromat/E-TEXTS.htm

A Classic Text from the pre-computer era on Editing Other Texts:

WW Greg's The Rationale of Copy-Text

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-sb?id=sibv003&images=bsuva/sb/images&data=/texts/english/bibliog/SB&tag=public&part=2&division=div

TWO HIGHLY IMPORTANT SUPERSITES

The Voice of the Shuttle (Alan Liu, UCSB)

For General Humanities:

http://vos.ucsb.edu/

For Literature in English:

http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=3

Literary Resources on the Net (Jack Lynch, Rutgers)

http://www.andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/

Lynch's Own Site for Eighteenth-Century Resources

http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/18th/

A GUIDE FOR HOW TO CITE SOURCES FOUND ON THE INTERNET

http://www.library.ualberta.ca/guides/citation/index.cfm

A FEW GENUINELY AMAZING WEBSITES

The Perseus Project at Tufts

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/

The Electronic Beowulf

http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/English/Beowulf/eBeowulf/guide.htm

The William Blake Archive

http://www.blakearchive.org/

The Victorian Web

http://65.107.211.206/

Jerry McGann's Rossetti Archive

http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/rossetti/

The American Studies Site at the University of Virginia

http://xroads.virginia.edu/

Michael Best’s Shakespeare Text Project at the University of Victoria

http://web.uvic.ca/shakespeare/Annex/DraftTxt/