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
- Paradigm Online Writing Assistant
- 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
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
- MLA: https://firstsearch.oclc.org/dbname=MLA;FSIP
- IPL Literary Criticism
- Resources in English Literature
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: https://metalab.unc.edu/wm/
- Recorded Books: https://www.mp3lit.com
7. Online Journals and Reviews
- Times Literary Supplement: https://www.the-tls.co.uk/
- Chronicle of Higher Education: https://www.chronicle.com
- Bookreporter: www.bookreporter.com
- The Electronic Newsstand: https://www.enews.com
- Ecola Newsstand: https://www.ecola.com
8. Online Books
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/
- Great Books Online: https://www.Bartleby.com
- netLibrary: https://www.netlibrary.com
- The Etext Center: https://dcs.library.virginia.edu/digital-stewardship-services/etext/
- The WWW Virtual Library: https://vlib.org
- The Online Books Page: https://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
9. Online Booksellers
- Amazon:https://www.amazon.com
- Barnes and Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com
- Borders: https://www.borders.com
- Penguin Books: https://www.penguin.com/
- Random House:https://www.randomhouse.com/
- The Scholar's Bookshelf: https://www.scholarsbookshelf.com
- Antiquarian Book Network: https://www.antiquarian.com/
- Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America: https://www.abaa-booknet.com
- Books-Rare: https://www.books-rare.com/
- Abebooks: https://www.abebooks.com
10. Selected Major University Presses
- American Association of University Presses: https://www.aupresses.org/
- Cambridge University Press: https://www.cambridge.org/
- Columbia University Press: https://cup.columbia.edu/
- Duke University Press: https://www.duke.edu/web/dupress/
- Harvard University Press: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/
- Johns Hopkins University Press: https://www.press.jhu.edu/
- Princeton University Press: https://press.princeton.edu/
- Stanford University Press: https://www.sup.org/
- University of California Press: https://www.ucpress.edu/
- University of Chicago Press: https://www.press.uchicago.edu/
- University of Michigan Press: https://www.press.umich.edu/
- University Press of Virginia: https://www.upress.virginia.edu/
- Yale University Press: https://www.yale.edu/yup/
11. Prominent Textbook Publishers with Web Resources
- W. W. Norton: https://www.wwnorton.com
- Houghton Mifflin: https://www.hmco.com/
- Bedford: www.bedfordstmartins.com
- St. Martins: https://us.macmillan.com/smp
- Penguin: https://www.penguin.co.uk/
- Addison Wesley Longman: https://www.awlonline.com
- Library of America: https://www.loa.org/
12. Prominent Local Libraries
- Free Library of Philadelphia: https://www.library.phil a.gov/
- Tri-State College Library Cooperative: https://www.tclclibs.org/
- University of Pennsylvania: https://www.library.upenn.edu/
- Rosenbach Museum and Library: https://www.rosenbach.org
- Rider University Library: https://library.rider.edu
- Pennsylvania State University Library: https://libraries.psu.edu/
- Winterthur Library: https://www.winterthur.org/
- Community Public Libraries: https://www.bucks.edu/library/
- Princeton University: https://www.princeton.edu/main/library/
13. Selected Research Libraries
- Beinecke Library, Yale University : https://www.library.yale.edu/beinecke/brblhome.htm
- University College Dublin: www.ucd.ie
- British Library: https://www.bl.uk/
- Huntington Library and Art Gallery: https://www.huntington.org/
- The Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/
- New York Public Library: https://www.nypl.org/
- University of California at Berkeley: https://lib.berkeley.edu/
- Vanderbilt University Library: https://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/
- Folger Shakespeare Library: https://www.folger.edu
- Newberry Library: https://www.newberry.org
- Independent Research Library Association: https://www.lindahall.org
14. Bibliography
- Association for Documentary Editing: https://www.documentaryediting.org/wordpress/
- The Bibliographical Society of London: https://www.bibsoc.org.uk/
- The Bibliographical Society of America: https://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
- Smithsonian’s Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web: https://www.sil.si.edu/SILPublications/Online-Exhibitions
16. Book History
- National Center for the Book: https://www.loc.gov/programs/center-for-the-book/about-this-program/
- Toronto Centre for the Book: https://bhpctoronto.com/tcb/
Suggestions for additional listings should be directed to rusnakm@bucks.edu.
Foreign Language Resources
Spanish
Spanish Newspapers and Media
German
German Newspapers and Media
Italian
Italian Search Engines and Portals
- https://www.yahoo.it
- https://www.dada.it
- https://www.inwind.it
- https://www.msn.it
- https://www.kataweb.it
- https://www.lycos.it
- https://www.altavista.it
University Programs with Extensive Web Resources
- https://www.italian.ucla.edu
- https://italian.as.nyu.edu/page/home
- https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies
- https://www.unibo.it
General Italian Learning and Study
Italian Newspapers and Media