Literatures in English: A Research Guide
A guide to print and digital resources for research in English language literatures
Text Archives and Other General Sites
- HathiTrustA shared digital repository, with millions of viewable public domain volumes. Because Rutgers is a partner in HathiTrust, faculty and students can log in, download PDFs, create their own collections, and make greater use of this resource than the general public.
- American Memory (Library of Congress)Historically important texts and images drawn from the collections of the Library of Congress
- CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts: The online resource for contemporary and historical Irish documents in literature, history and politics.A growing collection of Irish texts, with a very strong selection of Oscar Wilde, plus lots of political and historical documents.
- Discovering LiteratureFeatured articles, thematic essays, biographical sketches and digitized items divided into five periods of British literature: 20th century, Romantics & Victorians, the Restoration & 18th century, Shakespeare & Renaissance, and Medieval. From the British Library.
- DPLA: Digital Public Library of AmericaAmbitious effort to provide access, through a single platform and portal, to a number of huge digital collections, including HathiTrust, Internet Archive, and Library of Congress.
- Internet ArchiveNon-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, and images.
- Oxford Text ArchiveOne of the oldest and most important sites. Some texts are available for free downloading or searching; others must be purchased.
- Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1764-1913Fully searchable edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing 197,745 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court.
