WISER: Resources for Research in English:an overview

Sue Usher, English Librarian

Summary• Overview of online and some print* resources

Search strategy/termsPrimary/Secondary sources

• OxLIP: for access to Oxford’s e-resources• Remote access to e-resources: Athens/VPN http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/eresources/remote_access/• Demonstration of key resources

Catalogues of books & MSS• OLIS • COPAC http://copac.ac.uk• WorldCat• English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) • Catalogues of Western Manuscripts (Bodleian)• British Library Manuscripts Catalogue• Location Registers http://www.library.rdg.ac.uk/colls/projects/locreg.html

Archives & Special Collections

• Archives Hubhttp://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/

• National Register of Archiveshttp://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra

• Foster/British Archives*• Directory of Rare Book & Special Collections*• Morgan/Oxford Libraries Outside the Bodleian*

Full-Text Resources• EEBO: Early English Books Online• ECCO: Eighteenth Century Collections Online• LION: Literature Online• Past Masters• The Shakespeare Collection

• Cambridge Collections Online

Bibliographical Resources• ABELL (via LION) • Arts & Humanities Citation Index• British Humanities Index• International Medieval Bibliography• MLA: Modern Languages Association Bibliography• Periodicals Index Online• Comprehensive Index to English-Language Little

Magazines, 1890-1970*

Journals & Newspapers

• TDNet for Oxford’s E-Journals• British Literary Magazines*

4-volume guide, 1698-1984• Times Digital Archive, 1785-1985• TLS Centenary Archive, 1902-1990• American Periodicals Series, 1740-1900

Biographical & Related Resources

• DLB: Dictionary of Literary Biography* (LRR)• DNB: Dictionary of National Biography• The Paris Review: Interviews http://www.parisreview.com/literature.php• Biography Index• WATCH File: Writers, Artists & Their Copyright Holders http://tyler.hrc.utexas.edu//

Web Resources• Intute: Arts & Humanities

http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/

• The Poetry Archive http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/home.do• Science in the 19th Century Periodical http://www.sciper.org/• Wilfred Owen Multimedia Digital Archive http://sunbird1.oucs.ox.ac.uk/jtap/• Women Writers Online http://www.wwp.brown.edu/

Questions?For further assistance, contact Sue Usher at:

susan.usher@ouls.ox.ac.uk

or other subject librarians at:

http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/collections/librarians

For further training:

http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/services/information_skills