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Language & Languages

Bartleby.com
Bartleby is a literary site that offers a daily introduction to a highlighted author, definition of a particular word, a quotation, and a poem. Providing electronic access to older classics and some copyrighted titles, Bartleby arranges English and American nonfiction, fiction, and verse (19th through early 20th century) into “anthologies” and “specific volumes”. It also provides information about research methods, including pathfinders.

EnglishClub.com
Intended for both learners and teachers of English as a second language, this site has grown into one of the largest ESL sites on the Web. The site’s more than 7000 pages include lessons on grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation; quizzes, interactive games, and jokes; forums; and information on study abroad. Learners will also find a 24-hour Help Desk with teachers available to answer questions. Teachers will find lesson plans, a newsletter, job ads, and a forum. ESL teachers will find this Web site very helpful for providing activities both for the classroom and for student practice outside the classroom.

Ethnologue: Languages of the World
Ethnologue, the standard dictionary of languages of the world, is now available online. This outstanding resource should be in the repertoire of all librarians serving programs in linguistics, anthropology, geography, or area studies. A total of more than 6,700 living languages are described. A researcher can search country, language family, or language name files to find demographic linguistic information. The pages are visually clean and simple, easy to use, ad well maintained. Help screens for searching are well done, with additional help offered by e-mail Ethnologue Database is that rare specimen, an electronic resource whose content and technological execution are equally matched.

iLoveLanguages
This excellent meta listing (up from 1,200 to more than 1,700 sites) covers a wide range of language-related Internet resources, e.g. language instruction, literature, linguistics and multilingual resources. This page can easily be incorporated into class assignments, being an excellent source of language or linguistics information.

The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation
Straightforward and easily navigated, this site provides commonsense guidance to the grammatically confused and the punctuation impaired.

Online Literary Criticism Collection
This site provides links to more than 1,300 critical and biographical Web sites about US and British literary works from pre-1500 to the present. Well organized, updated frequently, and easily navigated (by author, title of work, or period), the site provides a brief description of the contents of each link. This site is likely to be valuable to undergraduates just beginning to do literary research.

Linguistics Resources on the Internet
A directory of reputable Internet sources for linguistics maintained by SIL International. The site provides links for every aspect of linguistics, including grammar and syntax, second-language teaching, language rights and individual languages.

Web English Teacher
A website for English teachers, though which educators can share their work and ideas, and take advantage of available technology. According to the site, it can act as a venue where: "Beginning teachers can find guidance; experienced teachers can find inspiration." The site contains book reports, vocabulary and grammar resources, children's literature and many other material.


Law

Proceedings of the Old Bailey, London, 1967-1834
The Old Bailey proceedings online is an impressive no-cost resource for teaching and research. The newly updated version provides a searchable, digitized collection of over 100,000 trials at London's central criminal court from 1674-1834. The site also provides images of the original pages. To facilitate searching and compiling statistics, particular words and phrases, such as categories and types of crime and the gender of the defendants and victims, have been tagged. Digitized maps permit links to crime locations and defendants' residences. This Web site provides special guidance to teachers and students.

Supreme Court of the United States
The site includes the slip opinions of the latest cases, which are filed within hours of the bench opinion and kept on the site until an opinion has been published in the United States Reports. Also included is documentation of the processes of the Court, such as an overview of the Court and its rules, the Court and constitutional interpretation, and traditions of the court.


Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire
Taegan Goddards’ Political Wire is a daily log of articles and commentary on American politics, emphasizing state-level activities, from various national and regional newspapers.


Library Science

European Library
The European Library is a non-commercial organisation. It provides the services of a physical library and the opportunity to benefit from a virtual environment in 20 languages. This website allows to search through the resources of 31 of the 47 national libraries involved in The European Library. Resources can be both digital or bibliographical (books, posters, maps, sound recordings, videos, etc.). Currently The European Library gives access to 150 million entries across Europe. The amount of referenced digital collections is constantly increasing. Quality and reliability are guaranteed by the 47 collaborating national libraries of Europe.

FreeFullText
FreeFullText.com provides direct links to over 7000 scholarly periodicals which allow some or all of their online content to be viewed by ANYONE with Internet access for free (though some may require free registration). The issue(s) which are available for free are indicated for each title on the alphabetical periodical lists. The design of this site is optimized for users seeking specific articles for which they already have the citation. If some of the articles you need are not available for free online, you may obtain them for a fee through a document delivery service, such as Pinpoint Documents. If you wish to "search" for articles on a particular topic, please use a bibliographic database such as PubMed. This site does not attempt to list ALL periodicals on the Internet, only those which offer free full-text content. Titles will be removed from this list if they cease to offer any free full-text content.

Linguistics

Center for Applied Linguistics
A private, nonprofit organization concerned with the teaching and learning of language, the Center for Applied Linguistics conducts research, provides information, and promotes improvements in language education. This site provides and overview of CAL’s many projects and partnerships; details of CAL’s professional development and assessment services; an online store for print publications and language-testing products; job and internship listings; and an “Ask the Language experts” e-mail service. Of particular note are CAL’s resource guides and online directories.


Literature

Contemporary Postcolonial & Postimperial Literature in English
This site lists more than 150 authors and provides content pages for at least 75 percent of them. It offers a wealth of information about authors and literatures that are not well represented in mainstream literary sources; the background information on the countries and issues is taken directly from sources such as the CIA’s World Factbook. This is the main online source for general information on postcolonial authors and literatures.

Other Women's Voices
A valuable addition to feminist scholarship, this site collects full texts and excerpts of works by over 125 women from Europe, Asia and th emiddle East writing from 2200BCE to 1700.  Outlines present the works in alphabetical or chronological order. The literture ranges from the personal and devotional poetry of Sappho and Bahina Bai to the memoirs of Jeanne d' Albret, the sacred narratives of Lucrezia de' Medici, eye witness Byzantine history of Anna Comnena, and the fairy tales of Baronee d' Aulnoy. Entries include biographies of primary and secondary sources. Some - including drama and hymns by Hildegard of Bingen, chivalric verse by Marie de France and the love letters of Heloise to Abelard - appear in the original language and translation.

Poets.org
This Web site is the most comprehensive online source in English. Among the features are a discussion forum, a guide to setting up a poetry book club, the Listening Booth (with150 audio clips in a format that is PC and Mac friendly), a prose section comprising more than 400 articles and essays presented in useful categories, and the On Writing section. The section on individual poets has more poems by English-language authors than ever before, with a biography and links to Web resources for each.

The On-Line Books Page
It offers links to some 8,000 listings of books, definitive collections, and serials that are freely accessible over the Internet. Literature is emphasized, but there are also readings in religion, politics, computing, law, and business, among others.

Victorian Women Writers Project
Includes poetry, children's books, novels, political tracts and travelogues. VWWP comprises texts in English written by nearly 50 women. It focuses on archiving the works of women writers that are out of print or absent from anthologies of this period. The content is authorative, pages load quickly, and some titles include scanned pictures from the original work. The text of all works is transcribed instead of scanned, with bibliographic and technical information located early in the text. The current collection of works is useful to anyone interested in Victorian studies - particularly history, literature and women's studies.


   - American

American Authors
This site provides information on American authors and literary movements, a time line of literary and historical events, and links to other American literature sites on the Internet. It will serve nicely as a supplement to such resources as About.com literature pages to create a virtual library of good, authoritative, free information, particularly for undergraduates and general readers.

PAL: Perspectives in American History
Compendious, accurate, and well organized, PAL is among the best-known Web sites devoted to American literature. Intended as a “quick and convenient reference to the major movements and various authors in American literature, “ PAL devotes individual Web pages to nearly 400 authors of American Literature. Each chapter includes not only a brief introduction listing major themes, study questions, and other relevant information but also an alphabetical listing of links to pages devoted to relevant major and minor authors. For instructors, the site offers basic information, useful notes, and ready bibliographies.

Storytellers: Native American Authors Online
The homepage has 15 links. The most useful are those to alphabetical and tribal listings of Native American authors. These are identified as either "official" (approved by the author) or "unofficial" (created by admirers or students). The site now includes an expanded section of early-20th century Native authors, traditional storytelling links, virtual greetings cards, a calendar of reading and appearances, and much more. Storytelling is without a doubt the mandatory starting place for online searches concerning Native American authors - a great resource for introducing readers to writers they may have never heard about, and an excellent way to begin a search for material on established authors.

   - English

Geoffrey Chaucer
This Chaucer site remains an outstanding tool for students and teachers. It provides both introductory and critical articles, translations, glossed versions of relevant sources, analogues, visual and auditory aids, sample quizzes, a Teach Yourself Chaucer page and a plethora of other resources pertaining to The Cantebury Tales. This site also includes articles on medieval culture and language that should prove valuable. Anything that might be lacking on this site can surely be located through one of the links such as The Chaucer Metapage.

Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
This is mainly an annotated directory (metasite) of scholarly Internet (primarily Web-based) resources. The directory, which has its own search engine, is arranged into ten logical sections, for example, ‘Works’, ‘Life and Times’, ‘Criticism’. ‘What’s news’s’ section list recent additions to the Web. Each section has a helpful introduction and each site listed has a brief annotation, which may include a note on access restrictions as well as evaluative comments. This significant site will be useful for students of Shakespeare from high school age to graduate level.


Shakespearehelp.com
This site covers just five of Shakespeare’s plays that dominate the study of Shakespeare – Hamlet, Macbeth, Merchant of Venice, Othello, and Romeo and Juliet. Links to other web sites are similarly geared: plot summaries, character analyses, movie and festival sites, searchable play texts and one landmark critical essay per play.

Treasures in Full
On this site you can examine every page of rare historic works; compare different editions side-by-side; choose standard or magnified view and read supporting materials by the British Library Curators and other experts. The site covers: Shakespeare in Quatro, Caxton's Chaucer, the Gutenberg Bible; the Magna Carta and the Renaissance Festival books.


   - Children’s

International Children's Digital Library
This site is an effort to digitize children's books from around the world and make them freely available via the Web. Several libraries, publishers and authors have contributed both copyrighted and public domain works. The search interface includes searches by title, author, illustrator, language, and publication date; one can also browse by language, title, author, category or country of origin. Some books are available as graphic files, while others require Adobe Acrobat. There are currently just over 400 titles and these range from the first children's book published in Finnish, Mikael Agricola's 1543 A.B.C. Primer. to John Marzallo's more recent I Spy. Most titles in the collection are picture books, but there are also a few chapter books. Apart from its value to children, the ICDL is a significant resource to students and researchers in area and culture studies, education, child development and literature.