1. WISER: Resources for Research in English: an overview Sue Usher, English Librarian

2. Summary Overview of online and some print* resources Search strategy/terms Primary/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

3. Catalogues of books & MSS OLIS COPAC http://copac.ac.ukhttp://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

6. Archives & Special Collections Archives Hub http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/ National Register of Archives http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra Foster/British Archives* Directory of Rare Book & Special Collections* Morgan/Oxford Libraries Outside the Bodleian*

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

11. 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*

14. 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

16. 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// http://tyler.hrc.utexas.edu//

17. Web Resources Intute: Arts & Humanities http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/ The Poetry Archive http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/home.do Science in the 19 th 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/

18. 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