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

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 Demonstration of key resources

Catalogues of books & MSS OLIS COPAC WorldCat English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) Catalogues of Western Manuscripts (Bodleian) British Library Manuscripts Catalogue Location Registers

Archives & Special Collections Archives Hub National Register of Archives 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, *

Journals & Newspapers TDNet for Oxford’s E-Journals British Literary Magazines* 4-volume guide, Times Digital Archive, TLS Centenary Archive, American Periodicals Series,

Biographical & Related Resources DLB: Dictionary of Literary Biography* (LRR) DNB: Dictionary of National Biography The Paris Review: Interviews Biography Index WATCH File: Writers, Artists & Their Copyright Holders

Web Resources Intute: Arts & Humanities The Poetry Archive Science in the 19 th Century Periodical Wilfred Owen Multimedia Digital Archive Women Writers Online

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