LAST UPDATED: FEBRUARY 16, 1998.

Reference: Dictionaries, Thesauri, Encyclopaedia.
"Serious" Books: Literary Research Resources.
Online Libraries/Book Databases
Literary Journals/Book Zines.
Other Web Literary Resources

Dictionaries/ Encyclopedias on the Net

• Acronym Directory (in Ireland): searchable.
• Computing Dictionaries
  • On-Line Dictionary of Computing (from the UK)
  • The Hacker's Dictionary/Jargon File (from Austria): searchable.
• Encyclopedias
  
  • Encyclopedia.com: provides more than 17,000 short articles from the Concise Columbia Electronic Encylopedia, Third Edition.
  • Encyclopaedia Britannica
  • Try the Yahoo list for some comprehensive or free options.
• English Dictionaries
  • American English Dictionary (searchable).
  • Collins' Dictionary
  • English and Technical Dictionary (from CERN): searchable
  • Hypertext Webster Interface
  • Oxford English Dictionary Electronic Text Center
  • Webster's Dictionary (local hypertext interface): searchable.
• Foreign Language Dictionaries.
  • French to English dictionary (from ARTFL)
  • English-French dictionary (at the Hypercube Web in Finland)
  • German-English dictionary.
  • Japanese-English dictionary.
  • Small English-Spanish dictionary.
  • Slovene-English dictionary.
  • Logos Multilingual ditionary (in Italy)
• Quotations
  • Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (of 1901) (at Columbia)
  • LoQtus Quotation Resource Page (at UC-Davis)
• Thesauri
  • Search an updated 1911 Roget's Thesaurus (at NIH)
  • Roget's Thesaurus
  • WordNet - a Lexical Database for English . From Princeton University. On-line lexical reference system whose design is inspired by current psycholinguistic theories of human lexical memory. English nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are organized into synonym sets, each representing one underlying lexical concept. Different relations link the synonym sets.

"Serious" Book sites

• 19th-Century German Literature
• Annual Bibliography of English Language & Literature
• ARTEXT: Books on Modern Art and Film
• The Bank of English
• The Data Text Library of Classic Literature
• The Electronic Archives for Teaching the American Literatures
• The English Server at CMU.
• University of Virginia MEMEM Search of Early Modern Materials at Michigan.
• The English Poetry Full Text Database: over 4000 English poets from the Anglo-Saxon period to the end of the nineteenth century.
• History of English Studies Page (UCSB)
• Japanese Text Initiative: texts of classical Japanese literature aiae on the World Wide Web.
• The Judaica Archival Project (JAP): preservation and access program of Machon Mekorot Institute.
• The Labyrinth Library,Middle English texts, including Chaucer.
• Linguistics, Philology, Literature
• Marist College English Web: Reference & Research Tools for Humanities
• Online Text Collections of Western European Literature (Virginia)
• MIT Literature Resources.
• The Nepali Literature Home Page
• Scholarly Sites.
• Read and search Shakespeare's Complete Works online.
• Victorian Women Writer's Project, a guide to Victorian literature sources.
• TIPP's Poetry Links, with links to over 10,000 works.
• World Civilizations Reader.

Online Libraries/Databases

• Alex:A Catalogue of Electronic Text on Internet.
• Authors Links & Info
• AUTHOR, AUTHOR! (author-specific Web pages)
• The Beat Generation, Literary Kicks
• BookWire Home Page
• Books A to Z
• Books and Libraries home page
• Books On-line, Listed by Title: from CMU.
• Catalog of Projects in Electronic Texts (Georgetown).
• Children's Literature
  • Children's Books and More
  • The Children's Literature Web Guide
  • Fairrosa's Cyber Library,especially for children.
  • Grimm's Folk Tales online.
  • Inkspot - Writing and Literature for Children
  • The Real Thing: Online Children's Stories
• Cody's Books
• The Data Text Library of Classic Literature
• The Electronic Bookshelf (Gopher, Penn State)
• Fiction at the English Server
• Galaxy's EINET
• Hyper Text
• International WWW Electronic Library
• Visit the Internet Public Library
• Planet Earth Home Page.
• Columbia University's Project Bartleby - The Public Library of the Internet
• Science Fiction
  • Umich's Fantasy and Science Fiction Home Pages
  • Science Fiction Lovers Archive
  • Tolkien's Home Page
• The Tech Classics Archive
• TUM Info XI Papers, reports, books and theses
• Welcome to WebBooks: Resources for technical literature.
• WWW Virtual Library: Literature.
• Yahoo's Classics

Literary Journals/ Book Zines

• The Alter Ego
• Arachnion: classical studies
  A journal of ancient literature and history on the web.
• The Blue Penny Quarterly
• Barcelona Review: An International Review of Contemporary Fiction. Bimonthly international review of cutting edge fiction published in English and Spanish. Also included are author interviews, book and film reviews (including sneak previews), articles and essays.
• Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate (Germany)
• Chronicon: online journal of History
• DE PROVERBIO: An Electronic Journal of International Proverb Studies
• Deep South Journal (New Zealand)
• Ejournal SiteGuide
• Flightless Hummingbird: A Pseudo-Periodical
• Fiction Rag and Gossip (Berkeley)
• The Getty Conservation Institute Newsletter: committed to the preservation of cultural property.
• Guild of Bookworkers Newsletter: In depth articles on a number of topics. Six issues per year.
• Historical Review of Print Culture and Technology: hypertext treatment of the history of print culture and technology.
• Humanist Discussion Group: Princeton.
• Infusion: Reviews and Critique
• Mississippi Review Web
• Papers on Language & Literature
• The Paris Review
• Quarry: Indiana University Undergraduate Journal of the Arts
• Satire Magazine
• SLUMMIT: Students' Literary Underground Multi-media Magazine & Interactive Teacher
• Southwinds, UMR's Literary Magazine
• The Stanford Electronic Humanities Review
• UnCover: online article delivery service, a table of contents database, and a keyword index to nearly 17,000 periodicals.
• University of Rochester--Department of History Online Journals
  
  • Godey's Lady's Book Online: - Jan.-Mar., November 1850
    
  • London Gazetter, 1692
  • Penny Magazine: 1835, #211-216, 219-220, 227
  • Scientific American: 1845, Vol. 1 #1-6
• What's New for Book-Lovers: weekly newsletter from the Internet Book Information Center.

Other Literary Resources on the Web.

• CWRL Lit Resources (Texas)
• The cathouse.org Literature Pages
• Cybermind-related Online Resources
• English Language and Literature at Vanderbilt: including their collection of other literature Web sites.
• A text-only Guide to Literature on the Internet: at Ohio State or Germany
• LiteratureWebliography (LSU)
• MIT's Literature Resources.
• Univ. of Toronto's Pointers to Resources from Elsewhere
• Web of Wonder: Literature
• Hope Hall for the Humanities
• HTI Resources (Michigan)
• Jeff's English Page
• Josh's (Not so) Hotlist!
• The Library at U. C. Davis
• Literature Directory
• LitLinks (Alberta)
• CMU's On-line Reference Works.
• Readers and Writers Resource Page (surf.rio.com)
• Reference Desk on the Net
• Shannon's Library
• Spider's Web References
• Univ. of Washington's The Word, Literature, Journals, Books .