Professional Organizations
- Academy of American PoetsThe Academy is a nonprofit organization with a mission to support American poets at all stages of their careers and to foster the appreciation of contemporary poetry.
This is a list of web pages that are useful for conducting research on English. Email the librarian listed to your right if you have suggestions for additions, or discover a dead link.
- American Oriental SocietyScholarly society devoted to conducting basic research in the languages and literatures of Asia.
- Bibliographical Society of AmericaThe Bibliographical Society of America (BSA) is the oldest scholarly society in North America dedicated to the study of books and manuscripts as physical objects.
- Dante Society of AmericaScholarly organization dedicated to the scholarly study of Dante and his works
- Linguistic Society of AmericaThe Linguistic Society of America (LSA) was founded in 1924 to advance the scientific study of language.
- Modern Humanities Research AssociationA scholarly organization devoted encouraging and promoting advanced study and research in the field of the modern humanities.
- Royal Irish AcademyIrish scholarly organization devoted to the study of humanities and sciences about Ireland
- Shakespeare of Association of AmericaA non-profit, academic organization devoted to the study of William Shakespeare and his plays and poems, the cultural and theatrical milieu in which he lived and worked, and the various roles he has played in both Anglo-American and world culture ever since.
- Sigma Tau Delta - International English Honor SocietySigma Tau Delta is the International English Honor Society.
- Society for Classical StudiesScholarly society in North America for the study of ancient Greek and Roman languages, literatures, and civilizations.
- Victorian Society in AmericaThe Victorian Society In America is a national non-profit organization committed to historic preservation, protection, understanding, education, and enjoyment of American nineteenth century heritage.
Literature Sources and Texts
These are links for finding and accessing online virtual books, plays, poetry and other types of literature. Be sure to also check the OhioLINK databases since Ritter Library provides access to many that offer full-text of works from American and British literature.
- Complete Works of of William ShakespeareComplete digital texts of Shakespeare's work from MIT.
- Google BooksThe Google Books Library Project is an effort by Google to scan and make searchable the collections of several major research libraries. If a book is out of copyright and in the public domain, the book is fully available to read or to download.
- Internet Library of Early JournalsBritish project that digitized substantial runs of 18th and 19th century journals, making these images available on the Internet, together with their associated bibliographic data.
- LuminariumTexts of English Literature ranging from the Medieval period to the 18th Century
- Perseus Digital LibraryContains full-texts and translation of history, literature and culture of the Greco-Roman world.
- Project GutenbergProject Gutenberg is the place where you can download over 30,000 free ebooks to read on your PC, iPhone, Kindle, Sony Reader or other portable device.
- Text Archives from the Internet ArchiveA resource offering permanent access for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public to historical collections that exist in digital format.
- Turning the Pages (British Library)The British Library's online gallery of famous texts
- Victorian Women Writers ProjectThe goal of the Victorian Women Writers Project is to produce highly accurate transcriptions of works by British women writers of the 19th century, encoded using the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML).
Style Guides
Links for style guides and aid in citing sources.
- Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)Popular online resource for many different citation styles.
- University of Wisconsin Writing CenterAnother popular website useful for aiding in the citation and usage of various styles.
Reference Librarian
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