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Modern Literature Pages

1. Introduction
2. General Information
3. Bibliographic Services
4. Full Text Databases
5. Web Sites

Introduction

These pages are intended for students and staff at Oxford University and focus on the study of Modern British Literature. Although visitors from outside of the University are welcome they will find that some of the services are only available to members of Oxford University. The pages are hosted by the English Faculty at Oxford. The page is sectioned into General Information, Bibliographic Services, Full Text Bases, and Modern Literature World Wide Web Links.

General Information

The following links provide general information about the Faculty, the Library, and other services:

• English Faculty Home Page
• English Faculty Library
• Oxford University Computing Services (including Courses, Shop, Registration)
• Centre for Humanities Computing - includes the CHC Software Archive (FREE!)
• Libraries, Departments, and Colleges

Bibliographic Services

These links take you to the main bibliographic services subscribed to by Oxford. Those marked with a * may need a password:

Generic

• OxLIP - Oxford's Libraries Information Platform. The main starting point for all of the networked services, dividing titles into subject categories or as a full alphabetical list. Notably includes a networked version of English Poetry Full Text Database (up to 1900 only), Dictionary of National Biography (to 1985), English Verse Drama (to 1911), Complete Works of Virginia Woolf, Wilfred Owen Digital Archive.
• *BIDS - Bath Information & Data Services. Includes the Arts and Humanities ISI Citation Index.
• OCLC FirstSearch - Includes WorldCat, MLA, Article1st, and Contents1st.
• *Periodical Contents Index - includes a good selection of literature (Western Europe) journals.

Library Catalogues

• OLIS - Oxford's Library Information Service
• COPAC - Consortium of (UK) University Research Libraries On-Line Public Access Catalogues
• British Library OPAC
• * EUREKA - Library Catalogues of the Research Libraries Group.

Full Text Journals and Other Sites

• JSTOR - Full texts of standard academic journals
• Oxford's History of the Book Pages
• Project MUSE - Journals of John Hopkins University Press
• Full list of electronic journals available at Oxford includes links to newspapers archives (notably The Times/Sunday Times, The Independent, and The New York Times.)
• Studies in Bibliography On-Line (University of Virginia).

Full Text Databases

Due to copyright it is extremely difficult to make modern texts available on-line. However, the Literature On-Line Service does provide some (notably the Carcanet Poets - 1972-1997), plus Writer in Residence workshops (currently Eavan Boland, previously Matthew Sweeney).

In addition, there are several products available on CD-ROM in the Centre for Humanities Computing. These include:

• Beat Culture - Films and poetry from New America (1950-65)
• Jack Kerouac ROMnibus - multimedia package on the author
• Poetry in Motion - Modern Poets reading their work (includes video clips)
• Theatre of the Imagination - Radio broadcasts by Orson Welles
• Understanding McLuhan - a review of the work of Marshall McLuhan

Web Sites

In addition to the above there are numerous web sites devoted to modern literature. The following list is a synopsis of some of the major ones, but you could also try using one of the Internet Search Engines:

Literature Gateways

• Voice of the Shuttle British, Irish, and American Literature pages - by far the best set of literary links around.
• HUMBUL (Humanities Bulletin Board) - Literature Section
• Internet Resources for Film, Media, and Performing Arts

Interesting Sites

• World War One Poetry - Oxford Project, contains on-line tutorials and a multimedia archive centred around Wilfred Owen.
• Global Bloomsday Project - Impressive world-wide collaboration with readings from Ulysses from various academics and celebrities.

Internet Search Engines

• AltaVista
• HotBot
• Inference Find
• Excite

HTML by Stuart Lee, October 1998
Stuart.Lee@oucs.ox.ac.uk