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You are working on a project in North American or cultural studies and need helpful resources for your research? This page offers many sites to explore.
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University Resources
Finding Literature Online
Scholarly Resources
Refereed Online Journals
General Resources on the Digital Humanities
North American Studies Associations
International Libraries
Study Abroad Websites and Services
University Resources
| University of Bonn | University Homepage |
| IAAK | The Department of English, American and Celtic Studies at the University of Bonn |
| Bonn University Library | Access to catalogues, databases and much more |
Finding Literature Online
| MLA International Bibliography | The Modern Language Association's database of journal articles and dissertation abstracts (accessible from on-campus locations or via VPN) |
| Arts and Humanities Citation Index | Part of Thomson Reuter's "Web of Science": another useful place to search for journal articles (accessible from on-campus locations or via VPN) |
| Project Muse | Database with full-text access to journals in the humanities (accessible from on-campus locations or via VPN) |
| JSTOR | Database with full-text access to journals in the humanities (accessible from on-campus locations or via VPN) |
| Periodicals Archive Online | Database with full-text access to journals in the humanities (accessible from on-campus locations or via VPN) |
| KVK | The U of Karlsruhe's "Catalog of Catalogs" |
| Google Books | Preview books before you purchase them! |
Scholarly Resources
| American Authors on the Web | Links to websites for more than 700 authors |
| Canadian Adaptations of Shakespeare | A scholarly archive of teaching and research resources on Shakespeare in Canadian theatre |
| Canadian Poetry Online | The U of Toronto Library's online archive of representative works by major Canadian poets |
| Contemporary Postcolonial and Postimperial Literature in English | A scholarly database of major authors and critics in postcolonial literary studies |
| Crossroads American Studies Web | Georgetown U's guide to American study resources |
| Electronic Literature Organization | A scholarly-affiliated site promoting literature in new media |
| Intute | "Helping you find the best websites for study and research" |
| Literary Resources on the Net | Has not been updated in a while but still is one of the best lists of links relevant to literary studies |
| MLA Formatting and Style Guide | Very useful resource that helps you with the technicalities of writing your term paper |
| Modern American Poetry | A scholarly database on modern American poetry with 161 companion sites on individual poets |
| Online Books Page | Index to thousands of literary texts available for free online |
| Open Source Shakespeare | Electronic texts of Shakespeare's plays and a fully searchable concordance |
| Project Gutenberg | Electronic texts by hundreds of authors |
| Representative Poetry Online | The U of Toronto's archive of selected poems by canonical writers in English |
| Romantic Circles | A refereed scholarly website on romantic-period literature and culture |
| Theories of Media Keywords Glossary | The U of Chicago School of Media Theory's animated media theory glossary (requires Flash; still under construction) |
| University of Virginia Digital Collection | The U of Virginia Library's electronic archives represent English and other languages and literatures |
| Victorian Web | A scholarly computing project on Victorian literature and culture |
| Virtual Library of Anglo-American Culture | The Göttingen University Library's Anglo-American archives (includes the "Anglistik Guide") |
| Voice of the Shuttle | A scholarly database for cultural studies, with special focus on critical theory |
| Voices from the Gaps | Comprehensive online encyclopedia of women writers (and artists) of color hosted by the U of Minnesota |
| Wikisource | "The free library that anyone can improve" |
Refereed Online Journals
General Resources on the Digital Humanities
| Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations | Center for Digital Research in the Humanities |
| A Companion to Digital Humanities | Text Encoding Initiative |
| TextGrid (German) | |
North American Studies Associations
| American Studies Association | Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien |
| European Association for American Studies | Gesellschaft für Kanada-Studien |
International Libraries
Study Abroad Websites and Services
Last update on June 18, 2010.