General Reference Collections
Reviews, Criticism, and Analysis of Literature
Though current reviews were an early convenience of the Web, literary criticism has been late to bloom. The Web has only recently emerged as a liable source of literary research. The Internet Public Library Criticism Collection maintains the larfest index to the free literary criticism on the Web, linking to 2,504 critical and biographical Web sites about authors and their works. The collection is browsable by author, title, nationality and literary period. What separates the IPL collection from other Web criticism gateways is a collection development policy setting standards for inclusion of critical works. Here are a few places that you can try, to look for certain books, authors or any other piece of literature you are trying to find.
- Amazon.com
- Barnes and Noble
- Booklist
- Gale's Lit Central
- Glossary of Literary Terms and A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices
- Glossary of Poetic Terms
- Internet Movie Database
- A Literary Index
- Literary Resources on the Net ( Jack Lynch).
- The New York Times Books
- The New York Review of Books
- PAL: Perspectives in American Literature, A Research and Reference Guides
- Pilot -Search: A Literary Search Engine
- Random House Reading Group Guides
- Reading Groups Choices
- Teaching the American Literatures
Grammar, Vocabulary, and Writing Tools
Standard reference tools in English have always included dictionaries, grammar handbooks, and collections of quotations. Now hyperlinked and enhanced, these same tools can now be found on the internet.
- Babelfish(AltalVista's Translation Service)
- Common Errors in English
- Elements of Style by William Strunk
- Garbl's Writing Resources Online
- Grammar Bytes
- Guide to Grammar and Style(Jack Lynch)
- Linguistic Fun Page
- LOGOS Homepage
- Modern Language Association
- OneLook Dictionaries
- Purdue Online Writing Lab
- School House Rock Grammar
- Vocabulary University
- Vocabulary
- Word a Day
- WordSmyth: the Educational Dictionary-Thesaurus