Major Research Catalogs
The following Web sites provide helpful information for all students studying any area of English and for all faculty teaching any area of English.
American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library
The Library of Congress runs this catalog, which includes Photos & Prints, Documents, Motion Pictures, and Sound Recordings. Although the collection is being continually developed, it currently offers an extensive catalog that can be browsed and/or searched. The site may be particularly useful if you are looking to do archival research on American literature, history, and/or culture. Also, try it out, if you're merely interested in browsing through the site's museum-like atmosphere.
The Association of American University Presses (AAUP) Homepage
This site "currently lists over 75,000 book titles from over 60 presses," and it offers "links to the individual on-line catalogs of more than 40 scholarly presses at other sites." Using the AAUP index you can search for brief descriptions of books offered by university presses, or you can search the journals catalog for information on AAUP-affiliated journals. Anyone looking to publish a manuscript or article can peruse the AAUP Guidelines for Submitting Manuscripts to Publishers.
College and University Homepage Links
This site allows you to access the homepages of colleges and universities in the United States and around the world.
"COPAC is a new national Online Public Access Catalogue, providing unified access to the online catalogues of some of the largest university research libraries in the UK and Ireland."
EBSCOhost provides access to full-text articles (academic, news, magazines, etc.) on the Web and bibliographical information on related hard copy articles. The EBSCOhost catalog is very extensive.
Encarta Concise Encyclopedia Online
If you're looking for some quick and/or brief information on a person, place, or thing, try this keyword search engine; Encarta may give you a place to dive into your search or simply fill a small gap in the bigger picture.
FirstSearch provides access to several databases categorized by discipline. Search results from these databases provide bibliographical information, library holdings, and brief descriptions, and your searches can be limited by years of publication, language, publication type, etc.
Internet & World Wide Web Reference Sources
Meyer Library at Missouri State offers this catalog with an alphabetical categorization of subareas from almanacs to writing. The offering of links to book reviews from this site is particularly extensive. In addition, the broad interdisciplinary focus of the page provides numerous links that may be only tangentially related to English but helpful nonetheless.
Conduct a virtual search through the stacks at the Library of Congress by author, keyword, subject, or title--perhaps the most extensive catalog of books to be found in the United States.
National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections
"NUCMC, or the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections, is a free-of-charge cooperative cataloging program operated by the Library of Congress." You can use this Web site "to find out more about NUCMC, about archives and manuscript repositories, and about topics of interest to archivists and their institutions' patrons.
Research Libraries Index Network
If you're wanting to locate manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, films, audio recordings, etc. that would be cataloged by the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections, this site will help you. The search format is Z39.50, and the address can also be contacted through the Z39.50 Gateway.
Search through the stacks of Missouri State's Meyer Library on the Internet. Access SWAN and print up the results of your search.
Use this engine to search for phone numbers, e-mail addresses (not always complete), and addresses.
This site provides "access to the Library of Congress's catalog and those at many other institutions," including universities, colleges, public libraries, government, international sites, and research groups. Using the Z39.50 Gateway you can conduct searches through libraries at various institutions without changing your search format.
