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LITERATURE

a.ka. - Author pseudonyms, aliases, nicknames, working names, legalized names, pen names, noms des plumes, maiden names, etc.
http://www.trussel.com/books/aka.htm

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Athenaeum Projects - The Athenaeum, a weekly periodical from London between 1828-1923, covered a wide range of topics in literature, fine arts, music, politics and popular science.  This is an electronic archive for the journal.  The Weinberg Memorial Library does have this journal on microfilm.
http://athenaeum.soi.city.ac.uk/athall.html

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Bartleby.com: Great Books Online - Electronic text library includes the full-text to hundreds of works.
http://www.bartleby.com/

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CHILDE: Children's Historical Literature Disseminated throughout Europe - Funded under the European Commission's Culture 2000 program, the site provides access to images from collections of early children's books in Europe that were published before 1890 and are no longer subject to copyright. You may search by author, illustrator, collection, or by a variety of subject approaches.
http://www.bookchilde.org/index.htm
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Chronicles of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Provides a variety of information on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and his works.
http://www.siracd.com/

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ClassicReader.com - This collection has over 740 books and 1000 short stories by over 200 authors.
http://www.classicreader.com/

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Dickens Project - A web site devoted to promoting the study of the life, times and work of Charles Dickens.
http://humwww.ucsc.edu/dickens/index.html

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Digital Dante Project - Maintained by the Institute for Learning Technologies at Columbia University on everything relating to Dante.
http://dante.ilt.columbia.edu/

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Geoffrey Chaucer Website - helpful guide to the life and work of Geoffrey Chaucer. http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/

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Humbul Humanities Hub - Striving to "meet the needs of scholars in the humanities," this site is essentially a portal to web sites on American Studies, the Classics, and the literature and languages of English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, and Russian and Slavonic. http://www.humbul.ac.uk/index.html

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Literary Resources on the Net - Maintained by Jack Lynch of Rutgers. http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/

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Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet - Attempts "to be a complete annotated guide to the scholarly Shakespeare resources available on the Internet."
http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/

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The National Book Foundation - great American writers and writings. The many other offerings of the foundation including award lists, workshops, writing camps, and available resources.
http://www.nationalbook.org

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The Web Concordances - Concordances to the works of Shelley, Coleridge, Keats, Blake, Wordsworth, and Gerard Manley Hopkins.
http://www.dundee.ac.uk/english/wics/wics.htm

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THEATRE

eOneill.com - an electronic Eugene O'Neill archive, include guides to finding resources through major O'Neill archives, selected texts of plays, career information, and other items of interest.
http://eoneill.com/

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IBDB.com - IBDB (Internet Broadway Database) archive is the official database for Broadway theatre information.
http://www.ibdb.com/

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Musicals101.com - a cyber encyclopedia of musical theatre, TV and film featuring a history of musicals, how musicals are made, photo galleries, chronologies, and more. http://www.musicals101.com/

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The Plays of William Shakespeare- Texts of all the plays.
http://www.theplays.org/

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WWW Virtual Library: Theatre and Drama - resources from more than 50 countries on a variety of topics dealing with theatre and drama.
http://www.vl-theatre.com/

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WRITING STYLE AND CITATION

Citing Electronic Sources - A Library of Congress web site that shows to cite specific examples from its own digital collection using both MLA and Turabian formats. The online digital collections cited include films, government documents, maps, recorded sound, photographs and drawings, special presentations, and texts (like pamphlets or any other written matter).
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/resources/cite/index.html

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American Heritage Book of English Usage - online version of 1996 book, offering a practical and authoritative guide to contemporary English.
http://www.bartleby.com/64/

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APA Style Handbook - The University of Illinois Writer's Workshop offers this style handbook online full of examples for various citations using APA style. http://www.english.uiuc.edu/cws/wworkshop/bibliography_style_handbookapa.htm

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JAMA Instructions for Authors - Found here are instructions for submitting manuscripts to the Journal of the American Medical Association. Includes examples of how to cite references, using AMA's style.
http://jama.ama-assn.org/ifora_current.dtl

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MLA Style Handbook - The University of Illinois Writer's Workshop offers this style handbook online full of examples for various citations using MLA style. http://www.english.uiuc.edu/cws/wworkshop/MLA/bibliographymla.htm

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Nuts and Bolts of College Writing - A 'thinking guide' for better writing.  Includes thinking about writing, style, the mechanics of writing and more.
http://nutsandbolts.washcoll.edu/

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Online! - From Bedfords/ St. Martins, Online! is a reference guide to using Internet sources offering advice on how to cite Internet sources.
http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/

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Research and Documentation Online - Guidelines for documenting print and online sources, focusing on four major styles:  MLA, APA, Chicago, and CBE.  Also provides a list of style manuals by discipline.
http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/index.html

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Sources: Examples - An online guide to a variety of styles of citing (including APA and MLA) with lots of examples, from Dartmouth University.
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~sources/examples/about.html

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Style Sheets for Citing Internet and Electronic Resources- MLA, Chicago, APA, CBE and Turabian styles from UC Berkeley Library.
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Style.html

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WritersDigest.com - the online guide to writing life, includes writers' guidelines, books for writers, and other writers' resources.
http://www.writersdigest.com//

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Writers Digest 101 Best Websites - annotated listing of the best websites as chosen by readers and editors of Writer's Digest magazine.
http://www.writersdigest.com/101sites/2003_index.asp

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          Updated February, 2004 by Clara Hudson