Research Links
Library Catalogs
University of Missouri / Journal Title Search
University of Missouri library main page
National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
JISC Library Hub Discover (formerly COPAC, Union Catalogue for UK libraries, and SUNCAT, UK Union Catalogue of Serials)
British Library Printed Books Catalogue [current Interim British Library Catalogue]
British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue
A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum
Oxford Libraries post-1500 Manuscripts Catalogue
The Free Library of Philadelphia
Library Company of Philadelphia
Primary Materials
English Short-Title Catalogue (ESTC; up to 1800) [F] (Click here for my guide to ESTC, EEBO, and ECCO)
[ESTC workaround at CMU / Print & Probability, mainly for pre-1700 records] [F]
[ESTC workaround at Grub St Project, mainly for 1660-1800 records] [F]
Universal Short Title Catalogue (USTC; up to 1700) [F]
Incunabula Short Title Catalogue (ISTC) [F]
Early English Books Online (EEBO)
Eighteenth-Century Collections Online (ECCO)
C19: The Nineteenth Century Index (includes NSTC)
Early American Imprints Series I (Evans, 1639-1800) and II (Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819)
Internet Archive [F]
Eighteenth-Century Book Tracker [F]
Gallica [F]
Eighteenth-Century Journals (Adam Matthew)
American Periodicals Series Online, 1740-1900
Early American Newspapers, Series I, 1690-1876
The Gentleman's Magazine (1731-1907) [F]
The Poetry of the Gentleman's Magazine 1731-1800 [F]
Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman's Magazine [F]
The London Magazine (1732-82) [F]
The Monthly Review (1749-1844) [F]
The Critical Review (1756-1817) [F]
Eighteenth-Century Drama (Adam Matthew)
Attributions of Authorship in the European Magazine [F]
British Printed Images to 1700 [F]
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs [F]
British Literary Manuscripts Online, Medieval and Renaissance and 1660-1900
Union First Line Index of Manuscript Poetry (13th-19th century) [F]
Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts 1450-1700 [F]
Beinecke Flickr Laboratory [F]
Scriptorium: Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Online (University of Cambridge) [F]
Dictionaries and Usage Guides
Oxford English Dictionary (OED)
Samuel Johnson's 1755 Dictionary [F]
Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE)
Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language [F]
English Dictionaries and Thesauri in Oxford Reference Online
Oxford Dictionary of American Usage and Style
New Oxford American Dictionary
Oxford Dictionary of Abbreviations
Other English language reference works in Oxford Reference Online
Biographical Sources
Literature (general)
Oxford Companion to English Literature
Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature
Oxford Guide to Literary Britain & Ireland
Oxford Companion to American Literature
Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature (via LION)
Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation
Other Literature Sources in Oxford Reference Online
Cambridge Companions (via LION)
Encyclopedia of the Novel (via LION)
Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [F]
Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms
Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism
Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism (via LION)
New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (via LION)
Dictionary of English Manuscript Terminology 1450–2000
Art
Oxford Art Online (includes Grove Art Online and Benezit Dictionary of Artists)
Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
Philosophy
Oxford Companion to Philosophy
Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy
Other Philosophy Reference Sources in Oxford Reference Online
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy [F]
Dictionary of the History of Ideas, Vols. 1 (A–Design), 2 (Despotism–J), 3 (L–Protest), and 4 (Psychological–Z) [F]
Eighteenth-Century Studies
Manuscript Verse Miscellanies 1700-1820
The London Stage, 1660–1800
Original volumes at HathiTrust [F]
A New Version of Part 2, 1700–1729 [F]
Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment
Historical Outline for Restoration & 18th Century British Literature by Alok Yadav
The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, London 1674 to 1834
Crime Broadsides at the Harvard Law Library
Ian MacInnes's English Calendar
MeasuringWorth: Relative Worth Calculators and Data Sets
Exeter Working Papers in Book History
Folger Shakespeare Library Bindings Image Collection
British Fiction 1800-1829: A Database of Production, Circulation, and Reception
Online Editions
The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson
The Latin Prose and Poetry of Joseph Addison
Online.Swift at the Ehrenpreis Centre for Swift Studies
The Yale Digital Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson [coming in 2024 to FairCopy.cloud at UVA]
The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence
Romantic Circles Electronic Editions
Lyrical Ballads: An Electronic Scholarly Edition