A few useful links

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English Departments

  • The English Subject Centre has a list of English Department in Britain with a map for easy access. This very useful site also lists academic staff details, and offers a search engine to find colleagues by name, teaching area or research area.
  • The websites of all British Universities and Departments

e-texts

  • Project Gutenberg (20,000 books available, most of them in English; the catalogue can be searched by author or by title)
  • Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts (the 14,000 documents in the catalogue can be searched by author, by title, or by date). The Alex Catalogue is being rebuilt at a new address; although this new catalogue at the moment includes fewer titles than the original one, it makes the texts searchable.
  • The Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia, which makes 10.000 of its 70,000 books available to the general public, and makes their texts searchable.
  • The Online Books Page at Pennsylvania University; its 30,000 books include many non-literary works. The resources are at the moment being reorganised, and some titles may be temporarily unavailable.
  • Wikisource, a sister project of Wikipedia, is building an on-line library, which at the moment numbers over 100,000 books, and is rapidly expanding.
  • The Library of the University of Adelaide (1,200 titles available) uses a legal loophole to publish e-texts of books by authors who died as late as 1954, including W. B. Yeats, H. G. Wells, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and George Orwell.
  • Project Gutenberg Australia uses the same loophole (1,600 titles available).
recorded texts

resources

The Humbul Humanities Hub is a service offered by RND (The Resource Discovery Network). Humbul, which is hosted by the University of Oxford, offers searchable databanks of on-line resources.
University English, a professional information resource for higher-education English studies.

dictionaries

specialised dictionaries

  • Dictionary of English slang and colloquialisms in the UK
  • World Wide Words (keeps abreast of the most recent developments of vocabulary, updated weekly. The newsletter and the recent updates to the World Wide Words can be accessed from this site).
  • Rhymezone (rhymes, synonyms, antonyms, homophones, etc.)
  • The Word Detective ("words and language in a humorous vein")
  • Acronymfinder
  • The Online Etymology Dictionary

    • compilations of dictionaries

  • One Look Dictionary Search (searches several of the sites mentioned above for definitions)

    • lists of dictionaries

  • Frank Dietz's Glossary Links (a list of over 2,500 specialised glossaries and dictionaries - not maintained regularly)

    • encyclopedias

  • The Literary Encyclopedia - a free database of biographies, profiles of works and glossary of literary terms; currently over 3000 completed records. Complete works lists for 5000 writers. This is a companion site of University English.
  • Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia (over one million articles)

    • the British press

    The Guardian The Independent The Times The Telegraph
    FT
    		 Morning Star
    The Sun
    		 Daily Mail
    The Mirror
    		 Daily Express
    News of the World
    		 Time Out

    London Review
    The Spectator
    New Statesman
    		 TLS Private Eye
    		 Economist
    • All the covers of Private Eye from issue number 1 in April 1961 can be seen here
    • The Yahoo directory of world press
    • The front pages of the day's British papers are displayed on the Sky News website

    News feeds from the UK

    (You do not know what RSS is? The technology is explained on the BBC News website).

    By clicking on the links below, you can have easy access to a choice of fresh news articles and comment straight from the main British media sources. The choice obviously takes into account the availability of news feeds. Also, paying feeds have been excluded. You can see the full list of news feeds offered on the websites of each press organ.

    The BBC
    The "quality" press
    The weekly press
    The tabloids

    British radio and television

    Thanks to the on-line BBC Radio Player you can listen to all the BBC radio stations live and/or to an extremely wide list of selected recorded programmes (news, drama, comedy, concerts, sport, etc.).
    BBC News gives access to a large number of news video and audio reports (follow "Latest news in audio and video").
    Sky News allows you to watch numerous videos of recent news items as well as to listen to a short news bulletin.
    Live-Radio.net gives links to over 300 British radio stations live on the web in different formats (Real, MP3, WMP).
    BBC TV is available free-to-air (that is, unencrypted) in parts of Western Europe (the Benelux, most of France, parts of Germany, Switzerland and Spain, Iceland, and of course the whole of the British Isles). See the Astra 2D site for technical information. The map on the left shows the official "footprint" of the Astra 2D satellite, and the theoretical diameter of the dish needed to watch the channels broadcast from the satellite, although the site also carries testimonies of viewers in several European countries which suggest that the actual footprint may  cover a slightly wider part of Europe, and that reception is possible beyond its theoretical limits.
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