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Table of Contents:

Electronic Text Centers
Electronic Text Archives
Departments & Institutes
Electronic Courses
Dissertations & Theses
Organizations & Societies

Electronic Conferences
eJournals
Classified Resource Directories
- Comprehensive
- Specialized
Style Guides

Electronic Text Centers

Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities (CETH) - (Rutgers University)

Electronic Text Archives

Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) - Off-Campus access requires UW-W login
Contains digital images of every page of 150,000+ books published during the 18th century. Covers as wide range of topics, including literature.
Electronic Texts (eTexts) - (University Library, UW-Whitewater) - Another Selected Resources on the Internet webpage devoted solely to electronic texts
Oxford Text Archive

Departments & Institutes

Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center - (University of Texas)

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Electronic Courses

World Lecture Hall - (University of Texas) - To locate online humanities courses, click on Browse by Area, then on Humanities or a more specific subject, such French, Language and Languages, etc.

Dissertations & Theses

Electronic Theses and Dissertations in the Humanities: A Directory of Online References and Resources - (Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, University of Virginia)

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Organizations & Societies

IATH: Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities - (University of Virginia)
MHRA: The Modern Humanities Research Association - MHRA is concerned with breaking down the barriers between scholars working in different disciplines, and with maintaining the unity of humanistic scholarship in the face of increasing specialization

Electronic Conferences

Humanist Discussion Group

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eJournals

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) - This directory covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. The full text of articles are freely available. The goal is to cover all subjects and languages. There are currently over 1,000 journals in the directory.
JSTOR Arts & Sciences I & II Collection - (University of Michigan)- The journals listed below are just a sampling of those available in the humanities. Browse JSTOR by subject for more titles.
- Off-Campus access requires UW-W login
- American Literature 1 (1929) - 71 (1999)
- Journal of Negro History 1 (1916) - three years ago (moving wall)
- Renaissance Quarterly 1 (1948) - three years ago (moving wall)
  - Continues Renaissance news 1 (1948) - 19 (1966)
  - Absorbs Studies in the Renaissance 1 (1954) - 21 (1974)
Project Muse - (Johns Hopkins University) - The journals listed below are just a sampling of those available in the humanities. Browse Project Muse by subject for more titles.
- Off-Campus access requires UW-W login
- American Imago - quarterly. 52 (1995) - present
- American Journal of Philology - quarterly. 117 (1996) -present
- Arethusa - three times a year. 29 (1996) - present
- Configurations - triannual. 1 (1993) - 9 (2001)
- Literature and Medicine - biannual. 14 (1995) - present
- MODERNISM/modernity - triannual. 2 (1995) - present
- PMC Postmodern Culture - triannual. 1 (1990) - present
- The Yale Journal of Criticism - biannual. 9 (1996) - present
Stanford Humanities Review - select issues 1995-2000 are available free online.

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Classified Resource Directories

Comprehensive

HUMBUL Humanities Hub - (University of Oxford)
Voice of the Shuttle: Web Page for Humanities Research - (Alan Liu - UC Santa Barbara)

Specialized

Classical Studies

Electronic Resources for Classicists: The Second Generation
The Perseus Digital Library - (Classics Department, Tufts University)
Scholarly Societies Project: Resources of Scholarly Societies: Classical Studies - (Univ. of Waterloo)

Medieval Studies

Internet Medieval Sourcebook - (Paul Halsall - Center for Medieval Studies, Fordham Univ.)
The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies - (Georgetown University)
NetSerf: The Internet Connection for Medieval Resources
WWWMedieval Resources

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Style Guides

How do I document sources from the Web in my works-cited list?
These are the only guidelines authorized by MLA.
Citing References: MLA style - provides select examples of MLA style for citing sources, excerpted from Joseph Gibaldi, MLA style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing. 2nd ed. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1998, and MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 6th ed. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2003 both are kept at the Reference Desk.
Columbia Guide to Online style - (Janice R. Walker and Todd Taylor) - a humanities style (i.e., MLA and Chicago) and a scientific style (APA and CBE) for electronically-accessed sources - (from the book of the same name by Columbia University Press, 1998)
MLA style Electronic Formats from Mary Ellen Guffey (March 1997) "Formats for the Citation of Electronic Sources in Business Writing" Business Communication Quarterly 60 (1) 59-76. Online version last revised, August 25, 2001.
Using Modern Language Association (MLA Format) - (the Purdue University Online Writing Lab) - Contains helpful hints and links.

Last Revised: MS - 7/20/2007