Welcome to our Guide on Open Access and Library Resources, where you will find general tools to help you locate resources to further your research and understand ways to access them.  Please note that the lists on these pages are not exhaustive lists on their topics. If you know of another good resource – let us know! Likewise, we would appreciate it if you would notify us of any of dead links that you come across on these pages. Thank you!
Access through Signum for current faculty, staff, and students:
- Project Muse – Humanities Collection
- JSTOR – Literature & Language Collection
- Signum’s Master’s Thesis Collection
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Access through other libraries
- If you live near a public library, make sure your card is active and up-to-date! You may also be able to use the libraries at colleges and universities local to you and even purchase an annual membership to checkout materials.
- For physical materials (books, DVDs, etc), check Worldcat to see which libraries closest to you own it.
- Many public libraries subscribe to databases like Overdrive (for ebooks & eaudiobooks) and Mango Languages (for language practice and learning). You may also have access to other academic databases through on-campus use of local college and university libraries, even without a formal membership.
- Ask a librarian or check your local library’s website for information on how to use that library’s interlibrary loan service for any other materials not accessible through your local libraries or Signum. (Interlibrary loan is not yet supported at Signum.)
Institutional Repositories and Digital Libraries
- Signum Digital Collections – Mythmoot Proceedings
- Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
- Digital Commons Network (Collection of participating worldwide university repositories)
- PQDT Open (Collection of open access dissertations and theses published through ProQuest’s UMI Dissertation Publishing service)
- BIBSYS Brage (Collection of participating Norwegian university repositories)
- EThOS (Doctoral theses collection from participating British universities)
- ArchiveGrid
- European Library
- Europeana Collections
- LUNA Commons
- BBC Programme Archive
- Media History Digital Library
- Mythlore
- Hathi Trust
- Internet Classics Archive
- Internet Archive
- Internet Archive Audio
- Librivox (Audio)
- Lit2Go
- Internet Sacred Text Archive
- Open Culture
- Open Library
- University of Oxford Podcasts
- World Digital Library
- Wikisource
Open Access Discovery Tools
Open Access Books
- Bartleby
- Directory of Open Access Books
- Online Books Page @ UPenn
- Open Access Ebooks on JSTOR
- Open Access Titles from Project Muse
- Project Gutenberg
- Project Gutenberg of Australia
Academic Social Networks
General Reference Sites
- Signum Research Guides
- Lexico Dictionaries (powered by Oxford)
- Oxford Research Encyclopedias
- Online Etymology Dictionary
- Historical Thesaurus of English
- English Short Title Catalogue
- Goodreads
- Google Scholar
- Internet History Sourcebooks Project
- Memory of the World
Citation Help & Tools
- Modern Language Association
- Purdue’s MLA Style Page
- Cornell’s Citation Management Page
- Zotero
- Easy Bib
Writing Sites
General Literature Sites
- Luminarium: Anthology of English Literature
- Norton Anthology of American Literature
- Norton Anthology of English Literature
General Poetry Sites