English Language & Literature

The 'English Short Title Catalogue' (ESTC) is a comprehensive, international union catalogue listing early books, serials, newspapers and selected ephemera printed before 1801. It contains catalogue entries for items issued in Britain, Ireland, overseas territories under British colonial rule, and the United States. Also included is material printed elsewhere which contains significant text in English, Welsh, Irish or Gaelic, as well as any book falsely claiming to have been printed in London. The database contains nearly 470,000 entries, and represents the holdings of some 2,000 libraries world-wide.

The COPAC library catalogue gives free access to the merged catalogues of major University and National Libraries in the UK and Ireland, including the British Library.

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Online access YWES, a review of selected scholarly work about literature written in English.

Online access to YSCCT, a review of selected scholarly work in the fields of critical and cultural theory.

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