Oxford LibGuides: English Literature for Continuing Education short courses: Free online resources

Useful web resources for your subject

Here is a selection of sites to get you started

Guidance on finding free 'open access' scholarly materials
Our guide to finding free open access scholarly materials covering SOLO; Databases A-Z; open access search engines such as CORE and BASE; out of copyright book services and more
BBC Archive- Mordern writers
BBC programmes about modern writers (archive, not being added to)
Contemporary Writers
Provided by the British Council, includes key information, interviews critical analysis of over 1,000 contemporary writers.
Discovering Literature: Romantics and Victorians
Selected works from the British Library's collections, with essays, articles and information about individual authors.
First World War Digital Poetry Archive
An online repository of over 7000 items of text, images, audio, and video for teaching, learning, and research.
Great Writers Inspire
Site developed by members of the University of Oxford Faculty of English Language and Literature. Includes audio and video lectures and short talks, downloadable electronic texts and ebooks, and background contextual resources. All are either in the public domain or licensed for free educational use.
John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera
You can access this from anywhere in the UK
Romanticism: Life, Literature and Landscapes
This contains the digitised manuscript collections of the Wordsworth Trust, featuring manuscripts, notebooks and correspondence of William Wordsworth and fellow writers from the Romantic period, together with artworks by Turner, Constable and others
Shakespeare's Words
An online version of David and Ben Crystal's glossary and language companion, includes the text of the complete works
Shakespeare: Bodleian First Folio
The digital facsimile of the Bodleian First Folio of Shakespeare's plays
Shelley-Godwin Archive
A work in progress, will contain digitised manuscripts of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, William Godwin, and Mary Wollstonecraft. Includes all known Frankenstein manuscripts
University of Oxford Podcasts
Download podcasts of lectures from the University of Oxford Faculty of English Language and Literature on a wide range of topics
Voice of the Shuttle
Comprehensive, updated and searchable listing of useful resources relating to literary studies

Open Access resources

The following key resources provide free access to high quality academic resources.

Open Access materials via SOLO
Guide to access free open access scholary resources on SOLO and beyond
MyJSTOR
If you register for MyJSTOR you will get access to 6 free JSTOR articles per month. This has been extended to 100 per month during the COVID-19 pandemic
BASE
Bielefed Academic Search engine is highly recommended. Use the 'Advanced Search' to exclude disserations and book reviews.
CORE
Another highly recommended open access search engine from the Open University and JISC.
Directory of Open Access Journals
Use the 'Journals' search to discover journals in your field which are fully open access (i.e. all of the articles are free)
OAPEN Open Access Books
You can search OAPEN directly but you'll also find all of the OAPEN books on SOLO. After searching in SOLO refine your search to 'Show only...Open Access'
DOAB Directory of Open Access Books
You can search DOAB directly but you'll also find all of the DOAB books on SOLO. After searching in SOLO refine your search to 'Show only...Open Access'
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg provides access to over 60,000 out of copyright books. These will be mainly older publications.
Scholarly resources at your UK Public Library