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END is a bibliographic database based on the Collection of British and American Fiction 1660-1830 held by the University of Pennsylvania's Rare Book & Manuscript Library. When completed, the database will include records of more than 3,000 novels and fictional narratives by canonical authors such as Daniel Defoe to Jane Austen as well as less well-known novelists like Mary Brunton and Mary Walker. Users will be able to perform both keyword and faceted searches across bibliographic records containing both edition-specific and copy-specific information about each novel.

Eight­eenth-Cen­tu­ry Book Track­er is ded­i­cated to in­dex­ing free­ly-a­vail­a­ble dig­i­tal fac­sim­iles of eight­eenth-cen­tury texts and cross-ref­er­enc­ing them to stand­ard bib­li­og­raph­i­cal ref­er­ence sources. This site pro­vides a clear­ing­house for dis­cov­er­ing and shar­ing links to eight­eenth-cen­tu­ry pri­mary ma­te­ri­als. Eight­eenth-Cen­tu­ry Book Track­er aims to build a da­ta­base of bib­lio­graph­ically ac­cu­rate rec­ords that link to freely-a­vail­able texts on­line. By pool­ing its users' ex­per­tise, the site brings bib­li­og­raph­i­cal order to the some­times hap­haz­ard world of mass dig­i­ti­za­tion. This site is de­voted to pre­serv­ing the iden­ti­ty of eight­eenth-cen­tury books in a dig­i­tal realm where such dis­tinc­tions are at risk of be­ing lost in a sea of mere text. The database currently includes 2,702 links, representing 1,232 texts and 22 periodicals.

Novels-On-Line is an ongoing project making freely accessible full-text transcripts of some of the rarest works in the Chawton House Library collection. These texts, which explore such broad-ranging themes as satire, slavery, marriage, witchcraft and piracy, signal the rich texture and innovative character of women's writing in the period 1600 to 1830. In bringing these little-known novels to a wider audience, it is hoped to stimulate interest in these works amongst a new generation of readers and to encourage critical scholarship of some of the more obscure texts and authors represented in the collection.

This is the Web site of Literature Compass, a new literature resource from Blackwell Publishing. The site is designed to give students and teachers access to the bewildering range of perspectives on literature from the Medieval period to the present. The site, therefore, carries short, sometimes polemical, articles that attempt to both analyse a specific text and provide readers with an insight into new developments in the field.The site is subscription-based, but a generous sample of what is available can be browsed.

The Web Site "Scottish Bibliographies Online Catalogue" presents information on and links to the following bibliographies: Bibliography of Scotland (BOS); Bibliography of Scottish Gaelic (BOSG); Bibliography of Scottish Literature in Translation (BOSLIT); Bibliography of the Scots Language (BOSLAN); Union Catalogue of Art Books in Libraries in Scotland (UCABLIS); US and Canadian Newspaper Holdings in Scottish Libraries; Scottish Book Trade Index (SBTI); and Scottish Books 1505-1640. As such this is an essential resource for anyone researching or studying Scots language, Scottish history, literature, and culture. It is useful for international scholars wishing to locate particular works or editions of works. The databases can be searched by subject, author or keyword, and there is a facility for a cross search.

The University of Pennsylvania's Digital Library Initiative provides IT support for this volunteer project, as part of its 'Online Books' work. The project also links to other digitised library sites such as Project Gutenberg. The contents can be browsed by an A-Z of the author's name or by the century a text was written, also by the author's country or ethnicity. Essays and contextual information are also available.

The Furness Shakespeare Library has made available over the internet rare and often first editions of Elizabethan documents contemporary to Shakespeare, as well as Shakespeare's own works. By scanning the images of these rare texts, the library hopes to inspire interest and learning through texts most will never have the opportunity to see otherwise. Within this website you can browse by author or text. While some texts are complete others contain title pages or illustrations, or the author's comments. Under ERIC (English Renaissance in Context) there are tutorials designed to assist teachers. The tutorials do not supply answers like study guides, rather they propose important questions about the text and bring up issues to be discussed in class. There are tutorials on "Romeo and Juliet", "Merchant of Venice", "Richard III", "King Lear", and topics about Renaissance publishing and printing.