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Rachael Cayley's blog on academic writing. R. C. is a Senior Lecturer in the Office of English Language and Writing Support in the School of Graduate Studies at the University of Toronto. She teaches academic writing and speaking to graduate students. Before joining the University of Toronto, she worked as an editor at Oxford University Press in Toronto. Suggestion: take a look at the 5 KEYS OF ACADEMIC WRITING!

The University of Oxford Text Archive develops, collects, catalogues and preserves electronic literary and linguistic resources for use in Higher Education, in research, teaching and learning. The OTA also gives advice on the creation and use of these resources, and is involved in the development of standards and infrastructure for electronic language resources

RECSO is the University of Oxford's online community for Romanticism and Eighteenth-Century Studies. Hosted by the English Faculty, our purpose is to provide a central forum for graduates and researchers from all departments to engage with the latest in the long eighteenth century. With information on seminars, Bodleian collections, academic contacts and postgraduate projects, we hope to improve access to the range of events and expertise on offer at Oxford, and to promote collaborative networks and interdisciplinary study.

The Thomas Gray Archive is a long-term research project dedicated to studying the life and work of eighteenth-century poet Thomas Gray (1716-1771). The Archive, hosted by the Bodleian Library, Oxford, strives to preserve and to make accessible a comprehensive corpus of high-quality, electronic primary sources and secondary materials. By using open, interoperable standards and formats widely used in the digital humanities, the Archive offers a structured platform for scholarly communication and collaboration and is developing as a living forum with the discussions, annotations, and contributions shared by the scholarly community. The Thomas Gray Archive is a freely accessible, educational resource solely intended for teaching, research, and study.

This free site features public lectures, teaching material, interviews with leading academics, information about applying to the University, and much more.

ILEJ, the "Internet Library of Early Journals" was a joint project by the Universities of Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Oxford, conducted under the auspices of the eLib (Electronic Libraries) Programme. It aimed to digitise substantial runs of 18th and 19th century journals, and make these images available on the Internet, together with their associated bibliographic data. The project finished in 1999, and no additional material will be added. JOURNALS: Gentleman's Magazine - The Annual Register Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Notes and Queries - The Builder - Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine

Having most relevance for research in Archaeology, History, Politics and Travel, the books and papers of Gertrude Bell (1868-1926) were given to Newcastle University Library by Gertrude's half-sister, Lady Richmond, although part of the Doughty-Wylie correspondence came from St. Anthony's College, Oxford.