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The Shakespeare Quartos Archive is a digital collection of pre-1642 editions of William Shakespeare's plays. A cross-Atlantic collaboration has also produced an interactive interface for the detailed study of these geographically distant quartos, with full functionality for all thirty-two quarto copies of Hamlet held by participating institutions.

The American Verse Project is a collaborative project between the University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative (HTI) and the University of Michigan Press. The project is assembling an electronic archive of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920. The full text of each volume of poetry is being converted into digital form and coded in Standard Generalized Mark-up Language (SGML) using the TEI Guidelines, with various forms of access provided through the WWW. In recognition of the effort involved in selecting, editing, encoding, and maintaining online the works included in the archive, we expect all users to abide by the conditions of use.

British History Online is the digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles. Created by the Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust, we aim to support academic and personal users around the world in their learning, teaching and research.

Margaret Thatcher (1925-) was Britains first female Prime Minister for the Conservative party from 1979-1990. The Margaret Thatcher website is run by the Margaret Thatcher Trust and holds biographical information and digital resources of her speeches and papers.

Stanford University Charles Dickens & Arthur Conan Doyle digital projects.

The British Newspaper Archive is a partnership between the British Library and brightsolid online publishing to digitise up to 40 million newspaper pages from the British Library's vast collection over the next 10 years. You can search millions of articles by keyword, name, location, date or title and watch your results appear in an instant. The first stage of this project focuses on historical newspapers published before 1900

Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe" & the Robinsonades is a collection of various editions of Robinson Crusoe and similarly themed texts such as the popular The Swiss Family Robinson. The term "Robinsonades" is used to describe literary works about survival without the aid of civilization, frequently on a deserted island. This genre takes is name from the 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.

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

London's Screen Archives is the regional network of organisations in London with moving image collections. We aim to preserve and care for the amazing screen heritage of this great film city so that it can be enjoyed by everyone. This site showcases films made in or about London from the earliest days of cinematography to the present. The films are looked after by a wide range of archives, libraries and museums in London

The British Newspaper Archive is a partnership between the British Library and brightsolid online publishing to digitise up to 40 million newspaper pages from the British Library's vast collection over the next 10 years. You can search millions of articles by keyword, name, location, date or title and watch your results appear in an instant. The first stage of this project focuses on historical newspapers published before 1900

unique collection of Dickens manuscripts from the Free Library of Philadelphia, original illustrations, autograph letters, and other mementos, which were given to the Free Library by collectors William Elkins and D. Jacques Benoliel.

"OAPEN promotes and supports the transition to open access for academic books by providing open infrastructure services to stakeholders in scholarly communication. We work with publishers to build a quality-controlled collection of open access books and provide services for publishers, libraries, and research funders in the areas of hosting, deposit, quality assurance, dissemination, and digital preservation"

"Shodhganga" is the name coined to denote digital repository of Indian Electronic Theses and Dissertations set-up by the INFLIBNET Centre. Shodhganga replicates academic structure of each University in terms of Departments/ Centres/ Colleges each University has to facilitate ease of navigation.

This project is based at Wilson Library, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA. The project focuses on important women writers irrespective of genre c. 1400-1700. Writers include Christine de Pizan, Diane de Poitiers, Louise Labé, Madeleine de Scudéry, Marguerite de Navarre, Marie de Gournay, and Pernette du Guillet.

Travesía - recursos digitales para la cooperación bibliotecaria, sustituye al antiguo Travesía: portal de bibliotecas públicas y se configura como una biblioteca digital que da soporte a la cooperación bibliotecaria dentro de los sistemas españoles de bibliotecas

A website dedicated to the study of the life and work of the foremost Welsh female poet and hymn-writer, Ann Griffiths (1776-1805). The website contains an introduction to her life and work, the text of her hymns and letters with English translations, and online access to digitised versions of a wide cross-section of printed and manuscript material relating to Ann Griffiths. The website is edited by Dr E Wyn James of the School of Welsh, Cardiff University, an acknowledged expert on Ann Griffiths and Welsh hymnology.

"Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more."