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Internet for Women's Studies is a free online tutorial to help university students develop their Internet research skills.

This project is based at Wilson Library, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA. The project will emphasize women travellers from and to the United States and include selected European women travellers to non-Western areas. AS well as the texts there are some images and suppoerting resources. Please note: some of the texts are password restricted.

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.

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.

A database containing material on 417 women writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and 1,071 literary works published by them, based on the holdings of the Corvey Library. It includes biographies, bibliographies, contemporary reviews and memoirs, images, synopses and keyword descriptions of texts, as well as new criticism and contextual material. CW3 has been created by the Sheffield Hallam Corvey Project with funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Board of Great Britain. CW3 is also an on-line scholarly journal, with an editorial board of leading specialists.