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Begun in 2007, At the Circulating Library: A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837-1901 offers a biographical and bibliography database of nineteenth-century British fiction. Currently, the database contains 8606 titles by 2555 authors (more statistics). The database is hosted by the Victorian Research Web, a major and free research resource for Victorian scholars.

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.

A bibliographical database of contemporary materials relating to works of fiction published in the British Isles during the early nineteenth century and Regency period. The database covers over 2,000 works by over 900 authors, including the likes of Jane Austen and Sir Walter Scott.The database may be searched via a sophisticated search engine, or browsed alphabetically by author, title, or publisher. The results returned provide full bibliographic records for each specific work of fiction, including first edition details and any information about subsequent editions or translations during the period covered.

hypertext version of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, by Lawrence Sterne (1713-1768). The text itself is taken from the third and first editions of the book, and laid out as it was in the original print versions. It includes links to secondary and reference materials, placing the text in a non-linear environment in which the user may explore various issues and themes. The web site includes a number of categorised subsections via which the user may broaden his appreciation of the text. These include pages devoted specifically to art, fashion, history, structure, Irishness, language and rhetoric, music, the novel, poetry, and science.