Databases

• Academic Search Premier on EBSCOhost
  Large multi-disciplinary database provides fulltext for approx 5,000 scholarly publications.
• Australian Public Affairs-FullText on Informit for selective coverage of Australian journals.
• Contemporary Authors on InfoTrac Provides biographical and bibliographical information and references for more than 120,000 authors.
• Contemporary Literary Criticism-Select on InfoTrac for critical essays on contemporary authors.
• Expanded Academic ASAP on InfoTrac Another multi-disciplinary database providing many fulltext journal articles on literature and writing.
• Web of Science on Web of Knowledge
  Select Arts & Humanities Citation Index.

Online Journals

• The Cambridge Quarterly
• Colloquy: text, theory, critique
• Dotlit: the online journal of creative writing
• Essays in Criticism
• Overland
• TEXT: The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs
• The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory
  

Australian Associations & Resources

• Australia Talks Books on Radio National.
• Australian Publishers Association
• Australian Society of Authors
• Australian Writers' Guild : the professional association for writers for performance.
• Varuna Writers' Centre : support for the professional development of Australian writers.
• Victorian Writers' Centre
• Writers' Exchange E-Publishing Australia

Australian Literature Resources

• Australia: A Reader's Guide: over 1400 annotations and bibliographical details of major Australian books.
• Australian Literature
• Australian Literary Awards and Prizes
• Australian Literature: selected websites National Library of Australia
• Ozlife:produced by the National Library of Australia, is an index to Australian biographical articles and book reviews from major Australian newspapers and select journals.
• OzLit@Vicnet: Australian Literature Resources on the Net
• The SETIS Australian Literature Database
  A collection of digitised full text 19th and early 20th century Australian literary, historical and political works from the University of Sydney.

International Literature Resources

• American and English Language Internet Resources: Buley Library, Southern Connecticut State University.
• American Literature Web Resources :Associated Colleges of Illinois.
• English Literature Resources on the World Wide Web :University of Adelaide.
• The Literary Encyclopedia: a guide to literature in English which currently offers over 20,000 entries.
• Literature and Rhetoric (BUBL Catalogue of Internet Resources): Strathclyde University, Glasgow.
• Postcolonial and Postimperial Literature: literature, political theory and themes from countries in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean as well as Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the U.K.
• Voice of the Shuttle: excellent list of literature resources from the University of California.
• Yahoo! Directory:Literature
  contains extensive links to bestseller lists, banned books, children's books, electronic literature, reading groups, book reviews, criticism and theory etc

Resources by Genre

• ClueLass.com and the Mysterious Home Page.
• Crime Writers' Association
• Fantasy Finder
• Horror Writers' Association
• Murder Must Advertise for promotion and publicity.
• The Poetry Society : established 1909 in the U.K.
• Romance Writers of America
• Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
• Writing Children's Books
  U.S.site for aspiring authors of children's books.

General Writing Resources

• Authorlink for editors, agents, writers and readers.
• Get Writing Produced by BBC Learning- membership is free.
• Literary Kicks offbeat interactive site.
• The 101 Best Websites for Writers
• Writing-World.com
  Comprehensive site for all aspects of writing & publishing.
  

Author: Colleen Skinner (cskinner@swin.edu.au)