English library guide

A list of tailored, credible, good quality materials for your subject. These are the key resources you should be familiar with. Open and explore the links.

Literature Online (Proquest Platform)
Searchable library of literary texts, full-text journals, author biographies and critical and reference resources. Includes the Companions to Literature series from Cambridge University Press. Content is updated regularly.
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Drama Online
Extensive collection of play scripts, recordings, criticism and playwright biographies from all time periods.
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JSTOR
Is an archive of important scholarly journals and e-books in the the arts, business and economics, history, the humanities, law, medicine and allied health, science and mathematics, and the social sciences.
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Box of Broadcasts (BoB)
Box of Broadcasts (BOB) lets you view, record, create clips and share broadcast programmes from over 75 TV and radio channels. For educational use only.

Limitation - Full service available only to users located in the UK. BBC Parliament is temporarily available to users located anywhere in the world.
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OverDrive
Provides access to a wide range of fiction and non-fiction e-books. Either read books online via your browser or download the Libby app from an app store.
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The majority of books relating to English can be found in the Northampton Square Library. The table below gives you some useful shelfmarks if you want to browse the library shelves for specific subject areas.

Subject	Shelfmark
Literature	809-894
Theatre	792
Creative writing	808.02
Publishing	070.5

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