Resources Online

Research and reading the work of other writers comprise much of a writer's efforts. I've mentioned Project Gutenberg. Supplementing that venerable effort is The Online Books Page with listings of over 20,000 books available on the Internet (from other sources as well as Gutenberg). The website is the creation of John Mark Ockerbloom, a digital library planner and researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, which hosts the site.

Along with books, The Online Books Page is also now listing major archives of serials (such as magazines, published journals, and newspapers). Serials can be at least as important as books in library research. Serials are often the first places that new research and scholarship appear. They are sources for firsthand accounts of contemporary events and commentary. They are also often the first (and sometimes the only) place that quality literature appears. (For those who might still quibble about serials being listed on a "books page", back issues of serials are often bound and reissed [sic] as hardbound "books".)

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