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This guide provides students of English with information about the Library, it will help you to understand what the Library provides, which resources to use and how to use them.
The guide includes details of the relevant online and print resources, with links to key titles and databases included throughout. The guide also provides support to use the Library's resources effectively, including how-to videos and details of further training available through Library@Skills.
The English and Literature printed collections are located in the UCL Main Library, there are also off-site stores for rare and valuable special collections and the lesser used, older material.
The Library provides online access to a huge range of materials. Here are some of the key databases in this subject, providing online versions of everything from works of literature, to criticism, corpora, historical newspapers and filmed theatre productions:
Providing access to over 450 novels and other writings from the Medieval period to the 20th century, from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, expert translations such as Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, Émile Zola’s Germinal, and Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, to essential texts such as Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species and Olaudah Equiano’s The Interesting Narrative. Accessibility statement for Oxford World's Classics.
Access for UCL students and staff only. Sign in via Institutional login. Containing 1 trillion words in 800 ready-to-use corpora in 100+ languages, Sketch Engine is a tool to explore how language works. Analysing authentic texts of billions of words (text corpora) to identify instantly what is typical in language and what is rare, unusual or emerging usage. It is also designed for text analysis or text mining applications.
Further information about all of these resources and more can be found in this guide.
