Literary and Cultural

• Arts and Letters Daily (aggregator)
• Blogs: The Valve, The Dabbler, A Don's Life (Mary Beard)
• Book Reviews: Guardian (Classics), Independent, Scotsman, Telegraph
  • Literary Journals (most or $):
  • Barnes and Noble Review
  • Boston Review (politics and literature)
  • Granta (Ian Jack, new writing)
  • London Review of Books (Mary-Kay Wilmers)
  • More Intelligent Life (The Economist)
  • New York Review of Books (Robert B. Silvers, Barbara Epstein)
  • Open Letters Monthly (Sam Sacks: Boston)
  • Standpoint (Daniel Johnson: centre-right politics and culture)
  • New Yorker (RSS, David Remnick; Blogs)
  • Times Literary Supplement (Open Access, Blog)
  • Academic Journals : Jstor, MUSE
    • : Night Waves (BBC Radio 3)
    • The Verb (BBC Radio 3)
    • BBC Radio 4 (Gwyneth Williams)
    • BBC 4
    • (See also Media Discussion Platforms)
      • Upcoming Lectures:
      • School of Advanced Study (London: events brochure)

Higher Education

News (see also Philosophy and Science news)

• Research News (Library and Information Science Research)
• Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed
• Newsweek, NY Times , Washington Post
• Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
• Telegraph, Independent, Guardian, Times HE Supplement
• University World News

• Education (general): BBC, NY Times
• Survive & Thrive in Grad School (blog)

Funding, Policy, Rankings

• British Academy (for humanities and social sciences)
• Royal Society (academy for the sciences)
• Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
• HE Research Policy (HEFCE), Research Councils UK
• Higher Education Policy Institute (think tank)
• Higher Education Statistics Agency
• UCAS Data (Undergraduate applications and acceptances)
• PISA 2009 (OECD: core competencies of 15-year olds: league table of countries, details)
• Further Education: Skills Funding Agency, Association of Colleges
  • Pressure Groups: Russell Group (research-intensive), 1994 Group,
    Million Plus (ex-polys), University Alliance (business focus)
    • Research Policy Blogs: Exquisite Life (William Cullerne Bown)
    • Critical Education (Andrew McGettigan)
    • Humanities Matter

  • University Rankings: RAE 2008 Results (UK)
  • REF 2014 (Impact Guidelines, Consultation Document July 2011)
  • University Ranking Watch (Richard Holmes: blog)
  • Comparison of Rankings (Wikipedia)
    • THE-TR World University Rankings (including peer-review, biased towards UK)
    • QS World University Rankings (Quacquarelli Symonds)
    • UK University League Tables (The Independent: based on RAE and other public data)
    • Guardian UK University Guide (based on teaching spend and ratio, student satisfaction)
    • US Rankings (US News and World Report)
    • Webometrics (international: web presence, so reflecting commitment to
      open access: note the low repository usage of UK Universities)
    • ARWU Academic Ranking (China: science departments worldwide)

    Jobs

  • HECSU (research reports on HE careers)
  • HEFCE (HE Workforce Framework policy)
  • Eduserv, Guardian, THES
  • Cambridge (Reporter), Oxford

Open CourseWare: Online University Courses

• Berkeley (, : mostly sciences)
• Carnegie Mellon (sciences, French)
• UC Irvine (small selection)
• Johns Hopkins (medicine)
• Michigan (small science selection)
• MIT (very wide variety)
• Nottingham (, : selection)
• Open University (LearningSpace Courses: wide variety)
• Oxford (, podcasts)
• UC San Diego (: mostly sciences)
• Tufts (mostly life sciences)
• Utah State (varied selection)
• Yale (small but varied selection)
  • Individual Talks and Lectures
  • Cambridge (, talks and lectures)
  • MIT World
  • Stanford (: mostly sciences): YouTube, iTunes, IT
  • YouTube EDU (Edinburgh, Cambridge, Nottingham, OU, Oxford)
  • (For iTunes U and YouTube channels,
    google a university name plus "itunes" or "youtube")

• Informal eLearning
• Khan Academy (3,000 open-access microlectures in humanities & sciences)

Academic Publishers and Booksellers

• American University Presses (links)
• British Bookshops
• Benjamins Publishers
• Blackwell Publishers
• Brill
• Cambridge University Press
• De Gruyters
• Klincksieck
• Loeb Classical Library
• Oxford University Press

English Words & Usage

• Affixes
• Anagram Generator
• CrossTips (crossword solver)
• Rhyming Dictionaries: Rhymer
• RhymeZone (with Shakespeare search)
• Thesaurus (aggregator)

• The Bible Gateway, Strong's Concordance (AV)
• Bibledex (every book of the Bible: Brady Haran)
• The Johnson Blog (The Economist)
• The Language Log (Pennsylvania)
• Linguistics Blogs (links)
• Science Fiction Citations
• Shott's Vocab (NT Times: occasional pieces)
• Wonderfully Wacky Way With Words (a curiosity: on this server)
• World Wide Words (UK: Michael Quinion)

  Quotations

  • Bartlett's Quotations (11,000)
  • Quotations Home Page (29,000)
  • Wikiquote (20,400 pages)

Rhetoric and Literary Style

• Rhetorical Terms with Examples (45: Kentucky)
• Rhetorical Terms (227: Wikipedia)
• MHRA Style Guide (pdf)
• CUP Style Guide (Word doc)
• Chicago Manual of Style (7th Edition, 1920)
• Hart's Rules (1905: online only)
• Guardian Style Guide (spelling & usage)
• BBC Radio Style Guide (spoken usage)

Literary Theory

• English Language & Literature Departments (rankings: QS)
• Critical Inquiry (JStor)
• British Comparative Literature Association (departments)
• Illuminations: Critical Theory (Texas, Arlington)
• Narratology and Archetypal Stories (content page: on this server)
• Mini-guide to Structuralism (content page: needs revision)

Printing and Typography

• Book Glossary (ABE Books)
• Book Sizes (Steve Trussel)
• ISO Paper Sizes (Cambridge: Markus Kuhn)

• Conservation: V&A, BL
• Training Manual (Alaska: 200-page PDF)
• Tips: Basic, FAQs (LOC)
• Multi-Page, Single-Page Manual
  • Type Design, Typography, Typefaces, & Fonts
    (Luc Devroye, McGill: with links to Books, Blogs, Glossaries)
  • British Letterpress (description of the business today)
  • I Love Typography (informative blog: John Boardley)
  • Glossary of Typography (Melbourne Museum of Printing)
  • Microsoft Typography
    A Disagreeably Facetious Type Glossary
  • Serif and Sans History (Dmitry Kirsanov)
  • Adobe Font Specifications
  • Unicode Script Converter
  • Decode Unicode (Wiki)

• Art Printing (Wikipedia)
• Glossary of Art Printing ('Dano': Dan Steinhardt)
• BibliOdyssey (Sydney: rare book illustrations)
• Links to Print Collections
• Printmaking (MOMA: simple)
• Printing Techniques (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
  (Aquatint, Drypoint, Engraving, Etching, Mezzotint, Woodcut)
• Art of Photogravure
• Chromolithography (Print Terms)
• Niépce: photographic history (go to left heading Bitumen after Niépce)
• Postcards
• British Postal Museum (and Archive)
• Smithsonian Postal Museum