ENTC 312: Online Resources

General:

• Publishers Weekly Bestseller Lists (includes "Bestseller Stories")
• Bestsellers 1900-1930 (full-text electronic editions from the Etext Center)
• The IBIC Guide to Book-Related Resources on the Internet
• MLA and other citation styles
• Virgo
Virgo's "Other Databases" include the following licensed resources. To use them, log into Virgo:
• Biography and Genealogy Master Index (Best place to begin a search for biographical information. Indexes current and retrospective biographical reference sources, for subjects living & deceased in every field. Covers sources such as Dictionary of American Biography, Contemporary Authors, etc.)
• CARL Uncover (search titles, abstracts, for journal articles)
• Encyclopedia Britannica
• Gale Database of Publications and Broadcast Media
• InfoTrak SearchBank (Expanded Academic Index)
• Readers' Guide Abstracts, 1983-present
• WebSPIRS (includes MLA Bibliography)

Authors:

• Fear Magazine interview with William Peter Blatty (1990)
• "The Haunted Boy" (an investigative report on the "real life" stories behind the Exorcist) by Mark Opsasnick
• American Authors on the Web
• A Guide to the Eleanor H. Porter Collection at UVa Special Collections
• A Spanish-language Walt Disney Comic Book Pollyanna
• Pollyanna Publicity Still (Disney Movie)
• The Booth Tarkington Page at Indiana Historical Society
• Family Tree of Peyton Place

Bibliography:

• "Descriptive Bibliography," by Terry Belanger
• "Descriptive Bibliography: An Online Tutorial" by Stephen Ramsay
• "Bookbinding and the Conservation of books: A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology," Matt T. Roberts and Don Etherington
• "A Field Guide to the Faces," David Mundie
• "A Sample Bibliographical Description with Commentary," by G. Thomas Tanselle (Studies in Bibliography vol. 40, 1987)

  Book Awards:

• Literary Prizes (from Bookwire)

Book Search:

• Bibliofind
  Local Booksellers Searchable Individually in Bibliofind:
  • Read it Again, Sam (Search)
  • The Avocado Pit (Search)
  • The Blue Whale (Search)
  • The Book Broker (Search)

  Electronic Text of 20th-Century Fiction

• The Internet Public Library (searchable index)
• Modern English Collection at the Etext Center (UVa)
• The Online Books Page (searchable index)

History and Society:

• America from the Great Depression to WWII
• The American Experience: America 1900 (PBS)
• Chicago Growth, 1850-1990
• Historical Text Archive (20th Century), Mississippi State University
• Hyperhistory Online
• The Literature and Culture of the American 1950s
• The Fifties: Let's Play House
• A Short History of American Labor

Legal Decisions:

• BANTAM BOOKS, INC. V. SULLIVAN 372 U.S. 58 (Obscenity case involving Peyton Place)

Manuscript Collections:

• National Union Catalogue of Manuscript Collections

Publishing:

• Bookwire's Guide to Book Publishers' Archives
• "Making the Charts," Daisy Maryles (Publisher's Weekly, Jul 1, 1997)
• "Connecting the Numbers," Daisy Maryles (Publisher's Weekly, January 10, 2000)
• "The Crushing Power of Big Publishing," by Mark Crispin Miller (The Nation, 1997)
• 125th Anniversary Issue, Publisher's Weekly

Films and Television:

• Washington Post background on the movie The Exorcist
• Pollyanna (1920 movie version)
• Pollyanna (1960 Disney movie)
• Pollyanna (the Disney site)
• Pollyanna (1982 Disney TV series)
• Polly (1989 TV series)
• Pollyanna, girl of love (Anime, 1986)
• Review of Pollyanna, girl of love (Anime, 1986)
• So Big (1924, Silent)
• So Big (1932)
• So Big (1953)
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1974, TV)
• Peyton Place (1957 movie)
• Return to Peyton Place (1961 movie)
• Peyton Place (TV Series, 1964-69)
• Theme Song to Peyton Place (TV Show)
• Return to Peyton Place (1972 TV Series)
• Murder in Peyton Place (1977 TV show)
• Peyton Place: The Next Generation (1985 TV show)
• The Peyton Place Page
• Welcome to Peyton Place
• Portnoy's Complaint (1972)
• The Exorcist (1973)
• Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977)
• The Exorcist III (1990)
• Exorcist: Dominion (2000)
• Stephen King's "It" (TV mini-series)