Literature
Bibliographies
Scottish Bibliographies Online (National Library of Scotland)
Bibliography of Scottish Literature in Translation (BOSLIT) ' an ambitious project to compile a database of all translations of Scottish literature.
Authors
The Write Stuff ' The National Library of Scotland - In portrait: modern Scottish writers ' among them Sorley MacLean and George Campbell Hay ' through the lens of photographer Gordon Wright.
Scottish Authors ' A gateway to Scottish authors provided by the Scottish Library Association. It contains the biographies of 79 Scottish authors, including Alasdair MacMhaighstir Alasdair and Duncan Ban Macintyre, with appropriate hyperlinked cross-references.
Robert Burns ' The National Library - The life, work and legacy of Scotland's Bard, together with fascinating detail about original material in the Library's collections. Features audio clips.
Neil M. Gunn ' this site is devoted to Neil M. Gunn (1891-1973).
R L Stevenson ' The National Library of Scotland -Photographs and striking illustrations from his books help relate the story of Robert Louis Stevenson, one of the 19th century's most famous writers.
Consider the Lillies ' this BBC education site focuses on the skills and techniques you need to understand and interpret a novel, using Consider the Lilies by Iain Crichton Smith as the example.
Scottish Links
The Scottish Poetry Library
The Association of Scottish Literary Studies - aims to promote the study, teaching and writing of Scottish literature, and to further the study of the languages of Scotland. There are links to a list of the association's publications and conferences, and various links to resources for students in colleges and schools.
The Book of Deer The site covers two separate but complimentary elements inspired by The Book of Deer. The first being The Book of Deer Manuscript which is made up of the 84 folios (pages) with illuminations and the developing academic archive.
The second is The Book of Deer Project. This is a community based initiative and the catalyst for renewed academic interest, research and community development in the North East of Scotland.
Murthly Hours ' The National Library of Scotland - view each page of this book of prayer dated 1280 ' one of the most richly illustrated manuscripts in Scotland during the Middle Ages.
Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech (SCOTS) The SCOTS project aims to create a collection of texts in electronic form which relate to language usage in Scotland (English and Scots initially, Gaelic and other community languages later).
Gateways To E-Book Collections
Internet Archive
Project Gutenberg (over 9000 texts, mostly book-length)
CELT Corpus of Electronic Texts - The online resource for Irish history, literature and politics. It has a searchable online database consisting of contemporary and historical texts from many areas, including literature and the other arts.
Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature ' these pages list internet sources for literary texts in the western European languages other than English.
The Online Medieval and Classical Library (Sagas)
EGIL: electronic gateway for Icelandic literature
The project aims to enhance support for research in Icelandic, Old Norse and Viking studies by using collaborative management techniques to develop the collections in a national context and to provide access to them through a subject gateway.