Website Update: Resource Lists & Guides
The More Resources for Writers page of my website has been updated…This is a list of some of the sections that have changed:
Directories
Links to directories of indexers, editors, literary agents, and publishers.
An additional blog post by guru, Jane Friedman, will also help authors with selecting the right literary agent.
Resource Guides
The publishing process.
From literature reviews and copyright guidelines, to submitting a book proposal; these resources published by academic institutions will help answer some crucial questions.
Research Resources
Collections of bookmarks are compiled using Raindrop, an online bookmark organization and sharing website.
The resources I selected are limited to those that are freely available, and the lists were inspired by my own collection of bookmarks that I accumulated over a decade of library and indexing work.
While resources listed do not require subscription fees or institutional memberships, some may require the creation of a free account.
Search for a specific resource by using the tags I provided in Raindrop.
About the Tags
For the sake of manageability, tags are limited to document and resource type, geographic coverage, and responsible institution(s). Subject tags may be added at a later date, but many of the online archives and databases listed have a very wide scope.
The Government tag is included, because although it could indicate a subject area, in this case it suggests a document type — official publications (books, reports, maps, data, etc.) authored or made available by either a national government body (eg. National Archives) or international government (eg. United Nations).
Other document types are also reflected in tags such as RareBooks, Maps, Photographs, Manuscripts, etc.
The Documents tag serves as a catch-all for anything with text that is not a book or periodical, to separate it from Manuscripts, Images, or Photographs.
The Images tag indicates content that is born-digital, like captured webpages in the Internet Archive, as opposed to scanned photographs.
