Creative Writing

This page will help you get more out of your Library resources for your assignments, projects and dissertations in Creative & Media Writing

The resources listed here will help you to make a good start with your research.

You can find ebooks on Discovery, but you can search the full text of the books by using the individual services. 

fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery

No other resource for early modern scholarship is as comprehensive as Early English Books Online (EEBO) with over 146,600 titles and associated bibliographic records. Users can explore complete, digitized images of all the works listed in the key bibliographic records of English literature: The Short-Title Catalogue (Pollard & Redgrave, 1475-1640); The Short-Title Catalogue II (Wing, 1641-1700); The Thomason Tracts; and the Early English Books Tract Supplements, as well as original almanacs, pamphlets, musical scores, prayer books and other primary sources.


fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery

Contains full-text ebooks in many subject areas.


ECCO is a searchable corpus of books, pamphlets and broadsides in all subjects printed between 1701 and 1800. It currently contains over 180,000 titles with over 32 million fully-searchable pages. It is a digitization of the 18th century section of the works catalogued in the English Short-title Catalogue (ESTC). The ESTC project has been recording all works published or printed in Britain, Ireland, territories under British colonial rule, and the United States. It also catalogues material printed elsewhere which contains significant text in English, Welsh, Irish or Gaelic, as well as any book falsely claiming to have been printed in Britain or its territories.


A useful research resource for anyone studying the moving image; this platform contains ebooks, screenplays and a history of cinema timeline.

 

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 Greta Friggens

Faculty Librarian

email greta.friggens@port.ac.uk