Organisations and Associations for English Literature

Here I'll list some of the general literature organisations that you may find useful. I've also included links to some of the major publishers and booksellers in our discipline.
You'll find others listed on specific subject interest pages on my English resources website, such as the Australian literature page.

Literary societies

Scholarly Societies: Literature

A very comprehensive listing of links to literary websites across the world maintained at the University of Waterloo Library.

Bibliographical Society

Founded in 1892, the Bibliographical Society is the senior learned society dealing with the study of the book and its history. The objectives of the Society are: to promote and encourage study and research in the fields of historical, analytical, descriptive and textual bibliography, the history of printing, publishing, bookselling, bookbinding and collecting.

Bibliographical Society of America

Includes links to bibliographical societies, journals and other bibliographical sources.

The Alliance of Literary Societies

The Alliance comprises a number of separate literary societies, each concentrating on an individual author.

Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers

The Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers (ANZSI) aims to represent the interests of indexers and to provide training and other resources to all Australians and New Zealanders involved in indexing, whether they are freelancers or employees, full-time, part-time or casual.

Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press had its origins in the information technology revolution of the late fifteenth century, which began with the invention of printing from movable type. The first book was printed in Oxford in 1478, only two years after Caxton set up the first printing press in England. Today it is the world's largest university press, publishing over 4,000 new titles a year.

Cambridge University Press

Founded in 1534, Cambridge is today one of the largest and most innovative academic and educational presses, producing thousands of titles each year in printed and electronic form.

Association of American University Presses

A cooperative, organization of some 110 university presses. You can search across the output of all of the presses from one central site.

Publishers' catalogues home page

A collection of around 6,000 publishers, searchable by city, state, country, topic or type of material.

Blackwell's bookshops

Blackwell's has its origins in a tiny bookshop in Broad Street, Oxford, opened in 1879 by Benjamin Henry Blackwell to serve the needs of the members of Oxford University. Today that business incorporates 80 shops spanning the length and breadth of the United Kingdom. As academic booksellers the site offers a range of services for libraries, publishers and their customers as well as an online bookstore featuring more general interest titles.

Unibooks

Here's where you check to see if our very own on campus bookshop has the title you need.

Amazon

Search for books, music, videos, and more. Probably the biggest database of in print items anywhere. There are more than 2 million items listed on the U.K. Amazon site...

BookFinder.com

Over 20 million new, used, rare, and out of print books at your fingertips...

You'll find lots more on the Bookshops page on the Library's general interest guides site.

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