Online Resources
Professional Organizations and Conferences
Organizations at UCLA
Libraries
Bibliographic Software

Online Resources

There are almost limitless resources available on the web, but not all of them contain quality content. These are some of the most useful sites for literary study of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries:

Search Tools and Information Hubs:
NINES (Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-century Electronic Scholarship)
Romantic Circles
Victorian Web
Voice of the Shuttle

Article and Text Databases (some require subscription):
JSTOR (and ArtSTOR for images)
Project Muse
Project Gutenberg
The Open Library
ECCO (Eighteenth Century Collections Online) (click for UC access)
Women Writers Project

Quick-Reference Tools (not always reliable - be sure to verify facts in reputable sources):
Google Books
Google Scholar
Wikipedia

On Encoding Texts for Preservation and Analysis:
TEI - Text Encoding Initiative

Professional Organizations and Conferences

Modern Language Association (MLA)
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA)
Calls for Papers Clearinghouse at University of Pennsylvania

The following will be of interest mainly to those working in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries:

American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (ASECS)
Art Historical Association
Dickens Project
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Association (BWWA)
Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies (INCS)
International Conference on Romanticism (ICR)
International Gothic Association (IGA)
North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR)
North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA)
Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies (PCCBS)
Society for the Study of Narrative Literature (Narrative)
Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of Western United States (VISAWUS)

Organizations at UCLA

Americanist Research Colloquium
Annual Marathon Reading
Department of English
Electronic Literature Organization
English Graduate Union
Friends of English
Nineteenth Century and Beyond Group
Romantic Study Group
Southern California Eighteenth Century Group
Undergraduate English Association

Libraries

Some important resources in the Southern California area:

Huntington Library
Clark Library
UCLA Library

Bibliographic Software

These programs can help you organize your research materials:

EndNote
ProCite
Reference Manager