English
Collections
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (CC 0)
A collection of over 25,000 XML/SGML encoded electronic text editions of early print books produced by The Text Creation Partnership. They transcribe and mark up the text from the millions of page images in ProQuest’s Early English Books Online, Gale Cengage’s Eighteenth Century Collections Online, and Readex’s Evans Early American Imprints.
The Victorian Web (Licences vary)
A collection of primary and secondary materials (books, articles, images) in British Victorian economics, literature, philosophy, political and social history, science, technology, and visual arts. Although the site concentrates on Great Britain in the age of Victoria (1837-1901), it includes much material before and after those years, particularly in sculpture and architecture, and the site also has a good deal of comparative material.
Open Textbooks
Developmental English (CC BY)
Students learn proficiency in the reading and writing connection, the writing process, writing effective paragraphs, prewriting strategies, organizing and outlining, parts of speech, sentence skills, basic research skills, creating a draft, revision strategies, proofreading and editing strategies.
English Composition 1 (CC BY)
Students learn the writing process and prewriting, grammar for parts of speech, punctuation and sentences, preparing to write, the first draft, revising, editing, and proofreading, narrative, comparison/contrast, and argumentative modes, and reading and research.
English & Composition Textbooks (Licences vary)
A collection of open textbooks on topics in English and composition.
Fronts of Modernity: The 20th-Century Collections at the University of Victoria Libraries [PDF] (CC BY-NC-ND)
This book outlines 20th-century collections held at the University of Victoria. For more information, read the book review.
Literature Textbooks (Licences vary)
A collection of open textbooks on topics in English-language literature.
Tools
Open Modernisms Anthology Builder (CC BY)
An online platform that allows instructors to build custom anthologies of out-of-copyright primary materials for the period 1850–1950.
Websites
The Nature of Writing (CC BY-NC-ND)
The Nature of Writing provides instructional videos, prose explanations, exercises, and sample assignments on topics like parts of speech, sentence structure, punctuation, mechanics, essay writing, citation, and more.