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Resources

17 resources across 3 sections

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Source material Databases and datasets Societies and organisations

Source material

Texts and archives

Collections of primary narrative material — the texts themselves.

Berezkin's Catalogue (Russian) ↗ ruthenia.ru
Perseus — classical Greek and Latin texts ↗ perseus.tufts.edu
University of Pittsburgh — folklore and mythology texts ↗ sites.pitt.edu
Folklore titles in the Gutenberg Project ↗ gutenberg.org
Internet Sacred Text Archive ↗ sacred-texts.com
OAPEN — open access library including historical texts ↗ library.oapen.org
British Library — over 1,000 digitised historical manuscripts ↗ bl.uk
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Databases and datasets

Structured data

Comparative datasets that can be joined to narrative material.

D-PLACE — cultural, linguistic, environmental and geographic information for over 2,000 human cultural groups ↗ d-place.org
Fionn Folklore Database ↗ fionnfolklore.org
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Societies and organisations

Institutions

Learned societies, research centres and library services.

American Folklore Society ↗ americanfolkloresociety.org
American Folklife Center, Library of Congress ↗ loc.gov
The Folklore Society (UK) ↗ folklore-society.com
Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature ↗ mpc.chs.harvard.edu
Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Russian Academy of Sciences ↗ archaeology.nsc.ru
JISCMail — discussion lists for UK education and research ↗ jiscmail.ac.uk
Library Hub Discover — UK university library catalogues (Jisc) ↗ discover.libraryhub.jisc.ac.uk
Cambridge University Press — open access archaeology ↗ cambridge.org
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