This section contains information about The Thomas Gray
Archive Web site, its structure, development, history, and
statistics. The Archive, hosted by the Bodleian Library, Oxford, has
been accessible free of charge from its launch in November 2000 and is
conceived as a collaborative online resource that is solely intended for
educational (non-commercial) uses. The Archive's Web site is available
via a US server (Miami, Florida) and
a UK server (Oxford, England).
This site information page contains:
This Web site consists of two main sub-sites, the Primary Texts section and the Materials section. Additionally, Help Desk, Site Information, and Contacts sections have been supplied for more
detailed information on the use of the site, its design, history,
statistics, and the individuals responsible for the creation and
maintenance of the site. The Archive Web site was designed with
the "KISS
principle" in mind. It is based on W3C standards and ought to display properly in any Web
browser supporting these standards. More generally, it ought to be viewable
with any browser. The Web site establishes an accessible and
easy-to-use environment based on the principles of the Web Content
Accessibility Guidelines.
What's new?
1 March 2010:
The Poetical
Works of Thomas Gray (1805), published in London by W. Suttaby and
C. Corral, has been added to the printed works section in the digital library. The full description of
dateable letters in the correspondence
calendar now also includes a monthly calendar. The Archivebibliography has been updated, a "Bookmark
& Share"-button is now displayed in the "You are here"-navigation bar on
all pages, all links verified.
Boot, Peter: "The Thomas Gray Archive" [in Dutch]. In: CHI weblog
elektronisch publiceren (Constantijn Huygens Institute for text editions and
intellectual history) (9 July 2004).
Citing the Archive
in print or online publications
If you want to cite The Thomas Gray Archive Web site
as a source of information in an online or print publication, please
use the following information or use the MLA style citation given below: