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This section contains information about The Thomas Gray Archive Web site, its structure, development, history, and statistics. The Archive, hosted by The Bodleian Libraries, 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 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: General information What's new Articles about and reviews of the Archive Citing the Archive in print or online publications Site history Sitemap Web site statistics

General information

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    |  Site history

• 8 December 2011:
  • High quality digital images of the eight literary Gray MSS (MS 0002, 0006, 0107, 0153, 0242, 0243, 0244, 0245) held by The Bodleian Libraries, Oxford, have been added to the digital library. The MSS' records in the finding aid have been updated accordingly. All related links verified.
  • The Archive editor will be attending the 41st Annual Conference of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (BSECS), 4th-6th January 2012, St. Hugh's College, Oxford. He will be glad to meet and discuss future developments informally.

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Articles about and reviews of the Archive

• Damian-Grint, Peter: "Eighteenth-Century Literature in English and Other Languages: Image, Text, and Hypertext". In: A Companion to Digital Literary Studies, ed. Susan Schreibman and Ray Siemens. Oxford: Blackwell, 2008, chapter 5 <http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companionDLS/>.
• Boot, Peter: "The Thomas Gray Archive" [in Dutch]. In: Textualscholarship.nl: e-tekstualiteit (weblog) (Huygens ING) (9 July 2004).
• Lavagnino, John: "Two varieties of digital commentary", in: Erne, Lukas and Margaret Jane Kidnie (eds.), Textual Performances: The Modern Reproduction of Shakespeare's Drama. Cambridge: CUP, 2004, chapter 12, pp. 202-209.
• Karlsson, Lina and Linda Malm: "Revolution or Remediation? A Study of Electronic Scholarly Editions on the Web" [PDF]. In: Human IT. Journal for Information Technology Studies as a Human Science 7(1) (2004), pp. 1-46.
• Schulz-Forberg, Hagen: "Intermedialità e Storia: saggio sulle possibilità della storiografia e sulla rappresentazione della storia" [in Italian]. In: Memoria e Ricerca n.s. 11 (2002), 167.

Citing the Archive in print or online publications

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