N I N E S: Nineteenth Century Scholarship Online

NINES (Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship) is a scholarly organization devoted to forging links between the material archive of the nineteenth century and the digital research environment of the twenty-first. Our activities are driven by three primary goals:

• to serve as a peer-reviewing body for digital work in the long 19th-century (1770-1920), British and American;
• to support scholars’ priorities and best practices in the creation of digital research materials;
• to develop software tools for new and traditional forms of research and critical analysis.

The NINES Collex interface is at the center of these efforts. It aims to gather the best scholarly resources in the field and make them fully searchable and interoperable; and to provide an online collecting and authoring space in which researchers can create and publish their own work.

NINES also is home to Juxta, a tool for comparing and collating multiple documentary instances of the same work; and to Ivanhoe, a collaborative game-space for interpreting textual and other cultural materials. Other interpretive tools and applications are in the planning stages.

Other databases for:

• Narratives, diaries, and letters
• Newspapers and magazines
• Poetry and short stories
• Freely accessible databases

Other databases covering:

• General interest
• Humanities and performing arts
• Social sciences and education