There are many excellent web-sites offering additional information on traditional folk music, ballads, and the collectors. Since 2003, the quantity of online information for the ballads has exploded. This list is far from comprehensive but will give you a start to your research.

Child Ballad Resources

• Child Ballads website (the Comtemplator)
• A Concordance to the Child Ballads
• Scotland's Child Ballads site
• Child's Legacy Enlarged: Oral Literary Studies at Harvard Since 1856 (David E. Bynum)
• Guide to the Papers of Francis James Child (Houghton Library, Harvard College)

General Ballad Resources

• Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England,
  Edited by Robert Bell
• Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads
• Traditional Ballad Index
• Sixteenth Century Ballads
• English Broadside Ballad Archive
• "Tam Lin" - Single Ballad Analysis
• The Robin Hood Project, The University of Rochester

Folk Music Societies

• Country Dance and Song Society - USA
• English Folk Dance and Song Society - UK
• Folk Music Society of Ireland - Ireland

Libraries

• American Folklife Center-Library of Congress-US
• The British Library - UK
• Irish Traditional Music Archive - Ireland

Universities

• Arhives of Cultural Tradition - University of Sheffield-UK
• School of Scottish Studies Archives, University of Edinburgh-UK

Magazines

• Sing Out!-US
• The Living Tradition-UK
• Musical Traditions-UK

General Indexes and Lyric Databases

• The Digital Tradition (Mudcat)-US
• The Traditional Song Forum-UK
• Folk Music Index to Recorded Sources