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Schopenhauer, 1815

“Schopenhauer”—the Wikipedia article on Schopenhauer. Not a bad introduction, but philosophically unsophisticated and weak on the details of Schopenhauer’s thought, especially on his conception of the will. Still, you may find this article a useful place to begin.
“Arthur Schopenhauer”—a general article by Robert Wicks in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Perhaps this article is a bit harder going than the Wikipedia article, but it is definitely more rewarding in the end.

Über die vierfache Wurzel des Satzes vom zureichenden Grunde—On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason in German at Zeno.org
Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung—The World as Will and Representation in German at Zeno.org
Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung—The World as Will and Representation in German at Arthur Schopenhauer Web (the site itself is in Spanish)

“Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)”—an assessment of Schopenhauer by Kelley L. Ross, The Proceedings of the Friesian School, Fourth Series (1998)
“Schopenhauer and Buddhism”—an article by Peter Ableson, originally published in Philosophy East and West, Vol. 43, No. 2 (April 1993)
“Schopenhauer and the Empirical Critique of Idealism in the History of Ideas”—an article on Schopenhauer by Eisel Mazard
“Schopenhauer’s Philosophy”—an article by Awet Moges that contains a useful summary of The World as Will and Representation

Nietzsche, 1864

“Friedrich Nietzsche”—a general article by Robert Wicks in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. This is a very nice companion piece to Wicks’s SEP article on Schopenhauer. Like that article, this one is well worth reading.
“Nietzsche”—the Wikipedia article on Nietzsche. A good general introduction that combines a reasonably full biographical sketch with a general discussion of Nietzsche's thought and brief characterizations of all of his major works. Links to other related Wikipedia articles (themselves not all as good as this one) abound.
“Nietzsche’s Moral and Political Philosophy”—an article by Brian Leiter in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. A challenging, thought-provoking piece. This is an article you shouldn’t miss.

At eBooks@Adelaide
Friedrich Nietzsche: The Collected Works—at the moment perhaps the most nearly complete set of translations of Nietzsche available online
At The Nietzsche Channel
At Project Gutenberg
Maybe even more via EpistemeLinks.com

“Apollo and Dionysus: from Warfare to Assimilation in The Birth of Tragedy and Beyond Good and Evil”—an article by Bart Bryant, Janus Head 1.2 (1998)
“Coping with Nietzsche’s Legacy: Rorty, Derrida, Gadamer”—by Gary Brent Madison (1997), an excerpt from his forthcoming book, The Politics of Postmodernity: Essays in Applied Hermeneutics
“Culture, Tragedy and Pessimism in Nietzsche’s Birth of Tragedy”—an article by John Duncan, Phaenex 1.2 (2006)
“Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)”—an assessment of Nietzsche by Kelley L. Ross, The Proceedings of the Friesian School, Fourth Series (2007)
“Nietzsche on the Possibility of Truth and Knowledge”—an article by Tsarina Doyle, Minerva 9 (2005)
“Nietzsche on Truth and the Will”—an article by Steven Michels, Minerva 8 (2004)

“Nietzsche Contra Schopenhauer: The Construel [sic] of Eternal Recurrence”—an article by Douglas L. Berger that focuses specifically on the affirmation and denial of the will to live