The Internet now provides access to many electronic collections including: classic literature, historical documents and collections from Universities, the Library of Congress, the National Special Collections of many different countries, new fiction/poetry found only on the internet and much more. These links will get you started.
- Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
- Collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy
- American Literature
- Links to sites with full text works from the 18th to the 20th century
- American Verse Project
- Humanities Text Initiative (HTI) is assembling an electronic archive of volumes of American poetry. Most of the archive is made up of 19th century poetry, although a few 18th century and early 20th century texts are included
- ArtFL Project
- At present the corpus consists of nearly 2000 texts, ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing. The eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries are about equally represented, with a smaller selection of seventeenth century texts as well as some medieval and Renaissance texts
- Athena
- Sciences. Databases of mineralogy.
Literature. Traditional literary text editing of French-language texts. Arts. Various documents. Maintained by Pierre Perroud
- Bibliomania
- Bibliomania is the leading online literature library with hundreds of searchable full text classics
- Carrie-A full-text electronic Library
- From the University of Kansas, include a site search, collections in various languages, dictionaries, resources for historians
- Celt
- Corpus of electronic texts. The online resource for contemporary and historical Irish documents in literature, history and politics
- British Poetry Database
- The English Poetry Database contains over 165,000 poems. They were written by more than 1,250 poets
- Classical/Medieval Texts Online
- Links to authors and also other Internet resources
- Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities
- The Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities is dedicated to helping people access and implement research projects using electronic texts
- Cervantes 2001 Project
- Comprehensive reference and research site decidated to the study of Cervantes's works and life.
- Children's Books
- These books are in the public domain and are located on various gopher servers. Arranged by author
- Clamen's Political Special Collections
- Includes copies and remote pointers to copies of various political documents that have been electronically available at some point
- Complete Works of Shakespeare
- From MIT. This site has
offered Shakespeare's plays and poetry to the Internet community since 1993
- Directory of Digitized Collections
- UNESCO & IFLA--This site aims to offer a listing of major digitized heritage collections and on-going digitization programmes worldwide
- Directory of Electronic Text Centers
- Compiled by Mary Mallery. Arranged by the name of the center also gives the contact name, address, affiliation, phone, url, for Electronic Text Centers
- Digital Librarian-Electronic Texts and Primary Sources
- Extensive listings of Special Collections, e-text centers, electronic tests, listed alphabetically
- Duke Papyrus Archive
- Provides electronic access to texts about and images of 1,375 papyri from ancient Egypt
- Early American Fiction
- The texts chosen for this rare volumes project include first printings of works by James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, and Nathaniel Hawthorne, and other novels and short stories
- Electronic Library of the Bath House
- Primary historical texts and relevant secondary sources pertaining to the bizarre Roman Emperor Elagabalus and related subjects. An offbeat, fascinating
introduction to Imperial Roman history, starting on the fringe
- Electronic Poetry Center
- An Electronic Space for Poetry, Prose, and Poetics. From the University of Buffalo
- Electronic Texts and Publishing Resources
- From the Library of Congress, links to general resources, electronic text ccollections, collections by author, poetry sites, government and legal documents, publishing & publishers
- Electronic Text Special Collections
- Alphabetical State by State
- Electronic Text Center-University of Virginia
- University of Virginia--History, literature, philosophy, religion, history of science all represented online, with collections in multiple languages, including Latin, Japanese, and Chinese-some sections will be avialalbe to their students only
- Electronic Text Special Collections
- From the Search Engine Google. An extenisve listing of e-texts and archive sources
- Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature
- Internet sources for literary texts in the western European languages other than English. Translations are mentioned only when they are included in collections of original language texts, or when they are themselves of interest.
- ELECTRONIC TEXTS ON THE INTERNET
- From RefDesk.com a collection of electronic texts covering various subjects. Listed alphabetically
- Electronic Texts
- From the University System of Georgia-divided into these sections--General Collections | Classics and History Constitutions, Laws, and Treaties | Economics Literature, Drama, and Poetry | Mythology and Folklore Philosophy | Religion
- Electronic Texts--Religious Texts
- From the religious studies web guide. Provide access to variety of sites for religious texts
- English Server
- Formerly at Carnegie Mellon University, now at the University of Washington--collections on various topics, art, literature, fiction, history, government, journals, languages & more
- English Teaching in the UK
- Links to electronic text resource useful in teaching
- Etext Special Collections
- Home to electronic texts of all kinds, from the sacred to the profane, from the political to the personal. Our mission is to provide electronic versions of texts without judging their content.
- EuroDocs
- Primary Historical Documents From Western Europe that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated
- Fairy Tales
- These translations of public domain texts have been performed by volunteers. These etexts are made available "as is" with no guarantee of their accuracy. Listed alphabetically by title
- Folk and Fairy Tales From Around the World
- Full-text collection
organized by place (country) of origin, also has related links
- Fourth World Documentation Project
- Indigenous Peoples' Information for the Online Community. An online library of texts which record and preserve our peoples' struggles to regain their rightful place in the international community
- French Public Domain Texts
- From the L'Association des Bibliophiles Universels
- Hypertexts
- Produced by students at The University of Virginia, primarily students enrolled in The American Studies Program includes three knids of texts: Classic texts, Lost Texts, Full Hypertexts
- Internet Classics Archive
- 441 works of classical literature by 59 authors
- Internet Modern History Sourcebook
- Online history books covering many topics and events including the Reformation, European expansion, scientific revolution, American revolution, Civil War, WWI, WWII, socialism, liberalism, and more
- Internet Public Library-Online Texts Collection
- The IPL Online Texts Collection contains over 14,000 titles that can be browsed by author, by title, or by Dewey Decimal Classification. Also has a search function available
- Karpeles Manuscript Library
- World's largest private holding of important original manuscripts & documents. The Special Collections include Literature, Science, Religion, History and Art
- KnowledgeRush.Com
- "A library of public domain texts and materials.
Search or browse by category, author links include biography and links to their online books. Online books offered in text and HTML"
- Labyrinth
- Resources for Medieval Studies from Georgetown University
- Library of Southern Literature
- Documents the riches and diversity of Southern experience as presented in one hundred of its most important literary works
- Luminarium
- Collection of Medieval, Renaissance and 17th century English literature
- Making of America
- A digital library of primary sources in American social
history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection currently contains approximately 6,600 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints
- Marine Corps Research Center
- A comprehensive collection of library, research, and archival material with emphasis upon the study of amphibious and expeditionary warfare.
- Master Works of Western Civilization
- Maintained by Mason West. A hypertext-annotated compilation of lists of major works recommended by Drs. Adler and Eliot, Charles Van Doren, Anthony
Burgess, Clifton Fadiman, the Easton Press, and many others
- National Academy Press
- Online texts covering science, engineering, and health
- National Library of Canada Electronic Collection
- Consists of Canadian
books and periodicals published online. It includes more than 3,000 titles published by both the commercial publishing sector and the government publishing sector
- 19th Century German Stories
- Since 1994 a growing selection of short narrative works in German from the late 18th to the end of the 19th centuries, featuring verified texts from documented editions and, whenever possible, English translations.
- 19th Century Schoolbooks
- A Demonstration Project by the Digital Research Library, University Library System, University of Pittsburgh. Examine digital editions of thirty-three schoolbooks
- On-Line Books Page
- A directory of books that can be freely read right on the Internet
- The Online Medieval and Classical Library
- (OMACL) is a collection of some of the most important literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization
- Online Sociology Texts
- From The Global Site, a critical gateway to World Politics, Society and Culture, edited by Martin Shaw at the University of Sussex
- Philosophy E-Texts
- Provides links to various sites which have e-texts available
- Plays Online
- From the WWW Virtual Library. Listed by author also has links to other resources
- Project Bartleby Digital Library
- Preeminent internet publishers of literature, reference and verse provides...unlimited access to books and information on the wb, free of charge
- Project Gutenberg
- One of the first e-text sites. Large collection of online texts searchable by author or title
- Project Runeberg
- Nordic literature on the Internet since 1992. Free electronic editions of classic Nordic literature and art
- The Scriptorium
- Resources for Creating Scholarly Electronic Texts
- Short Stories
- From East of the Web. Contains Modern and Classic short stories. Updated monthly.
- University of Michigan Government Documents Center
- Full text of documents in the news, mainly from the U.S.
- U.S. Founding Documents
- Full-text electronic versions of the United States Constitution, The Bill of Rights, and much more
- The Virtual LRC
- Provides easy access to many of the most important information sites on the Internet, including reference, humanities, history, social sciences, art and art history, biology, biography, careers,government information, health information, lesson plans, sociology, legal information, magazines, medical information , newspapers, dictionaries, encyclopedias, almanacs, and electronic texts or e-texts.
- Victorian Women Writers Project
- The goal of the Victorian
Women Writers Project is to produce highly accurate transcriptions of works by British women writers of the 19th century
- Voxhispana
- Links to FREE electronic texts in SPANISH. From Miguel de Cervantes and Christopher Columbus, to Horacio Quiroga and Rubén Darío, the works of the main Masters of Spanish Literature are NOW at your disposal
- Yahoo!-Non-Fiction Electronic Texts
- Various subjects- historical, literary, education and more
This page compiled by Marsha Keenan Last update January 2005
