| Title | General e-text archives |
|---|---|
| Books On-line | A searchable and browseable database-directory of online electronic texts covering a broad range of interests, from established literary classics to computer how-to manuals. Some have sample chapters with links to Amazon.com. |
| British Museum Collection Database |  |
| CARRIE: Full-Text On-line Library | Originally from the University of Kansas, now supported by the European University Institute; an extensive link resource listing texts archived at various locations across the Internet. Also provides a very competent search engine aimed at providing access to E-texts. |
| Digital Librarian: Electronic Texts & Primary Sources | The Digital Librarian web site provides a selection of librarian's choices of the best of the Web. Perhaps, the best index to book and text resources on the Internet |
| The Online Books Page | 
More than 35,000 English language works in various formats. Compare to
The Internet Public Library which indexes fewer full books, but more
short texts and non-English books. |
| The Oxford Text Archive | Works closely with Arts & Humanities scholars to collect, catalogue, and preserve high-quality electronic texts for research and teaching. The OTA currently distributes more than 2500 resources in over 25 different languages. |
| Project Gutenberg | Texts are taken from books published pre-1923. Orientation is towards classic books backwards from 1923. |
| Sunsite Digital Collections | Extensive digital collections and services. Also prvoides information and support to digital library developers worldwide. Sponsored by UC Berkeley Library and Sun Microsystems, Inc. |
| Title | Text Repositories--Primarily Literature & Belles Lettres |
|---|---|
| African American Women Writers of the 19th Century | From the New York Public Library, a digital collection of some 50 19th-century published works. |
| American Literary Classics | A website with links to American literary classics; includes subdivisions on Children's Literature, Short Stories and so on. |
| American Verse Project | 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. From the Humanities Text Initiative at the University of Michigan. |
| Bartleby | An Internet publisher of literature and verse providing students, researchers and others with unlimited free access to books and information on the Web. |
| Bibliomania Classic Texts | About 2,000 searchable full-text works of classic fiction, popular fiction, short stories, drama, poetry, dictionaries, and so on. |
| British Women Romantic Poets, 1789-1832 | supported by UC-Davis; the browse function on the home page leads to an alphabetical listing of authors, where users may choose to view texts via XML, HTML, or SGML formats. |
| The Carlyle Letters Online | More than 10,000 letters between Jane and Thomas Carlyle; produced from the
collections at Duke University and Edinburgh University. |
| Celebration of Women Writers | Collection of links to electronic texts--novels, poems, letters, biographies,
travel books, religious commentaries, histories, economic and scientific works.
Also provides links to biographical and bibliographical information. Users
can browse by author, century or country. |
| Classic Authors Library | Online index and full-text access to 460 author's works; a number of Amerciana titles by Twain, Charles Brockden Brown, and others |
| The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson | A digital edition of the Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Centenary Edition, edited and with notes by Edward Waldo Emerson. |
| Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse | Designed to offer easy access to and interconnectivity between three major Middle English electronic resources. |
| Cowboy and Western Poetry at the Bar-D Ranch | A hub for Cowboy poetry; includes some old and classical cowboy poetry and much more--newsletters, events, articles, book reviews, and so on. |
| Dickens Project | University of California |
| The English Server Drama Collection | Collection of both long and short English drama plays and criticism. |
| The English Server Fiction Collection | Collection of online fiction which includes short sotries and novels. |
| E-Text Collections in Western European Literature | Supported by the West European Specialist Section of the Association of College & Research Libraries. |
| Fantasy & Science Fiction Website | Supported by the University of Michigan; mostly older works in the public domain. SF is defined broadly to include speculative fiction, science fiction, fantasy, myth, fairy tales, and horror. |
| Great Books Index | Over 150 authors and 700 books |
| The Internet Classics Archive | Supported by MIT, this site includes over 400 translated texts of 59 different Greek and Latin authors in HTML format. The archive inculdes a search utility. |
| The Jack London Online Collection | More than 40 London novels and short story volumes |
| Literature.org | The Online Literature Library; more classics of literature. The fonts used in this online library facilitate online reading. |
| Luminarium: English Literature | English Literature of the Middle Ages, Renaissance and 17th century. |
| Online Medieval and Classical Library | A collection of some of the most important literary works of Classical (Greek and Roman) and Medieval civilization. Housed at Berkeley. |
| Open Source Shakespeare: An Experiment in Literary Technology | An impressive site which aims to be "the best free web site containing Shakespeare's complete works". As with other Shakespeare sites the texts offered here derive from the freely available Complete Moby Shakespeare, which is based on the 1866 Globe Edition of the complete works. Unlike the other Moby-based editions, the present site provides line numbers for all 37 plays, 154 sonnets, and 5 longer poems included. |
| Other Women's Voices: Translations of Women's Writing Before 1700 | Translations of over 125 women writers who produced work before 1700. Each entry contains background on the author. |
| The Perseus Digital Library 4.0 | A primary focus on Classical literature and civilization (Greek & Roman). This is one of the first and continuesto be one of the best subject-oriented digital archives. |
| The Poetess Archive: Writing by Women and Men, British and American, 1750-1900 | offers access to a growing library of primary and secondary resources by and about popular 19th-century "sentimental" poets, spanning Great Britain, 1773-1839; America, 1773-1865; and the transatlantic area, 1770-1900. The site includes, in addition to poetry that was conventionally ignored by the literary canon, works of commentary and criticism of the poetess genre that are contemporary to the original publication of the poetry, and citations to 20th- and 21st-century criticism. |
| Poetry Archive | Recordings of poets reading their own works |
| Renascence Editions | Renascence Editions is an effort to make available online works printed in English between the years 1477 (when Caxton began printing) and 1799. These texts have been produced with care and attention, but are not represented by the publisher as scholarly editions in the peer-reviewed sense. They are made available to the public for nonprofit purposes only. The publisher and general editor is Richard Bear at the University of Oregon |
| Rossetti Archive | |
| Schoenburg Center for Electronic Text & Image (SCETI) | Over 12,000 images from various collections of rare books, manuscripts, papyri, photographs and sheet music are available for your viewing. |
| Short Stories at east of the web | A growing collection of classic and newly written short stories; organized by theme--fiction, romance, crime, sci-fi & fantasy, humor, horror, and so on |
| Sonnet Central | An archive of English sonnets, commentar, pictures, and related materials grouped by period, and by an alphabetical list. |
| STARN | A Glasgow University digitisation project. The focus is on Scottish literature and language materials which are usually difficult to access by other means. |
| TEAMS Middle English Texts: | sub-titled: The Camelot Project, Arthurian Texts, Images, Bibliographies and Basic Information; University of Rochester |
| Victorian Women Writers Project | Exceptionally well-edited and carefully encoded texts of all kinds by British women writers of the 19th century. Supported by the University of Indiana. |
| Women Romantic-era Writers | An outstanding site; a recipient of a CHOICE Outstanding Website
citation from the Association of College and Research Libraries. |
| Zora Neale Hurston Plays at the Library of Congress |  Selection of 10 plays written between 1925 and 1944 |
| Title | Text Repositories--specialized subjects |
|---|---|
| Aesopica: | Aesop's
Fables in English, Latin & Greek |
| The Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts | A collection of public domain documents from Western philosophy as well as from American and English literature. |
| AL Islam | Ahlul Bayt Digital Islamic Library Project |
| American Civil War | Special collection of digitized texts about the American Civil War from the Electronic Text Center (University of Virginia). |
| American Memory Collections | The Library of Congress' effort to digitize and deliver electronically, its distincitve, historical Americana holdings, including photographs, manuscripts, rare books, maps, recorded sound, and moving pictures. Currently there are over 70 collections in the American Memory Historical Collections. |
| arXiv.org: e-Print archive | Cornell; Open access to 548,406 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, and Statistics |
| Avalon Project | Yale Law School; documents in Law, History and Diplomacy from Hammurabi to the 20th century. |
| Baldwin Library of Children's Literature Digital Collection | University of Florida Smathers Library |
| Banned Books Online | Special exhibit of books from the Online Books Page (University of Pennsylvania Digital Library) that have been the objects of censorship or censorship attempts. |
| Bestsellers 1900-1930 | This list includes electronic versions of bestsellers from 1900-1930. The texts are either part of the Electronic Text Center's Modern English collection, or items found at various other sites on the internet. This .com bookstore site lists bestsellers by decade from 1900-1999. |
| Bodleian Library (Oxford) | Approximately a thousand manuscript images from the 11th throught 17th Centuries. |
| British Newspapers 1800-1900 | Originally part of the British Museum's Collect Britain: Penny Illustrated Papers exhibit; the exhibit was rewritten as part of this new site. More difficult to navigate than the original, the site still contains unparalleled access to 19th century British newspapers. |
| Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts | UCLA |
| Chinese Philosophical E-text Archive | The Archive is based at Wesleyan University |
| Christian Classics Ethereal Library | Classic Christian texts in electronic format. All text in the public domain. From Calvin College. |
| Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers | Library of Congress |
| Civil War Women: Primary Sources | Links to manuscript collections at Duke University which have been scanned and transcribed. Also links to other Civil War women's archival documents. |
| Cornell University Digital Library : Windows on the Past | Selected collections include:
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| Documenting the American South | A project of the University of North Carolina Libraries, includes collections such as the The Library of Southern Literature, and North American Slave Narratives. |
| Early Americas Digital Archive, 1492-c. 1802 | Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities |
| Early Canadiana Online | A full-text online collection of more than 3,000 books and pamphlets docoumenting Canadian history from the first European contact to the late 19th century. Particularly strong in literature, women's history, native studies, travel and exploration. |
| Eserver.org Accessible Writing | An e-text collection housed at the University of Iowa. It's focus has expanded beyond literature to cultural criticism the site now includes more than 35,000 items; contains many unique titles and collections. |
| EuroDocs: Online Sources for European History | Selected Transcriptions, Facsimiles and Translations; arranged by country; University of Utah |
| Folklore and Mythology Texts | Electronic texts prepared by D.L. Ashliman, retired professor of the University of Pittsburgh. |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum | Over 10,000 digitized documents. |
| From Revolution to Reconstruction | The main body of this hypertext comes from a number of USIA-publications An Outline of American History, An Outline of the American Economy, An Outline of American Government, and An Outline of American Literature. The text of these Outlines has not been changed, but they have been enriched with hypertext-links to relevant documents, original essays, other Internet sites, and to other Outlines. |
| Gutenberg Digital Bible | Presents the 1282 digitized pages of the Goettingen Gutenberg Bible, printed in c. 1454. Site includes links to early printing history, illumination, and so on. |
| HEARTH: Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition, History | Cornell;
core collection of digitized books published between 1850 and 1925 |
| History of Economic Thought Archive | From McMaster University, an attempt to gather all material for the study of the history of economics on one site. |
| Historical Text Archive | More than 700 articles, books, documents, photographs. Organized by country and selected major topics. |
| Images from Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts | Images of manuscripts held by Columbia University Rare Books & Manuscript Library. Images are provided in low, medium and high resolution. |
| Internet Library of Early Journals (ILEJ) | ILEJ is a joint project by the Universities of Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Oxford. It aims to digitise substantial runs of 18th and 19th century journals, and make these images available on the Internet, together with their associated bibliographic data. |
| Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy | About 20 standard philosophical texts available in HTML and RTF formats; however links to these texts are buried in the encyclopedia entries. Generally, it is easier to use the IEP as a straightforward encyclopedia, rather than a text finder. |
| Latin American Pamphlet Digital Collection | Harvard |
| LIBRO: Library of Iberian Resources Online | A joint project of the American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain and the University of Central Arkansas. The book list is principally drawn from recent, but out-of-print university press monographs. These are presented in full-text format and reproduce all the matter included in the original print version. Present focus is on ca. 500 to 1500. |
| The Lied and Song Texts Page | More than 2,000 composers, 27 languages, includes an index of first lines. |
| Marxists Text Archive | The archive is divided into three major sections: Marxist writers, Marxist history, and reference materials. Includes materials of socialist thinkers as well as strict Marxists. |
| Multi-Repository Mathematics Collections | U Michigan,
digital repository of math books from the 19th or early 20th centuries |
| National Academy Press | More than 1,500 reports from the National Academies are available free online. Select Browse Topics for subject access. |
| NSDL: The National Science Digital Library | supports all levels of education and research in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics |
| Native American Texts | Native American texts from the Electronic Text Center. |
| Philologoical Museum; Univ. of Birmingham, UK | Comprised of two parts; An analytical bibliography and a Library of Humanistic Texts which includes links to Latin texts composed during and after the Renaissance. The bibliography has approximately 1,500 items listed. |
| Smithsonian Institution Libraries Digital Collections | Project to issue digital editions of science, technology and natural history rare books. Currently most of the collection is focused on anthropology, ethnology and natural history. |
| Text by or to Thomas Jefferson | Part of the Electronic Text Archive, a special collection of more than 1,700 items including manuscript images. |
| World Scripture: A Comparative Anthology of Sacred Texts | Originally, published as a hardback book, this archives makes the text and all supporting documentation available without charge. The collection contains over 4,000 passages from 268 sacred texts and 55 oral traditions, and is organized in terms of 164 different themes. The text is only available in a very barebones ascii format. |
| World Wide School Library | More than 2,000 copyright free online texts of possible use to educators at about the sixth grade and up, organized by subject, author, title, accompanied with helpful notes. Be sure to read the "About" commentary as it explains the collection policy parameters. |
| Page Updated: 1 August 2009 | Page Created: 15 October 2001 |