Online Texts
General Collections
- Project Gutenberg
- A very large archive of "plain vanilla" ASCII texts, from the
complete works of Shakespeare to Ambrose Bierce's Occurrence at Owl
Creek Bridge. From the home page choose "Browse by Author or Title."
- Electronic Text Center - University of Virginia
- Holdings include approximately 51,000 on- and off-line
humanities texts in twelve languages, with more than 350,000 related
images: book illustrations, covers, manuscripts, newspaper pages, page
images of Special Collections books, museum objects, etc.)
- Electronic Text Center - English Language Resources
- Thousands of Middle and Modern English texts, from fiction to poetry to historical documents.
- The Oxford Text Archive
- The OTA currently distributes more than 2500 resources in over
25 different languages, and is actively working to extend its catalogue
of holdings.
- Humanities Text Intitiative - University of Michigan
- This rich site includes the Making of America
collection, a digital library of primary sources in American social
history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. Includes the
subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology,
religion, and science and technology. The collection currently contains
approximately 8,500 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century
imprints.
- Literature at Sunsite
- From UC Berkeley, digital texts from a variety of authors.
- Online Books Page
- From the University of Pennsylvania, provides access to more than 14,000 English works in various formats.
- SunSITE Digital Catalogs & Indexes
- Links to a variety of digital collections.
Classics
- The Online Medieval and Classical Library
- A collection of some of the most important literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization.
- The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies
- Free, organized access to electronic resources in medieval studies
- Internet Medieval Sourcebook
- Organized as three main index pages--Selected Sources, Full Text Sources, and Saints' Lives.
- Perseus Digital Library
- An evolving digital library linking you to wide range of texts, from Renaissance to papyri.
- The Internet Classics Archive
- Select from a list of 441 works of classical literature by 59 different authors, including user-driven commentary and "reader's choice" Web sites. Mainly Greco-Roman works (some Chinese and Persian), all in English translation.
- The EServer: Accessible Online Publishing
- From
the EServer at the University of Washington.Offers 42 collections on
such diverse topics as contemporary art, race, Internet studies,
sexuality, drama, design, multimedia, accessible publishing and current
political and social issues. In addition to written works, find links
to hypertext, audio and even video recordings.
Digital Resources
Image & Textual Collections
- Library of Congress' Digital Collections & Programs
- Excellent starting point for exploring the Library of Congress' digital collections, from American Memory to the Meeting of Frontiers,
a bilingual, multimedia English-Russian digital library of exploration
of the American West, exploration and settlement of Siberia and the
Russian Far East, and the meeting of the Russian-American frontier in
Alaska and the Pacific Northwest.
- Library of Congress' American Memory Collection
- A major component of the Library's National Digital Library
Program-- multimedia collections of digitized documents, photographs,
recorded sound, moving pictures, and text from the Library's Americana
collections. There are currently more than 90 collections in the
American Memory Historical Collections.
- Library of Congress' Online Exhibitions
- Online versions of exhibitions at the Library of Congress.
- Library of Congress' Panoramic Photographs Collection
- Contains approximately four thousand images featuring American
cityscapes, landscapes, and group portraits. The images date from 1851
to 1991 and depict scenes in all fifty states and the District of
Columbia. More than twenty foreign countries and a few U.S.territories
are also
represented.
- Documenting the American South
- Collection of sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century; from The University of North Carolina.
- The Making of America
- From the University of Michigan, a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The collection currently contains approximately 8,500 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th entury imprints. Currently contains over 277,000 pages of journal articles.
- University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections
- Excellent selection of Pacific Northwest digital collections, from photographs of early Alaska explorations to American Indians of the Pacific Northwest. Also includes collections ranging from Mount St. Helens photographs to Northwest politics.
Indexes, Directories, and Finding Aids
- The Digital Scriptorium
- An image database of dated and datable medieval and renaissance manuscripts. Provides public access to fragile materials otherwise available only within libraries.
- Digital Libraries: Resources and Projects
- Bibliographies of world-wide digital efforts with links to sites, plus links to digital progects, to reports, to organizations, and to conferences.
- Finding Images Online: Links to Image Resources
- Extensive links to digital image collections; arranged by subject.
Electronic Journals, Magazines, & Newspapers
- Ejournal Site Guide: A MetaSource
- From the University of British Columbia, probably the best
single starting point to locate online journals and magazines. "A
selected and annotated set of links to sites for ejournals, which in
turn provide links to individual titles and/or to other collections of
links."
- IPL Reading Room Serials collection
- The Internet Public Library Reading Room Serials collection contains over 3000 titles that can be searched or browsed by subject or by title.