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eBook Collections at McKendree
Credo Reference
ebrary Library Center
Gale Reference
Historical Statistics of the U.S.
netLibrary
Oxford Reference Collection
Sage E-Reference
Tumble Talking Books
Free eBook Sites
Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
Public domain texts in the areas of American and British Literature, and Western Philosophy. A unique feature of the Catalogue is the on-the-fly creation of PDF or ebook (Newton Paperback, Palm Pilot, or Rocket eBook) files.
ARTFL Project
Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language. The project maintains a database of nearly 2,000 texts,searchable by word, word root, prefix, suffix and inclusive dates. Philologic displays the bibliographic information and page number for each occurance and can sort the results on screen by date, author name, keywords and other fields.
The Avalon Project
The Avalon Project will mount digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government. We do not intend to mount only static text but rather to add value to the text by linking to supporting documents expressly referred to in the body of the text.
Banned Books OnlineWelcome to this special exhibit of books that have been the objects of censorship or censorship attempts. The books featured here, ranging from Ulysses to Little Red Riding Hood, have been selected from the indexes of
The Online Books Page.
Bartleby.comAccurate online text of major out of copyright works including the Columbia Encyclopedia, Harvard Classics and poetry collections. The Preeminent Internet Publisher of literature, reference and verse providing students, researchers and the intellectually curious with unlimited access to books and information on the web, free of charge.
Berkeley Digital Library ProjectRe-inventing Scholarly Information Dissemination and Use. The UC Berkeley Digital Library Project is developing the tools and technologies to support highly improved models of the "scholarly information life cycle." Our goal is to facilitate the move from the current centralized, discrete publishing model, to a distributed, continuous, and self-publishing model, while still preserving the best aspects of the current model such as peer review.
Digital Scriptorium Test DatabaseThe Digital Scriptorium is a pilot project organized by the Columbia's Rare Book and Manuscript Library and UC Berkeley's Bancroft Library, with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, aimed at the creation of a visual union catalog of medieval manuscripts. This test database includes, as of February 4, 1999, descriptions of 2169 medieval codices or
documents (cut-off date ca. 1550, but with some materials as late as the 19th century) from the Union Theological Seminary, six libraries at
Columbia and Barnard College, and three at Berkeley, with a total of 5865 images from those manuscripts. The oldest MSS catalogued date from the 9th century.
Drama Collection
This site contains a collection of original plays and screenplays, criticism and links to other sites concerned with theatre. It publishes both classic and contemporary works, and would be delighted to consider your work if you'd care to submit it to our editors for review.
Etext Center
1,800 publicly-available ebooks from the University of Virginia Library's Etext Center, including classic British and American fiction, major authors, children's literature, American history, Shakespeare, African-American
documents, the Bible, and much more.
Gallica: 19th Century France
Major project with already more than 2,000,000 pages and 10,000 images and sound files online.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.
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The Gutenberg Bible The first book printed with movable type is one of the greatest treasures in the Ransom Center's collections. It was printed at Johann Gutenberg's shop in Mainz, Germany and completed in 1454 or 1455. Humanities Text InitiativeAn alphabetical list of humanities resources.
International Etext Projects
This page provides links to other sites on the Internet with activities related to Project Runeberg.
Japanese Text Initiative
The University of Virginia Library Electronic Text Center and the University of Pittsburgh East Asian Library are pleased to sponsor the Japanese Text
Initiative, a collaborative effort to make texts of classical Japanese literature available on the World Wide Web.
Making of America
Focusing on 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. This online collection contains approximately 1,600 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.
Online Children's Stories
Web sites that have a variety of stories available: some folktales, some contemporary stories, maybe some poetry and non-fiction as well.
Online Library of Liberty
Full text of books on American and European history, economics & law.
Oxford Text ArchiveThe Oxford Text Archive Website works closely with members of the Arts and Humanities academic community 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, and is actively working to extend its catalogue of holdings.
Perseus Project - TextsAncient Greek and Latin texts with morphological links to text tools -
English translations and secondary sources. Also includes the Duke Data
Bank of Documentary Papyri, the complete works of Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe, Julius Caesar: Shakespeare's Play and Ancient Sources, Frazer's Summary of Apollodorus' Handbook of Greek Mythology and Sources for Thucydides Research: Modern Scholarship on the Ancient Historian.
Project GutenbergProject Gutenberg is the Internet's oldest producer of FREE electronic books
(eBooks or eTexts).
RAND Online Publications
View all of RAND's online publications grouped by topic. Most titles published in 1998 or later are available online, along with selected earlier publications.
ReadPrintAn easy to read full-text interface of mainly public domain literary works.
Technical Reports Online
Links to technical reports, preprints, reprints, dissertations, theses, and research reports from hundreds of organizations.
Turning the Pages
Universal Library Project
The mission is to create a Universal Library which will foster creativity and
free access to all human knowledge. As a first step in realizing this mission, it is proposed to create the Universal Library with a free-to-read, searchable collection of one million books, primarily in the English language, available to everyone over the Internet. Within 10 years, it is our expectation that the collection will grow to 10 Million books.
University of California Press
Over 825 online editions are available here through a partnership with the
University of California Press and the California Digital Library's eScholarship program. Nearly 400 of the titles are available to the general public; the rest are for University of California faculty, staff, and students only.
U.S. Army Center of Military History - Online Books CMH Online is provided as a public service by the U.S. Army Center of
Military History. Information presented on CMH Online is considered public
information and may be distributed or copied for non-commerical purposes.
William Blake ArchiveWorks by Blake: illuminated books, drawings, paintings, engravings, and
more. Includes the latest news of work completed, work in progress, recent
and forthcoming presentations, etc.
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