Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts [http://www.infomotions.com/alex2/]
A collection of digital documents collected in the subject areas of English literature, American literature, and Western philosophy.
The ARTFL Project [http://www2.lib.udel.edu/database/artfl.html]
Large corpus of French-language texts. (Authorized University of Delaware users only).
Bartleby.com [http://www.bartleby.com/]
“ ... Providing students, researchers and the intellectually curious with unlimited access to books and information on the web, free of charge.”
Bodleian Library
Broadside Ballads [http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ballads/ballads.htm]
Images and sound files from the Bodleian Library's collection of over 30,000 ballads.
CELT (Corpus of Electronic Texts) [http://celt.ucc.ie]
A searchable online database of contemporary and historical Irish texts from many areas, including literature and the other arts.
Christian Classics Ethereal Library [http://www.ccel.org/]
Includes Christian classics as well as secondary literature on the classics and other works.
Writings represent mainstream Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox Christians, with greater emphases on Reformed and Protestant.
Cleveland Memory Project E-Books [http://www.clevelandmemory.org/ebooks/]
Digitized historical books relating to the Cleveland area.
Codex Sinaiticus [http://www.codexsinaiticus.org/en/]
Codex Sinaiticus, a manuscript of the Christian Bible written in the middle of the fourth century, contains the earliest complete copy of the Christian New Testament. The hand-written text is in Greek. The New Testament appears in the original vernacular language (koine) and the Old Testament in the version, known as the Septuagint, that was adopted by early Greek-speaking Christians. In the Codex, the text of both the Septuagint and the New Testament has been heavily annotated by a series of early correctors.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas [http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/DicHist/dict.html]
Online edition of the print 1973-74 edition, out of print for many years. Because of copyright restrictions, the illustrations in the print edition are not included in the online edition.
Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls (Stanford University Libraries) [http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/dp/pennies/home.html]
Over 8,000 items, including long runs of the major dime novel seriesFrank Leslie's Boys of America, Happy Days, Beadle's New York Dime Library, etc.
Documenting the American South: the Southern Experience in 19th-Century America [http://docsouth.unc.edu/]
This database presents primary source materials documenting the cultural history of the American South from the viewpoint of Southerners. It offers diaries, autobiographies, travel accounts, titles on slavery and regional literature drawn from the Southern holdings of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Academic Affairs Library.
Early Canadiana Online [http://www.canadiana.org/]
Consists of several collections, including Canadian Women's History, Colonial Government Journals, The Early Governors General of Canada, English Canadian Literature, History of French Canada, Hudson’s Bay, Jesuit Relations, and Native Studies.
Early English Books Online (EEBO) [http://www2.lib.udel.edu/database/eebo.html]
Digitized images of books published in England, 1475-1700. (Authorized University of Delaware users only).
Electronic Text Centre (University of New Brunswick Libraries) [http://www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/]
Includes digitized collections from UNB.
France
in America / La France en Amérique [http://international.loc.gov/intldl/fiahtml/fiahome.html]
A cooperative project of the Library of Congress and the Bibliothèque Nationale of France, this bilingual digital library of books, maps, prints, and other documents explores the history of the French presence in North America from the first decades of the 16th century to the end of the 19th century.
French Political Pamphlets [http://www.lib.byu.edu/dlib/fpp/]
Collection of more than 2,100 pamphlets published between 1547 and 1626, from the L. Tom Perry Special Collections at Brigham Young University.
Gerritsen Collection: Women's History Online [http://www2.lib.udel.edu/database/gerrit.html]
Books and periodicals relating to women's history. (Authorized University of Delaware users only).
Google Book Search Beta [Google Books]
Includes “full view” and “limited preview” access to digitized books and serials, depending generally on copyright status.
Gutenberg Digital [http://www.gutenbergdigital.de/gudi/start.htm]
A digitized Gutenberg Bible. The 1282 pages of the Bible at Göttingen, one of four complete, illuminated copies on vellum, have been scanned with a high-end professional digital camer, with careful attention paid to create faithful reproductions of the 88 illuminated, partly gilded pages.
Gutenberg<e> [http://www.gutenberg-e.org/]
A program of the American Historical Association and Columbia University Press, providing open access to digital history monographs.
History Online Books (National Park Service) [http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/park_histories/index.htm]
Includes titles in the series Cultural Landscape Reports, Historic Furnishing Reports, and Historic Structure Reports.
International Children’s Digital
Library [http://en.childrenslibrary.org/]
“A library for the world’s children.” Many of the books in the ICDL are available in more than one language.
The Internet Classics Archive [http://classics.mit.edu/]
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 Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents [http://puffin.creighton.edu/jesuit/relations/]
The entire English translation of the The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, originally compiled and edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites and published by The Burrows Brothers Company, Cleveland, throughout the latter part of the nineteenth century.
KnowBetter.com [http://knowbetter.com/]
Provices information and resources to the e-book community, with links to many e-book-related free and Rocket eBook-friendly sites.
The Lewis H. Beck Center for Electronic Collections & Services (Emory University) [http://beck.library.emory.edu/]
Resources include the Belfast Group Sheets (poetry), the Civil War in America from the Illustrated London News, Electronic Poetry Portal, Emory Women Writers Resources Project, French Revolution Pamphlet Collection, the Great War, the Martyred President: Sermons Given on the Occasion of the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Medieval Cartularies, the Thomas Merton Diaries Project, and Southern Changes.
Literature Online (LION) [http://www2.lib.udel.edu/database/lion.html]
English and American literature texts and related reference works, bibliography and catalog. (Authorized University of Delaware users only).
The Mad Cybrarian’s Library [http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/richmond/88/]
Links to free online e-texts indexed by author. It strives to index all e-texts on the Web.
Major Online Text Collections by Language [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/ets/offsite.language.html]
Compiled by Columbia University Libraries’ Electronic Text Service.
Major Online Text Collections by Subject [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/ets/offsite.subject.html]
Compiled by Columbia University Libraries’ Electronic Text Service.
The Making of America (MOA) [http://www2.lib.udel.edu/database/moa.html]
A collaborative project of the University of Michigan and Cornell University, with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, MOA is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.
ManyBooks.Net [http://manybooks.net/]
“Free eBooks for your PDA, iPhone, or eBook
reader.”
Michigan County Histories [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/micounty/]
Projected to provide access to 192 histories dating from 1866 to 1926, the collection currently contains 170 titles.
Middle English Compendium [http://www2.lib.udel.edu/database/mec.html]
(Authorized University of Delaware users only).
Mormon Publications: 19th Century [http://relarchive.byu.edu/MPNC/]
“This collection of early Mormon publications includes books, missionary tracts, doctrinal treatises, hymnals and periodicals which helped define the doctrinal development and historical movements of the Mormon people in the 19th century.”
The National Academies Press [http://www.nap.edu/]
Free access to the full text of books; order a hard copy from the site for a charge.
netLibrary [http://www2.lib.udel.edu/database/netlib.html]
A collection of electronic books. (Authorized University of Delaware users only).
The Ohio State University Press Open Access Initiative [http://www.ohiostatepress.org/index.htm?/books/openaccess.htm]
Some 80 out-of-print OSU Press titles.
The On-Line Books Page (University of Pennsylvania)
[http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/]
“Listing over 25,000 free books on the Web.”
The Online Medieval & Classical Library [http://omacl.org/]
The Oxford Text Archive [http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/]
PA’s Past: Digital Bookshelf at Penn
State [http://apps.libraries.psu.edu/digitalbookshelf/]
Provides the text of 643 works pertaining to Pennsylvania history.
Park Histories (National Park Service) [http://www.nps.gov/history/history/park_histories/index.htm]
More than 1,000 books, studies, and reports are available online courtesy
of the National Park Service’s Park History Program.
Project Gutenberg [http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page]
Rare Books Digitized in the USA [http://wiki.netbib.de/coma/RareUS]
A wiki collection of hyperlinks to sites featuring digitized rare books.
Revolution & Romanticism [http://www.crcstudio.arts.ualberta.ca/streetprint/index.php]
A private collection of street literature. It comprises a wide range of types, from street ballads through chapbooks and tracts to valentines, from Britain and mostly from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Schoenberg Center for Electronic
Text & Image (SCETI) [http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/]
Created by the University of Pennsylvania Library to publish virtual facsimiles of rare books and manuscripts in the Penn Library's collections.
Smithsonian Institution Libraries Digital Collections [http://www.sil.si.edu/DigitalCollections/]
From the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, Natural History Rare Books, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletins, and Publications from Smithsonian Institution Libraries.
Text Archive (Internet Archive) [http://www.archive.org/details/texts]
“This collection is open to the community for the contribution of any type of text, many licensed using Creative Commons licenses.”
Text Archive (Cornell University Libraries) [http://www.archive.org/details/cornell]
More than 70,000 digitized public domain books
Text Collections (University of Virginia Digital Collections) [http://www.lib.virginia.edu/digital/collections/text/]
70,000 texts, mostly online, including history, literature, philosophy, religion, history of science. Languages include Latin, Apache, Japanese, and Chinese.
University of California Press Publications [http://repositories.cdlib.org/ucpress/]
Available free of cost are UC Publications in Entomology, UC Publications in Geological Sciences, UC Publications in Linguistics, and UC Publications in Zoology.
University of Wisconsin Digital Collections [http://uwdc.library.wisc.edu/index.shtml]
Resources within the collections are free and publicly accessible online. They are loosely organized into collections that span a range of subjects including art, ecology, literature, history, music, natural resources, science, social sciences, the State of Wisconsin, and the University of Wisconsin. Digital resources include text-based materials such as books, journal series, and manuscript collections; photographic images; slides; maps; prints; posters; audio; and video.
Women Working, 1870-1930 [http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ww/]
A prototype of Harvard University Library's Open Collections Program Women Working project. This site will provide access to digitized books (over 2000), manuscripts (10,000 pages) and images (1,000) from the collections of Harvard University Libraries and Museums on the topic of women in the U.S. economy from 1870-1930.
World Digital Library [http://www.wdl.org/en]
Significant primary materials from cultures around the world, including manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, architectural drawings, and other significant cultural materials.
See also 
English and American Literature: A Guide to Internet Resources - Digital Collections
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