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University of Adelaide  The Electronic Text Collection

The collection includes classic works of Literature, Philosophy, Science, and Medicine, formatted for ease of reading on screen. Works can be read online, or downloaded for offline reading.

The Internet Public Library Online Texts Collection

The IPL Online Texts Collection indexes over 7700 titles that can be browsed or searched by author, by title, or by Dewey Subject Classification.
http://www.ipl.org/reading/books/

The On-Line Books Page

"a directory of books that can be freely read right on the Internet. It includes: an index of thousands of on-line books on the Internet; pointers to significant directories and archives of on-line texts; special exhibits; and more!"
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/


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Project Gutenberg

The oldest e-text project, dating back before the Web. Recently (2002) published their 5,000th e-text. Books are deliberately plain-text, to promote the widest possible accessibility.Many of these texts may also be accessed through the Adelaide's Web Catalogue.
http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/pg/



Project Gutenberg Australia

An Australian off-shoot of the US-based archive, providing e-texts which are public domain in Australia while still under copyright in the US. This site has a specific focus on Australiana.
http://www.gutenberg.net.au/

 

Alex: A Catalogue of Electronic Texts on the Internet

"a catalog of books and other works on the Internet"
http://www.infomotions.com/alex/

American Literature Hypertexts

University of Virginia's collection of some 40 major works by Thoreau, de Tocqueville, Jefferson, Twain and others.
http://xroads.virginia.edu/%7EHYPER/hypertex.html

Avalon Project

Yale Law School's archive of legal documents, treaties, charters and constitutions.
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm

Banned Books On-Line

"special exhibit of books that have been the objects of censorship or censorship attempts... ranging from Ulysses to Little Red Riding Hood"
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/banned-books.html

Bartleby.com  

Free searchable database of reference books.

Bibliomania

A small collection of Reference, Fiction, Non-Fiction and Poetry.
http://www.bibliomania.com

CARRIE: An Electronic LIbrary

From the University of Kansas (predominantly indexes texts on other servers).
http://www.ukans.edu/carrie/carrie_main.html

A Celebration of Women Writers

"provides a comprehensive listing of links to biographical and bibliographical information about women writers, and complete published books written by women."
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/#A_Section

Concordances of Great Books

Over 500 classic books, fully searchable and word-indexed.
http://www.concordance.com

Eighteenth Century Resources

"covers significant and reliable Internet resources that focus on the eighteenth century -- let's say Milton to Keats. The collection includes information on literature, history, art, music, religion, economics, philosophy, and so on, from around the world, as well as the home pages of societies and people who work on eighteenth-century topics. The site is aimed especially at scholars and students"
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/18th/

The Electronic Literature Foundation

"The mission ... is to produce advanced electronic texts to be used by students, scholars, and admirers of literature around the world. Our goal is to provide free access to a variety of texts from world literature available in several languages and/or editions, with forums for communication regarding these works, for all types of readers."
http://elf.chaoscafe.com/

The English Server

"The English Server is a progressive student-run cooperative which has been publishing humanities texts to millions of readers online since 1990. Today it distributes over eighteen thousand works, including classics and new writing, representing a wide range of topics in the arts and humanities."
http://eserver.org/

The ETEXT Archives

"home to electronic texts of all kinds, from the sacred to the profane, from the political to the personal." Provides archives of many newsgroups and 'zines' in addition to books.
http://www.etext.org/

Internet Classics Archive

"an award-winning, searchable collection of almost 400 classical Greek and Roman texts (in English translation) with user-provided commentary."
http://classics.mit.edu/

The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies

"The Labyrinth provides free, organized access to electronic resources in medieval studies [including] connections to databases, services, texts, and images"
http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/

The Litrix Reading Room

Litrix Reading Room is edited by Stan Jones, a mystery novelist and book-lover in Anchorage, Alaska. The Reading Room devotes a section to the literature of the North.
http://www.litrix.com/readroom.htm

MemoWare

Includes a large collection of e-books for the Palm Pilot and other PDAs
http://www.MemoWare.com/

The Online Books Initiative

This collection is a bit of a grab-bag, not well maintained, but with come useful material. "this is a first, small step in creating massive full-text on-line libraries" ... yes, well ...
http://ftp.std.com/obi/

An Online Literature Library

this is a personal effort by one individual, who's aim is therefore quality rather than quantity.
http://www.literature.org/

The Online Medieval and Classical Library (DL SunSITE)

"a collection of some of the most important literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization" Impressive.
http://sunsite.Berkeley.EDU/OMACL/

Oxford Text Archive

"contains electronic versions of literary works by many major authors in Greek, Latin, English and a dozen or more other languages. It contains collections and corpora of unpublished materials prepared by field workers in linguistics. It contains electronic versions of some standard reference works. It has copies of texts and corpora prepared by individual scholars and major research projects worldwide. ... there are over 1300 titles in its catalogue."
http://ota.ox.ac.uk

Perseus Project Home Page

"a continually growing digital library of resources for studying the ancient world. The library's materials include ancient texts and translations, philological tools, maps, extensively illustrated art catalogs, and secondary essays on topics like vase painting."
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/

Project Bartleby

"publishes the classics of literature, nonfiction, and reference free of charge"
http://www.bartleby.com/

Renascence Editions

"is an effort to make available online works printed in English between the years 1477 (when Caxton began printing) and 1799."
http://www.uoregon.edu/~rbear/ren.htm

Samizdat Express

a different, deliberately low-tech approach: required etexts can be supplied on diskette to order.
http://www.samizdat.com/catalog.html

SETIS: Australian Literature Database

the publically-accessible collection of the Scholarly Electronic Text and Image Service at the University of Sydney Library
http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/ozlit/

The Shakespeare Web

"an interactive, hypermedia environment dedicated to the increasingly popular understanding and enjoyment of Shakespeare's plays and other works."
http://www.shakespeare.com/

Universal Library

Experimental project hosted by CMU.
http://www.ul.cs.cmu.edu/

Univesrity of Toronto English Library

UTEL consists mainly of a large database of electronic texts. The texts that have been selected to be included in UTEL are English language texts that are potentially useful to students, especially undergraduate students, of English literature...
http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/

The University of Virginia Electronic Text Library

"electronic texts and images are available to University of Virginia users; a good number are freely available to any Internet user. ... All texts are marked up in various forms of SGML, and are converted automatically to HTML each time a user selects a text or performs a search."
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/uvaonline.html

Woldwide Piracy -- eTexts

A collection of works devoted to freedom, etc.
http://www.piracy.com/works/

Wiretap

an archive of many classic works.
http://wiretap.area.com/Gopher/Library/

Some sites offering foreign language texts:

 French Electronic Texts

A local directory of French language sites.
http://www.library.adelaide.edu.au/guide/hum/french/etext.html

ARTFL Project

Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/ARTFL/ARTFL.html

Association des Bibliophiles Universels

The Association des Bibliophiles Universels (ABU) ... offers French public domain texts
http://www.cnam.fr/ABU/

ATHENA

"Books, Literature, Arts, Science, Mineralogy" Specialises in Swiss and French language texts
http://un2sg4.unige.ch/athena/html/athome.html

BitBlioteca

Mainly Spanish texts, but also English and French
http://www.analitica.com/bitblio/bitblio.htm

CELT Project

"The CELT project aims to produce an online database of contemporary and historical topics from many areas, including literature and the other arts."
http://www.ucc.ie/celt/

Le Chateau

Les rayonnages de la bibliothèque vous proposent plus de 100 livres électroniques : les textes de la littérature classique francaise en Hyperlivres.
http://www.le-chateau.ilias.com/

Italian Literature in HTML

Classic and contemporary texts of varied genre.
http://www.crs4.it/HTML/Literature.html

Projekt Gutenberg-DE

Works in German: "Mit dem Projekt Gutenberg-DE ermöglichen wir eine ganz neue Form des Zugangs zur Literatur. Unsere Leser können Bücher 'online' lesen, nach bestimmten Büchern suchen oder in Bibliotheken stöbern."
http://gutenberg.aol.de/gutenb.htm

Progetto Manuzio (Liber Liber)

"... il progetto Manuzio consiste nella fondazione di una biblioteca di testi elettronici, accessibili gratuitamente via Internet."
http://www.liberliber.it/

Project Runeberg

Nordic Literature
http://www.lysator.liu.se/runeberg/

REESWeb : Russian and East European Studies

has good links to sites with Russian and Eastern European texts.
http://www.pitt.edu/~cjp/

19th-Century German Stories

Features works with illustrations and translations by the Wilhelm Busch, the Brothers Grimm and Heinrich Hoffman.
http://www.vcu.edu/hasweb/for/menu.html

Some other places to look:

Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature

"lists Internet sources for literary texts in the western European languages other than English."
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/wess/etexts.html

Guide to Etext Directories

 
http://www.westciv.com.au/Etext_Pages/etext_directories.html

International Electronic Library from the University of Cologne

"contains links to electronic texts and text corpora in many different languages which can be accessed via Internet."
http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/e-text/IEL.html

Other National Literatures

part of Jack Lynch's Literary Resources pages
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/other.html

 Yahoo! - Arts:Humanities:Literature:Electronic_Literature:Collections

 
http://www.yahoo.com.au/Arts/Humanities/Literature/Electronic_Literature/Collections/