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Texts on this Site
- 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.
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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/
- Project
Gutenberg
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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
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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
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"a catalog of books and other works on the
Internet"
http://www.infomotions.com/alex/
- American
Literature Hypertexts
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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
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Yale Law School's archive of legal documents, treaties,
charters and constitutions.
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm
- Banned Books On-Line
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"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
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Free searchable database of reference books.
- Bibliomania
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A small collection of Reference, Fiction, Non-Fiction and
Poetry.
http://www.bibliomania.com
- CARRIE:
An Electronic LIbrary
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From the University of Kansas (predominantly indexes texts
on other servers).
http://www.ukans.edu/carrie/carrie_main.html
- A
Celebration of Women Writers
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"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
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Over 500 classic books, fully searchable and word-indexed.
http://www.concordance.com
- Eighteenth
Century Resources
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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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
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Includes a large collection of e-books for the Palm Pilot
and other PDAs
http://www.MemoWare.com/
- The Online Books
Initiative
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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
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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)
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"a collection of some of the most important literary
works of Classical and Medieval civilization" Impressive.
http://sunsite.Berkeley.EDU/OMACL/
- Oxford Text Archive
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"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
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"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
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"publishes the classics of literature, nonfiction, and
reference free of charge"
http://www.bartleby.com/
- Renascence
Editions
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"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
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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
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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
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"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
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Experimental project hosted by CMU.
http://www.ul.cs.cmu.edu/
- Univesrity of
Toronto English Library
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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
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"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
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A collection of works devoted to freedom, etc.
http://www.piracy.com/works/
- Wiretap
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an archive of many classic works.
http://wiretap.area.com/Gopher/Library/
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