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Other Online Text Collections

While the IPL's Online Text Collection is the most comprehensive directory to online texts available, there's still a lot of stuff that we have yet to add to our collection. You may wish to look through this listing to find other collections and directories for online texts.

View collections that start with:

A-B | C-D | E-F | G-H | I-J | K-L | M-N | O-P | Q-R | S-T | U-W

Choose a letter above to browse the list of collections alphabetically, or choose from one of the following major online text collections:

Athena

http://un2sg4.unige.ch/athena/html/athome.html

"Several lists with links to more than 8000 e-texts (philosophy, science, classics, literature, history, economics, etc.)"

Maintainer: Pierre Perroud (perroud@sc2a.unige.ch)

Subjects: philosophy, literature, history, science, arts, economics

Navigation: Author Browse

Formats: HTML; RTF

Languages: French, English, German, Spanish, Russian, Italian, Latin

Kind: directory; content

IPL Status: Partially Done

Christian Classics Ethereal Library

http://ccel.wheaton.edu/

"Classic Christian books in electronic format, selected for your edification."

Maintainer: Wheaton College (W.H.Plantinga@wheaton.edu)

Subjects: Religion

Navigation: Author Browse; Searchable

Formats: HTML; ASCII text; PDF; RTF

Languages: English

Kind: content

IPL Status: Done

Computer and Internet Related Online Books

http://hoganbooks.com/freebook/webbooks.html

Maintainer: Jack Hogan (jack@hoganbooks.com)

Subjects: Computers, Internet

Navigation: Title Browse

Languages: English

Kind: directory

IPL Status: Done

Documenting the American South

http://metalab.unc.edu/docsouth/

"Most information about nineteenth-century America comes from Northerners. This database presents primary sources documenting the culture of the American South from the viewpoint of Southerners."

Maintainer: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Academic Affairs Library (nsmith@email.unc.edu)

Subjects: American History

Navigation: Subject Browse; Title Browse; Author Browse

Formats: HTML

Languages: English

Kind: content

IPL Status: Done

Early Canadiana Online

http://www.canadiana.org/

"Early Canadiana Online (ECO) is a full text online collection of more than 3,000 books and pamphlets documenting Canadian history from the first European contact to the late 19th century. The collection is particularly strong in literature, women's history, native studies, travel and exploration, and the history of French Canada. The Early Canadiana Online (ECO) collection is made up of images of the pages in the selected books and pamphlets. After searching by title, author, subject, or keyword and finding a text you wish to look at, you will see a scanned image of the page of the volume. Optical Character recognition (OCR) has been performed on the images to enhance searching and accessing the texts."

Maintainer: University of Toronto Library (eco_nml@library.utoronto.ca)

Navigation: Searchable; Title Browse; Author Browse

Formats: Page Images

Languages: English, French

Kind: content

IPL Status: Partially Done

Ebrary

http://shop.ebrary.com/

Includes thousands of current books from hundreds of publishers, in their proprietary ebrary reader format. Reading the text online is free, but users are required to pay small fees to copy text or print pages.

Maintainer: ebrary, Inc. (support_web@ebrary.com)

Navigation: Searchable

Formats: Page Images

Languages: English

Kind: content

IPL Status: Not Done

Edward Lowe Digital Library

http://www.lowe.org/search.htm

"This collection of public domain documents and licensed materials (nearly 4,000) covers all aspects of starting, managing and growing a small business. Documents can be retrieved in a full text search of by browsing 2 subject lists."

Maintainer: The Edward Lowe Foundation (faith@els.lowe.org)

Subjects: Business

Navigation: Searchable; Subject Browse

Formats: ASCII text

Languages: English

Kind: content

IPL Status: Not Done

English Server at CMU

http://english.hss.cmu.edu/

"The English Server is a cooperative which has been publishing humanities texts online since 1990. Today it offers over eighteen thousand works, covering a wide range of interests."

Maintainer: Carnegie Mellon University (webmaster@eng.hss.cmu.edu)

Subjects: Humanities

Navigation: Subject Browse; Searchable

Formats: ASCII text; HTML

Languages: English

Kind: content

IPL Status: Done

Historical Text Archive

http://www.msstate.edu/Archives/History/

Maintainer: Mississippi State University (djm1@ra.msstate.edu)

Subjects: History

Navigation: Subject Browse

Formats: HTML

Languages: English

Kind: content

IPL Status: Not Done

Humanities Text Initiative

http://www.hti.umich.edu/all/unrestrict.html

American Verse Project, Michigan Early Modern English Collection, Middle English Collection, Modern English Public Domain Texts.

Maintainer: University of Michigan (hti-info@umich.edu)

Subjects: Fiction, Poetry

Navigation: Searchable; Title Browse; Author Browse

Formats: HTML; SGML

Languages: English

Kind: content

IPL Status: Done

Internet Classics Archive

http://classics.mit.edu/

"An award-winning, searchable collection of almost 400 classical Greek and Roman texts (in English translation) with user-provided commentary."

Maintainer: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (classics@classics.mit.edu)

Subjects: Classics

Navigation: Searchable; Author Browse

Formats: HTML; ASCII text

Languages: English

IPL Status: Not Done

Internet Sacred Text Archive

http://www.sacred-texts.com/

"This site is a freely available non-profit archive of electronic texts about religion, mythology, legends and folklore, and occult and esoteric topics. Texts are presented in English translation and, in some cases, in the original language.; ; This site has no particular agenda other than promoting religious tolerance and scholarship."

Maintainer: J.B. Hare (postmaster@sacred-texts.com)

Subjects: religions, mythology, folklore

Navigation: Subject Browse

Formats: HTML

Languages: English

Kind: content

IPL Status: Partially Done

Library of Congress

http://lcweb.loc.gov/

Digitized materials from the United States Library of Congress.

Maintainer: Library of Congress (lcweb@loc.gov)

Subjects: American History

Navigation: Title Browse; Author Browse

Formats: HTML

Languages: English

Kind: content

IPL Status: Partially Done

Making of America

http://www.umdl.umich.edu/moa/

"A major collaborative endeavor to preserve and make accessible through digital technology a significant body of primary sources related to development of the U.S. infrastructure."

Maintainer: University of Michigan Digital Library Production Service (moa-feedback@umich.edu)

Subjects: United States History

Navigation: Author Browse; Searchable

Formats: HTML

Languages: English

Kind: content

IPL Status: Not Done

National Academy Press Reading Room

http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/

"The National Academy Press is the publishing arm of the National; Academy of Sciences and its associated institutions: the National; Acacemy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National; Research Council. The Academy is a private, non-profit institution; founded by an act of Congress in 1863 for the purpose of advising the; federal government on matters related to science, technology, health,; and education. In addition to our role as advisors to the nation, our; mission is the dissemination of scientific information world-wide, which; led us to pioneer delivery of full-text books online via the World Wide; Web."

Maintainer: Lynn Cook (lcook@nas.edu)

Subjects: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, Public Policy, Education

Navigation: Subject Browse; Searchable

Formats: HTML; Page Images

Languages: English

Kind: content

IPL Status: Partially Done

On-line Books Page

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/

"Look here for an index of thousands of on-line books, and for common repositories of on-line books and other documents. Our local index includes more than 10,000 English works in various formats."

Maintainer: John Mark Ockerbloom (onlinebooks@pobox.upenn.edu)

Subjects: all

Navigation: Searchable; Title Browse; Author Browse; Subject Browse

Languages: English

Kind: directory

IPL Status: Done

Project Gutenberg

http://www.promo.net/pg/

"There are three portions of the Project Gutenberg Library, basically described as:

• Light Literature; such as Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass,Peter Pan, Aesop's Fables, etc.
• Heavy Literature; such as the Bible or other religious documents, Shakespeare,Moby Dick, Paradise Lost, etc.
• References; such as Roget's Thesaurus, almanacs, and a set of encyclopedia, dictionaries, etc."

Maintainer: Michael S. Hart (hart@pobox.com)

Subjects: various

Navigation: Author Browse; Title Browse

Formats: ASCII text; Compressed

Languages: English

Kind: content

IPL Status: Done

Projekt Runeberg

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

"Project Runeberg publishes Nordic literature and art on the Internet. This means scanning; old books, converting the text to HTML files, and putting them up on the World Wide Web server at http://www.lysator.liu.se/runeberg/ Anybody may read what we publish, free of charge. Project Runeberg also publishes information about Nordic authors."

Maintainer: Linköping University (runeberg@lysator.liu.se)

Subjects: various

Navigation: Author Browse; Searchable; Title Browse

Formats: HTML; ASCII text

Languages: Swedish, Danish, Norweigian, Icelandic

Kind: content

IPL Status: Done

Secular Web Library

http://www.infidels.org/library/

Maintainer: The Secular Web (infidel@infidels.org)

Subjects: Theism, Secularism, Evolution

Navigation: Searchable; Subject Browse; Author Browse

Formats: HTML

Languages: English

Kind: content

IPL Status: Partially Done

University of Virginia Electronic Text Library

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/uvaonline.html

Maintainer: The University of Virginia (etext@virginia.edu)

Navigation: Author Browse

Formats: HTML; SGML

Languages: English, French, German, Japanese, Italian

Kind: content

IPL Status: Partially Done

Victorian Women Writers Project

http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/

"The goal of the Victorian Women Writers Project is to produce highly accurate transcriptions of literary works by British women writers of the late 19th century, encoded using the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML). The works, selected with the assistance of the Advisory Board, will include anthologies, novels, political pamphlets, and volumes of poetry and verse drama. Considerable attention will be given to the accuracy and completeness of the texts, and to accurate bibliographical descriptions of them."

Maintainer: Indiana University (pwillett@indiana.edu)

Subjects: various

Navigation: Author Browse

Formats: HTML; SGML

Languages: English

Kind: content

IPL Status: Done

Virtual Computer Library

http://www.utexas.edu/computer/vcl/

"VCL is a collection of links to information about computers and computing." There is a search engine that supports boolean operators (and, or, not). Topics range from databases to FAQ's to general computing to journal listings -- all in one place. You can find listings of conferences as wll as product description and reviews. There is also a collection of Academic Computing links, which lists "computing centers organized by state/country" and book reviews, which is a collection of "independent reviews organized by subject."

Maintainer: Christine M. Henke (vclib@www.utexas.edu)

Subjects: Computers

Navigation: Searchable; Subject Browse

Languages: English

Kind: directory

IPL Status: Not Done

Yes, we will someday add subject access and searching to this collection. Please be patient.

If you are looking for a specific text, try using the IPL's Online Text Collection. The IPL Status entry for each item refers to whether we have cataloged a majority of that site's content in our collection.

If you maintain an online text collection and/or directory and would like to see it listed here, please e-mail the necessary information and a description to readroom@ipl.org