Most E-Text Archives listed on this page are public domain archives; all are publically accessible.

Title	Description
Books On-line	A searchable and browseable database-directory of online electronic texts covering a broad range of interests, from established literary classics to computer how-to manuals. Some have sample chapters with links to Amazon.com.
CARRIE: Full-Text On-line Library	Originally from the University of Kansas, now supported by the European University Institute; an extensive link resource listing texts archived at various locations across the Internet. Also provides a very competent search engine aimed at providing access to E-texts.
Digital Librarian: Electronic Texts & Primary Sources	The Digital Librarian web site provides a selection of librarian's choices of the best of the Web. Perhaps, the best index to book and text resources on the Internet
Electronic Text Center (University of Virginia)	A premier and much respected e-text site. Holdings include approximately 51,000 on- and off-line humanities texts in twelve languages, with more than 350,000 related images.
E-Text Archives	Home to electronic texts of all kinds. Self-described mission "is to provide electronic versions of texts without judging their content."
Mad Cybarian's Library	Links to free on-line e-texts in alphabetical order by author.
National Library of Canada Electronic Collection	Incorporates formally published Canadian online books and journals.
The Online Books Page	More than 25,000 English language works in various formats. Compare to The Internet Public Library which indexes fewer full books, but more short texts and non-English books.
The Oxford Text Archive	Works closely with Arts & Humanities scholars 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.
Project Gutenberg	Texts are taken from books published pre-1923. Orientation is towards classic books backwards from 1923.
Sunsite Digital Collections	Extensive digital collections and services. Also prvoides information and support to digital library developers worldwide. Sponsored by UC Berkeley Library and Sun Microsystems, Inc.

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Title	Description
African American Women Writers of the 19th Century	From the New York Public Library, a digital collection of some 50 19th-century published works.
The Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts	A collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy.
American Literary Classics	A website with links to 28 American literary classics.
American Verse Project	An electronic archive of volumes of American poetry. Most of the archive is made up of 19th century poetry, although a few 18th century and early 20 century texts are included. From the Humanities Text Initiative at the University of Michigan.
Bibliomania Classic Texts	Hundreds of searchable full-text works of classic fiction, popular fiction, short stories, drama, poetry, dictionaries, and so on.
Celebration of Women Writers	Collection of links to electronic texts--novels, poems, letters, biographies, travel books, religious commentaries, histories, economic and scientific works. Also provides links to biographical and bibliographical information. Users can browse by author, century or country.
Classic Authors Library	Online index and full-text access to 460 author's works; a number of Amerciana titles by Twain, Charles Brockden Brown, and others
Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse	Designed to offer easy access to and interconnectivity between three major Middle English electronic resources.
Cowboy and Western Poetry at the Bar-D Ranch	A hub for Cowboy poetry; includes some old and classical cowboy poetry and much more--newsletters, events, articles, book reviews, and so on.
The English Server Drama Collection	Collection of both long and short English drama plays and criticism.
The English Server Fiction Collection	Collection of online fiction which includes short sotries and novels.
E-Text Collections in Western European Literature	Supported by the West European Specialist Section of the Association of College & Research Libraries.
Fantasy & Science Fiction Website	Supported by the University of Michigan; mostly older works in the public domain. SF is defined broadly to include speculative fiction, science fiction, fantasy, myth, fairy tales, and horror.
Gaslight	Gaslight is an Internet discussion list which reviews one story a week from the genres of mystery, adventure and The Weird, written between 1800 and 1919. The current readings and selected ones from the past are available in a chronological list. Site maintained by Mount Royal College, Canada.
Great Books Index	Over 150 authors and 700 books
The Internet Classics Archive	Supported by MIT, this site includes over 400 translated texts of 59 different Greek and Latin authors in HTML format. The archive inculdes a search utility.
Luminarium: English Literature	English Literature of the Middle Ages, Renaissance and 17th century.
Online Literature Library	More classics of literature. The fonts used in this online library facilitate online reading.
Online Medieval and Classical Library	A collection of some of the most important literary works of Classical (Greek and Roman) and Medieval civilization. Housed at Berkeley.
Other Women's Voices: Translations of Women's Writing Before 1700	Translations of over 125 women writers who produced work before 1700. Each entry contains background on the author.
The Perseus Digital Library	A primary focus on Classical literature and civilization (Greek & Roman). This is one of the first and continues to be one of the best subject-oriented digital archives.
Project Bartleby	An Internet publisher of literature and verse providing students, researchers and others with unlimited free access to books and information on the Web.
Renascence Editions	Renascence Editions is an effort to make available online works printed in English between the years 1477 (when Caxton began printing) and 1799. These texts have been produced with care and attention, but are not represented by the publisher as scholarly editions in the peer-reviewed sense. They are made available to the public for nonprofit purposes only. The publisher and general editor is Richard Bear at the University of Oregon
Short Stories at east of the web	A growing collection of classic and newly written short stories; organized by theme-- fiction, romance, crime, sci-fi & fantasy, humor, horror, and so on
Sonnet Central	An archive of English sonnets, commentar, pictures, and related materials grouped by period, and by an alphabetical list.
STARN	A Glasgow University digitisation project. The focus is on Scottish literature and language materials which are usually difficult to access by other means.
Turning the Pages on the Web	The British Library has digitized important works such as Caxton's Chaucer, the Lindisfarne Gospels, and many other important historical texts.
Victorian Women Writers Project	Exceptionally well-edited and carefully encoded texts of all kinds by British women writers of the 19th century. Supported by the University of Indiana.
Women Romantic-era Writers	An outstanding site; a recipient of a CHOICE Outstanding Website citation from the Association of College and Research Libraries.

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Digitized Text Repositories: Specialized Subjects

Title	Description
The Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts	A collection of public domain documents from Western philosophy as well as from American and English literature.
AL Islam	Ahlul Bayt Digital Islamic Library Project
American Civil War	Special collection of digitized texts about the American Civil War from the Electronic Text Center (University of Virginia).
American Memory Collections	The Library of Congress' effort to digitize and deliver electronically, its distincitve, historical Americana holdings, including photographs, manuscripts, rare books, maps, recorded sound, and moving pictures. Currently there are over 70 collections in the American Memory Historical Collections.
Avalon Project	Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy from Hammurabi to the 20th century.
Banned Books Online	Special exhibit of books from the Online Books Page (University of Pennsylvania Digital Library) that have been the objects of censorship or censorship attempts.
Bestsellers 1900-1930	This list includes electronic versions of bestsellers from 1900-1930. The texts are either part of the Electronic Text Center's Modern English collection, or items found at various other sites on the internet. This .com bookstore site lists bestsellers by decade.
Bodleian Library (Oxford)	Approximately a thousand manuscript images from the 11th throught 17th Centuries.
Chinese Philosophical E-text Archive	The Archive is based at Wesleyan University.
Christian Classics Ethereal Library	Classic Christian texts in electronic format. All text in the public domain. From Calvin College.
Civil War Women: Primary Sources	Links to manuscript collections at Duke University which have been scanned and transcribed. Also links to other Civil War women's archival documents.
Cornell University Prototype Digital Library	Major aspects of the collection are the Math Book Collection (571 titles) and the Making of America (MOA) collection (267 book titles; 955 serial issues). Select Browse for a complete bibliography of available titles.
Documenting the American South	A project of the University of North Carolina Libraries, includes collections such as the The Library of Southern Literature, and North American Slave Narratives.
DOUGLASS: Archives of American Public Address	DOUGLASS is an electronic archive of American oratory and related documents. It is intended to serve general scholarship and courses in American rhetorical history at Northwestern University.
Early Canadiana Online	A full-text online collection of more than 3,000 books and pamphlets docoumenting Canadian history from the first European contact to the late 19th century. Particularly strong in literature, women's history, native studies, travel and exploration.
Electronic Texts & Documents [Information Gateway U. of Washington Libraries]	Link is to Academic Subject Access pages; for full-text materials select Electronic Texts & Documents under subject area of interest.
Eserver.org Accessible Online Publishing	An e-text collection begun at Carnegie-Mellon, now housed at the University of Iowa. It's focus has expanded beyond literature to cultural criticism the site now includes more than 30,000 items; contains many unique titles and collections.
EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents from Western Europe	Selected Transcriptions, Facsimiles and Translations. Arranged by country.
Folklore and Mythology Texts	Electronic texts prepared by D.L. Ashliman, retired professor of the University of Pittsburgh.
Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum	Over 10,000 digitized documents.
From Revolution to Reconstruction	The main body of this hypertext comes from a number of USIA-publications An Outline of American History, An Outline of the American Economy, An Outline of American Government, and An Outline of American Literature. The text of these Outlines has not been changed, but they have been enriched with hypertext-links to relevant documents, original essays, other Internet sites, and to other Outlines.
GrayLIT Network	GrayLIT is a portal to more than 1 million full-text technical reports from the DOE, DOD, EPA, NASA and other government funded research agencies. This site offers an unusual amount of information and easy, seamless searching.
Gutenberg Digital Bible	Presents the 1282 digitized pages of the Goettingen Gutenberg Bible, printed in c. 1454. Site includes links to early printing history, illumination, and so on.
History of Ecnomic Thought Archive	From McMaster University, an attempt to gather all material for the study of the history of economics on one site.
Historical Text Archive	More than 700 articles, books, documents, photographs. Organized by country and selected major topics.
Images from Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts	Images of manuscripts held by Columbia University Rare Books & Manuscript Library. Images are provided in low, medium and high resolution.
Internet Library of Early Journals (ILEJ)	ILEJ is a joint project by the Universities of Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Oxford. It aims to digitise substantial runs of 18th and 19th century journals, and make these images available on the Internet, together with their associated bibliographic data.
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy	About 20 standard philosophical texts available in HTML and RTF formats; however links to these texts are buried in the enclopedia entries. Generally, it is easier to use the IEP as a straightforward encyclopedia, rather than a text finder.
LIBRO: Library of Iberian Resources Online	A joint project of the American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain and the University of Central Arkansas. The book list is principally drawn from recent, but out-of-print university press monographs. These are presented in full-text format and reproduce all the matter included in the original print version. Present focus is on ca. 500 to 1500.
The Library of Economics and Liberty	A compilation of seminal works from commentators on economics, with a particular point of view tying all the various names together. A review noted: "Viewpoint is the recognition of the sanctity of the individual, along with a general regard for personal liberty....The site is maintained by the Liberty Fund."
The Lied and Song Texts Page	More than 2,000 composers, 27 languages, includes an index of first lines.
Marxists Text Archive	The archive is divided into three major sections: Marxist writers, Marxist history, and reference materials. Includes materials of socialist thinkers as well as strict Marxists.
The Modern English Collection	From the University of Virginia Electronic Text Archives. Collections include Women Writers, Best Sellers from 1900-1930, Texts for Young Readers, Texts by and about African Americans, Native Americans, Thomas Jefferson, and Alexander Hamilton,
National Academy Press	More than 1,500 reports from the National Academies are available free online. Select Browse Categories for subject access.
Native American Texts	Native American texts from the Electronic Text Center.
Philologoical Museum; Univ. of Birmingham, UK	Comprised of two parts; An analytical bibliography and a Library of Humanistic Texts which includes links to Latin texts composed during and after the Renaissance. The bibliography has approximately 1,500 items listed.
Smithsonian Institution Libraries Digital Collections	Project to issue digital editions of science, technology and natural history rare books. Currently most of the collection is focused on anthropology, ethnology and natural history.
Text by or to Thomas Jefferson	Part of the Electronic Text Archive, a special collection of more than 1,700 items including manuscript images.
World Scripture: A Comparative Anthology of Sacred Texts	Originally, published as a hardback book, this archives makes the text and all supporting documentation available without charge. The collection contains over 4,000 passages from 268 sacred texts and 55 oral traditions, and is organized in terms of 164 different themes. The text is only available in a very barebones ascii format.
World Wide School Library	More than 2,000 copyright free online texts of possible use to educators at about the sixth grade and up, organized by subject, author, title, accompanied with helpful notes. Be sure to read the "About" commentary as it explains the collection policy parameters.

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