Electronic Text Archives
Contents: General Archives | Hypertext and Web Publications | Individual Author Guides
- ALEX: A catalog of electronic texts from archives around the Internet. Unmodified since late 1994, but still useful.
- Books from the Eris Project, VA Polytechnic
- Catalogue of Projects in Electronic Text (CPET), Georgetown U. Login as "cpet"
- Electronic Text Center: Offers about 5,000 public-domain texts, including English literature, manuscripts and newspapers from 1500 to the present. Also includes texts in more than a dozen other languages.
- Electronic Texts from CCAT, U. Of Penn
- Electronic Texts from OBI: The Online Book Initiative
- Internet Wiretap
- Jarn Barger's "One-stop guide to online etexts". Excellent Annotated E-text index.
- Literature, Electronic Books and Journals Directory from Rice U.
- Project Gutenburg: One of the first electronic text projects on the Internet, this has about 2,500 public-domain titles.
- Project Runeberg (Scandinavian texts)
- The Electronic Bookshelf (Penn State U)
- American Verse Project
- University of Michigan: "The Humanities Text Initiative (HTI) is assembling 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 20th century texts are included."
- Anti-Imperialism in the United States, 1898-1935
- Hypertext project maintained by Jim Zwick, Syracuse University. A collection of historical and literary texts from the period, with commentary and photos.
- Author Webliography
- The Webliography selection of Internet archives and indexes for particular authors.
- British Poetry 1780-1910: a Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions
- Electronic Text Center Alderman Library University of Virginia. Editions of works by: Coleridge, Mary Robinson, D. G. Rossetti, Richard Polwhele, Tennyson, Wilde, and Keats.
- DScriptorium
- "DScriptorium is devoted to collecting, storing and distributing digital images of Medieval manuscripts"
- Etext Archives
- Home for Zines, electronic books from Project Gutenberg, religious texts and more.
- Galenet
- Available to LSU users only. Register through the LSU Libraries Off-Campus Gateway.
- Biography Resource Center
- Literature Resource Center
- Great Books Home Page
- An index of texts from throughout cyberspace, arranged chronologically, topically, and by author. Based on Mortimer Adler's How to Read a Book.
- Historical Text Archive
- Supported by the College of Arts and Sciences and the Computing Center of Mississippi State University, this site includes ASCII files of historical documents and scholarly papers mainly from the Americas, GIF files, software, library search programs, diaries, and bibliographies.
- Humanities Text Initiative
- University of Michigan text project. Includes electronic texts and journals, SGML resources, and reference materials.
- NCSU Poetry WAIS
- A searchable database of poetry texts.
- Project Bartleby/Bartelby.com
- This former Columbia University hypertext literature project includes near complete the works of Keats, Shelley, Wordsworth and others as well as a searchable Bartletts Familiar Quotations. Very well designed. Now a .com site but still FREE.
- Publications of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities
- Other hypertext files at Virginia. Includes hypertext research reports on a great range of topics: U.S. Civil War, Rossetti, Swahili language, Pompeii, Piers Plowman, Alexander Bell.
- The University of Virginia Electronic Text Library
- Under the direction of the Electronic Text Center. Texts concerning Middle and Early Modern English, and also Biblical, Latin, and French studies. Search the full text of documents for keywords.
- Web Concordances
- Well organized hypertext concordance of Blake ("Songs of Innocence and of Experience"), Keats ("Odes of 1819"), and Coleridge ("The Ancyent Marinere"). Search by word and display the full text. Other titles coming soon.
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