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1stBooks http://www.1stbooks.com/cgi-bin/gate2?amt~library/indexin.html

Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/ "Digital collections and services, sponsored by The Library, UC Berkeley and Sun Microsystems, Inc." Subjects: All

FAST ACCESS: pick an item and hit Go! Advanced Papyrological Info. Sys. American Heritage Project Anthropology Emeritus Lexture Series Archival Finding Aids Assoc. of Research Libraries @ SunSITE Bibliographies California Heritage CALIPR: Preservation Software Catalogs Collections Copyright Information Current Cites Days of Cal Digital Librarians Program Digital Library Current Awareness Digital Library Info Digital Library R&D Digital Library Standards Digital Library Tools Digital Scriptorium DigLibns Discussion Documents in the Digital Culture Ebind: Digital Page Imaging & SGML Emma Goldman Papers Help/Search Image Finder Imaging Information Index Morganagus Institute on Digital Library Development International Symposium III Jack London Collection Java Corner KidsClick! Librarians' Index to the Internet Libweb Literature @ SunSITE Madera Method Making PCR NCSTRL: Computer Science Tech Reports Online Medieval & Classical Library Preservation Information PubLib Electronic Discussion Rubbings of Chinese Inscriptions Serial Item and Contrib. Ident. Standard SGML Info Social Science & Government Data Library South Asian Diaspora Database SunSITE Administration SunSITE Management SunSITE Project Proposals SunSITE Statistics SWISH-Enhanced Tebtunis Papyri Web4Lib Discussion World Wide Web Info Z39.50 Info

Books-on-line http://www.books-on-line.com/ "We have 3384 free books, and plan to have books for which we will have to charge" Subjects: All

Christian Classics Ethereal Library http://ccel.wheaton.edu/ " Classic Christian books in electronic format." Subjects: Religion

Computer and Internet Related Online Books http://hoganbooks.com/freebook/webbooks.html Subjects: Computers, Internet

Documenting the American South http://sunsite.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." Subjects: American History

English Server at CMU http://english.hss.cmu.edu/ Subjects: Humanities

Geneses Online Publishing http://www.geneses.com/ Subjects: Electronic books, Music, Art, Publishing

Humanities Text Initiative http://www.hti.umich.edu/all/unrestrict.html Subjects: Fiction, Poetry



Internet Classics Archive http://classics.mit.edu/ "Searchable collection of almost 400 classical Greek and Roman texts (in English translation)." Subjects: Classics

Library of Congress http://lcweb.loc.gov/ Digitized materials from the United States Library of Congress. Subjects: American History

Literature (public domain) http://www.alcyone.com/max/lit/index.html
Beowulf One of the oldest surviving works of English literature, Beowulf tells the epic tale of a classic hero.
The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce A collection of ironic, sarcastic, and curmudgeonish definitions of everyday terms.
Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington Booker T. Washington's classic autobiography.
War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells H.G. Wells' awe-inspiring classic of alien invasion.
Subjects: Literature

Making of America http://www.umdl.umich.edu/moa/ " Primary sources related to development of the U.S. infrastructure." Subjects: United States History

On-line Books Page http://www.cs.cmu.edu/ "More than 3500 English works in various formats." Subjects: all

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 , Shakespeare,Moby Dick, Paradise Lost, etc.
  Subjects: various
  

Secular Web Library http://www.infidels.org/library/ Subjects: Theism, Secularism, Evolution Languages: English

University of Virginia Electronic Text Library http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/uvaonline.html Other Languages: French, German, Japanese, Italian

Victorian Women Writers Project http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/ " Highly accurate transcriptions of literary works by British women writers of the late 19th century." Subjects: various

Virtual Computer Library http://www.utexas.edu/computer/vcl/ " VCL is a collection of links to information about computers and computing." Subjects: Computers Languages: English

Wiretap Online Library http://wiretap.area.com/Gopher/Library/

Other resources:

• Electronic Text Center at UVA and its modern English collection

• Humanities Text Initiative (at UMichigan

• ATHENA (multilingual text index in Switzerland)

• Etext.org archives (lots of e-zines and shorter or unpublished etexts)

• BiblioBytes (hundreds of new and old books, with ads)

• Project Bartleby (at Columbia)

• Samizdat Express (eclectic collection of texts and pointers)

• University of Toronto English Library

• Electronic Open Stacks (preservation digitization at Chicago)

ARTFL Project, University of Chicago. http://humanities.uchicago.edu/ARTFL "Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language" Subjects: Dictionnaire de L'Académie française (1694), Dictionnaire historique et critique (1740), Jean Nicot's Thresor de la langue française (1606), first edition of Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie, etc.

Athena http://un2sg1.unige.ch/www/athena/html/athome.html "Several lists with links to more than 3500 e-texts" Subjects: philosophy, literature, history, science, arts, economics

Association des bibliophiles Universels http://cedric.cnam.fr/ABU/

Gallica http://gallica.bnf.fr/ Bibliotheque Nationale de France Subject: 19th-century French texts

University of Virginia Library Electronic Text Center Some texts are available only to the University of Virginia.

Centre d'Édition de Textes Électroniques (Nantes)

Athena Textes Français

Voltaire Foundation Brief excerpts from some of their projects.

Anthologie de la poésie française

Poésie Francophone Large collection, mostly from the 19th and 20th century. This first page has many thumbnail images on it and can be slow to load.

Littérature francophone virtuelle at ClicNet is currently the most comprehensive listing of French texts on the Internet. It and Athena Textes Français have comprehensive lists of French authors on the Web.

Projekt Gutenberg-DE (German texts; no direct relation to the US-based Project Gutenberg). The largest collection of German literature on the Internet. Texts are organized for reading online with longer works divided into chapters. There is no provision for searching complete works or the Gutenberg database.

Religio (Texts in German on religion; at thur.de)

Institut für deutsche Sprache, Mannheim.

Bibliotheca Augustana. Strongest for medieval texts, but also includes 18th and 19th century works.

Ältere Drucke aus dem Besitz der Bibliothek der Universität Bielefeld Facsimile editions, often with extensive accompanying materials. Requires frames.

University of Virginia Library Electronic Text Center Wieland, Kafka, Morgenstern and other authors. Some texts are available only to the University of Virginia. Texts are searchable and readable.

literatur.primär: Prosa & Lyrik & andere Formen primär österreichisch Autor(in)en Work by contemporary authors. Mostly poetry.

Grundkursreader Mediävistik Anthology of short texts in Middle High German and in modern German translation.

The Kassandra Project
"Visionary German women around 1800"

Project Wittenberg "Classic and historic texts written by Lutherans," including hymns by Luther and Gerhardt, in German and in English translation.

DadaOnline Small collection of texts in German or English.

Lied and Song Texts Page A very large collection. Texts are arranged by the composer of the setitbusng, but there is an author index. Note that the text is that used by the composer. In some cases there may be cuts or changes.

Pommerenings Gedichautorbusswahl Large collection, good for Heine and 20th century poems

willkürliche Auswahl deutscher Gedichte Large collection by Markus Müller. Texts are also deposited with Projekt Gutenberg but appear here first.

Parodien & Travestien

Gedichte (Projekt Gutenberg)

H.H.H. - Eine Fastschrift zum 75sten.
Collection of tributes, including many poems, in honor of Helmut Heißenbüttel

Das Wunderschiff - Schwäbische Volksmärchen (Projekt Gutenberg)

Anekdoten der Weltliteratur (Projekt Gutenberg)

Autorenstimmen
From DeutschlandRadio. Interviews with contemporary authors and recordings of older 20th century authors.

Deutschsprachige Literaturmagazine im WWW has links to magazines and to literary projects on the Web, a list of contemporary authors publishing on the Web and links to useful information for authors.

Some selected sites about authors are included in the list of available texts. Much more comprehensive listings of biographical, bibliographical, and critical Web pages about German authors can be found at the Fachreferat Germanistik of the Library at the Freie Universität Berlin.

Perseus Project http://www.perseus.tufts.edu " Perseus is 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." Subjects: Greek and Latin Classics Other Languages: English

KEIMENA Large collection of texts. Requires a Greek font.

Liber Liber http://www.liberliber.it/ " Il progetto Manuzio consiste nella fondazione di una biblioteca di testi elettronici, accessibili gratuitamente via Internet" Subjects: All Languages: Italiano

Italian Literature http://www.crs4.it/HTML/Literature.html

Duecento: la poesia italiana dalle origini a Dante A large collection of poetry.

Caffè Poetel Contemporary poetry

Dartmouth Dante Project Requires telnet, vt 100 or vt 220. Type connect dante at the first prompt, then follow instructions. A database of commentaries on Dante. Divina commedia and other works are included in the Antologia above.

Renaissance Dante in Print (1472-1629) Images of pages from early Dante editions.

Projecto Vercial - Literatura Portuguesa http://www.ipn.pt/literatura/  "A very large collection with indexes by author and by literary period. Author pages include brief biographies and links to other pages about them."

Antología del Ensayo Ibero e Iberoamericano
Gran colección de ensayos españoles de los siglos XIV al XX, ordenados por autor y cronológicamente. Es una parte del Proyecto Ensayo Hispánico en la University of Georgia.

Grupo Investigación Siglo de Oro (GRISO)
Textos e información sobre Calderón, Quevedo, Tirso, y la Comedia burlesca.

Poesia.com http://www.poesia.com/  "Poesia.com is a 3-monthly Argentine and Latin American poetry cyberzine that includes unreleased poems, soon to be published poetry books and complete versions of out-of-print or hard to get books. 40 complete poetry books and more than 100 pages on line.." Subjects: Poetry

Textos Lemir http://www.uv.es/~lemir/Textos.html "Medieval and Renacentist spanish texts"

Autores individuales:

Proyecto Cervantes 2001

Colecciones de poesía:

Sonetos del Siglo de Oro
100 sonetos con traducciones al inglés.

Revistas literarias:

Cultura Española

Projekt Runeberg http://www.lysator.liu.se/runeberg/ "Project Runeberg publishes Nordic literature and art on the Internet. Project Runeberg also publishes information about Nordic authors." Subjects: various Languages: Swedish, Danish, Norweigian, Icelandic

• Bulgarian: Bulgarian Poetry Archive (at Columbia)

• Catalan:

  • Selecció de Poesia Catalana (Large collection, from medieval to recent times)

• Classical Languages:

  • Bibliotheca Augustana (Latin texts arranged by century)

  • Czech National Library Database of Digitized Documents (includes some Latin)

  • Project Libellus (FTP from U-Washington)

  • Classics Alcove List of texts at various sites
  • Medieval and Renaissance Texts:
    • Josse Bade, Stultiferae Naves Text of the 1500 edition with introduction, notes and translation in French.

• Croatian: Croatian E-Text Project (at sprynet.com)

• Czech:

  • Czech National Library Database of Digitized Documents
  • Knihovni Elektronickych Publikaci (at fortunecity.com)

• Danish:

  • Projekt Runeberg
  • DanishManuscripts
    Medieval illuminated manuscripts and some works by Hans Christian Andersen from the Kongelige Bibliotek
  • Poetry collections:
    • Splints & Co., Journal of Scandinavian Poetry on the Web
      Splints also offers a page of links to other contemporary Scandinavian poetry on the Internet.

• Dutch:

  • Anthology of Dutch Poetry:
    • Before 1880
    • After 1880
  • De Nederlandse Letteren has an index to Dutch authors in the various Web collections as well as links to general information on Dutch literature and to new journals and writers publishing on the Internet.

• Finnish:

  • Projekt Runeberg
  • sähköiset säkeet / elektrisk vers Contemporary poetry in Finnish and Swedish.

• Gaelic: CELT Project (Irish electronic texts)

• Gallego:

  • Textos de literatura galega medieval
  • MedDB Base de datos da Lírica profana galego-portuguesa

• Hebrew: Classical Jewish texts (in Israel)

• Hungarian: Magyar Elektronikus Könyvtár

• Norwegian:

  • Projekt Runeberg
  • Splints & Co., Journal of Scandinavian Poetry on the Web Splints also offers a page of links to other contemporary Scandinavian poetry on the Internet.

• Old Norse & Modern Icelandic:

  • Netútgáfan Large collection of sagas and other texts.
  • Jónas Hallgrímsson, Selected Poetry and Prose, edited and translated by Dick Ringler. Original texts with English translations and commentary.

• Provençal:

  • ARTFL Project: Provençal Database Open only to ARTFL subscribers.

• Slovenian: Slovenian texts (in Slovenia)