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A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: US Congressional Documents and Debates 1774-1873Part of the American Memory project at the Library of Congress. The initial release in Mar. 1998 included full text of documents and debates from the First and Second Congresses (1789-1793), totaling about 4,400 pages of documents. Information can be browsed or searched.
Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of CongressThe complete Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress consists of approximately 20,000 documents. The collection is organized into three "General Correspondence" series which include incoming and outgoing correspondence and enclosures, drafts of speeches, and notes and printed material.
Ad*Access Images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers from 1911-1955.
African-American Poetry DatabaseContains the full text of almost 3,000 poems written between 1760 and 1900.
African-American Women Writers of the 19th Century AKAMAC E-Text LinksE-text relevant to the history of economic thought or social thought.
Alex: A Catalog of Electronic Texts on the Internet The Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts is a collection of public domain and open access documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy.
Algunos Enlaces Literarios @ Globe-GateSpanish Literature.
AmDocs: Documents for the Study of American History American and British History Resources on the Internet Provides access to full-text documents, maps, treaties, statistics, bibliographies, book reviews, biographies, and journals covering various aspects and periods of U.S. and British history.
American Literary Classics American Memory American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience.
An Analytic Bibliography of On-Line Neo-Latin Texts Texts written during the Renaissance and later, which are freely available to the general public.
An attempt to gather all material for the study of the history of economics at one site. This includes both primary texts, studies of those texts and of their authors.
Archives of American Art (Smithsonian Institution) Armarium Labyrinthi Includes the Latin Vulgate and other Bibles, Liturgical texts and Classical Greek and Latin texts mostly in translations.
Athena Authors and Texts Lists of texts and documents, listed by authors, covering philosophy, literature, history, science. Mainly French and Swiss authors and documents.
Austrian Literature Online New
ALO is a digital library with more than 13.000 documents from the 11. Century up to the present. Books, journals, newspapers, manuscripts, theses and scientific essays are available in digitized form or as eprint.
Bibliomania Bibliomania is an online literature library with hundreds of searchable full text classics.
More than 3.000 e-books of literature in Spanish
Celt: Corpus of Electronics Texts Online resource for contemporary and historical Irish documents in literature, history and politics.
CogPrints (Cognitive Sciences Eprint* Archive) NewIncludes a wide variety of papers in psychology,neuroscience, linguistics, philosophy, biology, medicine, anthropology and computer science.
Cornell University Library Math Book Collection The Cornell University Library Historical Mathematics Monographs is a collection of selected monographs with expired copyrights chosen from the mathematics field.
CyLaw New Cylaw is a legal information project that was set up in February 2002 by the cyprus lawyer Laris Vrahimis to provide free access through the internet to the Cyprus legal materials that are at any time publicly available in electronic format. The Cylaw database contains all judgments issued by the Supreme Court of Cyprus since 1997 as well as most civil appeals and first instance judgments issued by the Supreme Court in 1996.
Digital Book Index provides links to more than 148,000 full-text digital books from more than 1800 commercial and non-commercial publishers, universities, and various private sites. More than 120,000 of these books, texts, and documents are available free, while many others are available at very modest cost.
Over 5,000 searchable educational resources. Items are also organized into themes or collections, broadly as environmental, geographical, geological, oceanographical and other physical sciences; space science and technology; policy and educational issues and the philosophy of science.
Digital Scriptorium An image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts that unites scattered resources from many institutions into an international tool for teaching and scholarly research.
Documentation Project Digitization project undertaken by four Norwegian Universities in the fields of literature, history, medieval material, archaeology, folklore, numismatics and lexicography. Mainly in Norwegian
Electronic Literature Foundation 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.
ERPA (European Research Papers Archive) Provides a common access point for online working paper series from the: Online publications on European Research of the European University Institute; Harvard Jean Monnet working paper series; Discussion papers and working papers of the Max Planck Institute for the study of societies; European integration online papers (EIoP); and Working papers of ARENA (Advanced Research on the Europeanisation of the nation-state).
Åserver.Org NewOver 35,000 works free of charge on art, architecture, aesthetics, literature, culture, education, history, languages, music and more.
Famous Poets and PoemsBrowse among 550 popular poets and 22,000 poems. Find portraits, short biographies, quotes, bibliographies and links to other resources dedicated to a particular poet.
Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts Part of Folk and Fairy Tales Web Site Links, collection of folklore and mythology from the world.
The University of Nevada s Reno Libraries offer links to about 1500 free online academic journals, on almost 100 subjects.
Google Blog New
Historical Archives: European Commission The historical archives service of the European Commission undertakes a number of tasks covering the management of documents and records from the administrative services throughout their administrative life cycle and regardless of the medium in which they are presented. The archives service ensures the availability to the public of files and documents of the European Commission which are of historical, judicial or informative value according to the 30 year rule.
The HTA publishes high quality articles, books, essays, documents, historical photos, and links, screened for content, for a broad range of historical subjects. It was founded in 1990 in Mississippi and is one of the oldest history sites on the Internet.
ibiblio"Home to one of the largest collections of collections on the Internet, ibiblio.org is a conservancy of freely available information, including software, music, literature, art, history, science, politics, and cultural studies."
A wonderul site offering access to more than 10,000 books in at least 100 languages that is freely available to children, teachers, librarians, parents, and scholars.
Internet Archive NewIts purpose includes offering permanent access for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public to historical collections that exist in digital format. The Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages in our collections, and is working to provide specialized services relating to training, education, or adaptive reading or information access needs of blind or other persons with disabilities.
Over 440 works of literature mainly Greco-Roman (some Chinese and Persian) all in english translations.
Internet Sacred Text Archive NewOnline books about religion, mythology, folklore and the esoteric on the Internet.
Liberty Library of Constitutional Classics Provides a host of electronic texts in html, text or zipped for download. These are primarily classic books and other works on constitutional government.
LIBRO - Library of Iberian Resources Online New A site about the peoples and nations of the Iberian peninsula. Consequently, the book list is principally drawn from recent, but out-of-print university press monographs. In addition, the collection includes a number of basic texts and sources in translation. These are presented in full-text format and reproduce all the matter included in the original print version. The collection focuses upon peninsular history from the fifth to the seventeenth centuries.
Librodot.com - (Libros electrónicos en español) New More than 10,000 titles and 1,000 authors from 60 different countries in spanish.
MATEO (Manhheimer Texte Online) New Selected pages from rare books with emphasis of the MARABU series on illustrated books containing portraits, emblems, fables and maps, on writings of and about women humanists and on sources of the history of the Palatinate.
Mazina iganan New Native American old books whose copyrights have expired -- mostly early 20th-century, some 19th.
MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity. It is a free publication of MIT course materials that reflects almost all the undergraduate and graduate subjects taught at MIT.
Selection of short narrative works in German from the late 18th to the end of the 19th centuries, featuring verified texts from documented editions and, whenever possible, English translations.
Online Books Page Allows free access to over 35,000 full-text books and provides links to other sites.
Online Medieval & Classical Library NewA collection of some of the most important literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization.
ORB: Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies NewThe ORB is an academic site, written and maintained by medieval scholars for the benefit of their fellow instructors and serious students. Electronic sources on Medieval studies include the ORB Encyclopedia, the ORB Textbook Library, the ORB Reference Shelf, resources for teaching, material of general interest, external links, e-texts.
Other Women s VoicesTranslations of women s writing before 1700. The website compiles translations of over 125 women writers, "women who produced a substantial amount of work before 1700." Each entry contains background on the author and that particular work, useful secondary sources and Internet sites.
Oxford Text Archive The Oxford Text Archive develops, collects, catalogues and preserves electronic literary and linguistic resources for use in Higher Education, in research, teaching and learning.
Oyez: U.S. Supreme Court Digitized audio recordings of U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments, from 1955.
Perseus Papyrus Project An electronic corpus of nearly 500 Greek and Latin texts found on papyri, ostraca or wooden tablets which have been published in discrete volumes or series.
Perseus Digital Library Among the best sites on the net for the study of the ancient world. Full-text documents, primary sources, images.
Projecto VercialSources on Portuguese literature (in Portoguese).
Religion-online NewMore than 6,000 texts (books, articles, chapters). Topics include Old and New Testament, Theology, Ethics, History and Sociology of Religion, Communication and Cultural Studies, Pastoral Care, Counseling, Homiletics, Worship, Missions and Religious Education.
Renaissance Electronic Texts A series of old-spelling, SGML-encoded editions of early individual copies of English Renaissance books and manuscripts, and of plain transcriptions of such works, published on the World Wide Web as a free resource for students of the period.
Representative Poetry OnlineRepresentative Poetry Online, version 3.0, includes 3,162 English poems by 500 poets from Caedmon, in the Old English period, to the work of living poets today.
Repository of Primary Resources A listing of over 4200 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar.
Romantic Circles New A refereed scholarly Website devoted to the study of Romantic-period literature and culture.
Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image Established in 1996 in Penn s Special Collections Library to provide the scholarly community with web access to virtual facsimiles of original texts, documents, and sources from Penn s collections. These include printed books, manuscripts, photographs, maps, broadsides, ephemera, and recorded sound.
Sonnet CentralSonnet Central is "an archive of English sonnets, commentary, pictures, and relevant web links. Sonnets are grouped by period below and can also be accessed quickly via an alphabetical list of authors." The site mainly concentrates on sonnets from Great Britain but other areas are represented as well.
Turning the Pages on the webThe British Library has digitized important historical works, such as Caxton s Chaucer, Beowulf, Gutenberg Bible, Lindisfarne Gospels, Da Vinci s notebook, Sherborne Missal among others. User can "turn the pages of rare books or manuscripts in a highly realistic way.
UNESCO/IFLA Directory of Digitized Collections"This site aims to offer a listing of major digitized heritage collections and on-going digitization programmes worldwide. It is hoped that this will provide a single focal point of information on digitized collections. This site will act as the Memory of the World virtual library offering direct access to those collections, where permission to link has been granted."
University of Chicago EFTS (Electronic Full-Text Sources) New Material on art, philosophy, religion, literature. Includes also reference material with limited access to the full text.
World War I Document Archive Full-text documents, treaties, conventions and decisions concerning WWI.