Database

Description

Alex Catalogue
of Electronic Texts 

The Alex Catalogue is a collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy.  Browse titles by title, author or date.  Search multiple documents simultaneously , or search within a single book.  Create  PDF (Portable Document Format) versions of the e-books and read them offline.

American Memory

The Library of Congress provides online primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States.  The site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections.

Compiled by Columbia University, this project provides full-text online versions of literary and reference works.  The work of Emily Dickinson, John Keats, Walt Whitman, and William Wordsworth can be accessed, as can the inaugural addresses of the Presidents of the United States.

Bartleby's reference site has access to encyclopedias online (Columbia Encyclopedia and the World Fact Book), religious books (including the King James version of the Bible), and many others (e.g., Gray's Anatomy).  Has links to non-reference e-books of verse, fiction, and non-fiction.

Brookings provides online access to full-text versions of books in economics, education, urban and international affairs, and social issues.  Browse and search over 30,000 pages of cutting-edge public policy research from your computer and print selected pages one at a time.

Select a specific play and then go directly into any Act or Scene in that play!  A chronological listing of the plays of William Shakespeare, as well as a listing by categories is provided.  This site also provides a link to Bartlett's Familiar Shakespeare Quotations.

Access digitized primary materials offering Southern perspectives on American history and culture.  DAS includes five digitization projects:  Slave narratives, first-person narratives, Southern literature, Confederate imprints, and materials related to the church in the Black community.  The Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill sponsors this site.

Ebrary is a web-based collection of over 12,000 authoritative, copyrighted books and maps. The titles cover many different subject areas, including: Social Sciences, Law, Medicine, Science, History, Education, Fine Arts, Psychology and Religion.   Content is derived from a wide variety of top scholarly and professional publishers recognized as leaders in specific fields of study. Ebrary provides access to full text of publications online and allows users to browse and view documents, conduct full-text searches and copy and print material. 

The Center's holdings include approximately 51,000 on- and off-line humanities texts in twelve languages, with more than 350,000 related images (book illustrations, covers, manuscripts, newspaper pages, etc.).  Search or browse titles by language, time period, collection, best sellers, author or title.

This is a full-text archive of more then 440 classical Greek and Roman texts in English translation.  The works may be browsed by author, title, date or translator.  This site contains links to works such as Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Platos's Republic, and Aristotle's Poetics.  Additionally, there is a section for authors' biographical information.

The Making of America digital library contains primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. Consisting of 8,500 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints, it is particularly strong in education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology.

Search and read the full text of over 3,000 scholarly books published online by the National Academy Press. NAP publishes 200+ books a year by experts in engineering, the sciences, and health, capturing authoritative views on important science and health policy issues.

NYPL's Digital Library Collections are digital versions of books, photographs and manuscripts representing primary source material on particular topics in American history.

Search more than 20,000 English published works by author or title, or browse by new listings, author, title, or subject category. Links are provided to the Internet Public Library books and to additional online book archives.

The Perseus Digital Library is an online digital library with primary and secondary publications from a variety of periods: the Classics (e.g., Aeschylus, Euripides, Cicero), Papyri (in Latin or Greek), and English Renaissance (e.g., Marlowe, Shakespeare). It provides links to historical works digitally available from the Library of Congress' American Memory collection: California, Civil War, Chesapeake Bay, Upper Midwest. Maintained by Tufts University.

Browse this directory to find online reference sources to words (acronym lookup, quotations, dictionaries, thesari), facts (periodic table, phone books online, weights and measures), and figures (Census, distances between cities).

The University of California Press now offers electronic versions of over 400 books online in a variety of subject areas.

Read the works of British women of the Victorian period (1830-1910). This online collection includes novels, political pamphlets, anthologies, religious tracts, children's books, and volumes of poetry and verse drama.