19th Century Schoolbooks: Nietz Full-Text Collection
http://digital.library.pitt.edu/nietz/fulltext/index.html
From the Digital Research Library at the University of Pittsburg's Library System,
this site currently contains 33, 19th Century books from the Nietz Old Textbook Collection.
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American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
From the Library of Congress, this site is the main page for a national
digital initiative that brings together digital projects throughout the
United States. It also provides a link to International digital
projects. You may search across all U.S. digital projects or browse them. |
ARTFL Project
Available remotely only to SLU students, faculty, & staff.
http://www.slu.edu/libraries/pius/databases/dbdesc/artfl.html
The ARTFL Project
provides access to the main ARTFL database,
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Booker T. Washington Papers Online
http://www.historycooperative.org/btw/index.html
Provided by the HistoryCooperative and the University of Illinois by which these 14
volumes were originally published.
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Classic Bookshelf
http://www.classicbookshelf.com/
Select from among classic books by Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson,
Frances Hodgson Burnett, Jane Austen, Leo Tolstoy, and many others.
For reading online you may choose your own text size, font, colors
(background and text color), and spacing (vertical and horizontal).
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Cornell University Library: Historical Mathematics Monographs
http://historical.library.cornell.edu/math/
Consists of 571 deteriorating mathematics books from the Cornell University library that
have been scanned, then reprinted on acid-free paper. Any of these books may be
purchased on acid-free paper if desired. |
Directory of Digitized Collections
http://www.unesco.org/webworld/digicol/index.shtml
A part of UNESCO's Memory of the World Programme: Safeguarding Documentary
Heritage that hopes to list all major digitized heritage collections and on-going
digitization programs worldwide in order to provide a single source of information
about digital collections. |
Documenting the American South
http://docsouth.unc.edu/index.html
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Academic Affairs Library, this
resource contains 7 collections:
First-Person Narratives of the American South,
Library of Southern Literature,
North American Slave Narratives,
The Southern Homefront, 1861-1865,
The Church in the Southern Black Community,
The North Carolina Experience, Beginnings to 1940,
and North Carolinians and the Great War.
As of March 1, 2004, all of these collections provide access to 1,266 books and manuscripts
documenting "Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through
the first decades of the 20 th century. " (text from site 3/19/04)
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Early English Books Online
Available remotely only to SLU students, faculty, & staff.
http://www.slu.edu/libraries/pius/databases/dbdesc/eebo.html
Contains the digital images from the Early English Books microfilm collection. Through the
EEBO Text Creation Partnership , search the full text, section and work titles, subject, notes,
poems, acts, plays, STC number, or letter or browse by author. Through the
ProQuest/Chadwyck site,
search the bibliographic citations by keyword (author, title, subject, or bibliographic number)
or browse by author, then work. View the digital page images online. Currently, almost 100,000
of the over 125,000 tiles listed in Pollard and Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640),
Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661), and the Early English
Tract Supplement are available. Covers a broad array of subject areas including English literature,
history, philosophy, linguistics, theology, music, fine arts, education, mathematics, and science.
For more information, see About EEBO and
What's New . (GB)
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Einstein Archives Online
http://www.alberteinstein.info/
This joint project of the
Jewish National & University Library
at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the
Einstein Papers Project at the
California Institute of Technology.
Includes digitized manuscripts, a finding aid, and an archival database of approximately 43,000
Einstein and Einstein-related items representing the Hebrew University's holdings. Many of
these items are not yet digitized.
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Electronic Texts for the Study of American Culture
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/hypertex.html
Part of American Studies at the University of Virginia, this site provides almost 100 texts
related to American literature, culture, and history.
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English Emblem Book Project
http://emblem.libraries.psu.edu/home.htm
From Penn State's Emblem book collection, the current nine books form the core
of this project. Emblem books provide a picture and moralizing poem on
facing pages. According to Daniel Russell, head of the French and Italian
department at the University of Pittsburgh, "They were considered
so effective in communicating pithy public relations messages that their composition
was actually part of the curriculum of the upper classes in Jesuit schools in the
first half of the seventeenth century." (text from site)
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eScholarship Editions: Books
http://texts.cdlib.org/ucpress/
The University of California Press and the California Digital Library's
eScholarship program makes available almost 400 electronic editions of UC Press books
freely available for browsing. Each book is searchable and includes the following subject
areas: International Studies, Classics, Literature, History, Anthropology, Politics,
and Religious Studies. The print version may also be purchased at this site.
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eScholarship Repository: University of California
http://repositories.cdlib.org/escholarship/peer_review_list.html
The University of California eScholarship Repository gives faculty of the University
of California System a place to deposit scholarly output. The Repository accepts and
makes available "any research or scholarly output deemed appropriate by their
participating University of California research unit, center, or department."
(text from site 9/11/04)
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Gutenberg Digital
http://www.gutenbergdigital.de/
Select Gutenberg Digital News -- International Visitors for the English Version.
Made available by Goettingen State and University Library, this digitized Gutenberg Bible
is one of four complete, illuminated copies on vellum. Its 1282 pages were scanned with
a high-quality digital camera. Reproductions of the 88 illuminated pages are faithful
to the original. Site also includes the Göttingen Model Book and the
Helmasperger Notarial Instrument, a document which records the legal dispute between
Gutenberg and his backer Johannes Fust. Translation is available.
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Harvard University Library Open Collections Program
http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/
The Harvard University Library, supported by
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and The Lisbet Rausing Charitable Fund, is digitizing materials " to increase the availability of historical resources from Harvard's library and museum collections for purposes of teaching, learning, and research – both at Harvard and around the world." (text from site 8/26/05) The first two collections are Women Working: 1800-1930 and
Emigration/Immigration: 1789-1930.
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Historic Government Publications from World War II: A Digital Library
http://worldwar2.smu.edu/
Browse or search this collection of digital documents made available by Southern
Methodist University.
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International Children's Digital Library
http://www.icdlbooks.org/
This is a project of University of Maryland and the Internet Archive which currently
provides 530 books for children from 3-13 years of age. The books are from around the
world and appear in many languages.
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Making of America
Cornell University
http://moa.cit.cornell.edu/moa/
University of Michigan
http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/moagrp/
This continuing project funded by the Mellon Foundation and carried out by the
University of Michigan and Cornell University is digitizing books and journal articles
from the antebellum period through reconstruction (approximately 1850-1877) in the
United States to provide primary sources in digital format. Topics covered
include education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science &
technology.
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The On-Line Books Page
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
Begun by John Mark Ockerbloom at Carnegie Mellon University in 1993, this searchable
index to over 20,000 books freely available on the Internet now resides at the
University of Pennsylvania. The books come from a variety of sources and digital
projects.
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National Academy Press (NAP)
http://www.nap.edu/browse.html
NAP currently provides full text for over 2,000 books that may be read online.
Information is also available for purchasing each book. Browse by subject or
search by title or words in the full text.
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Parallax Project
http://digital.library.pitt.edu/parallax/browse.html
From the Digital Research Library at the University of Pittsburg's Library System, this
site contains the searchable and browsable full text of 10 volumes of the Publications
of the Allegheny Observatory of the University of Pittsburgh. These volumes
contain "59 years of information gathered by University of Pittsburgh researchers at
the Allegheny Observatory." (text from site 9/20/02)
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Perseus Digital Library
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/
From Tufts University Department of Classics, this site includes the
Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe,
the Julius Caesar Site, and much more.
The "primary goal [of this project] is to bring a wide range of source materials to as
large an audience as possible. We anticipate that greater accessibility to the sources for
the study of the humanities will strengthen the quality of questions, lead to new avenues
of research, and connect more people through the connection of ideas."
(text from site 4/6/00)
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Project Gutenberg
http://www.promo.net/pg/
Project Gutenberg is a non-profit organization whose goal is to make electronic books
freely available to the world at large.
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Turning the Pages
http://www.bl.uk/collections/treasures/digitisation.html
"Turning the Pages is an award-winning interactive display system developed by
the British Library to increase public access and enjoyment of its treasures."
This presentation of early books and manuscripts allows users to click through each page
of a book or manuscript, magnify any part of a page, and read or listen to notes explaining
the importance of each page. Macromedia Shockwave is required for viewing this
collection. (text from site 4/20/04)
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Virtually Missouri Digitized Collections
http://www.virtuallymissouri.org/vmdigcoll.aspx
Provides links to digital collections in Missouri institutions. Collections include
postcards, botanical specimens and rare books, folk music, historical maps, ordinances,
and materials from the Dred Scott case. |
University of Missouri Digital Library
http://digital.library.umsystem.edu/
Includes collections of Electronic Books; Savitars (University of Missouri-Columbia
Yearbooks); Missouri: History, Geology, and Culture, and Miscellanea; the Missouri Historical
Newspapers Project; and Guides to Special Collections at Ellis Library-UMC in addition to
University of Missouri Digital Collections at other University of Missouri sites.
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Wright American Fiction 1851-1875
http://www.letrs.indiana.edu/web/w/wright2/
From the University of Indiana, this site plans to make digitally available all works of
fiction listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography American Fiction, 1851-1875.
This bibliography attempts to list every novel published in the United States during
this time period. Some authors included are Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, Nathaniel
Hawthorne, and Herman Melville.
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