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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.
 
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,
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.
 
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).
 
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)
 

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)
 
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.
 
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.
 
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)
 
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.
 
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)
 
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.
 
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.
   
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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)
 
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)
 
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.
 
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)
 
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.
 
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.
 

Last updated November 13, 2006


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