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Thomson Gale: Testing Books
Access full text study guides to civil service,
military, college entrance, graduate entrance tests, and more.
Google Book Search
Search for books with full text using Google’s beta Google Book search. Google is literally scanning the entire collection of some othe world's greatest libraries: Harvard, Oxford, Stanford, University of Michigan and New York Public Library. You may prefer to get more specific with Google's Advanced Book Search.
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Download Classics
Go to Google Book Search to download full copies of out-of-copyright books to read at your own pace. You're free to choose from a diverse collection of public domain titles -- from well-known classics to obscure gems. Using Google Book Search, you can find books such as:
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19th-Century
German Stories
From Virginia Commonwealth University, works by Heinrich Hoffmann, Wilhelm
Busch and the Grimm Brothers.
AFRO-American
Almanac
The AFRO-American Almanac covers the history of African Americans from
the slave trade through the Civil Rights movement to the present. Get
biographies, historical documents, historical events, and more.
Alex:
Catalogue of Electronic Texts
Browse Alex by Authors, Date (time period text was written), or Title
or search by keyword. Alex makes texts available to read online, or download
in the following formats: PDF, Newton Paperback, Palm Pilot, or Rocket
eBook.
American
History Documents and Archives
This California State University, San Marcos Web site has links to the
Mayflower Compact, the Northwest Ordinance, the History of the Union
Pacific Railroad and more.
An
Index of Poets in Representative Poetry On-Line
Based at the Department of English, University
of Toronto. The poet index of Representative Poetry
On-line includes over 1,000 English poems by poets
from the early medieval period to the beginning of
the twentieth century. Other indexes may also be
accessed: by First Line; by Title; by Date; by Keyword;
or by Criticism on Poetry.
ARTFL
Project
ARTFL is a cooperative project of the Institut
National de la Langue Française (INaLF) of the Centre
National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and
the Divisions of the Humanities and Social Sciences
of the University of Chicago. This evolving site
has nearly 2,000 texts, ranging from classic works
of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction
prose and technical writing. Note: Some resources
listed here have restricted access, but most are
unrestricted.
Bibliomania
This site archives full text works of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and
reference. Find such works as A.S. Eddington's Stars, James Joyce's
Ulysses, William Blake's Songs of Innocence or Leo Tolstoy's War and
Peace. Special interest: Collections, Guide
to and Study
Guides. Note: You must register to access study guides, but they
are free.
CELT
Corpus of Electronic Texts
Texts by Irish authors, including literary and historical works.
Find the works of such authors as Oscar Wilde, Oliver Goldsmith,
and Pádraic
H. Pearse, as well as documents of historical interest such as The Path
to Freedom by Michael Collins, or The Re-Conquest of Ireland by James
Connolly. Note: Not all texts present have been translated into English,
but are in the original Irish languages, or Latin.
Christian Classics
Ethereal Library
Not surprisingly, the emphasis here is on the religious. Find full text
works by William Blake, John Calvin, Brother Ugolino, hymns, the works
of early church fathers, and of course, The Bible.
CIA
Publications
Access the CIA publications: The World Factbook, World Leaders, maps
and more.
Classics
at the Online Literature Library
This site is the personal project of a literature lover and continues
to evolve. The texts archived here have generally been copied from sites
like Project Gutenberg and converted to HTML documents, rather than left
in plain text. Authors covered include Lewis Carrol, Voltaire, H.G. Wells
and many more.
DailyLit
Can’t find
the time to read that book? DailyLit may be the site for you. DailyLit
sends books in installments directly to your email.
Each installment of a book can be read in under 5 minutes. They currently
offer hundreds of classic public domain titles that can be subscribed
to and read in their entirety for
free, as well as contemporary books that require a fee.
Documents
of Early Texas
From Lone Star Junction, this site archives: Travis' Appeal from
the Alamo February 24, 1836; Texas Declaration of Independence March
2, 1836; Treaty of Velasco May 14, 1836; and Texas Ordinance of Secession
February 2, 1861.
Documenting
the American South
This excellent resource is from the University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill. The intent of this project is to provide primary sources documenting
the culture of the American South from the viewpoint of Southerners.
You will find narratives on slavery, autobiographies, diaries, and memoirs
archived here written by Southerners of all types.
Douglass
Archives of American Public Address
Based at Northwestern University, this site archives American speeches
and related documents. The documents vary from John Winthrop's On Liberty,
1645 to Hillary Rodham Clinton's Words to Break the Silence and Then
to Act, 6 September 1995. Douglass can be searched chronologically, by
speaker, by movement or title.
Early
Modern Literary Studies
Access full text literature covering the
15th, 16th and 17th centuries of literature in English,
as well full text articles. Authors include John
Donne, René Descartes, Giovanni Boccacio and more.
Special interest: All
Issues and Electronic
Texts.
Electronic
Text Collections in Western European Literature
From the Western European Specialists Section (WESS) of Association of
College and Research Libraries (ACRL), this non-English literature collection
includes: Catalan, Galician, Old Norse and Modern Icelandic, Danish,
German, Portuguese, Dutch, Irish, Provençal, Finnish, Italian, Spanish,
French, Norwegian, and Swedish Literature. Note: Most of the collections
are in the original languages.
Encarta Online
An abridged online version of Encarta Encyclopedia. It contains full
text articles, photos, illustrations, maps, charts, and tables. Search
the article titles or the full text.
Encyclopedia.com
The contents of this site were taken from the Concise Columbia Electronic
Encyclopedia, Third Edition. Search the contents or browse alphabetically
by title.
Encyclopedia
Mythica
This award winning site is an encyclopedia on mythology, folklore and
magic and can be browsed or searched.
eserver.org
Based at the University of Washington, this is an extensive, award
winning site. Collections include not just English, but also art, architecture,
drama, fiction, poetry, history, political theory, cultural studies,
philosophy, women's studies and music are all included here. Special
interest: Drama Collection, Novels, The
EServer Poetry , and Short Fiction.
EuroDocs:
Primary Historical Documents From Western Europe
This noteworthy resource from Brigham Young University has links to primary
documents from western European history. Some of the documents included
are: Joan of Arc's Letter to the King of England, The Prince by Machiavelli,
Columbus' Letter to the King and Queen of Spain, The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle,
and Churchill's "We shall defend our island" speech. Note:
Not every resource listed here is in English.
Exploring
Ancient World Cultures
Based at the University of Evansville, Indiana, this multi-award winning
site covers the Ancient Near East, Ancient India, Ancient Egypt, Ancient
China, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Early Islam, and Medieval Europe.
It includes maps, links to related web sites, and primary texts archived
at the site, such as The Art of War by Sun Tzu, Genesis, The
Papyrus of Ani (The Egyptian Book of the Dead) and more.
Fourth
World Documentation Project
From the Center for World Indigenous Studies. This award winning searchable
site archives documents that reflect the social, political, strategic,
economic, and human rights issues of Fourth World nations.
Google Book Search
Google Book Search is the beginning
of a huge project. Google is literally scanning the entire collection
of some of the
world’s greatest libraries: Harvard, Oxford, Stanford, University
of Michigan and New York Public Library. Books on the result list have
different levels of accessibility: snippet, sample
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snippet view. Searches can be restricted to full view books only.
GLIN/
Law Library of Congress Guide to Law Online
This guide by the US Law Library of Congress is composed of guides to
the US, Nations of the World and Multi-national & International Legal
Sources.
The
Handbook of Texas Online An online version of the six-volume print encyclopedia,
brought to you through a joint project of The General Libraries at UT
Austin and the Texas State Historical Association. Read about Texas history,
geography, and culture.
Hanover
Historical Texts Project This award winning site from the History Department at Hanover
College, links to primary and in some cases, secondary, texts in history.
Areas of history covered include: The United States, The Americas Outside
of the U.S., Africa, Europe, The Middle East, India and South Asia, East
Asia, and Southeast Asia, Australia, and Oceania. These main categories
are then further subdivided. Find such documents as: Robert C. Weaver's
The Negro as an American, Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching, and selections form
the correspondence of Francesco Petrarca. Note: This is a work in progress,
and not all categories are yet covered.
Historical
Text Archive
This is an award winning site which lists regional, national, topical
history sites and more.
HTI
Part of the University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative site, this
portion is accessible to all users. It includes projects such as American
Verse Project, as well as individual works such as the Bible.
Hypertexts
Links to online texts archived on site by American authors, such as Mark
Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, or authors writing about America
or American Literature, such as Studies in Classic American Literature
by D.H. Lawrence. Also included are links to related works archived
at other sites.
infoplease.com
The online version of the Information Please Almanac. Restrict search
to general almanac, entertainment, sports, dictionary, encyclopedia,
all sources (default), or browse the subject categories.
Internet Archive
The Internet Archive is a non-profit project that was founded to build
an ‘Internet library,’ with the intent to offer permanent
access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections
that exist in digital format. Includes texts, video, audio and more.
Special interest: Open Library, Texts,
Wayback Machine.
Internet Classics
Archive
From MIT, a full text collection of Mainly
Greco-Roman works (some Chinese and Persian), all
in English translation.
The Internet
Poetry Archive
Based at the University of North Carolina. Find poems and hear readings
from the poets Czeslaw Milosz, Seamus Heaney, Philip Levine, Robert Pinsky,
Margaret Walker and Yusef Komunyakaa.
Labyrinth
Library
This site is sponsored by Georgetown University and includes links to
texts in Latin, Old English, Middle English, French, Italian, and Spanish
and Iberian. Works in English include Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,
The Canterbury Tales, Orpheus and Eurydice and more.
LOC:
Country Studies
From the Library of Congress. These studies are written by a multidisciplinary
team of social scientists, describing and analyzing its political, economic,
social, and national security systems and institutions, and examining
the interrelationships of those systems and the ways they are shaped
by cultural factors. Included in each study are excellent historical
overviews.
Luminarium
This multi-award winning web site has resources divided into three sections:
Anthology of Middle English Literature: (1350-1485), 16th Century Renaissance
English Literature (1485-1603), and English Literature: Early 17th
Century (1603-1660). It includes full text works of authors during
these periods, as well as essays and articles and additional resources.
NARA:
The Charters of Freedom From the National Archives and Records Administration. View
images of the original documents and read The Declaration of Independence,
The Constitution, The Bill of Rights, and the Magna Carta.
Native
American Documents Project
From California State University, San Marcos. This site currently includes:
Indexed Published Reports of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and the
Board of Indian Commissioners for 1871; the Allotment Data collection
with explanatory material; and 111 indexed documents in the Rogue River
War and Siletz Reservation collection, with explanatory material and
a map.
NCBI: Bookshelf
From the National Center for Biotechnology Information. A growing collection of freely available biomedical ebooks. Access contents by performiong a search.
NetLibrary (Free
Collection)
Access NetLibrary's Public Domain collection (books that are no longer
in copyright), free of charge.
Nineteenth
Century Documents Project
From Furman University, this site archives American documents from the
nineteenth century, including: the Dred Scott Case, the Raid on Harper's
Ferry, Andrew Carnegie's Wealth, and much more.
The Old Farmer's
Almanac
Get Today in History, Today in Weather History, Advice of the Day, Question
of the Day, Gardening Advice, Cooking Tips, Weekly Wisdom, Tide Info
and much more.
The
Online Medieval and Classical Library (OMACL)
Browse this resource from the Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE
by Title, Author, Genre or Language. Access Medieval and Classic
literature and historical documents such as The Anglo Saxon Chronicle,
Troilus and Criseyde, or The Fall of Troy.
Perseus
Digital Library
Hosted by Tufts University, this site is also sponsored by Harvard University,
National Endowment for the Humanities, the Getty Grant program and many
others. Perseus has received many awards for its outstanding coverage
of Greek and more recently Roman, literature, history, art, and archaeology.
This digital library continues to evolve and now includes many other
full text resources, such as English Renaissance works, and the scientific
journals of Robert Boyle.
Project Gutenberg One of the most comprehensive collections of electronic
texts on the Internet. Many classic and contemporary works of literature.
Click on the letters to browse alphabetical listings of authors.
Reading
About the World: A Reader for the Study of World Civilizations
This site from Washington State University
is a virtual textbook divided into two volumes: Reading
About the World, Volume 1, A Reader for the Study
of World Civilizations from Ancient Mesopotamia through
the Southern European Renaissance and
Reading About the World, Volume 2, A Reader for the
Study of World Civilizations from the Northern European
Renaissance to the Present. Links to the full text
where available. Some of the linked documents include:
Pericles' Funeral Oration, Ono no Komachi's The hue
of the cherry, and Thomas Paine's Profession of Faith.
The Stanford
Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Maintained at Stanford University, this
site has an editorial board from Universities around
the world. This site is an ongoing project, but the
topics that are currently covered, such as category
theory and pantheism, have impressive in-depth information.
Texas
Fact Book
From the Texas Legislative Budget Board, download the complete Texas Fact Book
in Adobe Acrobat format. Contents include: State Government, Texas at a Glance,
Revenue, Spending, Information on Functional Areas of Texas State Government
and Helpful State 1-800 Telephone Numbers. Get the free Adobe® Acrobat Reader®.
Textbook Revolution
That's right--free textbooks! Most of the available books are in the
sciences. Some you can only view online, others may be printed and/or
downloaded.
Texas
Almanac: Selected Almanac Data
From the publishers of the Dallas Morning
News, get select information from the print version
of the Texas Almanac, including: Texas Demographic
Profile and Texas' Rank Among the United States,
Texas Flags and Other Symbols, Texas in Bloom, The
Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, Texas' Natural
Environment, Astronomical Calendar, Civic and Religious
Holidays, 1998-1999, Texas Travel and Recreation,
Texas History, State Government and Elections, Texas
Local Governments, Federal Government in Texas, Education
in Texas and Culture and the Arts.
Victorian
Women Writers Project
A project of Indiana University. This expanding
site has collected the works of such authors as Harriet
Martineau, Edith Nesbit, and Lady Jane Wilde.
Wikisource
Access
literature, speeches, historical documents, court rulings, and more.
These are all texts originally published in print; unlike
Wikipedia the content is
protected from public editing. Special interest: Access Multilingual
Wikisource, which has full text documents
in multiple languages, including Español.
The World Book at NASA
From World Book Encyclopedia and NASA. Get information on all things space, from Neil Armstrong, to weather.
The
World War I Document Archive
From Brigham Young University. This site
offers official documents, personal reminiscences,
a WWI Biographical Dictionary, a WWI Image Archive,
special topics articles and links to other WWI resources.
World
War II Resources: Primary source materials on the Web
This resource based at the University of
North Carolina includes links to the French Yellow
Book, the British War Blue Book, Time Line of WW2,
Pearl Harbor Attack Hearings, speeches of FDR, related
sites and more.
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