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Digital Collections
Ad*Access
-- The Ad*Access Project (Duke University) presents images and database information for over 7,000
advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955.
American
Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library
-- American Memory is the online resource compiled by the Library of Congress National
Digital Library Program. With the participation of other libraries and archives, the program
provides a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the
United States. More than five million historical items are currently available online,
including documents, films, manuscripts, photographs, and sound recordings.
American Verse Project -- An electronic archive of volumes of American
poetry (pre-1920) created by the University of Michigan's Humanities
Text Initiative. Most of the archive is made up of 19th century poetry,
although a few 18th century and early 20th century texts are included.
The Bartleby
Library -- An archive of reference
resources (dictionaries, encyclopedias, fact books, and more) and collections of
literature, verse, fiction and non-fiction. Features a full-text searchable
database containing over 200,000 web pages, including over 22,000 quotations and
4,765 poems.
Cambridge History
of English and American Literature
-- Compiled over fourteen years, from 1907 to 1921, the
Cambridge History contains over 303 chapters and 11,000 pages, with essay topics ranging
from poetry, fiction, drama and essays to history, theology and political writing. (Made available by
Project Bartleby.)
Digital
Library Federation Public Access Collections -- A web-searchable database of
nearly 300 public domain online digital collections. The Digital Library Federation (DLF) is a consortium
of libraries and related agencies that are pioneering in the use of electronic-information technologies
to extend their collections and services.
Documenting the American South
-- A collection of sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the
colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century from the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill that contains the full-text of over 900 books and manuscripts. DAS projects include 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 Internet Classics Archive
-- A searchable database from MIT of over 400 works of classical literature by more than 50
different authors, including user-driven commentary and "reader's choice" Web sites. Mainly Greco-Roman works
(some Chinese and Persian), all in English translation.
The Internet Library of Early
Journals (ILEJ) -- A joint project by the Universities of Birmingham,
Leeds, Manchester and Oxford that aims to digitize substantial runs (minimum, 20 years) of 18th and 19th
century British journals, and make these images available on the Internet, together with their associated
bibliographic data.
The Internet Sacred Texts Archive
-- This site is a freely available archive of significant primary texts
relating to religion, mythology, (and to a lesser extent) legends and folklore. Texts are presented in English
translation and, in some cases, in the original language.
The Making of America (MOA)
-- A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the
antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of
education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology and currently
contains approximately 8,500 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints. MOA
is a joint project between the University of Michigan and Cornell University.
The National Academy Press
Archive -- More than 1000 NAP texts, covering a wide variety of subjects (arts,
humanities, and social and applied sciences) are available free online.
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations --
The NDLTD is a union catalog containing records for more than 90,000 electronic theses and dissertations. The records provide abstracts
and may contain links to full text when access is unrestricted.
NYPL Digital Gallery -- Provides access to over 300,000 digital images from the New York Public Library Collections including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more.
The Oxford Text Archive
-- The Oxford Text Archive holds several thousand electronic texts and linguistic corpora, in a variety of languages.
Its holdings include electronic editions of works by individual authors, standard reference works such as the Bible
and mono-/bilingual dictionaries, and a range of language corpora.
Oaister - Oaister is a collection of freely available, difficult-to-access,
academically-oriented digital resources. As of October 2003 there are over
1,723,003 records from 203 institutions included in the database.
Project Gutenberg -- "Classic books (in the
public domain) from the start of this century and previous centuries, from authors like Shakespeare, Poe, Dante, as
well as well-loved favorites like the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the Tarzan and Mars books
of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Alice's adventures in Wonderland as told by Lewis Carroll, and thousands of others."
USC Digital Collections -- USC's Digital Activities Center
provides access to various collections held by the University of South Carolina Libraries. Digitized collections include
the Rare Books & Special Collections Otto F. Ege Medieval Manuscripts, Music Library's Digital Sheet Music Project, among others.
The William Blake Archive -- An online
hypermedia environment that allows its users to access high-quality electronic reproductions of a growing portion
of Blake's work. These reproductions have been prepared according to the highest technical and scholarly standards,
with the cooperation of a number of the major museum, library, and private collections.
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This page updated
February 22, 2008