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19th-Century German Stories u n r e s t r i c t e d
This Website from Virginia Commonwealth University features 19th-century German stories in German and in English translation. The texts were not taken from academic editions, so one always runs the danger of coming across typos/unconfirmed readings.

African American Poetry  (1750-1900) o n p r o x y
Nearly 3,000 poems written by African-American poets in the late 18th and 19th centuries.

African-American Newspapers  (The 19th Century) o n p r o x y
When complete, this archive will contain the full text of the major African-American newspapers published in the United States during the 19th century. Coverage includes: The Colored American (Weekly Advocate), The North Star, The National Era, Provincial Freeman, Frederick Douglass Paper, and The Christian Recorder. (database description)

African-American Odyssey u n r e s t r i c t e d
Part of the Library of Congress American Memory collections, African-American Odyssey includes digital collections such as the Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress, Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, African-American Pamphlets 1824-1909, and Slaves and the Courts 1740-1860.

Alex: A Catalog of Electronic Texts on the Internet u n r e s t r i c t e d
The Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts is a collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy.

American Civil War: Letters and Diaries o n p r o x y
Contains approximately 500 authors and 32,000 pages of letters, diaries and memoirs. The letters and diaries are by the famous and the unknown, giving not only both the Northern and Southern perspectives, but those of foreign observers also. The materials originate from all regions of the country and are from people who played a variety of roles. When complete, the collection will include more than 100,000 pages of primary materials.

American Drama o n p r o x y
When complete, this collection will contain more than 2,000 plays by American dramatists that chronicle the history and culture of America through its dramatic writing. At present, American Drama includes 711 plays by dramatists such as Thomas Paine, Edward Hitchcock, and James Lawson.

American History and Culture Online: Sabin Americana, 1500-1926  (Early 1500s - Early 1900s) o n p r o x y
Based on Joseph Sabin's landmark bibliography, this collection contains works about the Americas published throughout the world from 1500 to the early 1900's. Included are books, pamphlets, serials and other documents that provide original accounts of exploration, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, the western movement, Native Americans, military actions and much more.

American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library u n r e s t r i c t e d
These digitized collections from the Library of Congress provide a gateway to rich 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.

American Men and Women of Science
Profiles living persons in the physical and biological fields, as well as public health scientists, engineers, mathematicians, statisticians, and computer scientists.

American Poetry Database o n p r o x y
Contains the complete works of more than 200 American writers, from the Colonial Period to the early twentieth century. The database contains over 35,000 poems, and is based on the Bibliography of American Literature, Yale University Press, 1955-1991.

American Radicalism Collection u n r e s t r i c t e d
The American Radicalism Collection at the Michigan State University Libraries includes materials covering a wide range of viewpoints on political, social, and economic issues in America. The emphasis is on materials produced by radical groups - both left and right. Some examples are materials devoted to Timothy Leary, the Black Panther Party, Neo-Nazi Organizations, the Christian Right, and Steve Gaskin, founder of the commune the Farm. While the American Radicalism Collection is strongest in publications from the American Left in the twentieth century, as well as in resources for the study of American Labor History, there is considerable material from the right, most notably the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920's and 1930's.

American Verse Project  (pre-1920) u n r e s t r i c t e d
The American Verse Project is a collaborative project between the University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative (HTI) and the University of Michigan Press. The project is assembling an electronic archive of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920.

America's Historical Newspapers
Search or browse early American newspapers including titles from all 50 present states. Includes: Early American Newspapers, Series 1 (1690 - 1876), Early American Newspapers, Series 2 (1758 - 1900), Early American Newspapers, Series 3 (1829 - 1922), Early American Newspapers, Series 4 (1756 - 1922) and Early American Newspapers, Series 5 (1777 - 1922).

Ancient Rome u n r e s t r i c t e d
Images and resources for the Ancient Rome community (Via Rice Dspace)

ANNO -- AustriaN Newspapers Online u n r e s t r i c t e d
This is a virtual newspaper reading room hosted by the Austrian National Library. It makes available to readers hundreds of historical newspaper and magazine titles published in Austria from late 18th through early 20th century.

Antologia (frammentaria) della Letteratura Italiana u n r e s t r i c t e d
Includes selected literary and dramatic works from Italian authors of both classical and modern periods.

ArchiveGrid
Finding aids are tools for navigation within archival collections, and contain detailed information about the collections. ArchiveGrid provides centralized access for searching and retrieval of archival finding aids that have been encoded using XML and the standard for Encoded Archival Description (EAD). The finding aids are indexed centrally at RLG but are supported in a distributed environment — some reside on a server at RLG, others are located on other servers around the world. (Previously known as RLG Archival Resources.)

ARTFL [American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language] o n p r o x y
ARTFL is an interdisciplinary collection of French texts, which is particularly strong in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. The corpus of nearly 2,000 texts includes novels, verse, theater, essays, correspondence and treatises in literary criticism, biology, history, economics, and philosophy.

Bartleby Library u n r e s t r i c t e d
Includes a variety of reference sources, fiction, nonfiction, and verse.

Berkeley Digital Library Sunsite u n r e s t r i c t e d
The Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE builds digital collections and services while providing information and support to digital library developers worldwide.

Bible in English  (990-1970) via LION o n p r o x y
20 different versions of the English Bible from the tenth to the twentieth century, including 12 full Bibles, 5 New Testament texts, 2 versions of the Gospels, and William Tyndale's translations of the Pentateuch, Jonah and the New Testament.

Bibliotheca Latina u n r e s t r i c t e d
Extensive list of links to Latin texts (classical, medieval, and neo-Latin). Page is entirely in Latin.

Black Drama  (1850 to Present) o n p r o x y
Black Drama contains 207 plays by 64 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. When complete, the collection will include more than 1,200 plays, of which some 20% have never been published before. The database will also include many more resources and related material.

Brazilian Government Document Digitization Project o n p r o x y
A project of the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) aimed at digitizing executive branch serial documents issued by Brazil's national government during the period between 1821 and 1993, and by its provincial governments from the earliest available for each province to the end of the Empire to 1889. The series include: Provincial Presidential Reports (1830-1889), Presidential Messages (1889-1993), Ministerial Reports (1821-1960), and the Almanak Administrativo, Mercantile Industrial do Rio de Janeiro (1844-1889).

British Poetry 1780-1910 u n r e s t r i c t e d
An Internet-accessible electronic library of marked up and scholarly editions of books of poetry produced between 1780-1910.

Columbia International Affairs Online [CIAO] o n p r o x y
Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 on that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings from conferences. Each section of CIAO is updated with new material on a regular schedule. Working papers are augmented every month, as are conference proceedings, policy briefs and economic indicators. Links and resources, the schedule of events and the response files are updated weekly. New journal issues and books are added as they become available.

Congressional Research Service Full Text  (1916-2003) See "CRS Full Text" Link o n p r o x y
Full text of Congressional Research Service reports (1916-2003: database to be completed by June 2007. The Congressional Research Service (CRS) is the department within the Library of Congress that, under its statutory charter, works exclusively as a reference and research arm for Members, Committees, and staff of the U.S. Congress.

Dartmouth Dante Project u n r e s t r i c t e d
The Dartmouth Dante Project (DDP) is a searchable full-text database containing more than seventy commentaries on Dante's Divine Comedy - the Commedia.

Darwin Correspondence Prioject u n r e s t r i c t e d
Contains about 5000 digitized and searchable letters of Charles Darwin. They include all of the surviving letters from his rather momentous voyage on the Beagle and all of the letters from the years around the publication of Origin of Species in 1859.

Defining Gender  (1450-1910) o n p r o x y
This project is being published in five sections between 2003 and 2007 offering c. 50,000 images of original documents linked to essays by leading scholars in the field. These are: Section I: Conduct and Politeness (Autumn 2003); Section II: Domesticity and the Family (Summer 2004); Section III: Consumption and Leisure (Summer 2005); Section IV: Education and Sensibility (Summer 2006); and Section V: The Body (Summer 2007).

Digital Dissertations and Theses from ProQuest/UMI
A comprehensive source for doctoral dissertations from the United States and Canada. Includes citations for dissertations ranging from 1861 to those accepted last semester. A limited number of master's theses is also included. Titles represent authors from North America and Europe, with over a million titles in full text.

Digital National Security Archive o n p r o x y
The database contains more than 35,000 of the most important, declassified U.S. federal documents that led to policy decisions. The Digital National Security Archive contains fifteen complete collections: Afghanistan, Berlin Crisis 1958-1962, Cuban Missile Crisis, El Salvador, Iran-Contra Affair, Intelligence Community, Iran Revolution, Iraqgate, Military Uses of Space, Nicaragua, Nuclear Non-Proliferation, Philippines, Presidential Directives from Truman to Clinton, South Africa, and Soviet Estimate.

Digital Sanborn Maps, Texas  (1867-1970) (courtesy of Texshare Logo Texshare)
Digital Sanborn Maps, 1867-1970 provides academic and public libraries digital access to more than 660,000 large-scale maps of more than 12,000 American towns and cities. Sanborn maps are valuable historical tools for urban specialists, social historians, architects, geographers, genealogists, local historians, planners, environmentalists and anyone who wants to learn about the history, growth, and development of American cities, towns, and neighborhoods. They are large-scale plans containing data that can be used to estimate the potential risk for urban structures. This includes information such as the outline of each building, the size, shape and construction materials, heights, and function of structures, location of windows and doors. The maps also give street names, street and sidewalk widths, property boundaries, building use, and house and block numbers. Seven or eight different editions represent some areas.

Digitale Bibliothek Deutscher Klassiker o n p r o x y
Bibliothek deutscher Klassiker, with its carefully selected literary and non-literary texts, is widely regarded throughout the world as the premier collection of German writing. It covers the works of major authors spanning eleven centuries and includes historical, philosophical, theological, political and art history texts. Collections of essays, speeches and other non-literary material add context and background material.

Digitale Bibliothek Deutscher Klassiker o n p r o x y
Full-text access to the premier collection of German writing — covers the works of major authors since the Middle Ages — literary, historical and philosophical texts as well as writings in art history, theology, political thought — substantial background material, critical editions with commentary and endnotes — fully searchable.

Documenting the American South u n r e s t r i c t e d
This freely-accessible collection from UNC at Chapel Hill currently includes six digitization projects: slave narratives, first-person narratives, Southern literature, Confederate imprints, materials related to the church in the black community, and North Caroliniana.

Dumbarton Oaks Hagiography Database u n r e s t r i c t e d
Writings in Greek about 8th-10th century saints and their posthumous cults.

Early American Fiction via LION o n p r o x y
Provides both images and text for a well-defined and comprehensive collection of early American fiction. Presently includes 440 titles by 80 authors, including first printings of works by James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Montgomery Bird, Washington Irving, Catharine Sedgwick, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Published jointly with the University of Virginia Library.

Early American Imprints: Series I, Evans (via publisher)  (1639-1801) | Early American Imprints: Series I, Evans (via University of Michigan) o n p r o x y
Based on the renowned American Bibliography by Charles Evans. The definitive resource for every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America, from agriculture and auctions through foreign affairs, diplomacy, literature, music, religion, the Revolutionary War, temperance, witchcraft, and just about any other topic imaginable. Upon completion, Evans Digital will consist of more than 36,000 works and 2,400,000 images.

Early American Imprints: Series II, Shaw-Shoemaker  (1801-1819) o n p r o x y
Covering every aspect of American life during the early decades of the United States, this rich primary source collection provides full-text access to the 36,000 American books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the first nineteen years of the nineteenth century.

Early English Books Online (page images only) | Early English Books (full text searchable) o n p r o x y
Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640), Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), and the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661). The Early English Books Tract Supplements will also be added to EEBO soon. The works in this collection are presented as images, which may be viewed online, or downloaded in PDF format for viewing off-line. To view the images online, you will need the DjVu plugin. Downloaded files are in Adobe Acrobat format.

Early English Prose Fiction o n p r o x y
The Early English Prose Fiction collection contains over 200 works of prose fiction dating from 1500-1700. It includes Elizabethan fiction, Jest Books, collections of short pieces and novellas, Restoration fiction and works of popular fiction.

Ecole Initiative: Early Church Documents u n r e s t r i c t e d
The Early Church On-Line Encyclopedia (Ecole) Initiative is a cooperative effort on the part of scholars across the internet to establish a hypertext encyclopedia of early Church history (to the Reformation) on the World-Wide Web.

Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare  (1591-1911) via LION o n p r o x y
Eleven major editions from the First Folio to the Cambridge edition of 1863-6, twenty-four separate contemporary printings of individual plays, selected apocrypha and related works and more than one hundred adaptations, sequels and burlesques from the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

eHRAF [Electronic Human Relations Area File] o n p r o x y
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Provides full-text ethnographic information on the cultures of the world. This continues (and will eventually duplicate) the microfiche HRAF which is available in Fondren Library's Government Publications Department. (1995-)

Eighteenth Century Collections Online  (1701-1800) o n p r o x y
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Eighteenth Century Collections Online is one of the largest sources of rare materials ever collected in microfilm and electronic formats. The collection is an ongoing project based on The English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC), a machine-readable union list of the holdings of the British Library, as well as those from more than 1,500 university, private, and public libraries worldwide.

Eighteenth Century Fiction  (1700-1780) o n p r o x y
96 complete works in English prose from the period 1700-1780, by writers from the British Isles. Includes a scanned version of Sterne's Tristram Shandy, and two different editions of Richardson's Clarissa and Pamela and of Swift's Gulliver's Travels.

Eighteenth Century Journals & Newspapers  (1699-1812) o n p r o x y
A selection of materials from the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas. The titles chosen from HRC for this project have been screened carefully against Early English Books Online, Early English Newspapers, and Eighteenth Century Collections Online so that there is no duplication whatsoever with these projects. The material reproduced in this new digital project covers many rare items not held by the British Library.

Electronic Text Center - University of Virginia u n r e s t r i c t e d
The Etext Center at the University of Virginia Library has pursued twin missions with equal seriousness of purpose since its inception in 1992: to build and maintain an internet-accessible collection of SGML and XML-encoded texts and images; to build and maintain user communities adept at the creation and use of these materials

Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature u n r e s t r i c t e d
This page lists Internet sources for literary texts in the western European languages other than English. Translations are mentioned only when they are included in collections of original language texts, or when they are themselves of interest.

Empire Online  (1492-1962) o n p r o x y
This project is being published in five sections between 2003 and 2007 offering over 60,000 images of original documents linked to essays by leading scholars in the field. These are: Section I: Cultural Contacts, 1492-1969 (March 2003); Section II: Empire Writing and the Literature of Empire (March 2004); Section III: The Visible Empire (Winter 2004/5); Section IV: Religion and Empire (Winter 2005/6); and Section V: Race, Class and Colonialism, c1783-1969 (Winter 2006/7).

English Poetry Database o n p r o x y
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The English Poetry Database offers a comprehensive, searchable anthology of English poetry from 600 to 1900. Both well-known and lesser-known poets are represented, including: Matthew Arnold, Anne Bradstreet, George, Lord Byron, William Cowper, John Donne, Robert Herrick, Gerard Manley Hopkins, John Keats, Andrew Marvell, John Milton, Christina Rossetti, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Alfred Lord Tennyson, William Wordsworth, and Oscar Wilde.

English Prose Drama  (1280-1915) o n p r o x y
English Prose Drama contains more than 1,600 plays written by more than 350 different authors from the Renaissance to the end of the nineteenth century. The database includes plays, masques, entertainments, and certain closet dramas.

English Verse Drama o n p r o x y
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A searchable database of more than 1,700 dramatic works in verse, authored by approximately 450 authors, from the late 13th century through the end of the 19th century.

EText Archives u n r e s t r i c t e d
The ETEXT Archives were founded in 1992 in response to the lack of organized archiving of political documents, periodicals and discussions disseminated via Usenet newsgroups. Not long thereafter, electronic 'zines (e-zines) began their rapid proliferation on the Internet, and it was clear that these materials suffered from the same lack of coordinated collection and preservation. One thing led to another, and e-zines of all kinds -- many on various cultural topics unrelated to politics -- invaded the archives in significant volume.

Everyday Life - Women in America  (1800-1920) o n p r o x y
This databases comprises thousands of fully searchable images (alongside transcriptions) of monographs, pamphlets, periodicals and broadsides addressing 19th and early 20th century political, social and gender issues, religion, race, education, employment, marriage, sexuality, home and family life, health, and pastimes. The collection is especially rich in conduct of life and domestic management literature, offering vivid insights into the daily lives of women and men, as well as emphasizing contrasts in regional, urban and rural cultures.

Exilpresse digital: Deutsche Exilzeitschriften 1933-1945 u n r e s t r i c t e d
The German Library Frankfurt am Main digitized this collection of German exile magazines and newspapers from 1933-1945. The Website is in German; periodical articles are predominantly in German but also in English and Spanish.

Faber Poetry Library o n p r o x y
A collection of some of the most influential poets of the twentieth century. The Faber list spans the seventy-year history of this major publishing house, and includes the poetry of James Joyce, Siegfried Sassoon, T.S. Eliot, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and Seamus Heaney. In total The Faber Poetry Library contains 140 volumes by 50 poets.

Fairrosa Cyber Library of Children's Literature u n r e s t r i c t e d
Includes a selection of classic children's books

Fundamental'náiâ elektronnáiâ biblioteka Russkáiâ literatura i fol'klor : FEB. u n r e s t r i c t e d
A free digital Library devoted to Russian literature and folklore from the 11th-20th centuries. Provides full-text access to literary texts, audio, and visual materials, and supporting scholarly works, including a number of Russian reference tools. The contents are in Russian; however, the site provides a link to an English language version that describes the materials covered and explains the library's goals. The library is produced by The Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Gerritsen Collection -- Women's History Online o n p r o x y
This collection, when complete in December 2002, will include more that 4,700 books, pamphlets and periodicals reflecting the revolution of a feminist consciousness and the movement for women's rights. Materials will span four centuries (1543-1945) and 15 languages.

Godey's Lady's Book  (1830-1885) o n p r o x y
Published from 1830-1880 in Philadelphia, Louis Antoine Godey's publication initially included extensive fashion descriptions and plates, biographical sketches and articles about a variety of subjects. Gradually the periodical matured into an important literary magazine and contained works by significant 19th century authors such as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Edgar Allen Poe, and Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Goethes Werke o n p r o x y
This database consists primarily of the Weimar Edition of Goethe's works, originally published between 1887-1919 by Hermann Böhlau (and Nachfolger) under the patronage of Grosshezogin Sophie von Sachsen and hence often referred to as the Sophien-Ausgabe. It is supplemented by material not found in the Weimar Edition, namely Goethes Gespräche, edited by Woldemar Freiherr von Biedermann (Leipzig, 1889-1896) and all the letters discovered since the completion of the Weimar Edition: Goethes Werke, Nachträge zur Weimarer Ausgabe, edited by Paul Raabe (dtv, München, 1990).

Google Books u n r e s t r i c t e d
Google is working with a number of libraries to digitize books, as well as provide access to recent publications from some publishers who wish to promote their content through this site. Hint: to retrieve books which are in the public domain and fully visible, click on the "Full View" radio button).

HarpWeek (Civil War and Reconstruction Units)  (1857-1877)
Electronic access to Harper's Weekly 1857-1877.

House of Commons Parliamentary Papers  (1801-1900)
The origins of HCPP online lie in the Chadwyck-Healey microfiche edition of the nineteenth century House of Commons Sessional Papers. The microfiche edition includes filmed images of 79,527 papers, covering 4.2 million pages. The accompanying 5 volume index, Peter Cockton's Subject Catalogue of the House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, 1801-190, was the first thematic listing of the complete set of parliamentary papers. HCPP online brings these two resources together. HCPP online will be published in a series of releases from summer 2005 to early 2006. This initial release comprises of the index to all 79,257 papers. This will be followed in September with the first one million pages of full text, covering the years 1840-1859. Subsequent substantial releases will complete the file by early 2006.

Illuminated Sacred Music Manuscript Collection  (15th-16th century) u n r e s t r i c t e d
Rare 15th and 16th century original music manuscripts depicting religious hymns and songs in Latin, hand drawn and beautifully illustrated with brilliant tempera paints on large vellum sheets. (Via Rice Digital Collections)

Immanuel Kant Akademieausgabe u n r e s t r i c t e d
This is the most complete edition of Kant's writings, including correspondence, and indices — fully searchable — originally published by the Royal Prussian Academy of Science, now made available online by the University of Bonn.

King James Bible via LION o n p r o x y
The King James - 'Authorized' Version is included to provide a single Bible for reference purposes.

Koran u n r e s t r i c t e d
This is an electronic version of The Holy Qur'an, translated by M.H. Shakir and published by Tahrike Tarsile Qur'an, Inc., in 1983. It is made available through The Humanities Text Intitiative at the University of Michigan.

Latin American Women Writers  (17th century-) o n p r o x y
With 100,000 pages of prose, poetry, and essays, and 300 plays, Latin American Women Writers accomplishes the task of bringing together the most important writers from 19 countries, as well as the works of the principal feminists, in one single collection.

Life and Works of Jorge Luis Borges
This new online database originates from the Jorge Luis Borges Collection and Documentation Center of the Fundacion San Telmo. The database provides access to a wide range of materials, including those that are rare or appeared in unindexed national and provisional newspapers. The database includes: full-text search capability (the texts themselves are not included), a complete primary bibliography, a large secondary bibliography, and an encyclopedia.

LION: Literature Online o n p r o x y
Literature Online combines hundreds of thousands of fully-searchable texts, with reference works, bibliographies and catalogues on a single site, and provides hypertext links to relevant resources on other websites. Collections include: African-American Poetry (1750-1900), American Poetry (1600-1900), American Drama, Early American Fiction, Early English Prose Fiction (1500-1700), Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare (1591-1911), Eighteenth-Century Fiction (1700-1780), English Drama (1280-1915), English Poetry (600-1900), Faber Poetry Library (20th century), Literary Theory, Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Twentieth Century African American Poetry (1901-1997), Twentieth Century American Poetry, and Twentieth Century English Poetry.

Literary Theory o n p r o x y
Literary Theory traces the history of literary theory and criticism from Plato to the present. It contains over 800 works by more than 350 writers. Among the works included are: formal treatises on criticism, essays and manifestos, literary prefaces, theories of imagination, taste and aesthetics, and major examples of contemporary theory.

Macmillan Cabinet Papers  (1957-1963) o n p r o x y
Macmillan On-line provides historians and political scientists with direct access to documents from the highest level of U.K. Government during the Macmillan Administration, 1957-1963.

Making of the Modern Economy : Goldsmiths' - Kress Library of Economic Literature  (1450-1850) o n p r o x y
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The Making of the Modern Economy digital collection presents more than 61,000 books from the period 1460-1850, and 466 pre-1906 serials. In almost 12 million pages, it focuses on economics interpreted in the widest sense, including political science, history, sociology, and special collections on banking, finance, transportation and manufacturing. It combines the strengths of two pre-eminent collections - the Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature at the University of London Library and the Kress Library of Business and Economics at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration - along with supplementary materials from the Seligman Collection in the Butler Library at Columbia University and from the libraries of Yale University.

Mary Lasker Papers u n r e s t r i c t e d
From the National Library of Medicine, visitors can read primary documents related to Mary Lasker, a major player in the struggle to expand the National Institutes of Health after World War II.

MIT CogNet
MIT CogNet brings together many of the pre-eminent resources in the cognitive and brain science disciplines and makes them available in one place. These resources include: 4 major reference works by The MIT Press ,, Over 400 MIT Press books in searchable, full-text PDF, Full-text of 7 MIT Press journals and searchable abstracts of over 30 journals from other publishers including: British Psychological Society, Cambridge University Press, Kingston Press, Ltd., Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., and Psychonomics Society

NetLibrary - Fondren Library's collection (supplemented courtesy of Texshare LogoTexshare) o n p r o x y
Contains reference books, scholarly monographs, and consumer books that have been converted into digital format for electronic distribution. Rice University's private collection (emphasizing computing "how to" manuals, employment resources, and general reference titles) are available full text - as are thousands of titles purchased by the state library consortia, Texshare. In addition, fulltext access is available to hundreds of classic academic texts that are in the public (copyright) domain. See Webcat for specific titles (keyword="netlibrary").

Nietzsches Werke Scroll down the list to reach "Nietzsches Werke" o n p r o x y
Presents the complete contents of the Colli/Montinari edition of Nietzsche's works organized according to the Kritische Studienausgabe.

Nineteenth Century Fiction o n p r o x y
250 novels from the period 1782 to 1903, including works by all the major Victorian novelists such as Dickens, Thackeray, the Brontes, Eliot and Hardy, as well as the landmarks of Gothic and other fiction from the Romantic period.

North American Women's Letters and Diaries  (Colonial to 1950) o n p r o x y
Release 1 (2001) includes the immediate experiences of 107 women, as revealed in more than 9,000 pages of diaries and letters. When complete, the collection will include more than 150,000 pages of primary materials spanning more than 300 years.

Numdam-Digitization of ancient mathematics documents u n r e s t r i c t e d
In order to support french mathematical journals, the NUMDAM program has set up free access to bibliographical data and articles of french mathematical journals.

Online Books Page u n r e s t r i c t e d
The Online Books Page is a website that facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet. It also aims to encourage the development of such online books, for the benefit of all. Major parts of the site include: an index of thousands of online books freely readable on the Internet, pointers to significant directories and archives of online texts, special exhibits of particularly interesting classes of online books, information on how readers can help support the growth of online books.

Online Medieval and Classical Library u n r e s t r i c t e d
The Online Medieval and Classical Library (OMACL) is a collection of some of the most important literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization.

ORB: Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies u n r e s t r i c t e d
This Website, written and maintained by medieval scholars, includes an encyclopedia, peer-reviewed articles, transcriptions and translations of primary texts, and textbooks for class use.

Oxford English Dictionary o n p r o x y
The twenty-volume second edition (continually revised and updated by Oxford University Press), containing nearly 300,000 entries which may be searched by definition, etymology, and quoted historical usage as well as words.

Oxford Scholarship Online - Philosophy
Several hundred monographs published by Oxford University Press in the core areas of philosophy (general, metaphysics/epistemology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, moral philosophy/ethics, aesthetics, philosophy of science, logic/philosophy of mathematics, political philosophy, philosophy of religion, ancient philosophy and history of philosophy). The concentration is on recent books - most of them from the last 10 years, accompanied by classics from the 1960s to 1980s.

Oxford Text Archive u n r e s t r i c t e d
The Oxford Text Archive works closely with members of the Arts and Humanities academic community to collect, catalogue, and preserve high-quality electronic texts for research and teaching. The OTA currently distributes more than 2000 resources in over 20 different languages, and is actively working to extend its catalogue of holdings.

Past Masters o n p r o x y
Rice's access to this collection includes works by the following authors and the following packages: Anselm, Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle, Augustine, Jane Austen, A.J. Ayer, Jeremy Benthem, George Berkeley (Bishop of Clyne), Robert Boyle, British Philosophy: 1600-1900, Charlotte Brontë, Fanny Burney, John Calvin, Samuel Coleridge, R.G. Collingwood, The Continental Rationalists, Anne, Conway, Charles Darwin, Donald Davidson, John Dewey, René Descartes, John Dewey, Charles Dickens, The Eighteenth Century, Frederick Engels, Adam Ferguson, Johann Fichte, William Gladstone, Thomas, Hardy, Georg Hegel, Thomas Hobbes, David Hume, Immanual Kant, Kierkegaard, G. W. Leibniz, John Locke, Martin Luther, Katherine Mansfield, Thomas Malthus, Karl Marx, Modern Era (1800-1950), Nietzsche, William of Ockham, Oxford Classical Dictionary, Charles Sanders Peirce, Plato, Political Philosophy: Machiavelli to Mill, Alexander Pope, Romantic Age, Josiah Royce, George Santayana, Arthur Schopenhauer, Henry Sidgwick, Adam Smith, Herbert Spencer, Jonathan Swift, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Max Weber, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Wordsworths (Letters of) and William Butler Yeats. See the database for specific titles.

Patrologia Graecae
Migne's Patrologiae Graecae contains more than 160 volumes of Greek material (with Latin translations) relevant to the study of the history of the Christian Church from its beginnings through the Council of Florence in 1439. Edited by J.-P. Migne, it was published in print in the nineteenth century and is now made available electronically for the first time

Patrologia Latina Database o n p r o x y
Guide
The Patrologia Latina Database (PLD) is a comprehensive electronic version of the Latin portion of Jacques-Paul Migne's massive Patrologiae Cursus Completus, including notes, glosses and indexes. The Patrologia Latina, though originally published in the 19th century, still represents the only scholarly edition of many works.

Perseus Digital Library u n r e s t r i c t e d
Originating out of the Classics Department at Tufts University, this Website now includes primary and secondary resources in Classics, the English Renaissance, and more.

Perseus Project u n r e s t r i c t e d
The flagship collection, under development since 1987, covers the history, literature and culture of the Greco-Roman world. The project also now includes collections covering study of the Germanic peoples, and 19th-Century American History.

Politikerreden aus der Weimarer Republik u n r e s t r i c t e d
The written texts, along with audio clips when available, of political speeches from the Weimar Republic. A digitized collection of the German Historical Museum, Berlin. In German.

Project Gutenberg u n r e s t r i c t e d
Project Gutenberg is the oldest producer of free ebooks on the Internet. The collection was produced by hundreds of volunteers.

Renaissance Electronic Texts u n r e s t r i c t e d
A series of old-spelling, SGML-encoded editions of early individual copies of English Renaissance books and manuscripts, and of plain transcriptions of such works.

Retrospektive Digitalisierung wissenschaftlicher Rezensionsorgane und Literaturzeitschfirten des 18. und 19 Jahrhunderts u n r e s t r i c t e d
This collection includes access to a significant number of 18-th and 19-th century German review journals, such as Allgemeine Deutsche Bibliothek, Berlinische Monatsschrift and many others.

Sabin Americana
"Based on Joseph Sabin's landmark bibliography, this collection contains works about the Americas published throughout the world from 1500 to the early 1900's. Included are books, pamphlets, serials and other documents that provide original accounts of exploration, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, the western movement, Native Americans, military actions and much more. With over 6 million pages from 29,000 works, this collection is a cornerstone in the study of the western hemisphere."

Schillers Werke
Full-text access to the works of Friedrich Schiller in the edition of the Nationalausgabe.

Schillers Werke o n p r o x y
Schillers Werke im World Wide Web comprises the complete works of Friedrich von Schiller (1759 - 1805), including his poetry and plays, the translations, minor prose works, historical and philosophical writings, letters to and from Schiller and the Conversations. Schillers Werke is the electronic edition of the Nationalausgabe of Schiller's works.

Schumann Collection u n r e s t r i c t e d
Original materials related to 19th century German composer and music critic Robert Schumann, including a contemporary manuscript report of Schumann's conducting at Dusseldorf, written by W. Wortmann, deputy mayor of Dusseldorf and a leading member of the administration of the Allgemeiner Musikverein (of whose orchestra and chorus Schumann had been appointed director in 1850). Additional items include small portraits of Robert and Clara Schumann and brief correspondence related to the Schumanns. (Via Rice Digital Collections)

Slavery, abolition, and social justice, 1490-2007 o n p r o x y
Brings together documents and collections about slavery covering an extensive time period from libraries and archives across the Atlantic world. Includes images of many thousands of original manuscripts, pamphlets, books, paintings, maps and images.

Teatro Español del Siglo de Oro  (1500 - 1700) o n p r o x y
Teatro Español del Siglo de Oro full text database contains the most important dramatic works of sixteenth and seventeenth century Spain, published here in full. Teatro Español del Siglo de Oro contains more than 800 plays written by 16 dramatists including Lope de Vega, Calderón de la Barca, Agustín Moreto etc.

Thesaurus Linguae Graecae o n p r o x y
The TLG Digital Library now contains virtually all ancient Greek texts surviving from the period between Homer (8th century B.C.) and A.D. 600, and a large number of texts deriving from the period between A.D. 600 and 1453, in excess of 80 million words. The project continues its efforts to include all extant Greek texts from the byzantine and post-byzantine period. The online version is updated regularly with new texts as they become available.

TIMEA - Travelers in the Middle East Archive u n r e s t r i c t e d
Between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, Europeans and Americans traveled to the Middle East to conduct archaeological expeditions, tour religious sites, explore foreign cultures, and pursue geopolitical aims. A rich body of literature and images documents these travels, providing invaluable resources for scholars and students in disciplines ranging from English literature and Women's Studies to Classical, Middle Eastern and Medieval archaeology, religion, and history. By building an archive focused on the Middle East, TIMEA will provide greater access to rare materials, offer sophisticated analytical tools, and enable new modes of scholarship focused on textual, visual, and geographical information. (Via Rice Dspace)

Twentieth Century African American Poetry via LION o n p r o x y
A database of modern and contemporary African-American poetry from the early twentieth century to the present. Features 10,000 poems by around 70 of the most important African-American poets of the last century.

Twentieth Century American Poetry via LION o n p r o x y
An ever-growing database of modern and contemporary American poetry from the early twentieth century to the present. Presently includes 12,000 poems drawn from 133 volumes by 104 poets, including Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Denise Levertov, Wallace Stevens, Langston Hughes, and Cathy Song.

Twentieth Century English Poetry via LION o n p r o x y
A collection of 594 volumes of poetry by 282 poets from 1900 to the present day, including W.B. Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Graves, A.E. Housman, John Betjeman, Fleur Adcock, Tony Harrison, Benjamin Zephaniah and Carol Ann Duffy, and incorporating the poets in The Faber Poetry Library.

Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War u n r e s t r i c t e d
An award-winning University of Virginia research project which interweaves the histories of two communities on either side of the Mason-Dixon line during the era of the American Civil War. It combines a narrative and an electronic archive of the sources on which the narrative is based.

Victorian Women Writers Project  (1800-1900) u n r e s t r i c t e d
The goal of the Victorian Women Writers Project is to produce highly accurate transcriptions of works by British women writers of the 19th century, encoded using the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML).

Virginia Company Archives o n p r o x y
Online version of the Ferrar Papers which are in Magdalene College, Cambridge. Includes transcripts of those documents that throw light on the Virginia Company of London and the four volumes of The Records of the Virginia Company of London.

Voltaire électronique o n p r o x y
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Voltaire électronique is based upon the Voltaire Foundation Oxford edition of the Complete works of Voltaire. It includes all of Voltaire's literary works. Texts which have not yet been published in the Complete works are drawn either from the original sources or from the ninteenth-century Moland edition of Voltaire's works. The database will be updated regularly with further texts from the Oxford edition as they become available.

William Ward Watkin Architecture Collection  (1903-1956) u n r e s t r i c t e d
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The papers detail the academic and architectural career of William Ward Watkin. Included in the collection are personal information, business correspondence, construction photographs and architectural drawings of the early Rice Institute, and drawings of projects from his private architectural career. (Via Rice Digital Collections)

Women and Social Movements in the United States - Scholar's Edition  (1600-2000) o n p r o x y
Women and Social Movements in the United States brings together books, images, documents, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies, documenting the multiplicity of women's reform activities.

Women and social movements in the United States 1600-2000
"This Worldwide Web site is intended to serve as a resource for students and scholars of U.S. history and U.S. women's history ... The website provides learning modules in the form of mini-monographs, each of which is organized around a specific question about a single social movement. Each module contains fifteen to twenty documents that address the question"--"About" page.

Women Writers Online o n p r o x y
A product of the Women Writers Project, this "textbase" includes the several hundred texts from women authors from 1400 through 1850. Introductions to the works, contextual and topical essays also are available.

Zeitschriften der Aufklärung -- Journals of the Enlightenment era u n r e s t r i c t e d
"Retrospektive Digitalisierung wissenschaftlicher Rezensionsorgane und Literaturzeitschriften des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts aus dem deutschen Sprachraum" -- digital versions of German-language journals of the second half of 18th and early 19th centuries.