Electronic Books

https://www-amexplorer-amdigital-co-uk.proxy.alumni.jhu.edu/
From Adam Matthew, publisher. Primary resources generally from the National Archives, UK. Subjects span African, Asian, European and Latin American studies, French, German, Italian and Spanish language and literature, history, humanities, Jewish studies, Middle East studies, Political Science.

https://artfl-project.uchicago.edu/content/artfl-frantext
Comprising more than 3,500 French language texts spanning from the 12th through the 20th centuries, 215 million words and 675,000 unique word forms.

http://www.digitalbookindex.org/logina.htm
From: Digital Book Index
Best for: Access to wide array of collections
Access to over 94,000 online books on a wide range of topics. Indexes both commercial and noncommercial resources--so tens of thousands of books are available to read for free, while others require a fee. Examine the "getting started" section and the "main help file" for additional assistance.

https://dp.la/
“DPLA connects people to the riches held within America’s libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions. All of the materials found through DPLA—photographs, books, maps, news footage, oral histories, personal letters, museum objects, artwork, government documents, and so much more—are free and immediately available in digital format. The cultural institutions participating in DPLA represent the richness and diversity of America itself, from the smallest local history museum to our nation’s largest cultural institutions.” [from website]

https://www.doabooks.org/
A joint service of OAPEN, OpenEdition, CNRS and Aix-Marseille Universite; a growing collection of 34,000+ academic peer-reviewed books from over 400+ publishers

https://www.hathitrust.org/
A collection of digital documents (books, journals and more) made available by a partnership of over 50 research institutions and libraries. The main mission is to serve as a digital preservation repository with a highly searchable interface. Please note, while the entire collection is searchable, only those items in the public domain are available for viewing.

https://go-gale-com.proxy.alumni.jhu.edu/ps/start.do?p=GDCS&u=jhu_alum
Primary sources from over 48 databases covering everything from literature to historic newspapers to public health archives to Indigenous Peoples of North America and more. Searchable separately or all at once.

https://nap.nationalacademies.org/
From: Press of the National Academies of Science and Engineering, National Research Council, Institute of Medicine
Best for: Current research in policy relating to a variety of areas in health and social sciences.
Most of the National Academies Press's titles are available online using a variety of technologies (PDF, Web pages, other Web-viewable images). Readers may browse the categories (topics) list, search for words in titles, or even search the complete set of full texts. Readers should note that, because texts are accessible in different formats, they will "look" different on the screen. In most all cases, click on the Read button to access the full text.

https://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/

Editor: John Mark Ockerbloom, digital library planner and researcher at the University of Pennsylvania
From: Digital Library Project, University of Pennsylvania Library
Best for: Links to foreign language collections, sheer size.
A veritable grab bag of over 10,000 titles, this repository points readers to everything from Charles Babbage to the Zapatista National Liberation Army by way of Chekhov, Macaulay and Zola. The quality of texts is uneven, as they come from a variety of resources, not all of which claim to be standard editions, or even single editions. Readers looking at texts that offer no edition information should use these for background information or pleasure reading.

https://muse-jhu-edu.proxy.alumni.jhu.edu/
From: Project Muse
Description: Project MUSE offers over 80K ebook titles from scholarly and nonprofit publishers. As one of the academic community's primary resources publishers, Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others. Project MUSE is setting the standard for scholarly electronic publications in the humanities and social sciences.

https://rarebooks.stanford.edu/rarebooks/
From: Stanford University Libraries
Description: a resource for scholars, students, librarians, book professionals, and collectors. Here you can search across and within the full text of over 100 rare book bibliographies, library catalogs and sales catalogs. Subjects cover early printing, world literature, natural history, science, medicine, theology, cultural and area studies, Judaica, music, theology, art and architecture, among others.

https://sk-sagepub-com.proxy.alumni.jhu.edu/
Sage's social science ebook platform, where you will find a range of SAGE eBook and eReference content. Also contains CQ Press ebooks, including Historic Documents of 2020, The CQ Press Guide to Radical Politics in the Unites States, Guide to U.S. Elections, 7th ed., Washington Information Directory 2022-2023, Congress A to Z, Vital Statistics on American Politics 2017-2020, State Rankings 2017: A Statistical View of America, State Rankings 2018: A Statistical View of America.

http://www.infomotions.com/alex/
From: Eric Lease Morgan Public Domain Documents of American and English Literature and Western Philosophy.
Allows users to search for keywords within and across texts. Also provides a concordance in which you can search for keywords within the text. Contains a "browse" feature which lists all the words in the concordance beginning with a specified letter. Readers can create .PDF files of full-text items.

https://artfl-project.uchicago.edu/content/artfl-frantext
Comprising more than 3,500 French language texts spanning from the 12th through the 20th centuries, 215 million words and 675,000 unique word forms.

https://www.bartleby.com/lit-hub/fiction/
From: Bartleby.com
This collection comprises several anthologies as well as the full-text of many literature classics from antiquity to modern times. The anthologies include the Harvard Classics Shelf of Literature, a collection of short stories called "The Short Story," and a collection of ghost stories called "The Haunters and the Haunted." The individual texts span a range of authors from Aeschylus to Virginia Woolf, and include works by Cervantes, Henry James, Sinclair Lewis and Leo Tolstoy, to name just a few. The entire fiction site is searchable by keyword, and many of the texts include critical no

https://www.bartleby.com/lit-hub/nonfiction/
From: Bartleby.com
Includes both anthologies and full-text of individual volumes of classic nonfiction works. The anthologies span a variety of topics, ranging from American historical documents to accounts of the voyages of both ancient and modern explorers of the world. Writers whose individual works are featured in the "Volumes" section range from Henry Adams, an American writer and historian, to John Woolman, an early American Quaker, and include a wide variety of other writers covering the sciences, politics, philosophy and history.

https://go.gale.com/ps/start.do?p=BLMO&u=jhu_alum
Presents facsimile images of literary manuscripts, including letters and diaries, drafts of poems, plays, novels, and other literary works, and similar materials. From Gale Cengage Learning.

https://docsouth.unc.edu/index.html
From: Academic Affairs Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries
Over 900 books and manuscripts that relate to the history and culture of the South from the colonial period to the first few decades of the 20th century. Currently contains five digitization projects: Southern literature, slave narratives, first-person narratives, Confederate imprints, and material about the church in the black community. Offers the ability to search by title, author, subject, and keyword within all texts. Includes texts as well as scanned images.

https://archive.org/details/texts
From : Internet Archive Booksgroup
The Internet Archive Texts Archive contains a wide range of literature, popular fiction, and children's classics, as well as historical texts and research material, and includes more than 1500 digital collections.

http://mcllibrary.org/
Editor: Douglas B. Killings
From: Berkeley Digital Library SunSite
Best for: English translations of Medieval literature
While this is not the largest online collection of literature, it includes Chaucer, Chretien de Troyes and several Norse sagas, as well as The Cid and others. Edition information listed for all titles.

https://ota.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/repository/xmlui/
Publisher: Oxford University Computing Services Humanities Computing Unit
Best for: Multiple formats, known editions.
Since it paved the way as the first electronic text archive in 1976, the OTA has grown to 2500 texts from all eras. Readers should take the time to read through the screens (you will need to click through several before you get to the list of titles in the catalogue), which offer a great deal of helpful information. In most cases, multiple formats will be available. If you want to read online immediately, choose HTML or ASCII. For those who wish to use the SGML TEI versions, software is available for reading online (if you don't know what this is, and you simply want to read the text, we recommend HTML instead). Complete edition information available for all texts.

https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/
Editor: Gregory Crane
From: Dept. of the Classics, Tufts University
Best for: Original languages; background information on authors; special collections with images.
This spectacular collection of Greek and Roman texts allows readers to view and read Greek texts (font tools may be downloaded} as well as Latin; many texts include links to English translations. Most texts are "special Perseus-edited editions of the Loeb Classical Library." Also provided are Greek and Latin grammars, background works on classical literature and history, collection sof art and archaeological images, atlases, etc. Use the Texts link on the homepage page to find the titles included in the collection. An incomparable resources for readers interested in the ancient world.

https://www.gutenberg.org/
From: Michael Hart and PromoNet.
Best for: Sheer volume.
It's enormous--36,000 books; connect time may be slow due to high use; sometimes readers will be asked to pay a small fee (we recommend that you look elsewhere in these circumstances, since another place may offer the same title free); texts are "plain vanilla ASCII", or text files; readers will need to scroll through yards of disclaimers or Project background material to get to the text; texts are hand-typed and not do not duplicate professionally published editions.

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/
From: University of Pennsylvania
Best for: Quality of reproductions.
Beautiful scanned images from the University of Pennsylvania library collection. Several main collections, including: women's studies, South Asia Studies, Furness Shakespeare Library, and science occult and religion. Items scanned include books, maps, manuscripts, photographs, broadsides, ephemera, and recorded sound.