Electronic Books and Texts - Earl Gregg Swem Library

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OAIster	A search engine covering over 3 million freely available, academically oriented digital resources from institutions worldwide. All subject areas, provides links to journals, historical texts, images, photos, eprints, etheses, audio and movie files. Saves you time in searching individual archives - try here first.
UNESCO/IFLA Directory of Digitized Collections	Provides links to major digitized collections and on-going international digitization projects.

Collections:

American Memory Project	Library of Congress	Historical Collections for the National Digital Library
Art Museum Image Consortium	AMICO	AMICO is a not-for-profit association of institutions engaged in building a joint digital library which documents their collections, to be made available to the university, public library, and kindergarten-through-grade-12 educational communities.
Bartleby Library: Great Books Online		One of the largest public collections of on-line literature; and fine example of public electronic publishing--maintaining strict editorial and quality-control procedures. Includes literature, verse, and reference books. Began in 1993 at Columbia University with the publishing of Whitman's Leaves of Grass. Incorporated in 1999.
California Digital Library	University of California campuses	A collaborative effort of the nine campuses of the University of California. The CDL focuses on selecting, building, managing, preserving, and providing access to shared collections of high-quality digital materials for the university and its partners.
Charles F. Gillette Photograph Collection	Library of Virginia.	Gillette (1886-1969) was nationally recognized as one of the premier landscape architects associated with the restoration and re-creation of historic gardens in the upper South and especially in Virginia. The photographs primarily depict Virginia houses, estates, gardens, and other landscape design projects.
Colorado Digization Program	State Library of Colorado	State-wide collaborative project of libraries, museums, archives, and historical societies to create virtual collection of unique and special Colorado resources.
Documenting the American South	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	A collection of sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century.
Early Canadiana Online	Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions (CIHM); National Library of Canada; Universite Laval Library; University of Toronto Library	Full text online collection of more than 3,000 books and pamphlets documenting Canadian history from the first European contact to the late 19th century. The collection is particularly strong in literature, women's history, native studies, travel and exploration, and the history of French Canada.
Electronic Text Center - University of Virginia	University of Virginia	The Electronic Text Center's holdings include approximately 45,000 on- and off-line humanities texts in twelve languages, with more than 50,000 related images (book illustrations, covers, manuscripts, newspaper pages, page images of Special Collections books, museum objects, etc.). Collections include: Early American Fiction, New Japanese Texts Online, Shakespeare Resources, Flowerdew Hundred .
EServer.org	Iowa State University	Publishes texts in the arts and humanities. Collections include art, architecture, drama, fiction, poetry, history, political theory, cultural studies, philosophy, women's studies and music.
Humanities Text Initiative	University of Michigan	The HTI was conceived by the University of Michigan Press, the School of Information and Library Studies, and the University Library as an umbrella effort both for the creation and maintenance of online texts and as a mechanism for furthering capabilities in the area of online text.
Library of Virginia Digital Collections	Library of Virginia	Emphasizes rare and unique Virginia materials. Includes more than 2.2 million original documents, photographs and maps, and numerous new electronic finding aids and fully-searchable databases and indexes.
Making of America	University of Michigan	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.
New York Public Library Digital Library Collections	New York Public Library	Features a wide range of primary source materials. Collections include: the Digital Schomburg (African American history and culture); Small Town America; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Millennium Project; Urban Landscape Photography in the Romana Javitz Collection; and Berenice Abbott's Changing New York.
On-Line Books Page	University of Pennsylvania	A directory of books that can be freely read on the Internet. It includes: An index of thousands of on-line books, Pointers to significant directories and archives of on-line texts, and Special exhibits.
Oxford Text Archive	Oxford University	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.
Sage	Emory University and Georgia Institute of Technology	This project will digitize selected text, photographs, and audio/video recordings from the Sam Nunn Archive, the Witness to the Holocaust Project files, the Ralph McGill papers, and the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) of Greater Atlanta.
Victorian Women Writers Project	Indiana University	Aims to produce highly accurate transcriptions of works by British women writers of the 19th century. The works include anthologies, novels, political pamphlets, religious tracts, children's books, and volumes of poetry and verse drama.
Voice of the Shuttle: Literature (in English)	University of California, Santa Barbara	Includes works written in English taught in departments of English and American literature .
The Walt Whitman Hypertext Archive	University of Virginia	A structured database for studying the nineteenth-century American poet Walt Whitman. The archive is intended to collect, digitize, encode, and present in a hypertext environment all aspects of Whitman's work, including poetry, correspondence, notebooks, prose writings, and a rich array of contextual material as well. Directed by Kenneth M. Price (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) and Ed Folsom (University of Iowa)
Wright American Fiction Project	Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC)	Collection of 19th century American fiction, as listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography American Fiction, 1851-1875. Attempts to include every novel published in the United States from 1851 to 1875.