The Electronic Text Center's holdings include approximately
51,000 on-and off-line humanities texts in twelve languages, with more
than 350,000 related images (book illustrations, covers, manuscripts, newspaper
pages, page images of Special Collections books, museum objects, etc.)
"Making of America (MOA) is 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. The collection currently contains approximately
1,600 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.
The project represents a major collaborative endeavor in preservation and
electronic access to historical texts."
A Demonstration Project by the Digital Research Library,
University Library System, University of Pittsburgh Can view digital images
of 33 schoolbooks.
"This is a collection of 19th century American fiction, as listed in Lyle Wright's
bibliography American Fiction, 1851-1875. There are currently 1752 texts included (1602 unedited,
155 fully edited and encoded) by 845 authors."
Perseus is a project that is attempting to bring together in one digital library
the important writings of the ancient world. It started with ancient Greece, but the project expanded
to include secondary texts, maps and digital images. Next the project expanded to ancient Rome.
The project includes images of art, pottery, and coins used in the ancient world. The project has further
expanded to primary texts from the early modern English time period or English Renaissance, and first-person narratives of
of California's early years, books from the states of Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin from 1820-1910,
and books from the Chesapeake Bay region from 1600-1925, and the Boyle Collection, which is the writings
of Robert Boyle. Also included is the Bolles Collection, which is a collection of materials on the history of
London.
"APIS links together in a single environment various sources of information about texts
written on papyrus and the society that produced them. It contains descriptions of the papyri
and other written materials in the collections of the participating institutions, digital images
of many of these texts, and connections to databases with the texts themselves in their
original languages and with bibliography about the texts. Many of the descriptions include
full translations into English. The user can move back and forth among text, translation,
bibliography, description, and image. With the specially-developed APIS Search System many
different types of complex searches can be carried out."
"Read any one of thousands of classic books free at 4Literature.net. The
4Literature archives include such things as the works of Shakespeare, religious and
historical documents, children's fairy tales, Greek and Roman classics, and books by
famous American authors of the 19th century."
"The materials included in The Papers of John Jay, 1745-1829 are derived
from nearly 14,000 photocopies of Jay and Jay-related materials collected by the late
Richard B. Morris and his staff in preparation for Professor Morris’s projected four-volume
letterpress series of the unpublished papers of John Jay."
"The Digital Scriptorium was conceived as an image database of dated and datable
medieval and renaissance manuscripts, intended to unite scattered resources into an
international tool for teaching and scholarly research."
This site aims to offer a listing of major digitized
heritage collections and on-going digitization programmers worldwide. It is
hoped that this will provide a single focal point of information on digitized
collections. This site will act as the 'Memory of the World' virtual
library offering direct access to those collections, where permission to link
has been granted.
"The Universal Library Project, sometimes called the Million Books Project, was pioneered by
Jaime Carbonell, Raj Reddy, Michael Shamos, Gloriana St Clair, and Robert Thibadeau of Carnegie
Mellon University. The Governments of India, China, and Egypt are helping fund this effort through
scanning facilities and personnel. The Internet Archive has contributed 100k books from the Kansas
City Public Library along with servers to India. The Indian government scanned the appropriate books.
The Internet Archive has performed automated conversion of these scans into this collection."
"The National Academies Press (NAP) was created by the National Academies to publish the reports
issued by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute
of Medicine, and the National Research Council, all operating under a charter granted by the
Congress of the United States. The NAP publishes more than 200 books a year on a wide range of
topics in science, engineering, and health, capturing the most authoritative views on important
issues in science and health policy. The institutions represented by the NAP are unique in
that they attract the nation's leading experts in every field to serve on their award-winning
panels and committees. This is the right place for definitive information on everything from
space science to animal nutrition. We offer many titles in electronic Adobe PDF format. Hundreds
of these books can be downloaded for free by the chapter or the entire book, while others are
available for purchase. Our frequently asked questions guide answers questions about purchasing
and accessing our electronic books."
Calisphere is the University of California's free public gateway to a world of primary sources. More than 150,000 digitized items — including photographs, documents, newspaper pages, political cartoons, works of art, diaries, transcribed oral histories, advertising, and other unique cultural artifacts — reveal the diverse history and culture of California and its role in national and world history. Calisphere's content has been selected from the libraries and museums of the UC campuses, and from a variety of cultural heritage organizations
The Florida Photographic Collection is a nationally recognized component of the Florida State
Archives and contains more than 850,000 photographs, and approximately 2,500 movies and video
tapes. Over 98,000 of the photographs have been scanned and placed on this website. The collection
spans a wide range of visual images from copies of mid 15th Century maps to current photographs
. Most of the holdings in the collection have been obtained singly or in small groups. Together,
they form the most complete portrait of Florida available.
