Electronic Books
The following is a selection of Internet sites that provide access to full-text electronic books
- NetLibrary
- Centre College Users Only
Titles have been added to the Centre College Online Catalog.
An online library of electronic books consisting of a broad range of reference, scholarly and professional works from commercial and university presses [More Information] - American Verse Project (University of Michigan)
- An electronic archive of volumes of American poetry. Most of the archive is made up of 19th century poetry, although a few 18th century and early 20th century texts are included.
- Bartleby.com
- English-language reference, verse, fiction, and nonfiction
- British Women Romantic Poets, 1789-1832
- An archive of electronic editions of poetry by British and Irish women written (not necessarily published) between 1789 and 1832
- Christian Classics Ethereal Library (Calvin College)
- A large collection of classic Christian literature
- eScholarship Editions
- From the University of California, the eScholarship Editions collection includes more than 1,400 books from academic presses on a range of topics, including art, science, history, music, religion, and fiction. Only select books are available to the public.
- Electronic Text Center (University of Virginia Library)
- The Electronic Text Center's holdings include approximately 51,000 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.). Note: Many of the texts available only to UVa users.
- History E-Book Project
- Centre College Users Only
An online, fully searchable collection of over 1,000 books of high quality in the field of history. [More information] - Kentuckiana Digital Library
- There are over 1,000 texts in the Kentuckiana Digital Library. These include transcripts of oral histories (interviews), personal narratives, journals, and books about Kentucky or by Kentucky authors.
- Library of Southern Literature (University of North Carolina)
- Titles have been added to the Centre College Online Catalog.
Includes a wide range of literary works of the American South published before 1924. - Making of America (Cornell University)
- A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection currently contains approximately 267 books and 100,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.
- Making of America (University of Michigan)
- A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection currently contains approximately 8,500 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.
- National Academies Press
- Over 3,000 ebooks in the areas of science, engineering and health published by National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council.
- Online Medieval and Classical Library
- A collection of some of the most important literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization.
- Perseus Project
- An evolving digital library of resources for the study of the ancient world and beyond, this site contains a major collection of images as well as the full-text of many classical authors.
- Representative Poetry Online (University of Toronto)
- Includes 3,162 English poems by 500 poets from Caedmon, in the Old English period, to the work of living poets today.
- Victorian Women Writers Project (Indiana University)
- A collection of works by British women writers of the 19th century.
- Wright American Fiction, 1851-1875
- Attempts to include every novel published in the United States from 1851 to 1875. It includes works by well known writers such as Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, along with a great many forgotten authors, whose works may have been very popular in their own time.
Last updated July 5, 2007