E-corpus is a collective digital library that catalogs and disseminates numerous documents: manuscripts, archives, books, journals, prints, audio recordings, video, etc.
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Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 provides access to information about every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America.
Early American imprints. Series I, Supplement from the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1670-1800 provides access to the holdings of the Library Company of Philadelphia to include a broad range of recently uncovered books, pamphlets, broadsides, and U.S. House and Senate Bills and Resolutions. This resource offers nearly 1,000 rare and unique items printed during a 130-year period spanning the colonial era and the formation of the new nation.
Early American imprints. Series II, Supplement from the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1801-1819 provides full-text access to American books, pamphlets and broadsides published from 1801-1819, covering every aspect of American life during the early decades of the United States. In addition to books, broadsides and pamphlets, the collection includes published reports and the works of many European authors reprinted for the American public. A large number of state papers and early government materials—including presidential letters and congressional, state and territorial resolutions—chronicle the political and geographic growth of the developing American nation.
Early English Books Online (EEBO) a digital library of works from STC I (Pollard & Redgrave), STC II (Wing), and the Thomason Tracts - over 125,000 individual titles.
Early English Books Online (EEBO) a digital library of works from STC I (Pollard & Redgrave), STC II (Wing), and the Thomason Tracts - over 125,000 individual titles.
This is an extraordinary resource at its inception and will be even more so upon its completion in a few years.
This web site provides access to the full-text content of 4,274 e-books purchased by the USC Libraries from netLibrary.
Originally created for the 2009 Poe bicentennial exhibition by the Harry Ransom Center (HRC) of the University of Texas, Austin, this Poe collection includes the private collections of William H. Koester and of J. H. Whitty, famed Poe scholar and collector.
One of the largest resources of rare materials ever collected in microfilm or electronic formats.
96 complete works in English prose from the period 1700-1780, by writers from the British Isles.
A sister-organization for NINES, 18thConnect gathers together a community of scholars that shapes the world of digital resources.
This is the digital version of the classic writing manual from 1918 written by William Strunk.
The English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) lists over 460,000 items published between 1473 and 1800 mainly, but not exclusively, in English published mainly in the British Isles and North America from the collections of the British Library and over 2,000 other libraries.
Essay and General Literature Index, produced by the H.W. Wilson Company, is a unique reference database that cites records contained in collections of essays and miscellaneous works published in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada.
Essay and General Literature Index Retrospective is a bibliographic database that cites essays, articles and miscellaneous works published in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada.
Gallica is the digital library of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and its partners. Online since 1997, this resource is updated every week with thousands of new materials and now offers access to more than 2 million documents.
GeNii, pronounced gene-knee is a portal to academic databases and indexes to journal articles, books, reports, and papers in all disciplines.
A database for ancient history, classical philology, and archeology, Gnomon is an international bibliographical index to monographs, journal articles, conference papers, essays in collections and dissertations in many languages.
Includes complete texts of the 143 volumes known as the definitive Weimar Edition.
Taking the phenomenon of the Grand Tour as a starting point, this resource explores the relationship between Britain and Europe between c1550 and c1850, exploring the British response to travel on the Continent for pleasure, business and diplomacy. Includes manuscripts, visual materials and printed works. The resource is provided by Adam Matthew.
A collection of advice on writing and usage containing definitions, suggestions, rules for spelling, information on diagramming sentences, etc. Includes numerous computer-graded quizzes.
A portal and database created by Spain's Ministerio de Cultura containing more than twenty million documents and digital images from the principal Spanish archives, including the Archive of the Indies and Archive of the Spanish Civil War.
Dedicated to the preservation of early modern women writings, this collection consists of over 230 digitized manuscripts originally composed between 1500 and 1700 in the British Isles and now located in 15 libraries and archives in North America and the United Kingdom. The resource is provided by Adam Matthew.
A library of materials pertaining to Ancient Greece, which is expanding to include resources on Ancient Rome. Includes lexica, a morphological database, catalog of hundreds of vases, sculptures, coins, buildings, and architectural sites, an atlas of Greece with satellite maps, a historical encyclopedia, works of literature, and many other resources.
Periodicals Index Online is an electronic index to millions of articles published in over 5,500 periodicals in the humanities and social sciences.
Poem Finder indexes 600,000 poems and includes over 50,000 poems in full-text.
Project Gutenberg was the first producer of free electronic books (ebooks).
MUSE provides access to the complete content (including all images) of nearly 500 current scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chinese Newspapers Collection (1832-1953) provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
Formerly PILOTS: Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress, PTSDpubs is produced at the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, with the goal of including citations to all literature on PTSD and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events, without disciplinary, linguistic, or geographical limitations, and to offer both current and retrospective coverage from 1871 to present day, updated monthly.