Electronic Books, Papers, Documents, and Texts
| * These books/databases are available only for UTPA students, faculty, and staff only. |
| Other books/databases are available to anyone, anywhere. |
Alex Catalogue of Electronic texts allows you to read and search through classic works from American literature, English literature, and Western philosophy.
Athena has "thousands of e-texts: philosophy, science, classics, literature, history, economics, etc.!"
Baen Free Library has dozens of free science fictions books online.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare from M.I.T.
Country Studies "presents a description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of countries throughout the world."
* Digital Dissertations (Dissertation Abstracts) "is the single, authoritative source for information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses... from over 1,000 graduate schools and universities."
* Early English Books Online includes works and images from 15th, 16th, and 17th century English literature.
* Eighteenth Century Collections Online has "the digital images of every page of 150,000 books published during the 18th Century [including] full-text searching of approximately 33 million pages." Some of the subjects covered are history, science, philosophy, literature, the arts, and law.
Electronic Text Center from the University of Virginia Library include thousands of texts and images in over a dozen languages.
eScholarship Editions has hundreds of books published by the University of California Press.
* History E-Book Project from ACLS provides electronic books in history "that remain vital to both scholars and advanced students, are frequently cited in the literature, and are currently not widely available."
The Internet Public Library "contains over 20,000 titles that can be browsed by author, by title, or by Dewey Decimal Classification."
La BitBlioteca "comprises texts mainly in Spanish, though it doesn't exclude texts in French, English and other languages."
National Academies Press sells books in dozens of academic disciplines, but also allows you to read them online.
* netLibrary includes reference material, as well as classics. Only one user at a time can look at a specific book. Patrons need to set up an account to "check out" books.
* Past Masters "provides scholars with significantly-enhanced and highly-flexible access to the classic texts" of philosophy. Click on Past Masters®
Project Gutenberg, "the Internet's oldest producer of free electronic books," provides plain ASCII versions of classic works. They have 10,000 texts online.
The Victorian Women Writers Project is from Indiana University.
Wright American Fiction 1851--1875 is from Indiana University.
