Academic eBooks (in copyright)

• Oxford Scholarship Online (OUP: open-access abstracts by chapter)
• Cambridge Books Online
• Publishers and Booksellers $ (links on this site)
• eBook 3000 (links to download sites)

eBooks (out of copyright)

• The Online Books Page (links: Pennsylvania)
  • Plain-Text: Project Gutenberg (c.30,000 editions, mostly plain-text; some html)
  • Hathi Trust (c. 900,000 page-turner editions)
  • Adelaide University (html versions of Gutenberg plain-texts)

  Scanned in PDF

  • Google Books Search (Library Project, Blog)
    (reputedly 1 million full-view editions, though many unavailable
    outside USA, for which see the Internet Archive. Scan quality often poor.
    Public-domain works which are also republished commercially are now being withdrawn)

  • Google nGrams (word frequencies in Googlebooks texts)

  • Internet Archive (reputedly 1 million, plus extras from Google
    and from the defunct Microsoft Live Search)

  • Europeana (books and images from European libraries and museums)

  • Archived Websites: Wayback Machine (Internet Archive: blog)
  • Finding Old Web Pages (searching browser caches: SearchEngine Showdown)
  • UK Web Archive (selected sites, in progress: BL)

Academic Journals and Theses

• Google Scholar (academic journal search)
• See also general science and specific subject pages
  • Jstor, MUSE (academic journals )
  • Ethos (theses from 115 UK universities: British Library)
  • ProQuest (North American Theses: free search & abstracts)
  • Dissonline.de (German, Austrian and Swiss theses)
  • Cybertesis (Chile: mostly Spanish and South American)
  • Thèses et mémoires français (links from BNF)

Major Digital Libraries

Libraries with Online Texts (including digitised manuscripts)

• Berkeley eScholarship
• Bibliothèque Nationale de France (virtual exhibitions)
• British Library (digitisation strategy, Manuscripts)
  Canterbury Tales, Shakespeare's Quarto texts
  Virtual Historic Books (TTP, page-turning)
• Cambridge Digital Library (manuscripts)
  Rare Books, Older Manuscripts
  D-Space Repository (open-access papers & images)
  Temporary Exhibitions (Archive), Other eResources
• Chicago
• Columbia
• Library of Congress
• Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (collections)
• Harvard
• Michigan University (general collection: currently 30673 items,
  Making of America: currently 10,281 classic works)
• National Library of the Netherlands (Mediaeval Manuscripts)
• New York Public Library (Digital Gallery, eBooks)
• Oxford: Bodley (eResources), Oxford Text Archive
• Oxford Manuscripts, Bodley Manuscripts
  Electronic Enlightenment (edited letters 17th to 19th century )
• Parker Library ( Corpus Christi Cambridge/Stanford)
• Princeton
• Smithsonian (online science archives)
• Stanford
• University College London
• Yale
  Online Language Collections
  • The Online Books Page
  • Brindin Press (translations of poems)
  • Gallica (Bibliothèque Nationale de France: scanned ebooks)
  • Athena (links to French Texts, often outdated)
  • Dante: Works (Italian text)
  • CELT (13th - 20th C. Irish texts in English, Irish, French and Latin)
  • TLH (Thesaurus Linguae Hibernicae: Early Irish Texts)
  • Dante: Commedia (Italian text)
  • Boccaccio, Decameron (Italian and English)
  • Shakespeare: Plays (Quarto, Folio, and some new editions), Quarto (British Library),
    1864 Globe edition (with semantically-clustered search), 1914 Oxford Edition,
    Sonnets (modified 1609 Quarto text, new commentaries)
  • LION ( English and American literature: Chadwyck Healey)
  • ProQuest Early English Books Online (1473-1700: also with SGML Texts)
    Early European Books (to 1700, from Copenhagen, Firenze, The Hague)

  Greek and Latin Texts (mostly open-access, with unreliable texts.
  Scholarly texts are highlighted: see also Digital Classicist and ancient sources)
• Classical Texts and Secondary Literature (Union College, Schenectady)
• Forum Romanum (Classical and Renaissance Latin Texts)
• Latin Library (basic classical texts)
• Latin Text Archive (especially Renaissance works, from Augsburg)
• Early Medical Texts (first printed editions, from Paris)
• Papyri.info (Combining APIS, Duke and Heidelberg)
• PHI Greek Inscriptions
• PHI Classical Latin Texts
  (superseding the PHI Latin literature CD-ROM 5.3)
• Perseus (Texts, Chicago)
• Musisque Deoque (Latin and neo-Latin poetry)
• TLG (Greek texts )

English Translations (out-of-copyright editions)
Adelaide eTexts, Lacus Curtius, Liberty Fund, Sacred Texts
(including Moralia Goodwin 1878, Herodotus Macaulay 1890: parallel text,
Athenaeus Deipnosophists Yonge 1854)
Oriental Church History
• Goussen Library Collection (Bonn: texts in oriental, classical and modern European languages)

Media Libraries

• BBC Archive ( )
• British Library Sound Archives
• Pacifica Radio Archives (US history: $)
• See also Film and Music

Library Catalogues

• WorldCat (with search for closest library)

  Britain and Ireland

  • Bodleian Library, Oxford
  • British Library
  • Cambridge University Library (Universal Cat)
  • National Library of Scotland
  • National Library of Wales
  • Trinity College Dublin
  • University of London
  • University College London

    Europe

    • Frequently-consulted Catalogues (British Library)
    • The European Library (Gateway to the national libraries of Europe)
      • Deutsche NationalBibliothek
      • Bibliothèque Nationale de France
      • URBS (Unione Romana Biblioteche Scientifiche)
      • Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale (Italian libraries)

    United States

  • Melvyl (University of California)
  • Library of Congress (with links)
  • Harvard
  • Michigan
  • New York Public Library
  • Princeton
  • Stanford
  • Texas at Austin
  • Yale

ePublishing, Cyberlaw (see also Web Policy)

• News: Open Access (Cambridge UL, with links)
• SPARC (US Library consortium, with income models)
  • Center for Internet and Society (Stanford)
  • Digital Publishing (Malcolm Heath: 2006)
  • Digital Publishing (Bruce Fraser, 2008 talk, with audio, and PPT slides)
  • JISC Legal, Open Access Archivangelism (Stevan Harnad: blog)
  • International Internet Preservation Consortium (Libraries)
  • Missing Links (report on workshop, Ariadne 2009)
  • Public Knowledge (US pressure-group)
  • Open Knowledge Foundation (UK blog)

• Institutional Archives: Ranking
• OpenDOAR (Directory of Open Access Repositories)
• ROAR (Registry of Open Access Repositories)
• DSpace (Archives), EPrints (Archives), Fedora (Archives)

Librarianship

• British Library Blogs
• LIS Research Coalition
• Cambridge: Arcadia Project
• Fonts, Book Conservation (links on this server)

• BnF Blogs

• Berkeley Library Blogs
• Council on Library and Information Resources
• LibraryStuff (Huntington NY: aggregator)
• Librarian and Information Science News
• Library Link of the Day (Wisconsin)

Maps and Mapping

• Digital Maps: Google Earth (download: Blog)
• Google Maps (plus satellite and street views)
• Microsoft Bing (plus aerial and birds-eye)
• OpenStreetMap (interactive and editable world map)
• Comparison of Digital Maps
  • Ordnance Survey (interactive UK map, plus downloads)
  • Geograph UK (photos from every OS grid square)
  • British Train Maps
  • UK WebCam Directory
• Perry-Castañeda Map Collection (Austin)
• National Geographic (plus historical print maps)
• TerraServer $ (satellite images from EarthSat and GlobeXplorer)
• World Mapper Project (displaying statistics as maps)
• Breathing Earth (emulation)
• Wikimapia (editable interface for Google Earth)

Historical Maps

• Map History: History of Cartography (Tony Campbell, with links to online maps)
• Oddens' Bookmarks (Utrecht: old links captured by Internet Archive 24/7/11)
• British Library (Online Maps, Links, Mapping History)
  (London Maps: Crace Collection, Google Maps)
• BBC Beauty of Maps (historical maps )

• Gough Map (Britain, about 1360: earliest showing routes and accurate coastline. Bodleian)
  Interactive Version
  • Ancient: Ancient World Mapping Center (with Maps, and info on Barrington Atlas)
  • HESTIA (researching geographical information in Herodotus)
    (Herodotus Timemap: linking the text with the places)
  • Pleiades Project (Gazetteer of the Ancient World)
    (Google Ancient Places linking texts to gazetteers,
    with GapVis display interface)
  • Interactive Cultural Map of Hellas
  • Wide-Area Maps of the Roman Empire (NY: Dalton School)
  • The Roman Empire in 3rd C. AD (interactive map at Calgary: from 1907 Everyman Atlas)

• Perry-Castañeda Historical Maps (links to other collections)
• David Rumsey Collection (LA: huge collection of rare maps, pretty but variable resolution)
• Mediaeval Art and Architecture (at Pittsburgh: images and political maps
  of Britain and France, from Shepherd's Historical Atlas of 1929; very good resolution)
• Mediaeval Maps (political maps at Fordham: mostly European, from Muir's Historical Atlas of 1911)
• Modern Historical Maps of Europe and North America (at Oregon)
• Old British Maps (Ordnance Survey's County Series, started 1840)
• Old Maps (UK, $: County Series, National Grid, Russian maps)