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ABU: la Bibliothèque Universelle Texts in French by Flaubert, Pascal, Zola and more.
ACADEMIC JOURNALS provides free access to research information to the international community without financial, legal or technical barriers. All the journals from this organization will be freely distributed and available from multiple websites.....ACADEMIC JOURNALS, breaking new frontiers in the world of journals
"The Humanities E-Book is a digital collection of nearly 2,800 full-text titles offered by the ACLS in collaboration with twenty learned societies, nearly 100 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan’s Scholarly Publishing Office. The result is an online, fully searchable collection of high-quality books in the Humanities, recommended and reviewed by scholars."
ADT Australasian Digital Theses Program consists of 42 universities. As of April, 2009 they has a total number of digital theses = 24,987 and a total number of theses: 150,636
African American Black Women Writers of the 19th Century African American Women Writers of the 19th Century is a digital collection of some 52 published works by 19th-century black women writers. A part of the Digital Schomburg, this collection provides access to the thought, perspectives and creative abilities of black women as captured in books and pamphlets published prior to 1920.
"Provide a compact, timesaving, and annotated guide to print and electronic information sources, and to facilitate easy access to a wide range of information in the African studies field. The fully searchable electronic edition is regularly updated online to provide maximum currency."
Alex Catalog of Electronic Texts These 2000 titles can be viewed or downloaded as text, pdf, html,and for palmpilots.
The most comprehensive index to scholarly work in Classical Studies, L'Année Philologique: bibliographie critique et analytique de l’Antiquité gréco-latine. (APh) is an essential source for serious research. The web version currently covers the years from 1959 onwards.
"ARTstor is a digital library of nearly one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes."
Open access to 606,688 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics. This site was created by Cornell University and partially funded by the National Science Foundation.
Bartleby is a huge online library which includes the Harvard Classics and Shelf of Fiction, dictionaries, poetry and other reference works.
The Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) is the world's most comprehensive bibliography of scholarly writing about the history of western art. "database search includes both BHA (covering 1990-2007) and the International Bibliography of Art (IBA), covering the years 2008 and part of 2009. The Répertoire de la litterature de l'art (RILA), one of the predecessors of BHA, with records that cover 1975–1989."
Bibliomania Over 2000 titles in poetry, fiction, short stories - including Alcott, Stevenson, Edith Wharton, Thomas Hardy.
British Library EThOS (Electronic Theses Online Service) Theses are searchable and can be limited to items currently online 'Limit search to items available for immediate download' "EThOS has been created to offer a single point of access to UK-generated post-doctoral theses and plays a significant role in showcasing UK research to the world. We now have 105 UK universities involved in the project and a total of 263,049 theses available, with almost 17,500 available for immediate download." You must register and log in but many theses are available free for downloading.
Almost 60,000 articles, published since 2001, in the French language, on Economy, law, history, literature, psychology, political science, sociology, philosophy and more!
Literature, classics, philosophy, religion and culture. Consists of 249 Cambridge Companion books - searchable or browsable full text.
"Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries is the premier source for reviews of academic books, electronic media, and Internet resources of interest to those in higher education. More than 35,000 librarians, faculty, and key decision makers rely on Choice magazine and ChoiceReviews.online for collection development and scholarly research."
"The comprehensive gazetteer, however, is an encyclopedia of geographical places and features.... Along with updating of population data, the restructuring of political units within countries, devastation caused by wars, and the alteration of landscape through natural processes and human activities are reflected in this revised and expanded edition of the Gazetteer."
Theory and research in international affairs.
"Communication & Mass Media Complete provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media... CMMC offers cover-to-cover (“core”) indexing and abstracts for over 390 journals, and selected (“priority”) coverage of 200 more, for a combined coverage of nearly 600 titles. Furthermore, this database includes full text for 285 journals."
Reliable, factual information for quick reference questions. Can find answers by browsing or searching.
Cyberthèses The portal for online French language theses. It is possible to search the University of Lyon separately as well. There is a South American Cybertesis from the University of Chile.
Digital Book Index "Digital Book Index provides links to more than 148,000 title records from more than 1800 commercial and non-commercial publishers, universities, and various private sites. About 120,000 of these books, texts, and documents are available free, while many others are available at very modest cost."
dissonline.de includes electronic university publications held by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. Click 'research' on the left menu to do a search. Most documents are in German.
This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages. There are now 5047 journals in the directory. Currently 2081 journals are searchable at article level. As of today 397170 articles are included in the DOAJ service.
DRIVER (Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research) Searches can be limited to a particular country, community or topic (Anthropology, Biology, and Computer Science) The DRIVER Information Space -- consists of approximately 1,000,000 documents -- found in journal articles, dissertations, books, lectures, reports, etc. -- harvested regularly from more than 200 institutional or thematic repositories -- from 23 European countries -- in 25 languages.
"Koran Printing in the West, 1537-1857 This collection of Early Printed Korans demonstrates what impact the holy book of Islam achieved in Europe. Long before printing with movable type became common practice in the Islamic world in the early 19th century, Korans were printed in Arabic type in several European cities. This collection includes Korans and Koran translations in eight languages."
eBooks Libres et Gratuits 2000 books available on this site. There is a Yahoo Groups attached to this site where readers can help build the site.
ebooks@Adelaide The University of Adelaide Library’s collection of classic works of Literature, Philosophy, Science, and History
Classics journal put out by Virginia Tech
Searchable or alphabetical arrangement. Includes an atlas, timeline, and year in review. Encyclopaedia Britannica has extended videos online (full length videos on science, geography, world studies, american history, and arts).
"The Encyclopaedia of Islam is unsurpassed in scope, authority, and erudition. The depth and breadth of its scholarship is apparent on every page. No library or scholar of the world of Islam should be without it."
"The Encyclopaedia of Islam is unsurpassed in scope, authority, and erudition. The depth and breadth of its scholarship is apparent on every page. No library or scholar of the world of Islam should be without it."
"Drawing upon a rich scholarly heritage, and with nearly 1000 entries in 5 volumes, Brill’s EQ it is an encyclopaedic dictionary of qur'ânic terms, concepts, personalities, place names, cultural history and exegesis, extended with essays on the most important themes and subjects within qur'ânic studies."
Articles and multimedia content covering broad subjects. Includes: an atlas of the world, monthly dossiers on a variety of topics, recommended web sites in the 'annuaire internet', almost 900 literary commentaries in the 'bibliotheque' (on art, economics, literature, philosophy and sociology) and numerous interactive experiments in the 'Laboratoire'!
"The Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures (EWIC) is an interdisciplinary, transhistorical, and global project. It brings together upwards of 1,000 scholars to write critical essays on women, Muslim and non-Muslim, and Islamic cultures in every region where there have been significant Muslim populations."
"Europa World Plus is the online version of the Europa World Year Book and the nine-volume Europa Regional Surveys of the World series. First published in 1926, the year book is renowned as one of the world's leading reference works, covering political and economic information in more than 250 countries and territories."
List of archaeology journals - some free fulltext, some partial, some citations.
This service has been developed at the Universitätsbibliothek Regensburg (University Library of Regensburg) in cooperation with the Universitätsbibliothek der Technischen Universität München (University Library of the Technical University of Munich).
List of history journals - some fulltext, some partial fulltext, some citation only.
Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text is the definitive online tool for film and television research. Subject coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews. The database will provide cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 270 publications (and selected coverage of more than 300), as well as full text for more than 70 journals."
Frantext consists of approximately 4000 full text pieces in French, covering 5 centuries (the 16th through the 20th). Eighty percent are literary or art works and 20 percent are scientific or technical writings. There is a searchable bibliographic database.
Gallica Over 1,091,687 documents, 167,186 books, 131,475 images, 739,597 periodicals are available online from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.
Généralis is an online index to 169 French language periodical titles (click on 'se connecter' to enter).
GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies has open access journals: Africa Spectrum, Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, Journal of Politics in Latin America, Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs
Gnomon Bibliographische Datenbank "Index of publications for ancient history, classical philology, and archeology. Also includes a thesaurus that bridges the gap between English and German terms common to classical studies. In English, French, and German." A selection from the Gnomon CD-ROM 2008 with special consideration of the years since 2005.
To limit to fulltext - click search - "Full view only" and click contents - Books if you want to find only books. Limited preview may give you enough information.
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research.
"GreenFILE indexes scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports. This resource offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the environment... The database contains nearly 300,000 records, full text for selected titles and searchable cited references for more than 200 titles as well."
Consists of: Grove Art Online, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics.
"The Humanities E-Book is a digital collection of nearly 2,800 full-text titles offered by the ACLS in collaboration with twenty learned societies, nearly 100 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan’s Scholarly Publishing Office. The result is an online, fully searchable collection of high-quality books in the Humanities, recommended and reviewed by scholars."
International Bibliography of Art is the successor to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA).
"INIS, the International Nuclear Information System, was established in 1970 in response to the IAEA’s mandate “… to foster the exchange of scientific and technical information on peaceful uses of atomic energy.”
Institute for Learning Technologies Have English translations of Aristotle, Locke, Plato and more from books dated around 1900.
International Bibliography of Art is the successor to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA).
"A vast library giving instant access to the most authoritative and up-to-date scholarship in the field."
"INIS, the International Nuclear Information System, was established in 1970 in response to the IAEA’s mandate “… to foster the exchange of scientific and technical information on peaceful uses of atomic energy.”
Political Science, Method and theory; political thinkers and ideas; political and administrative institutions; political process (public opinion, attitudes, parties, forces, groups, elections); international relations; and national and area studies.
Internet Archive (text archive) "The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library, with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format. Founded in 1996 and located in the Presidio of San Francisco, the Archive has been receiving data donations from Alexa Internet and others. In late 1999, the organization started to grow to include more well-rounded collections. Now the Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages in our collections."
ILEJ, the "Internet Library of Early Journals" was a joint project by the Universities of Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Oxford, conducted under the auspices of the eLib (Electronic Libraries) Programme. It aimed to digitise substantial runs of 18th and 19th century journals, and make these images available on the Internet, together with their associated bibliographic data. The project finished in 1999, and no additional material will be added. See Final Report for conclusions of the project.
Political Science, Method and theory; political thinkers and ideas; political and administrative institutions; political process (public opinion, attitudes, parties, forces, groups, elections); international relations; and national and area studies.
Arts, humanities, social sciences and sciences (does not carry most recent years of a title).
Political, economic, social events - online from 1931 to present.
Media & communications, computing, business & finance, law, politics, medicine, government... ...includes full-text access to a wide range of newspapers and wire services, both foreign and domestic...provides biographical and reference information...features New York Times from 1980-present (abstracts from 1969).
"The Literary Encyclopedia is an expanding global literary reference work written by over 2000 specialists from universities around the world, and currently provides more than 5100 authoritative profiles of authors, works and literary and historical topics and grows by over 90 articles per month."
The Literature Network "We offer searchable online literature for the student, educator, or enthusiast. To find the work you're looking for start by looking through the author index. We currently have over 2900 full books and over 3900 short stories and poems by over 250 authors. Our quotations database has over 8500 quotes." Includes Shakespeare, the King James version of the Bible and many more titles.
Access biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of more than 120,000 authors from every age and literary discipline as well as full-text criticism.
Literature.org On this site you will find the full and unabridged texts of classic works of English literature. Fiction from authors like Lewis Carroll, the Bronte sisters (Anne, Charlotte and Emily), Jack London, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens and many others, and classic scientific works from Charles Darwin and Rene Descartes.
Luminarium Works from Medieval, Renaissance, and 17th Century Literature - Chaucer, Malory, Sir Thomas More, Elizabeth I, Milton and many more.
ManyBooks.net There are 27,428 eBooks available here and they're all free! Includes literature, art, criticisms, psychology, and much more.
"Full text of major Middle East newspapers published in the Middle East or about the Middle East. Includes English and foreign language publications focusing on all aspects of Middle East news including current events, economics, politics, business, culture, sports and much more."
"A daily email newsletter of concise, translated briefs covering some of the key political, cultural, economic and opinion pieces appearing in the media of the 22 Arab countries, Iran and the Arab Diaspora."
Full-text online access to a comprehensive selection of prestigious humanities and social sciences journals.
National Academies Press Choose the book you want and you will come to a page where you can pay for the book OR read it online. Look for the tab at the top 'Read This Book Online, Free!'
The Bookshelf is a searchable collection of online biomedical textbooks and other literature. In addition to some classic biology and medical textbooks and monographs, it also includes books and databases produced by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). The Bookshelf is one of the many databases that make up Entrez, NCBI’s powerful search and retrieval system.
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations has 82 institutional members (US and international universities) and 2 Consortial members OhioLink and the Triangle Research Libraries. You can do a topic search and find full text dissertations and theses. (Search "American University of Paris" and you will see what some alumni have gone on to study!)
"All aspects of the ancient world: persons, places, institutions, events, artifacts, technical terms, ideas and concepts... special attention to the interaction between Greek and Roman culture and the neighboring Semitic, Celtic, Germanic cultures."
OhioLink (the 30 OhioLink universities are listed here) OhioLink has a worldwide search as well.
Online Books Page "The Online Books Page is a website that facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet." This page lists over 35,000 titles from Bartleby, Gutenberg and many more sources. A good place to look first.
Online Medieval and Classical Library The Online Medieval and Classical Library (OMACL) is a collection of some of the most important literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization.
Open Library "The Open Library website was created by the Internet Archive to demonstrate a way that books can be represented online. The vision is to create free web access to important book collections from around the world. Books are scanned and then offered in an easy-to-use interface for free reading online. If they're in the public domain, the books can be downloaded, shared and printed for free. They can also be printed for a nominal fee by a third party, who will bind and mail the book to you. The books are always FREE to read at the Open Library website."
Consists of: Grove Art Online, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics.
Comprehensive source of reference work for the classics
Reference questions - reliable, factual information - easy to find quickly.
Browse or search the Oxford Reference Online classics section
Psychoanalytic texts (books and articles up to 2005) including all 24 volumes of The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud.
Perseus Digital Library, created at Tufts University, includes classics (Greek, Latin and some translations) and English Renaissance as well as image archives.
Project Gutenberg contains over 30,000 free books including books in Chinese, English, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Spanish and 40 other languages. HUGE list.
Gutenberg Books (French language) Many classics available here for free.
Full-text online access to a comprehensive selection of prestigious humanities and social sciences journals.
PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that provides free access to MEDLINE, the NLM database of indexed citations and abstracts to medical, nursing, dental, veteronary, health care, and preclinical sciences journal articles, Includes additional life sciences journals not in MEDLINE.
PubMed Central (PMC) is the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
"Over 35 million article, book, report, acts of congress references in science, technology, medicine, social sciences, from 1847 to present (updated every day)."
SPIRO is the visual online public access catalog to the 35mm slide collection of the Architecture Visual Resources Library (AVRL) at the University of California at Berkeley. The collection numbers over 250,000 slides and 20,000 photographs.
SULAIR Books in the Public Domain is Stanford University Library's public domain titles that have been digitized!
TEL (thèses-EN-ligne) This is a site for scientific theses where scientists can archive their own work.
Theses Canada As of 2008 there are approximately 300,000 theses and dissertations on microform in Library and Archives Canada's collection. Of these approximately 50,000 are also available electronically.
"The entire newspaper is captured, with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos divided into categories to facilitate searching."
The Undergraduate Journals and Conferences Directory encourages undergraduate scholarship by facilitating the development and use of undergraduate publications and conferences. The UJCD lists journals, electronic and paper, and conferences, that will consider undergraduate student essays, research papers, poetry, short fiction, photography, cartoons, art, etc., without regard to the undergraduate student’s institutional affiliation.
Articles and multimedia content covering broad subjects. Includes: an atlas of the world, monthly dossiers on a variety of topics, recommended web sites in the 'annuaire internet', almost 900 literary commentaries in the 'bibliotheque' (on art, economics, literature, philosophy and sociology) and numerous interactive experiments in the 'Laboratoire'!
University of Florida The ones marked E-book are online fulltext.
Victorian Women Writers Project The goal of the Victorian Women Writers Project is to produce highly accurate transcriptions of works by British women writers of the 19th century, encoded using the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML). The works, selected with the assistance of the Advisory Board, will include anthologies, novels, political pamphlets, religious tracts, children's books, and volumes of poetry and verse drama. Considerable attention will be given to the accuracy and completeness of the texts, and to accurate bibliographical descriptions of them.
All general subject areas - multi-topical - scholarly.
The World of Dante is a multi-media research tool intended to facilitate the study of the Divine Comedy through a wide range of offerings. These include an encoded Italian text which allows for structured searches and analyses, an English translation, interactive maps, diagrams, music, a database, timeline and gallery of illustrations. Many of these features allow users to engage the poem dynamically through the integrated components of this site.
Worldcat (not full text - you can request theses or dissertations through document delivery or MANY have links to the full text) To find theses or dissertations, choose Thesis/Dissertation under the Content drop down menu.
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