General

    Bartleby.com 
        Has reference works and other categories of books, like verse, fiction, and nonfiction
        (http://www.bartleby.com/)
    Bibliomania
        Has texts of classic literary works among other links to synopses and critical discussions
        (http://www.bibliomania.com/main.html)   
    Christian Classics Ethereal Library 
        Has full texts of writers from different times
        (http://www.ccel.org/)
    Digtal Book Index 
        Links to title records at universities and private sites.
        (http://www.digitalbookindex.com/)
    Electronic Text Center 
        From the University of Virginia Library.  Excellent for primary research.
        (http://lib.virginia.edu/digital/collections/finding_digital.html)
    Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature 
        Has Western European language literary texts that are not in English
        (http://www.lib.virginia.edu/wess/etexts.html)
    Internet Public Library Online Texts 
        Has links to electronic texts
        (http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/hum60.60.00/)
    NetLibrary  
        This is a database accessible from our library web page.
        (http://library.chattanoogastate.edu) 
    Online Books Page  
        Can be searched by author or title.  A search by a call number can be done;
        for example, books in the BRs may be accessed. 
        (http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/)
    Project Gutenberg
        A standard site for ebooks
        (http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page)
    Text Archive
        Links from Internet Archive.
        (http://www.archive.org/details/texts)   

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Folk and Fairy Tales

    Folk and Mythology Electronic Texts
        Has some texts that can be listened to
        (http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html)
    Folklinks: Folk and Fairy-Tale Sites
        Has a list of links to texts
        (http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folklinks.html)
    SurLaLune Fairy Tale Pages
        Has a selected list of tales
        (http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/)
 
Historical

    ACLS Humanities E-Book
        From American Council of Learned Societies
        (http://www.humanitiesebook.org/)
    AmDocs: Documents for the Study of American History
        (http://www.vlib.us/amdocs/) 
    Ancient History Sourcebook
        From Fordham University
        (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asbook.html)
    Classics Collections Etexts
        From the University of Florida; good for mythology and ancient philosophy
        (http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/cm/classics/Etexts.htm)
    Digital History
        From University of Houston
        (http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/)
    Historical Text Archive
        Provides articles, books, and links
        (http://historicaltextarchive.com)
    Internet History Sourcebooks Project 
        Has three sourcebooks: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern and other sourcebooks on
        various topics.  All keyword searchable.
        (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall)
    Medieval Sourcebook
        From Fordham University
        (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook1n.html)
    Modern History Sourcebook
        From Fordham University
        (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.html)
    Online Medieval & Classical Library
        Has texts
        (http://omacl.org/)
    Perseus Digital Library 
        Has ancient Greek and Latin classical texts and information about the ancient writers
        and civilization
        (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/)

Please ask a librarian for assistance if you desire to find full-text periodical articles from our library databases or books we have by using the library's book catalog.

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Last Updated September 16, 2009