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COLLECTIONS OF
ELECTRONIC TEXTS, DOCUMENTS AND QUANTITATIVE DATA
This page lists some examples of particularly significant
textual electronic collections for the historians:
Digital
Libraries
 | Alex:
A Catalogue of Electronic Texts on the Internet - Searchable catalogue of classics, documents and essays, containing roughly
2000 entries mostly on gopher service such as ALEX, mirror site at Oxford gopher menu, faster than the previous one.
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| Alexandria
Digital Library at the University of California, Santa Barbara |
| ARTFL
Project - (University of Chicago and CNRS)
American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language. Interdisciplinary
textual database of 2000 texts from 13th to 20th centuries. Users have to be members of
ARTLF associated universities. Worth noting inside is the ARTLF Enciclopédie
Project. |
| Athena-Several lists of
multidisciplinary French-language texts and documents listed by authors. |
| The British
National Corpus - The BNC it's a one hundred
million texts corpus of British English. The BNC online service allows to search this
corpus in a variety of ways and download citations. Users need subscription. |
| CETE - (Centre d'édition de textes électroniques de l'Université de
Nantes) The CETE publishes French rare texts, inedits or disappeared, readable by JAVA.
See, in particular the Middle-Ages, the 16th century (text de l'Edit de Nantes) and
the Africa of 19th century sections. |
| ClicNet
- Cultural and literary French-speaking website
providing a wide range of e-texts: biographies and autobiographies, bibliography,
correspondences, political papers, philosophical essays, contemporary poetry, romances and
theather. |
| Early Modern Literary Texts -
Electronic editions of Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Seventeenth-century texts. Related
Medieval and Classical electronic texts. Multimedia databases. Maintaned by David L.Gants. |
| Eliohs. Electronic Library of
Historiography - An electronic and virtual library of texts of modern (mainly
XVIIth-XVIIIth centuries) historiography, philosophy of history and methodology, being
part of the electronic journal Cromohs. |
| Gallica - (Bibliothèque Nationale de France) Digitization project relative
to French-language XIXth century works of literary, historical, philosophical, juridical,
economical and political subject. Text images and excerpts readable by ACROBAT. |
| The Internet Public
Library |
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Internet Public Library. Online Texts Collection. The
IPL Online Texts Collection contains over 7700 titles that can be browsed by author, by
title, or by Dewey Subject Classification. They can also be searched using the form below.
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| The Modern English Collection at UVA -
Virtual library of the University of Virginia with texts in English, French, German,
Latin, Japanese, Chinese, Cyrillic. Browse and search for guidelines of text-encoding.
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| OTA-The Oxford Text
Archive -The Oxford texts collection contains
electronic versions of literary works by many major authors in Greek, Latin, English and a
dozen or more other languages in different formats; linguistic corpora, in a
variety of languages; standard reference works such as the Bible and mono-/bilingual
dictionaries. In addition to this archival function, the Oxford Text Archive advises
the creators and users of digital text resources on the importance of adhering to
particular standards during resource creation and documentation. |
| Primary Source
Media - World Government Documents Archive; Rare Books; Major Authors;
Women's Studies; American Journey; City Directories |
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Gutenberg - Database of texts and documents
listed by authors covering Philosophy, Literature, History, Science, Arts. Links to other
books and literature sites. |
| Progetto Manuzio -
An excellent multidisciplinary searchable
collection of mainly Italian, but also foreign texts, books, articles, documents,
thesis and reviews available all over the world. Every text is accompanied by information
about the author and his production and a small introduction. |
| VIVA - The Virtual Library of Virginia. VIVA is a consortium of academic
libraries offering access to electronic collections, access to libraries and Internet
search tools. VIVA's Mission: VIVA's mission is to provide,
in an equitable, cooperative and cost effective manner, enhanced access to library and
information resources for the Commonwealth of Virginia's academic libraries serving the
higher education community. VIVA's Members:
VIVA consists of the libraries of the 39 state-assisted colleges and universities (at 52
campuses) within the Commonwealth of Virginia, including: the 6 doctoral institutions, the
9 4-year comprehensive colleges and universities and the 24 community and 2-year branch
colleges (at 37 campuses). In addition, 28 of Virginia's independent (private) colleges
and universities participate where possible. VIVA schools (both public and independent)
represent Full-Time Equivalent
Enrollment of 265,700 FTE. The Map
of Participating VIVA Institutions provides a map of all VIVA institutions in the
Commonwealth of Virginia. We have also included links to each institution for directions,
campus map information, and the library's web site. The schools are listed both
alphabetically and by type of school.
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Electronic documents
| EuroDocs: Western European Primary
Historical Documents: - Well organized
collection of images and european documents transcribed, reproduced or translated, listed
by state and age.
 | France-Primary
Documents - Primary and secondary sources relating to French History from 10th to 20th
century. |
| Italy-Primary
Documents - Primary and secondary sources related to Italian History, from
Frederic the II to Mussolini. Relevant collection of Renaissance texts and
documents from the Catholic Reformation. |
| United Kingdom
– Primary Documents - Primary and secondary sources to British History from
the megalithic to 20th century: Interesting collection of medieval and modern sources
(transcriptions and translations) like the english translation of the Magna
Charta and the transcription of the Bill of Rights. See also the Sources
of British History: Britannia Internet Magazine collection of significant charters,
histories, chronicles, accounts, laws and summonses (1066-1931) and the World War I
Document Archive (pre-1914 - post-1918).
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| Hanover
College History Dept.: Texts and Documents - The
Project's primary aim is to make primary texts readily available to students and faculty
for use in history and humanities courses. Bibliographical information and
acknowledgements for scanning, editing, and proofreading are found at the beginning of
each text.
| Hanover
College History Dept.: Texts and Documents, USA -
Well organized American historical database collecting a wide range of texts from 16th
& 17th to 20th century: from the colonization to the Cold War and what happened
aftewards. Interdisciplinary archives covering literature, philosophy, theology and
politics. |
| Hanover
College History Dept.: Texts and Documents, Europe - Primary and secondary sources for the study of European history, listed by
ages: from the Greek culture to the second World War. Interdisciplinary
archives covering literature, philosophy, theology and politics. |
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| Redoc-Reseau
Document - Université Mendès France, Grenoble |
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