Welcome to the CWU Library's new Virtual Reading Room. We've gathered these links to supplement the full text available to our campus users from our Databases page. With the continual maturation of the Web, more textual and digital data becomes freely available on the Web each day. Our hope is that you may find items of value here, from classical literature to alternative magazines to digital images from libraries, museums and government collections. Happy surfing!

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Online Texts

General Collections

Project Gutenberg

A very large archive of "plain vanilla" ASCII texts, from the complete works of Shakespeare to Ambrose Bierce's Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge. From the home page choose "Browse by Author or Title."

Electronic Text Center - University of Virginia

Holdings include approximately 51,000 on- and off-line humanities texts in twelve languages, with more than 350,000 related images: book illustrations, covers, manuscripts, newspaper pages, page images of Special Collections books, museum objects, etc.)

Electronic Text Center - English Language Resources

Thousands of Middle and Modern English texts, from fiction to poetry and from Texts by and about Native Americans to Texts about the American Civil War.

The Oxford Text Archive

The OTA currently distributes more than 2500 resources in over 25 different languages, and is actively working to extend its catalogue of holdings. Browse the collections by author, title, or language.

Humanities Text Intitiative - University of Michigan

This rich site includes the Making of America collection, a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. Includes the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The collection currently contains approximately 8,500 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.

Literature at Sunsite

From UC Berkeley, digital texts from a variety of authors.

Internet Public Library Online Texts Collection

Contains over 17,000 titles that can be browsed by author, by title, or by Dewey Decimal Classification.

Online Books Page

From the University of Pennsylvania, provides access to more than 14,000 English works in various formats.

Alex Catalogue of Electronic texts

Also from UC Berkeley Sunsite, this collection include items from American literature, English literature, and Western philosophy.

SunSITE Digital Catalogs &Indexes

Links to a variety of digital collections.

Classics

The Online Medieval and Classical Library

A collection of some of the most important literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization.

The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies

Free, organized access to electronic resources in medieval studies

ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies

A cooperative effort on the part of scholars across the internet to establish an online textbook source for medieval studies on the World Wide Web.

Internet Medieval Sourcebook

Organized as three main index pages--Selected Sources, Full Text Sources, and Saints' Lives.

Perseus Digital Library

An evolving digital library linking you to wide range of texts, from Renaissance to papyri.

The Internet Classics Archive

Select from a list of 441 works of classical literature by 59 different authors, including user-driven commentary and "reader's choice" Web sites. Mainly Greco-Roman works (some Chinese and Persian), all in English translation.

The Camelot Project

From the University of Rochester and designed to make available in electronic format a database of Arthurian texts, images, bibliographies, and basic information.

The EServer: Accessible Online Publishing

From the EServer at the University of Washington.Offers 42 collections on such diverse topics as contemporary art, race, Internet studies, sexuality, drama, design, multimedia, accessible publishing and current political and social issues. In addition to written works, find links to hypertext, audio and even video recordings.

Digital Resources

Image &Textual Collections

Library of Congress' Digital Collections &Programs

Excellent starting point for exploring the Library of Congress' digital collections, from American Memory to the Meeting of Frontiers, a bilingual, multimedia English-Russian digital library of exploration of the American West, exploration and settlement of Siberia and the Russian Far East, and the meeting of the Russian-American frontier in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest.

Library of Congress' American Memory Collection

A major component of the Library's National Digital Library Program-- multimedia collections of digitized documents, photographs, recorded sound, moving pictures, and text from the Library's Americana collections. There are currently more than 90 collections in the American Memory Historical Collections.

Library of Congress' Online Exhibitions

Online versions of exhibitions at the Library of Congress.

Library of Congress' Panoramic Photographs Collection

Contains approximately four thousand images featuring American cityscapes, landscapes, and group portraits. The images date from 1851 to 1991 and depict scenes in all fifty states and the District of Columbia. More than twenty foreign countries and a few U.S.territories are also represented.

Library of Congress' Prints &Photographs Reading Room

Online access to about 50% of Prints &Photographs holdings; many catalog records are accompanied by digital images.

Documenting the American South

Collection of sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century; from The University of North Carolina.

The Making of America

From the University of Michigan, a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The collection currently contains approximately 8,500 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th entury imprints. Currently contains over 277,000 pages of journal articles.

University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections

Excellent selection of Pacific Northwest digital collections, from photographs of early Alaska explorations to American Indians of the Pacific Northwest. Also includes collections ranging from Mount St. Helens photographs to Northwest politics.

New York Public Library Digital Library Collection

Range of collections, from Surveyors of the American West to Images of African Americans from the 19th Century.

Chicago Public Library Digital Collections

Offers collections ranging from Chicago Renaissance, 1932-1950 to Weapons of the Civil War.

Smithsonian Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web

Links to Smithsonian and to other online exhibitions such as From the Seaport to Silicon Alley: A History of Technology in NYC, 1820-2000

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Links to collections and current exhibitions.

LA Public Library Photo Database &Virtual Gallery

Huge searchable database of photographs, plus collections such as the 1932 Olympics and Los Angeles at Work 1920 - 1939

Treasures of Europe's National Libraries

Indexes, Directories, and Finding Aids

The Digital Scriptorium

An image database of dated and datable medieval and renaissance manuscripts. Provides public access to fragile materials otherwise available only within libraries. Includes a list of authors included in the database.

Digital Library Research & Development

Wide variety of links to digital projects, directories, and digital research and development.

Digital Library Information Resources

Links to program reports, companies, example projects, resources, and digital tools.

ImageFinder

Search engines page to a variety of image databases, from the UC Berkeley Architecture Slide Library to the Smithsonian and NASA.

NARA Archival Information Locator

From the National Archives and Records Administration. Excellent and diverse site containing every thing from U.S. Depression-Era photographs to fascimiles of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's World War II correspondence.

Digital Libraries: Resources and Projects

Bibliographies of world-wide digital efforts with links to sites, plus links to digital progects, to reports, to organizations, and to conferences.

Finding Images Online: Links to Image Resources

Extensive links to digital image collections; arranged by subject.

AltaVista Photo and Media Finder

Web Search engine for digital images.

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Electronic Journals, Magazines, &Newspapers

Ejournal Site Guide: A MetaSource

From the University of British Columbia, probably the best single starting point to locate online journals and magazines. "A selected and annotated set of links to sites for ejournals, which in turn provide links to individual titles and/or to other collections of links."

Electronic Journals Resource Directory

From Peter Scott at the University of Saskatchewan, an excellent collection of links to ejournals directories, publishers, indexes, and collections.

Scholarly Journals Distributed Via the World Wide Web

Provides links to established Web-based scholarly journals that offer access to English language article files without requiring user registration or fees.

IPL Reading Room Serials collection

The Internet Public Library Reading Room Serials collection contains over 3000 titles that can be searched or browsed by subject or by title. Newspapers can now be found separately in the Newspapers section.

Electronic Journal Miner

This directory provides a title and subject organization of electronic serial publications (e.g. journals, newsletters, magazines, e'zines, webzines) on the Internet.

Harrassowitz' Electronic Journals: A Selected Resource Guide

Part directory and part resource guide including bibliographies and further information on electronic journals publishing. From Harrassowitz Booksellers & Subscription Agents.

Selected Hypertext and Hypermedia Magazines &Newspapers

Extensive list of Canadian magazines and newspapers. Includes some world coverage.

Yahoo Links to Magazines

Wide ranging links to electronic magazines and journals.

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