Guides and References

Electronic Text & Preprint Collections on the Internet

1. Major Collections, Guides and Indexes
2. Subject-Oriented Collections
   African Americans | Anthropology | Biology | Business | Chemistry and Physics | Computer Science | Earth and Environmental Science | Economics | Education | Film Studies | Health & Medicine | History | Latino and Latin American Studies | Linguistics | Mathematics and Statistics | Philosophy | Political Science and Public Policy | Psychology | Recreation and Leisure | Religion | Science | Women
3. Non-Subject Collections
   Chronologically-Oriented Sites: Documents from Specific Time Periods
   Federal and State of New Jersey Documents
   Foreign Language Text: Documents in Languages Other than English
   Law and Legal Resources
   Literary Works: Fiction, Drama, Poetry and More
   Primary Documents: Collections of Texts of Historical Significance
   

Major Collections, Guides to, and Indexes of Collections

• Akamac_E-text_Links (good for works in the social sciences, especially classic works in the history of economic thought. Starts with Althusser, ends with Allyn Abbott Young)
• The Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts (specializes in English literature, American literature, and Western philosophy. Contains some unique features - see the "About Statement" for an explanation of these)
• Digital Book Index (very good site to use to find free and for-fee titles from more than 1800 commercial and non-commercial publishers, universities, and various private sites. Log-in required)
• Digital Library Federation: Digital Collections Registry (searchable guide to the publicly accessible digital collections of selected research and academic libraries)
• The Electronic Text Center (main page of the Center at the U. of Virginia)
• In the First Person (searchable index of more than 3,350 collections of diaries, oral histories and personal narratives in English from around the world.)
• The EServer ("the EServer's primary function is to publish texts in the arts and humanities." Contains over 30,000 texts in the humanities, along with links to other sites.)
• The Modern English Collection (a "heterogeneous collection of texts, fiction and non-fiction, letters and essays, etc. from 1500 to the present." A subset of the U. of Virginia's Electronic Text Center English Language Resources Collection)
• Ongoing Hypertext Projects (Henry Adams to the WPA, all from the U. of Virginia)
• The On-Line Books Page ("an index of thousands of on-line books on the Internet and links to significant directories and archives of on-line texts." Provides access by author, title and Library of Congress classification number)
• Oxford Text Archives ("holds several thousand electronic texts and linguistic corpora, in a variety of languages")
• Project Bartleby Archive (non-fiction and fiction works. See also Bartlebyverse: American and English Poetry: 1250 -1920 in the "Literary Works" section)
• Project Gutenberg (the original e-text project. This is the official site; there are also mirror sites at other URLs)
• Public Domain HTI Modern English Collection (publicly accessible texts from a variety of sources. Part of the Humanities Text Initiative at the Univ. of Michigan)
• Renascence Editions: An Online Repository of Works Printed in English Between the Years 1477 and 1799 (U. of Oregon)

Subject-Oriented Collections

African Americans | Anthropology | Biology | Business | Chemistry and Physics | Computer Science | Earth and Environmental Science | Economics | Education | Film Studies | Health & Medicine | History | Latino and Latin American Studies | Linguistics | Mathematics and Statistics | Philosophy | Political Science and Public Policy | Psychology | Recreation and Leisure | Religion | Science | Women

African Americans

• African American Perspectives: The Daniel A. P. Murray Pamphlets Collection 1818 - 1907 (pamphlets collected by the Library of Congress. Part of the American Memory Collection)
• African American Voices (primary documents on slavery in the United States; from the Digital History Project)
• American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology (a sample of the WPA interviews with former slaves. From the U. of Va.)
• Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936 - 1938 (part of the American Memory Collection)
• The Church in the Southern Black Community: Beginnings to 1920 (part of the "Documenting the American South" project at the U. of North Carolina)
• Digital Schomburg African American Women Writers of the 19th Century (a selection of published works at the Schomburg Collection of the New York Public Library)
• Electronic Text Center: African-American Texts (texts by and about African Americans. Part of the Electronic Text Center collection at the U. of Va.)
• From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1824-1909 (397 pamphlets written by African-American authors in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; part of the Library of Congress's American Memory project)
• Gilder Lehrman Center Online Documents (over 200 primary documents on slavery and resistance to slavery in the United States)
• North American Slave Narratives, Beginnings to 1920 ("when completed, it will include all the narratives of fugitive and former slaves published in broadsides, pamphlets, or book form in English up to 1920 and many of the biographies of former slaves published in English before 1920." Part of the "Dcoumenting the American South" project at the U. of North Carolina)
• Slaves and the Courts: 1740 - 1860 (part of the American Memory Collection)
• Voices from the Days of Slavery ("former slaves tell their story;" from the Library of Congress American Memory Project.)
• Women of Color Web (writings by about women of color in America; concentrates on feminisms, sexualities, and reproductive rights; sponsored by the Global Reproductive Health Forum at the Harvard School of Public Health)

Anthropology

• CogPrints: Cognitive Science Eprint Archive (primatology, cognitive ethnology, archeology, paleontology)
• eHRAF (the Human Relations Area File online. Ethnographic reports and other texts on cultures and cultural practices. Off-campus use restricted to Montclair State University affiliated patrons)
• Fourth World Documentation Project ("an online library of texts which record and preserve our [indigenous] peoples' struggles to regain their rightful place in the international community")

Biology

• BioMed Central ("peer reviewed research across all areas of biology and medicine)
• CogPrints: Cognitive Science Eprint Archive (ethology, behavioral ecology, sociobiology, behaviour genetics, evolutionary theory)
• The Quantitative Biology Archives (preprints in biological physics, computational biology, neural science, systems biology, bioinformatics, mathematical biology, and theoretical biology)
• US Geological Service Biological Research Division Publications

Business

• 10K Wizard (search engine for SEC filings)
• Annual Report Gallery
• FASB: FASB Statements—Full Text, Summaries,and Status (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0 or higher)
• SEC-Edgar (corporate financial reports submitted to SEC)
• Technical Reports and Working Papers in Business and Economics (a guide from the Library of Congress to sites that contain technical reports and working papers in business and economics)

Chemistry and Physics

• The American Physics Society E-print Server (registration required)
• arXiv.org e-Print Archive (computer science, physics, mathematics, and nonlinear sciences; from the Los Alamos National Laboratory)
• Chemical Physics Preprint Database (high-energy physics)
• The Chemistry Preprint Server (registration required)
• Selected Classic Papers from the History of Chemistry

Computer Science

• arXiv.org e-Print Archive (computer science, physics, mathematics, and nonlinear sciences; from the Los Alamos National Laboratory)
• CogPrints: Cognitive Science E-Print Archive (covers "many areas of Computer Science, e.g., artificial intelligence, robotics, vison, learning, speech, neural networks")
• The Computer Science Preprint Server (registration required)
• NCSTRL, Networked Computer Science Technical Reports Library ("an international, distributed collection of computer science technical reports)

Earth and Environmental Science & Management

• National Environmental Publications Information System (over 10,000 EPA documents online)
• National Library for the Environment (links to documents on many topics including Congressional Research Service reports on the environment, briefing books on many topics, environmental collections, state of the environment reports, and more)
• United States Geological Survey: Books and Other Publications

Economics

• Economics Working Paper Archives (Washington University)
• MacMaster University Archive for the History of Economic Thought (not just for economists)
• Resources for Economists on the Internet: Working Papers (links to several collections of working papers in economics, including the EconWPA)
• Technical Reports and Working Papers in Business and Economics (a guide from the Library of Congress to sites that contain technical reports and working papers in business and economics)

Education

• Education-line ("full text of conference papers, working papers and electronic literature which supports educational research, policy and practice")

Film Studies

• Film-Philosophy: On-line Writings

Health & Medicine

• BioMed Central ("peer reviewed research across all areas of biology and medicine)
• Biomedical Electronic Textbooks (from the McGill University Health Sciences Library & Osler Library of the History of Medicine)
• E-Journals and Books Useful to Clinicians (Vancouver Hospital and Health Sciences Centre)
• FreeBooks4Doctors
• Netprints: Clinical Medicine and Health Research ("a repository of non-peer reviewed original research")

History

• Classics of American Colonial History (small collection of secondary articles)

Latino & Latin American Studies

• LANIC Etext Collection (from the Univ. of Texas Latin American Network Information Center)

Linguistics

• BNC: English Language Corpora and Corpus Resources (links to language corpora)
• CogPrints: Cognitive Science E-Print Archive

Mathematics and Statistics

• arXiv.org e-Print Archive (Covers computer science, physics, mathematics, and nonlinear sciences)
• Distributed Digital Library of Mathematical Monographs (search for texts from the Goettingen Historical Math Book Collection, the Michigan Historical Math Book Collection, and the Cornell University Library Math Book Collection)
• Global Directory of Mathematics Preprints and ePrint Servers
• The Mathematics Preprint Server

Philosophy

• CogPrint: Cognitive Sciences E-Print Archive (focuses on mind, language, knowledge, science, logic)
• Electronic Texts (links to the works of major philosophers from the EpistemeLinks.com Philosophy Resources on the Internet site)
• Guide to Philosophy on the Internet [Peter Suber] (go to the "E texts" link and the "Preprints" link to get to the sections that contain many links to etexts and preprint sites)
• The International Directory of On-line Philosophy Papers ("a database of links that point to papers elsewhere")
• People with Online Papers in Philosophy
• Philosophy Papers, Articles, Pre-Prints Online (links to Internet collections of philosophy papers, etc., from the EpistemeLinks.com Philosophy Resources on the Internet site)
• PhilSci Archive (preprints in the philosophy of science)

Political Science and Public Policy
(see also the "Federal and State of New Jersey Documents Collections" and the "Law and Legal Resources" sections for more sites)

• A Century of Lawmaking Making for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates 1774 - 1873 (part of the Library of Congress' American Memory site)
• Congressional Research Service WWW Accessible Reports (links to the many sites where you can find CRS reports)
• E-Doc Centre ("an eclectic set of electronic human rights documentation unavailable elsewhere on the Web.")
• National Academy of Science Books Online (the publishing arm of the National Academy of Science, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council. Many of the publications deal with policy issues)
• Selected Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports to Congress
  [the purpose of the CRS, a department of the Library of Congress, here is to serve as "a nonpartisan analytical, research, and reference arm for Congress.")

Psychology

• Classics in the History of Psychology
• CogPrints: Cognitive Science Eprint Archive
• History & Theory of Psychology Eprint Archive
• Psychological Online Documents (submitted preprints and papers)

Recreation and Leisure

• Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles Virtual Library ("selected scholarly journals and
  historically significant Olympic publications [in] digital format")
• Leisure Information Network National Recreation Database (" contains the full text of unpublished reports, studies, program descriptions, policies, guidelines, conference presentations etc." in recreation and leisure studies)

Religion

• Christian Classics Ethereal Library
• The Church in the Southern Black Community (part of the "Documenting the American South" project at the U. of North Carolina)
• The Ecole Initiative (in addition to other sources, contains "translations of Judaeo-Christian and Islamic primary sources to 1500")
• English Religious Resources (versions of the Bible, the Book of Mormon, and the Koran. Part of the Electronic Text Center at the U. of Virginia)
• The Internet Sacred Text Archive: World Religions, Traditions, Mysteries
• Religion-Online.Org: Full texts by Recognized Religious Scholars (international in scope)
• The Unbound Bible ("a collection of searchable Bibles, including several English versions, versions in other languages, Greek, Hebrew and ancient versions")

Science

• E-print Network: Research Communications for Scientists and Engineers ("a gateway to over
  12,000 Web sites and databases worldwide, containing e-prints in basic and applied sciences")
• National Academy of Science Books Online (the publishing arm of the National Academy of Science, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council)
• Online Science Books (U. of South Carolina Libraries)
• PhilSci Archive (an electronic archive for preprints in the philosophy of science)
• Preprint Servers and Databases ("pointers to a variety of electronic pre-print sources in all areas of science and engineering")
• Virtual Technical Reports Center: Technical Reports on the Web (U. of Maryland)

Women

• British Women Romantic Poets, 1789-1832 (goal is to "promote awareness of the breadth and variety of women's writing")
• Digital Schomburg African American Women Writers of the 19th Century (a selection of published works at the Schomburg Collection of the New York Public Library)
• Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement: An On-line Archival Collection (documents on "various aspects of the Women's Liberation Movement in the United States, and focus[ing] specifically on the radical origins of this movement during the late 1960s and early 1970s." From Duke University)
• Electronic Text Center: Women Writers ( part of the Electronic Text Center collection at U. of Va.)
• Nineteenth Century American Women's Writers Web E Text Library
• Women's Human Rights Resources ("documents dealing with women's human rights")
• The Victorian Women Writers Project
• Women of Color Web (writings by about women of color in America; concentrates on feminisms, sexualities, and reproductive rights; sponsored by the Global Reproductive Health Forum at the Harvard School of Public Health)
  

Non-Subject Collections

Chronologically-Oriented Sites | Federal and State of New Jersey Documents | Foreign Language Texts | Law and Legal Resources | Literary Works: Fiction, Drama, Poetry and More | Primary Documents: Collections of Texts of Historical Significance

Chronological-Oriented Collections: Documents from Specific Time Periods
(See also the "Primary Documents: Collections of Texts of Historical Significance" section)

Ancient and Classical World | Medieval and Renaissance | 17th and 18th Centuries | 19th and 20th Centuries

Ancient and Classical World

• Exploring Ancient World Cultures: Index of Internet Resources: Texts (classic ancient and medieval texts from throughout the world)
• Internet Ancient History Sourcebook (excellent collection of primary documents and other resources)
• The Internet Classics Archive ("A searchable collection of 441 Greek, Latin, Chinese, Persian, and other classical texts in English translation")
• The Online Medieval and Classical Library (OMACL) ("a collection of some of the most important literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization")
• Perseus Digital Library (Greek and Latin works, and more, including the complete works of Christopher Marlowe)

Medieval and Renaissance

• "All the World's a Stage": WWW Links for Theatre History and Early Music (links to medieval and early modern texts, especially play texts)
• An Anthology of Middle English Literature (1350-1485)
• Corpus of Middle English Verse and Poetry (from the Humanities Text Initiative at the U. of Michigan)
• Early Modern Literary Studies Electronic Texts (15th, 16th and 17th century texts)
• Internet Medieval Sourcebook (excellent collection of primary documents)
• The Middle English Collection ("a collection of some of the most important literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization")
• ORB (Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies) Library Connection (contains primary and secondary sources)
• Sixteenth Century Renaissance English Literature (1485-1603) (contains, among other things, the full text of works of 28 of the major English literary figures of the period

17th and 18th Centuries

• "All the World's a Stage": WWW Links for Theatre History and Early Music (links to medieval and early modern texts, especially play texts)
• American Journeys: Eyewitness Accounts of Early American Discovery and Settlement
• Early Modern Literary Studies Electronic Texts (15th, 16th and 17th century texts)
• Eighteenth-Century E-Texts ("catalogue [that] includes most of the electronic editions of eighteenth-century works publicly available on the network")
• English Literature: Early 17th Century (1603 - 1660) (contains, among other things, full-text of works of the major English literary figures of the period. Includes John Donne, Ben Johnson, Francis Bacon, Robert Herrick, George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Andrew Marvell, John Milton, Thomas Carew, and Richard Lovelace)

19th and 20th Centuries

• British Poetry 1780-1910: a Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions (from the Electronic Text Center at the U. of Va.)
• British Women Romantic Poets, 1789-1832 (excellent collection of primary documents)
• Making of America [U. of Mich. site] (19th century documents in American social history. See also the Electronic Journals page for links to 19th century periodicals at the Univ. of Michigan and at Cornell Univ.)
• Nineteenth Century American Women's Writers Web E Text Library (19th Century American history)
• Texts by Women Authors from the Modern English Collection (from the Electronic Text Center at the U. of Va.)
• The Victorian Women Writers Project

Federal and State of New Jersey Documents Collections

• DOSFAN Electronic Research Collection ("archived electronic documents from the US State
  Department website and US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency")
• General Accounting Office (GAO) Reports
• GPO Access (database of the official version of federal documents from all three branches of government)
• National Archives and Records Administration Archival Information Locator (NAIL) (searchable catalog of holdings of the NARA, the archives of the federal government. Selecting the NAIL Digital Copies Search will restrict results to online documents and images)
• New Jersey Government Publications on the Web
• New Jersey Historic Documents
• Specialized Collections of Full Text Information (Federal Depository Library Program)
• STAT-USA (A database of reports and statistics for the U.S. business, economic and trade community; available only in the Library)
• THOMAS (database of Congressional documents)
• Uncle Sam: Migrating Government Publications (this site links to the full text of U.S. Government serials and periodicals)
• U.S. Government Documents - Research Guide (University of Pennsylvania)
• US State Department Reports

Foreign Language Texts: Documents in Languages Other than English

• ABU: La Bibliotheque Universelle (classic French texts)
• Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature (very good guide to collections of "literary texts in the western European languages other than English)
• U of NC Chapel Hill Foreign Language Resource Center Internet Links (links to Catalan, French, Italian, Portugese, and Spanish literature; realia such as pictures/maps, radio/television,
  timelines/chronologies and newspapers/magazines; tools such as dictionaries/glossaries and lessons/exercises and search engines; environments; interactive communication; and meta lists)
• French Online Resources (links to websites; from the Electronic Text Center at the Univ. of Virginia)
• GALLICA Classique (classic works in French; from the Bibliotheque Nationale)
• German Online Resources (links to websites; from the Electronic Text Center at the Univ. of Virginia)
• Italian Literature in HTML/ Antologia (frammentaria) della Letteratura Italiana (contains poesia, narrativa, narrativa per ragazzi, autori contemporanei, testi religiosi, filosofia, saggistica, teatro, and miscellanea)
• Literature in Translation (a subset of the Modern English Collection from the U. of Va. Electronic Text Center)
• Major Online Text Collections Ordered by Language (from Columbia University)
• Voice of the Shuttle: Literatures Other than English (choose "Literatures Other Than English" from the maim page)

Law and Legal Resources
(see also the "Federal and State of New Jersey Documents Collections" sections)

General Collections | Court Cases (U.S.) | Court Cases (State) | Laws and Legislation | Regulatory Information

General Collections

• The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School (primary documents of historical importance. Some in law; others in history and diplomacy)
• Diana Human Rights Libraries (several libraries that offer searchable collections of documents on various aspects of human rights)
  • The University of Minnesota Human Rights Library (important international human rights treaties)
  • Yale Law School Library ("litigation documents used in various human
    rights-related cases in courts in the U. S.")
  • The University of Toronto Law Library ("documents dealing with
    women's human rights")

Court Cases (U.S.)

• Cornell Law Institute (recent Supreme Court decisions)
• Emory University Law School (Federal Courts)
• Federal Court Records on the Web
• Findlaw (Supreme Court decisions 1893- )
• GPO Access (Supreme Court decisions 1937-75)
• Lexis-Nexis (The path to federal court cases is: Lexis Nexis/Legal Research/and either "Federal Case Law" or "Area of Law by Topic" in the "Case Law" section. Available off-campus to current Montclair State University students, faculty and staff with an MSU Internet account)

Court Cases (State)

• Lexisone (State Court decisions)

Laws and Legislation

• A Century of Lawmaking Making for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates 1774 - 1873 (part of the Library of Congress' American Memory site)
• GPO Access (Congressional Record)
• Findlaw (Federal Law)
• Full-text State Statutes and Legislation on the Internet (State Constitutions, statutes, and legislation)
• New Jersey Legislature (N.J. Constitution, statutes, and legislation)
• Thomas (Federal Bills and Laws)
• U.S. House of Representatives (U.S. Code)

Regulatory Information

• GPO Access (Federal Register)
• Lexis-Nexis (Federal and State codes and regulations. The path to codes and regulations is: Lexis Nexis/Legal Research/choose appropriate jurisdiction in the "Codes and Regulations" section. Available off-campus to current Montclair State University students, faculty and staff with an MSU Internet account)

Literary Works: Fiction, Drama, Poetry and More

• "All the World's a Stage": WWW Links for Theatre History and Early Music (links to medieval and early modern texts, especially play texts)
• Bartlebyverse: American & English Poetry 1250-1920
• The Baldwin Online Children's Literature Online Project ("bringing yesterday's classics to today's children")
• British Poetry 1780-1910: a Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions (from the Electronic Text Center at the U. of Va.)
• CAPA: Contemporary American Poetry Archive (part of the EServer collection)
• Childrens' Books Online: The Rosetta Project ("the largest collection of illustrated antique books on line... we think.")
• Classic Short Stories
• Classic Short Stories and Fairy Tales
• Drew's Scripts-O-Rama (transcripts of film and television scripts)
• Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature (very good guide to collections of "literary texts in the western European languages other than English)
• HTI American Verse Project (electronic versions of volumes of pre-1920 American verse; from the Humanites Text Initiative at the U. of Michigan)
• The Poetry Archive ("the world's premier online collection of recordings of poets reading their work.")
• Sonnet Central (an archive of English sonnets)
• Wright American Fiction, 1851 - 1875 (the Library has the entire collection, 1774 - 1900, on microfilm in the Mulitmedia Resources Department).

Primary Documents: Collections of Texts of Historical Significance

General Collections | European History | United States History

General Collections

• The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School (primary documents in law, history and diplomacy)
• Electronic Text Collections (links to other text collections; from the Hanover College History Dept.)
• Historical Text Archive (Hanover College site that provides links to "primary texts on the internet available to students and faculty for use in history and humanity classes."
• Paul Halsall's History Sourcebooks (good collections of primary documents maintained by Paul Halsall of Fordham University)
  • Internet Ancient History Sourcebook
  • Internet Medieval Sourcebook
  • Internet Modern History Sourcebook
  • Other History Sourcebooks (contain topical documents from the Internet History Sourcebooks)

African | East Asian | Indian | Islamic | Jewish | Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Trans | Women's | Global | Science

European History

• EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents From Western Europe ("selected Transcriptions, Facsimiles and Translations")

United States History

• African American Voices (primary documents on slavery in the United States; from the Digital
  History Project)
• American Memory Historical Collections (digitized collections from the Library of Congress' Americana collections)
• A Century of Lawmaking Making for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates 1774 - 1873 (part of the Library of Congress' American Memory site)
• Documenting the American South ("a collection of sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century")
• Douglass: Archives of American Public Address ("an electronic archive of American oratory and related documents")
• Early Americas Digital Archives (electronic texts written in or about the Americas from 1492 to the 1820s.)
• Gilder Lehrman Center Online Documents (over 200 primary documents on slavery and resistance to slavery in the United States)
• A Hypertext on American History: Texts (based on documents at the USIA site, the site is real strong on documents from the Revolution to Reconstruction)
• Making of America [U. of Mich. site] (19th century documents in American social history. See also the Electronic Journals page for links to 19th century periodicals at the Univ. of Michigan and at Cornell Univ.)
• Nineteenth Century Documents Project (19th Century American history)
• North American Slave Narratives, Beginnings to 1920 ("When completed, it will include all the narratives of fugitive and former slaves published in broadsides, pamphlets, or book form in English up to 1920 and many of the biographies of former slaves published in English before 1920." Part of the "Documenting the American South" project at the U. of North Carolina)
• The Papers of the Presidents of the United States