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netLibrary [Colgate community use only]

This is a collection of more than 3600 scholarly books.  This is a collection shared with other libraries in New York State.  The e-books may be browsed or checked out for 4 hours.  Printing capability is limited to one page at a time and systematic printing is not allowed.  Colgate users must register the first time they use the system.  If the initial registration is done on campus, netLibrary may be accessed from any Internet connected computer.  Electronic tables-of-content and indexes combined with full text searching facilitate finding information within the texts.  All the books are also cataloged in Mondo and the Mondo records contain links to the books.

 

ITPro Collection (formerly Books24x7)  [Colgate community use only]

Search, browse and view the full contents of hundreds of books and journals covering over 90 hot technology topics

 

CIAO---user guide  -[Colgate community use only]

Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is designed to be the most comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 on that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings from conferences. Each section of CIAO is updated with new material on a regular schedule. Working papers are augmented every month, as are conference proceedings. Links and resources, the schedule of events and the response files are updated weekly. New journal issues and books are added as they become available.

 

The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism--user guide [Colgate community use only]

The library subscribes to this publication. A print edition is also available in the Reference Collection at Case Library.

 

LION (Literature Online) [Colgate community use only]

Full text literary databases, reference works, and selected websites.

African-American Poetry (1750-1900) --Nearly 3,000 poems written by African-American poets in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

American Poetry (1600-1900) --Over 40,000 poems by more than 200 American poets from the Colonial Period to the early twentieth century.

American Poetry 2 (1901-1997) An ever-growing database of modern and contemporary American poetry from the early twentieth century to the present. Presently includes 10,000 poems drawn from over 100 volumes by 94 poets, including Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, Muriel Rukeyser, Robert Bly, and Hilda Doolittle.

The Bible in English (990-1970) --20 different versions of the English Bible from the tenth to the twentieth century, including 12 full Bibles, 5 New Testament texts, 2 versions of the Gospels only, and William  Tyndale's translations of the Pentateuch, Jonah and the New Testament.

Database of Twentieth Century African American Poetry--This Database contains more than 7,500 full text poems by this century's most gifted African American poets. Langston Hughes, Audre Lorde and Rita Dove are among the more than 75 poets whose works are included in the collection

Early English Prose Fiction (1500-1700) --Over 200 complete works in fictional prose from the period 1500-1700.

Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare (1591-1911) --Eleven major editions from the First Folio to the Cambridge edition of 1863-6, twenty-four separate contemporary printings of individual plays, selected  apocrypha and related works and more than one hundred adaptations, sequels and burlesques from the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Eighteenth-Century Fiction (1700-1780) --77 complete works in English prose from the period 1700-1780, by writers from the British Isles. Includes a scanned version of Sterne's Tristram Shandy, and two different  editions of Richardson's Clarissa and Pamela and of Swift's Gulliver's Travels.

English Drama (1280-1915) --A combination of Chadwyck-Healey’s English Verse Drama and English Prose Drama full-text databases. 4,000 plays by 1,200 authors from the late thirteenth century to the early twentieth century.

English Poetry (1100-1900) --Essentially the complete English poetic canon from 1100 to 1900. Over 165,000 poems by more than 1,250 poets drawn from nearly 4,500 printed sources.

 

Women Writers Project [Colgate community use only]

This project is compiling a collection of full text works by pre-Victorian women.   It also includes a subset called  Renaissance Women Online.  The selected texts cover a wide variety of topics and genres. Colgate subscription.

Texts available on the Internet

American Verse Project - http://www.hti.umich.edu/english/amverse/

 

British Poetry, 1780-1910: a hypertext archive of scholarly editions

 

British Women Romantic Poets, 1789-1832

"The British Women Romantic Poet's Project is producing an online scholarly archive consisting of E-text editions of poetry by British and Irish women written (not necessarily published) between 1789 (the onset of the French Revolution) and 1832 (the passage of the Reform Act), a period traditionally known in English literary history as the Romantic period. "

 

A Celebration of Women Writers

This site " provides a comprehensive listing of links to biographical and bibliographical
information about women writers, and complete published books written by women."

 

Digital Schomburg African American Women Writers of the Nineteenth 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. See Case Library's print collection for the major collection of such writings published in 1998---Schomburg Library of Nineteenth Century Black Women Writers.

Electronic Books at Wiretap

An online collection of more than 210 literary works, including religious works, fiction and historical writings.

 

Electronic Poetry Center

The Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia

A rich repository of materials in English, French, German, Japanese, and Latin. While publisher/copyright restrictions limit use of some titles to University of Virginia users only, there are thousands of other titles from classical writers onward.

The English Server at Carnegie Mellon University

A well run site maintained by graduate students. Includes links to over 10,000 electronic texts of poetry, fiction, and drama, together with a miscellany of other materials of interest to literary scholars

 

Literary Resources on the Net  

This site provides links to primarily English and American literary sites.

 

Making of America

Making of America (MoA) is 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 century imprints. Mondo contains records for all books in this collection.

 

The Online Books page

"The Online Books Page is a website that facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet."

 

Project Gutenberg

An attempt to encourage the creation and distribution of English language electronic texts by building a collection of the 10,000 most used books by 2001.

 

Victorian women writers project

 

Wright American Fiction Collection, 1851-1875  ---Digital Library Program, Indiana University

This is a collection of 19th century American fiction, as listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography American Fiction, 1851-1875. There are currently 1932 texts included (1731 unedited, 201 fully edited and encoded) by 945 authors.
Lyle H. Wright, a librarian at the Huntington Library in San Marino, CA, created a bibliography of American fiction from the years 1851-1875, published as American Fiction 1851-1875: A Contribution Toward a Bibliography (San Marino, CA: The Huntington Library, 1957; revised 1965).  The collection from this 25-year period presents a significant opportunity for a cooperative project because of its size and because it dovetails neatly with a number of other large electronic text collections, including Chadwyck-Healey's Early American Fiction, which ends at 1850, and the University of Michigan and Cornell's Making of America, which covers 1850-77 but for the moment excludes fiction. (DLP)

Lists and Indexes for finding additional e-books

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