Guides to Electronic Texts
  • Alex: A Catalogue of Electronic Texts on the Internet (U. California, Berkeley)
    http://www.infomotions.com/alex/
    [A searchable e-text database authored by Eric Lease Morgan.]
  • Book Lovers: Fine Books & Literature
    http://www.xs4all.nl/~pwessel/
    [A friendly, readable, and helpful page with a wide-ranging index that guides one to books as well as to literature. Maintained in the Netherlands by Piet Wesselman of Wesselman Books.]
  • Children's and Young Adults' Authors and Illustrators Index
    http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/biochildhome.htm
    [A hyperlinked index to sites.]
  • English Server
    http://eserver.org/
    [A pioneering presence on the web. Keyword searchable and topically organized links to resources inclusive of books, publishing, literature, literary theroy and criticism.]
  • Etext Archives
    http://www.etext.org/
    [A convenient place to look for electronic texts. There are eleven indexes. Five of them are thematic or topical: Religion, Philosophy, Legal, Politics, Baseball. The remainder are Electronic Books, Zines (electronic periodicals), mirrors of the Computer Underground Digest archives and Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility archives, The Quartz Archive (formerly at Rutgers), and Mailing Lists.]
  • E-Zine-List
    http://www.e-zine-list.com/
    [A directory of electronic magazines from around the world, updated more-or-less monthly, and recently containing nearly 1700 titles. Established by John Labovitz and currently maintained by a cooperative. Alphabetical and keyword searches are supported.]
  • Literary Resources on the Net
    http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/
    [A search engine and set of links maintained by Jack Lynch at the University of Pennsylvania. Supports searches by word(s) or via any one of the following categories: Classical and Biblical, Medieval, Renaissance, Eighteenth-Century, Romantic, Victorian British, Twentieth-Century, American, Theatre and Drama, Theory, Women's Literature and Feminism, Ethnicities and Nationalities, Other National Literatures, Bibliography and History of the Book, Hypertext, Miscellaneous.]
  • On-line Books Page
    http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
    [An index for thousands of on-line books maintained at the University of Pennsylvania.]
  • Voice of the Shuttle
    http://vos.ucsb.edu/
    [An excellent "Web Page for Humanities Research" established by Alan Liu at the University of California at Santa Barbara and now redesigned as a dynamic database.]
  • World-Wide Web Virtual Library Subject Catalogue
    http://www.vlib.org/
    [A distributed catalogue with hypertext links to various remote sites on the web. Especially useful for some academic specialties such as Asian area studies.]
  • Yahoo Literature Index
    http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/
    [An easily accessible index which offers a number of subcategories, some of them with timely information about meetings and groups that study and discuss literature.]
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