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Electronic Books, Primary Texts, Journals, etc.
Selected KU Libraries databases and Web resources for books, journals, and primary texts in digital formats. For further information, see also Finding Materials not in the KU Libraries. For electronic documents on a particular topic, look in Resources by Subject.
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Electronic Books
KU Libraries Databases
- netLibrary about 5,000 electronic books available from the KU libraries
Web Sites
- African-American Women Writers of the 19th Century selection of published works
- Bartleby.com literature, reference, and verse
- Electronic Full-Text Sources searchable texts in many languages
- Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts
- Great Literature On-line
- Liberty Library of Constitutional Classics books and documents on constitutional government
- National Academy Press over 1800 e-books
- Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations electronic theses & dissertations
- On-Line Books page books, serials, foreign language works
- Online Texts Collection over 15,000 titles, from Internet Public Library
- Project Gutenberg over 2500 electronic texts
- SearcheBooks.com search engine for full text of thousands of electronic books
- Short Stories from East of the Web
- Tales of Wonder folk and fairy tales from around the world
- Wright American Fiction, 1851-1875 1,752 texts of 19th century American fiction, as listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography
Primary Texts
KU Libraries Databases
- ARTFL Project : Trésor de la langue française
- The Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective
- Gerritsen Collection : women's history online, 1543-1945
- *The Indian Question
- *Letters of Delegates to Congress
- New York Times (1851-1999)
* available in Watson only -- ask for assistance at the Reference Desk
Web Sites
- ABU: la Bibliotheque Universelle French language texts
- American Colonist's Library primary documents contributing to the formation of American politics, culture, and ideals
- American Verse Project American poetry prior to 1920
- Bibliomania electronic literature
- Carrie: Electronic Library electronic texts of philosophy, history, literature, etc.
- Celt Corpus of Electronic Texts online resoure for Irish history, literature, and politics
- Christian Classics Ethereal Library
- Electronic Editions: Books selected University of California Press books
- Electronic Text Collections
- Electronic Text Collections in Western Europe Literature
- EuroDocs primary historical documents from Western Europe
- Gallica Classique 86,000 works from the Bibliotheque nationale de France
- getCITED online academic database with over 3.25 million publications
- Great Books and Classics classic works from both East and West
- Great Books Index free electronic texts
- Gutenberg Digital scanned images of the 1282-page Gottingen Gutenberg Bible
- Milestone Documents United States historical documents from 1776 to 1965
- Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music historical sheet music, copyrighted 1820-1860 and 1870-1885
- Perseus Digital Library electronic texts and primary sources for the study of the humanities
- Religious Studies Web Guide Electronic Texts
- ResearchIndex digital library of scientific literature (primarily computer science)
Electronic Journals
KU Libraries Databases
- Databases by Subject
- E-Journals search by title or browse by title or subject for journals and other periodicals in electronic format that are available via KU Libraries subscription
- KU Online Catalog search by title for journals and other periodicals in print and electronic format that are available via KU Libraries.
Web Sites
- All Academic free ejournal articles, convention papers
- American City Business Journals covers 41 cities
- American Memory historical collections for the National Digital Library
- ARL Directory of Scholarly Electronic Journals and Academic Discussion Lists
- Directory of Digitized Collections major digitized heritage collections worldwide
- Directory of Electronic Health Sciences Journals peer-reviewed journals
- Directory of Open Access Journals from Lund University, scholarly journals available for free
- Electronic Journals Resource Directory links to indexes, directories, publishers, vendors
- Electronic Text Center humanities texts and related images
- English Server collections in the arts and humanities
- Etext Archives electronic texts of all kinds
- ExLibris special collections libraries making digitized content available on the Internet
- Fetch free e-journal database
- FindArticles.com over 350 magazines & journals, with articles from 1998
- Free Electronic Journals and Magazines on the Web Universiteitsbibliotheek Leiden
- HighWire Press archive of free selected full-text science articles
- The Internet Archive library of publicly accessible sites that store digital materials (registration required)
- Internet Library of Early Journals 18th & 19th century English journals
- Jake search engine that indicates full-text sources for periodicals
- Just-in-Time(sm): Electronic Article Delivery Services
- Lists of Electronic Journals on the Internet links to collections of freely available e-journals
- Literature newspapers, periodicals, and books online
- Locating Online Fulltext Journals and Newspapers Indiana University search engine
- Making of America primary sources in American history (antebellum through reconstruction)
- NARA Archival Information Locator (NAIL) Digital Copies Search selected holdings
- National Library of Canada formally published online Canadian books and journals
- On-line Books Page online serial archives, electronic texts
- PrePRINT Network gateway to preprint servers dealing with scientific & technical disciplines
- Scholarly Journals Distributed Via the World Wide Web access to free journals
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