Alex--Catalogue of Electronic Texts
Downloadable English and American classics in PDF (Acrobat) format.

Cambridge University Library
Catalogs of books and manuscripts, virtual tour, history of the library, and more.

Bodleian Library
Catalog and guide to the world's greatest library of English literature. Digitized images of pages from rare books and manuscripts. Access to OLIS (the catalog of the Bodleian and other Oxford Libraries), and OLIG (the Oxford Libraries Internet Gateway).

British Library
Major center for electronic documents. The British Library's 18 million volumes make it one of the greatest literary research libraries in the world.

Electronic Text Center --University of Virginia
Thousands of on-line texts, some proprietary and limited to University of Virginia users, but many available to the general public.

English Server--University of Washington
More than 20,000 diverse items (texts, online journals, discussions, links, audio recordings, and even software) relating to various topics in the arts and humanities.

Internet Public Library
Sponsored by the University of Michigan School of Information; offers guided online searching in a wide range of subject areas.

Library of Congress Home Page
Online search engines covering the catalogs of one of the world's greatest research libraries.

New York Public Library
Online catalog of one of the world's great public research libraries.

OhioLINK Central Catalog
Pioneering statewide library catalog with more than 31 million items.

Online Books Page
Searchable index of thousands of online books. Good place to look for non-academic items (for example, "how-to" books).

Project Bartleby
Collection of online literary texts.

Project Gutenberg
Thousands of public-domain books in plain ASCII format.

University of Toronto Libraries: Resources
Extensive collection of electronic texts.

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