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Modern Literatures | Electronic Text Services
 



The Library's Electronic Full-Text Sources provides access to locally mounted full-text databases, descriptions of non-networked resources, and links to other full-text resources available on the Web. Languages include:

The Library's Electronic Open Stacks provides access to image-based texts, including:

  • Biblioteca della letteratura italiana, which provides pdf files of selected texts from the Einaudi collection of Italian literature with about 342 works by 205 authors from the Duecento to today. Also includes short bio-bibliographical entries from the Dizionario degli autori and the Dizionario delle opere Einaudi.
  • Biblioteca Complutense Madrid, with over 100 incunabula digitized.
  • Biblioteca Nacional Digital (National Library of Portugal), which provides digital versions of canonical texts under Memória da literatura, as well as linguistic works under Memória da língua.
  • Biblioteca Virtual de Andalucia, including nearly 100 incunabula from Andalusian libraries.
  • Bibliothèques Virtuelles Humanistes, from the University of Tours; provides access to image files of rare humanistic texts in Latin and French; includes works by Rabelais, Hippocrates, Francesco Colonna, and others. Some texts available for full text searching.
  • CRL Pamphlets and Periodicals of the French Revolution of 1848 (ARTFL)
  • Dictionnaries d'autrefois (ARTFL), which contains facsimiles open to the public (full-text searches restricted to ARTFL subscribers):
  • Diderot's Encyclopédie (Restricted to ARTFL subscribers)
  • Early English Book Online (EEBO), which contains over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640), Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), and the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661). EEBO texts are available as online images, as well as downloadable PDF files; the Text Creation Partnership (TCP), of which UofC is a member, furthermore includes over 3,000 searchable full-text titles. See EEBO-TCP under PhiloLogic.
  • Early Manuscripts at Oxford University: Provides access to over 80 digital facsimiles of complete manuscripts; scanned directly from the original early manuscripts in institutions associated with the University of Oxford.
  • Eighteenth Century Online (ECCO): Based upon the microfilm collection The Eighteenth Century (microfmPN6011.E548, RR3), ECCO will, once completed, contain 150,000 titles and editions published in the British Isles between 1701 and 1800. Included are titles in foreign languages published in the UK as well as thousands of important works from the Americas. Texts are available in page images as well as in full text, permitting the keyword searching of over 33 million pages in all subject areas: literature, law, medicine, philosophy, religion, etc.
  • Enluminures (CNRS), which contains 14,000 images of medieval illuminations from manuscripts held in French public libraries.
  • Evans Digital Editions (1639-1800), which is based on the American Bibliography by Charles Evans and contains over 36,000 works published between 1639 and 1800 in North America in all topics: from agriculture and auctions through foreign affairs, diplomacy, literature, music, religion, the Revolutionary War, temperance, witchcraft, and more. Evans texts are available online and may be downloaded as PDF and TIFF files.
  • Gallica (Bibliothèque nationale de France), which provides full text access to over 50,000 printed volumes in image mode (monographs and periodicals), to 1,250 printed documents digitized in text mode, 60,000 fixed images, and 4 hours of sound recordings. Covers the period from the Middle Ages to the early 20th century. The digitized collections include reference material, rare editions, dictionaries, journals, bibliographies and outstanding images from the collections of the BnF and its partner libraries.
  • Manuscripts, Paleography, Codicology from Labyrinth (Georgetown University)
  • netLibrary (UofC-Access Only)
  • SCETI Virtual Facsimiles: Provides access to over 1,300 virtual facsimiles of rare books and manuscripts in the University of Pennsylvania Library.
  • Shakespeare in Quarto: Includes the British Library’s 93 copies of the 21 plays by Shakespeare printed in quarto before the theatres were closed in 1642. Includes instructions on how to compare and work with the different editions.
  • Universidad de Valencia, a large digital library with over 165 incunabula.
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