Information on NSIT's Web Proxy
I. From the University of Chicago and its Collaborators
- African-American Poetry, 1760-1900 Chadwyck-Healey (Restricted)
- American Archives: Documents of the American Revolution, 1774-1776 (Northern Illinois University)
- American Civil War: Letters and Diaries [Via UofC Proxy] from Alexander Street Press with the University of Chicago (UofC-Access Only)
- American Drama (1st release) Chadwyck-Healey (Restricted)
- American Film Script Online [Via UofC Proxy] from Alexander Street Press with the University of Chicago (UofC-Access Only)
- American Poetry Full-Text Database (pre-1900) Chadwyck-Healey (Restricted)
- Asian American Drama [Via UofC Proxy] from Alexander Street Press with the University of Chicago (UofC-Access Only)
- Bible: King James Version (Open to the Public)
- Black Drama - 1850 to Present [Via UofC Proxy] from Alexander Street Press with the University of Chicago (UofC-Access Only)
- Black Short Fiction [Via UofC Proxy] from Alexander Street Press with the University of Chicago (UofC-Access Only)
- Black Thought and Culture [Via UofC Proxy] from Alexander Street Press with the University of Chicago (UofC-Access Only)
- Black Women Writers [Via UofC Proxy] from Alexander Street Press with the University of Chicago (UofC-Access Only)
- British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries [Via UofC Proxy] from Alexander Street Press with the University of Chicago (UofC-Access Only)
- British Philosophy, 1600-1900 [Via UofC Proxy] InteLex (UofC-Access Only)
- Early Encounters in North America [Via UofC Proxy] from Alexander Street Press with the University of Chicago (UofC-Access Only)
- Early English Books Online - TCP (Full-Text) under PhiloLogic (Restricted to TCP Partner Institutions)
- Early English Prose Fiction Chadwyck-Healey (Restricted)
- Eighteenth-Century Fiction Chadwyck-Healey (Restricted)
- English Poetry Chadwyck-Healey (Restricted)
- English Prose Drama Chadwyck-Healey (Restricted)
- English Verse Drama Chadwyck-Healey (Restricted)
- The Faber Poetry Library Chadwyck-Healey (UofC-Access Only)
- The First Folio of Shakespeare prepared by Charlton Hinman and published by The Oxford Text Archive
- Getting the Message Out! National Political Campaign Materials, 1840-1860 (Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project)
- Illinois during the Civil War (1861-1865) (Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project)
- Illinois during the Gilded Age (1866-1896) (Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project)
- Latino Literature: Poetry, Drama, and Fiction [Via UofC Proxy] from Alexander Street Press with the University of Chicago (UofC-Access Only)
- Lincoln/Net (Abraham Lincoln Historical
Digitization Project)
Search the database locally - Literary Theory together with The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms Chadwyck-Healey (UofC-Access Only)
- Nineteenth-Century Fiction Chadwyck-Healey (Restricted)
- North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories [Via UofC Proxy] from Alexander Street Press with the University of Chicago (UofC-Access Only)
- North American Women's Drama [Via UofC Proxy] from Alexander Street Press with The University of Chicago (UofC-Access Only)
- North American Women's Letters and Diaries [Via UofC Proxy] from Alexander Street Press with the University of Chicago (UofC-Access Only)
- Prairie Fire: The Illinois Country 1673-1818 (Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project)
- The Published Works of Ludwig Wittgenstein [Via UofC Proxy] InteLex (UofC-Access Only)
- Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period [Via UofC Proxy] from Alexander Street Press with The University of Chicago (UofC-Access Only)
- Toronto Old English Database (Use the newer online version at the Michigan)
- William Shakespeare: The Complete Works [Via UofC Proxy] Oxford University Press (UofC-Access Only)
- Twentieth-Century African-American Poetry Chadwyck-Healey (Restricted)
- Twentieth-Century American Poetry Chadwyck-Healey (Restricted)
- Twentieth-Century English Poetry Chadwyck-Healey (Restricted)
- Twentieth Century North American Drama [Via UofC Proxy] Alexander Street Press with the University of Chicago (UofC-Access Only)
- W. B. Yeats Collection Chadwyck-Healey (Restricted)
II. Local Non-Networked Databases
III. Remotely Available Searchable Texts
- African American Women Writers of the 19th Century (New York Public Library)
- American Memory (Library of Congress)
- American Verse Project (University of Michigan)
- The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School
- Bartleby.com
- The Bible in English (990-1970) Chadwyck-Healey (UofC-Access Only)
- Bible: King James Version (University of Michigan)
- The Book of Mormon (University of Michigan)
- British Fiction, 1800-1829: A Database of Production, Circulation, and Reception (Cardiff University)
- British National Corpus (BNC)
- British Women Romantic Poets Project (University of California at Davis)
- The Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts [Via UofC Proxy] from Ad Fontes and Alexander Street Press(UofC-Access Only) (Use IE instead of Netscape)
- Documenting the American South (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
- Early American Fiction Chadwyck-Healey (UofC-Access Only)
- Early English Books Online - TCP under PhiloLogic Under Pat (Restricted to TCP Partner Institutions)
EEBO: Digital Facsimiles - Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare (1591-1911) Chadwyck-Healey (UofC-Access Only)
- Emory Women Writers Resource Project
- English Poetry, Second Edition Chadwyck-Healey (UofC-Access Only)
- English Religious Resources (University of Virginia)
- Evans Digital Editions (1639-1800) online counterpart of the microfiche set Early American Editions (UofC-Access Only)
- A Glossarial Database of Middle English (University of Michigan)
- Gutenberg-e [Via UofC Proxy] (UofC-Access Only)
- Harvard Classics
- Historical Voices
- History E-book Project [Via UofC Proxy] from ACLS (UofC-Access Only)
- InteLex Past Masters [Via UofC Proxy] (UofC-Access Only)
- Laws in Ireland for the Suppression of Popery (Penal Laws) (University of Minnesota)
- LION: Literature Online [Via UofC Proxy] Chadwyck-Healey (UofC-Access Only)
- Luminarium
- Making of America
- Literary Theory [Via UofC Proxy] Chadwyck-Healey (UofC-Access Only)
- Michigan Early Modern English Materials (University of Michigan)
- Middle English Collection (University of Virginia)
- Middle English Compendium [Via UofC Proxy] (University of Michigan) (UofC-Access Only)
- Modern English Collection (University of Michigan)
- Modern English Collection (AD 1500-present) (University of Virginia)
- Old English Corpus / Dictionary of Old English [Via UofC Proxy] (UofC-Access Only)
- Oxford Text Archive (University of Oxford)
- Postcolonial and Postimperial Literature in English (National University of Singapore)
- Renaissance Women Online (Brown University) (UofC-Access Only)
- Renascence Editions
- Romantic Circles (University of Maryland)
- Sabin Americana, 1500-1926 Gale (UofC-Access Only)
- Shakespeare On-Line
- Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare (1591-1911) [Via UofC Proxy] Chadwyck-Healey (UofC-Access Only)
- The Nameless Shakespeare (Northwestern University)
- Shakespeare Resources (University of Virginia)
- The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: Complete Moby(tm) Shakespeare (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- Texts on Music in English (Indiana University)
- Victorian Women Writers Project (Indiana University)
- Women Writers Online [Via UofC Proxy] (Brown University) (UofC-Access Only)
- Women's Travel Writing, 1830-1930 (University of Minnesota)
- Word on the Street, broadsides from the National Library of Scotland
- Wright's American Fiction, 1851-1875 (hosted by the Indiana University)
IV. Hypertext Archives
- Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice: A Hypertext (University of Texas)
- The William Blake Archive (University of Virginia)
- British Poetry 1780-1910: A Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions (University of Virginia)
- The Samuel Taylor Coleridge Archive (University of Virginia)
- Dickinson Electronic Archives (University of Virginia) UofC patrons, who wish to gain full-text access, must login first.
- The Internet Poetry Archive (University of North Carolina)
- The Milton Reading Room (Dartmouth College)
- The Rossetti Archive (University of Virginia)
- The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive (University of Virginia)
- The Swinburne Archive (Indiana University)
- The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau (Northern Illinois University)
- The Walt Whitman Hypertext Archive (University of Virginia)
V. Catalogues of Electronic Texts
- Alex: A Catalogue of Electronic Texts on the Internet
- The EServer: Collections in the Arts and Humanities (Carnegie Mellon)
- The On-Line Books Page
- The Online Medieval and Classical Library
- Project Gutenberg
VI. Reference Works
See also the Library's Subject Guide to Modern Literatures