For books that have been digitized and made available online, select a collection. Access to some electronic texts is limited to subscribers.

Collections and projects

• Gale Virtual Reference Library - 10 reference e-books online:  Business Plans Handbook v. 10, Company Profiles for Students, Dictionary of American History, Encyclopedia of Education, Encyclopedia of Religion, Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders, Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology, International Encyclopedia of Marriage and the Family, Learning and Memory, Psychologists and Their Theories for Students. These 10 reference books are a purchased suscription and should be accessed via password (CCU students/etc. should enter through their network account on the Library Department Web).

• American Verse Project - American poetry before 1920. Includes Poe's Complete Works and Carl Sandburg.
• ARTFL - French language and literature from the Middle Ages, Renaissance, and the 17^th through 20^th centuries.
• Bartleby Library - Fiction and nonfiction classic literature, poetry, and reference encyclopedias, thesauri, dictionaries, quotation sources, etc.
• Bibliomania - Reference, fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and drama, with study guides and literary criticism.
• Christian Classics Ethereal Library - Classic works, the World Wide Study Bible, the World Wide Encyclopedia of Christianity, early church fathers, a hymnary, etc.
• The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe
• Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia - Over 70,000 humanities texts in many languages (classics, The Bible, Shakespeare, American fiction, American and British literature (Beowulf, Moby-Dick, Heart of Darkness, etc.) Click on the language at left to access.
• English Server - Over 30,000 texts in many disciplines, including short fiction and nonfiction, novels, poetry, plays, and classics such as The Complete Works of Poe, Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey, the writings of Hume, etc.
• EOS (Electronic Open Stacks) and EFTS (Electronic Full-Text Sources) - Image-based texts from the University of Chicago Library, as well as full-text resources.
• Google Book Search - When it debuted  on 11/3/05, it originally offered  public domain, primarily 19th century American literature and history books out of copyright in full-text in an online format.  At present previews and snippets of current books from numerous publishers are also available.  What is useful is the listing at the right side of the page that shows where these books can be bought or can be borrowed from a library near the user.
• Humanities Text Initiative - Making of America and text collections, including Bibles, the Koran, the Book of Mormon, and the English collection with Plato, Poe, Melville. Also has the Internet Public Library Online Texts (this is an excellent listing of online repositories of e-texts.
• Internet Classics Archive - More than 400 translated classic Greek and Roman texts with commentary.
• Internet Sacred Text Archive
• Jack London Collection
• Nathaniel Hawthorne Collection
• Online Books Page - Very extensive with 16,000+ listings.
• Online Medieval and Classical Library - Medieval and classical texts.
• The Oxford Text Archive - Wide representation of authors with works in Latin, Greek, English, and other languages (example: Aesop's Fables).
• Perseus Project - Classics, ancient Greek and Roman literature and artifacts; also Renaissance and Shakespeare.
• Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image - Books, manuscripts, photographs, slides, maps, and sound recordings from Penn Library. Includes Shakespeare, Dreiser, Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, 19th century Amer. history, Jewish music archive, and other. Click on Schoenberg Center...
• SunSite Collections - Numerous collections, such as American Heritage, literature (American) at SunSite, etc.
• Victorian Women Writers Project - Texts from women writers of the Victorian era.
• WWII Resources
• Women Working:  1800 - 1930 - Digital collection from Harvard.