Research Resources:
Electronic Reference Sources:
Electronic Books
General and Multidisciplinary
Bartleby.com
A searchable collection of full-text materials divided into four categories: reference, verse, fiction, and nonfiction.
Digital Book Index
"A union catalog of electronic books, texts, and documents." Provides access to more than 140,000 English language records for both commercial and non-commercial eBooks from more than 1,800 publishers and private publishing organizations. Full-text for more than half of the titles is available free. Includes most major disciplines and ranges from the highly scholarly to the contemporary and popular. Each record lists author, title, edition, format, price (if any), and publishing organization.
Gale Virtual Reference Library [Rutgers Restricted]
An extensive collection of encyclopedias, handbooks, and other reference sources covering a broad range of humanities, social science, science, and multidisciplinary areas.
Google Books
Search the full-text of a growing collection books and view information about each book. Full-text is available for those books that are out of copyright. Sample pages or brief excerpts may be available for material still under copyright.
Hathi Trust: a Shared Digital Repository
A collaborative repository of archived digitized collections from a group of major research libraries.
Inlibris - The Literary Directory
Includes etexts, writers, agents, books, ezines, prizes, publishers, reviews, genres, dictionaries, bookstores, libraries, and other literary and language- or book-related sites.
Internet Archive: Text Archive
A searchable open-access archive of electronic texts.
Just Free Books
A search engine for locating public domain texts, open books, free audio books, ad-supported books and more on more than 700 websites.
NetLibrary [Rutgers Restricted]
The basic Rutgers NetLibrary collection primarily includes eBooks in the fields of computer science, engineering, and technology. The publicly accessible eBook Collection includes many classic works of literature and history, as well as speeches, government documents, and other resources.
Online Books Page University of Pennsylvania Libraries
Links to 35,000+ full-text books online. Searchable by author or title.
Project Gutenberg
Browse the full title or author listing, or search for a book in this collection of downloadable etexts. Includes classic works that are in the public domain, with the majority of the texts being in English.
Sage eReference Encyclopedias [Rutgers Restricted]
A large collection of authoritative encyclopedias in a broad range of fields including multidisciplinary areas such as anthropology, environment, health, and psychology.
SourceOECD [Rutgers Restricted]
Includes thematic collections (Studies by Theme) of annuals, monographs, studies, reports, and proceedings, plus online periodicals, reference titles, and statistical databases from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
Universal Digital Library - Million Book Collection
The goal of the Project is to digitize a million books to create a free-to-read, searchable digital library of materials in multiple languages.
Health Sciences
ACCESSMedicine [Rutgers Restricted]
An online collection of key medical reference texts that provide authoritative and current medical data.
History and Historical Time Periods
American Research on the Treasury of the French Language (ARTFL) [Rutgers Restricted]
A full-text searchable corpus of texts, ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing.
Cambridge Histories Online [Rutgers Restricted]
The full text of more than 250 Cambridge history volumes. Subject matter ranges widely across the humanities with a concentration on political and cultural history. The subject categories containing the most volumes are regional history, general history (with its chronological series) and literary studies, but there are also several series on the history of religion, philosophy and economic history.
Corpus de la Littérature Médiévale [Rutgers Restricted]
Contains more than 800 French literary works, narratives, poems, and plays from the ninth through the sixteenth centuries. The database interface and texts in the Corpus are in French.
Digitale Bibliothek Deutscher Klassiker [Rutgers Restricted]
Full text from more than 100 German authors from the Middle Ages to the early twentieth century including historical, philosophical, theological, political and art history texts.
Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 [Rutgers Restricted]
All the titles originally published in a microform set, Early American Imprints, Series I. Based on Charles Evans' comprehensive American Bibliography, it makes available every book, pamphlet, and broadside published in the American colonies or the United States between 1639 and 1800.
Early Americas Digital Archive Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities
A collection of electronic texts and links to texts originally written in or about the Americas from 1492 to approximately 1820.
Early English Books Online (EEBO) [Rutgers Restricted]
Includes practically all books printed in English up to the 18th century; over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700).
EEBO - TCP [Rutgers Restricted]
This online structured SGML/XML text edition collection will contain 25,000 books printed in English up to the 18th century,
in the areas of English literature, history, philosophy, linguistics, and the fine arts. Includes several hundred titles relating to Latin America, Portugal, or Spain.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) [Rutgers Restricted]
A nearly comprehensive collection of the works published in the English language (and non-English language works printed in England) during the eighteenth century, approximately 150,000 books, with 33,000,000 pages.
Gutenberg-e
A program of the American Historical Association and Columbia University Press, the site provides scholarly monographs in digital format. These electronic books include extensive documentation, hyperlinks to supplementary literature, images, music, video, and links to related web sites.
Patrologiæ Græcæ [Rutgers Restricted]
Includes more than 160 volumes of Greek material (with Latin translations) relevant to the study of the history of the Christian Church from its beginnings through the Council of Florence in 1439.
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 [Rutgers Restricted]
Documents women's activism in public life by bringing together books, images, documents (including primary documents), scholarly essays, commentaries, bibliographies, and links to other websites.
Women Writers Online [Rutgers Restricted]
More than two hundred texts of pre-Victorian women's writing in English from 1400-1850. Includes verse, fiction, drama, philosophy, religion, medical texts, letters, history, autobiography, biography, domestic manuals, education, natural history, and politics.
Information Science
CISnet [Rutgers Restricted]
A searchable full-text collection of electronic books containing many of the MIT Press's recent and classic titles in computer and information science. Topics include programming, artificial intelligence, machine learning, human computer interaction, databases, digital libraries, networking, and robotics.
InfoSci-Books [Rutgers Restricted]
A fully searchable database of electronic books covering the following broad subject categories: artificial intelligence, bioinformatics, business information systems, cognitive informatics, data mining/databases, e-services and service delivery systems, electronic business, electronic commerce, electronic government, environmental informatics, global information technology, health information systems, high performance computing, human aspects of technology, industrial informatics, IT education, IT security/ethics, knowledge management, library science, medical technologies, mobile/wireless computing, multimedia technology, networking/telecommunication, social computing, software/systems design, and web technologies.
Literature and Literary Studies
Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
The catalog and search engine for a collection of public domain texts in English literature, American literature, and Western philosophy.
American Research on the Treasury of the French Language (ARTFL) [Rutgers Restricted]
A full-text searchable corpus of texts, ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing.
Black Drama: 1850 to the Present [Rutgers Restricted]
Contain the full text of 1,200 plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 100 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries.
Cambridge Histories Online [Rutgers Restricted]
The full text of more than 250 Cambridge history volumes. Subject matter ranges widely across the humanities with a concentration on political and cultural history. The subject categories containing the most volumes are regional history, general history (with its chronological series) and literary studies, but there are also several series on the history of religion, philosophy and economic history.
Classic Reader
Search and read works of literature by authors such as Dickens, Tolstoy, Shakespeare, and many others.
Corpus de la Littérature Médiévale [Rutgers Restricted]
Contains more than 800 French literary works, narratives, poems, and plays from the ninth through the sixteenth centuries. The database interface and texts in the Corpus are in French.
Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 [Rutgers Restricted]
All the titles originally published in a microform set, Early American Imprints, Series I. Based on Charles Evans' comprehensive American Bibliography, it makes available every book, pamphlet, and broadside published in the American colonies or the United States between 1639 and 1800.
Early English Books Online (EEBO) [Rutgers Restricted]
Includes practically all books printed in English up to the 18th century; over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700).
EEBO - TCP [Rutgers Restricted]
This online structured SGML/XML text edition collection will contain 25,000 books printed in English up to the 18th century,
in the areas of English literature, history, philosophy, linguistics, and the fine arts. Includes several hundred titles relating to Latin America, Portugal, or Spain.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) [Rutgers Restricted]
A nearly comprehensive collection of the works published in the English language (and non-English language works printed in England) during the eighteenth century, approximately 150,000 books, with 33,000,000 pages.
Literature Online [Rutgers Restricted]
A fully searchable library including more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama, and prose.
Literature: Online Texts
The Internet Public Library's collection of links to electronic text sites.
Literatures in English RU Libraries Subject Research Guide
Includes links to full-text collections and related resources.
Thesaurus Linguae Graecae [Rutgers Restricted]
A digital library of Greek literature currently including most literary texts written in Greek from Homer to the fall of Byzantium.
Women Writers Online [Rutgers Restricted]
More than two hundred texts of pre-Victorian women's writing in English from 1400-1850. Includes verse, fiction, drama, philosophy, religion, medical texts, letters, history, autobiography, biography, domestic manuals, education, natural history, and politics.
Religion and Philosophy
Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
The catalog and search engine for a collection of public domain texts in English literature, American literature, and Western philosophy.
Cambridge Histories Online [Rutgers Restricted]
The full text of more than 250 Cambridge history volumes. Subject matter ranges widely across the humanities with a concentration on political and cultural history. The subject categories containing the most volumes are regional history, general history (with its chronological series) and literary studies, but there are also several series on the history of religion, philosophy and economic history.
Christian Classics Ethereal Library
Classic Christian books in electronic format including scriptures, commentaries, sermons, volumes from the first 800 years of the church, plus a variety of non-English, less classic, and non-Christian books.
Digitale Bibliothek Deutscher Klassiker [Rutgers Restricted]
Full text from more than 100 German authors from the Middle Ages to the early twentieth century including historical, philosophical, theological, political and art history texts.
Internet Sacred Text Archive
"A freely available non-profit archive of electronic texts about religion, mythology, legends and folklore, and occult and esoteric topics."
Patrologiæ Græcæ [Rutgers Restricted]
Includes more than 160 volumes of Greek material (with Latin translations) relevant to the study of the history of the Christian Church from its beginnings through the Council of Florence in 1439.
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math
CISnet [Rutgers Restricted]
A searchable full-text collection of electronic books containing many of the MIT Press's recent and classic titles in computer and information science. Topics include programming, artificial intelligence, machine learning, human computer interaction, databases, digital libraries, networking, and robotics.
InfoSci-Books [Rutgers Restricted]
A fully searchable database of electronic books covering the following broad subject categories: artificial intelligence, bioinformatics, business information systems, cognitive informatics, data mining/databases, e-services and service delivery systems, electronic business, electronic commerce, electronic government, environmental informatics, global information technology, health information systems, high performance computing, human aspects of technology, industrial informatics, IT education, IT security/ethics, knowledge management, library science, medical technologies, mobile/wireless computing, multimedia technology, networking/telecommunication, social computing, software/systems design, and web technologies.
Knovel Library: Food Science [Rutgers Restricted]
Searchable collection of electronic books in the field of food science. Limit your search to "My subscription" or browse Food Science titles to find those that are accesible full-text online. Books in other fields may be searched, but are not part of the current subscription.
MyiLibrary [Rutgers Restricted]
A searchable full-text collection of electronic books primarily in the fields of computer science, web applications, and technology.
NetLibrary [Rutgers Restricted]
The basic Rutgers NetLibrary collection primarily includes eBooks in the fields of computer science, engineering, and technology. The publicly accessible eBook Collection includes many classic works of literature and history, as well as speeches, government documents, and other resources.
STATSnetBASE [Rutgers Restricted]
A collection of full-text reference books on statistics and probability, including categories such as biostatistics, statistics for psychology, social science & law, statistical theories & methods, and statistics for biological sciences.
