WWW-VL Web Stacks:
Electronic Research Library

WWW Virtual Library @ www.vlib.us

INDEX:
Software Reference Search Indexes & Guides Digitization Centers & DRM
Text Repositories English-Language Collections Major Collections by Period Religion Web Quality Guides

Reference
- New General Catalog of Old Books and Authors [a project to catalog all deceased authors, and all authors of books published thru 1963]
- Current In-Progress List for Project Gutenberg
Software
- EJOCK (Australia) Free Electronic Book Software [includes side-by side text ordering, text-to-speech, etc.]
- Tom's E-Text Reader
- PDFConverter All about e-Books
- WWW-VL: Software [survey of useful software sites]
Search for Texts On-Line
- The Guide to Free Academic Resources Online [index and search engine to scholarly articles and journals on-line]
- Guide to Digital Resources
- WWW-VL: W3 Search Engines
Indexes and Guides
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Digitization Centers & Rights DRM
- Public Knowledge, Washington, DC (public-interest advocacy organization)
- Directory of Electronic Text Centers
- Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College, London
- Computers & Texts, Centre for Textual Studies
- Collaborative Digitization Program (CDP) [IMLS funded; multi-state]
- Good practices in digitisation, Minerva Project, European Union
- Occasional Publications [Centre for Textual Studies]
- University of Virginia: English Electronic Texts Resources
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Major Repositories
- General
  - Gutenberg Project [the first digitization project]
  - Athena. Authors and Texts [multi-lingual]
  - Carrie: First WWW on-line full text library Lynn H. Nelson, established May 1993
    - Carrie: E-Books Released Copyright Books
  - E-TEXT Archives
  - History Documents at the English Server
  - Hanover Historical Texts Project
  - Logos, Texts in Many Languages
  - Human-Languages Page
  - Internet Classics Archive
  - WWW-VL: History: Electronic Texts
  - WWW-VL: US History: Electronic Texts
  - WWW-VL: US History Federal Sources
  - WWW-VL: US History Journals
- Major English-Language Collections
  - World-Wide
    - Log-In Page for the Internet Archive
    - International Children's Digital Library
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  - Australia
  - United Kingdom
    - England
    - Scotland
      - Books and Articles about Scotland
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  - United States
    - AmDocs: American History Documents
    - American Memory - National Digital Library
    - American Radicalism Collection
    - Berkeley Digital Library
    - E-Books and E-Journals, from the University of California Press
    - Center for Electronic Analysis of Texts, from Pennsylvania
    - The Electronic Text Center, at Virginia
    - The Internet Classics Archive
    - The Classics Reader
    - EOS (Electronic Open Stacks), from Chicago
    - The Florida Heritage Collection
    - The Historical Text Archive [a wide variety of useful material]
    - The Internet Public Library
    - Internet Sourcebook: Ancient Medieval Modern History, etc. ==>
    - The Kansas Collection
    - LIBRO> LIbrary of Iberian Sources on-line
    - The Making of America [large number of book images]
    - The Making of America [large number of journal images]
    - Mountain Men and the Fur Trade
    - Project Bartleby
    - Tech Classics Archive
    - Humanities Text Initiative, at Michigan
    - WWW-VL: US Historic Sites
    - WWW-VL: History: USA History Maps
    - WWW-VL: US History Museums
    - WWW-VL: US History Reference
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By Periods
- Ancient History
- Medieval Sources and Texts in Translation
- Early Modern
  - Burkhardt: Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
- Modern
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Religion
- Bahá'ís
  - Bahá'ís official site
  - The Bahá'í World Faith
  - The Baha'i Faith Facts
- Buddhism
- Christian
- Hinduism
  - Sacred Texts: Hindu
- Islam
- Jainsim
  - Jainism: Jain Principles, Tradition and Practices, Colorado State University
- Judaism
  - Torah: Jewish Texts
  - Sacred Texts: Judaism
- Mormon
  - The Book Of Mormon: Another Testament Of Jesus Christ, Official Site
  - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints [Mormon]
- Zoroastrianism
  - World Zoroastrian Organisation
  - Zoroastrians, wikipedia
  - Famous Zoroastrians (Parsis)
  - Zoroastrianism, Founded By Zarathushtra
Web Quality Guides
- The ICYouSee Guide to Critical Thinking About What You See on the Web Ithaca College Library
- Evaluating Web Resources Wolfgram Memorial Library, Widener University
- Stanford Guidelines for Web Credibility Stanford University
- Thinking Critically about World Wide Web Resources UCLA College Library
- Using the Internet to support lifelong learning: The role of the Librarian , School of Information and Media, The Robert Gordon University, Scotland, UK
- An Educator's Guide to Credibility and Web Evaluation, School of Education, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign [early 1999 policy]
- Evaluating Internet Information, by Elizabeth Kirk, Librarian, Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University

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Originally on Carrie , the first full text library on the web, established May 1993.

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