Online Books

• Christian Classics Ethereal Library : Includes a variety of topics from Early Church Fathers to fiction
• Gutenberg Project. Project Gutenberg is the oldest producer of free electronic books (eBooks or etexts) on the Internet.
• Internet Archive: Texts  A  digital library containing a wide range of texts in several formats for reading online or downloading.

Restoration Movement Texts

Online Text - another FCC list.

   Books Online

• Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts is a collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy.
• The Avalon Project at Yale Law School: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy
• Bartleby : Free full-text reference site; full-text searchable web pages categorized and indexed.
• Theology Website's Electronic Text Index.   

• Dictionary of the History of Ideas.
• ECOLE Initiative: a hypertext encyclopedia of early church history
• ETHNOLOGUE: Provides information available on the languages of the world.
  • Language entries represent separate languages or probable languages.
• Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia Library

• Google Book Search - Your search can be limited to full-text materials.
• Google Scholar  provides a simple way to search for scholarly literature - search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.

• Internet Public Library: index of online texts
• The Labyrinth : Resources for Medieval Studies maintained at Georgetown University.
• Library of Congress American Memory

• The Online Books Page: facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet;
  • includes Pointers to significant directories and archives of online texts
• Online Library of Liberty - Under "Titles by Subject" are sections on religion, philosophy, and many other topics.
  • Online Library of Liberty Series at WorldCat.
  • See the Essays on Religion in The Forum .
• RefDesk's Electronic Texts on the Internet
• Religion-Online:  More than 6,000 articles and chapters. Topics include Old and New Testament, Theology, Ethics, History and Sociology of Religion, Communication and Cultural Studies, Pastoral Care, Counseling, Homiletics, Worship, Missions and Religious Education.  Full text by recognized religious scholars.
• Center for Reformed Theology and Apologetics documents, sermons, articles.

• Universal Digital Library:  The mission is to create a Universal Library which will foster creativity and free access to all human knowledge.
• The W3 Virtual Library : Extensive classification of academic subjects. Some sections are not current.
• World Lecture Hall at the University of Texas is no longer maintained. 
• World Wide School Library

Great Books

• The Great Books, based on the list developed for the Great Books collection of the Encyclopædia Britannica by

  Robert M. Hutchins, Mortimer J. Adler, and Mark Van Doren; at The Center for the Study of the Great Ideas.

  • Mortimer J. Adler's essay, Why Read Great Books?
  • View a video introduction to How To Read A Book.

• Other "Great Books" projects unrelated to the above include:
  • Great Books Index : An Index to Online Great Books in English Translation. It is not the same list of authors and works that was included in the Great Books of the Western World. Nonetheless it has been suggested and inspired by the work of Robert Hutchins and Mortimer Adler. Related book links.
  • The reading list for the St. John's College academic program
  • Great Books titles list for the Mercer University program.

Literature Sites

• Bibliomania
• Classics at the Online Literature Library
• Classic Reader : Eight categories of online materials
  • Fiction
  • Non-fiction
  • Children
  • Drama
    
  • Poetry
  • Shakespeare
  • Short Stories
  • Classical

• William Blake
• The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
• Literature Network  searchable online literature

Psychology Text Site

• Classics in the History of Psychology . Recommended by Mr. Bundy.

See also:

    Gale Virtual Reference Library   (requires your LIRN password, select Infotrac) reference sources for multidisciplinary research.   Many other research materials are also available from this LIRN site. Students of FCC may secure a password card from the Library.

Gale Virtual Reference Library Arts and Humanities Through the Eras ; an interdisciplinary reference available through the Florida Electronic Library.  Also includes Books and Authors (Gale), Educator’s Reference Complete, Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood In History and Society (GVRL), and several others that are not included in the FCC collection.  The Florida Electronic Library is available free from any computer in Florida.

May 2012