Online Books

See also: Restoration Movement Texts

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.

Google Book Search - Your search can be limited to full-text materials.

Google Scholar  provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. Here you can 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.

Books Online

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• ICLnet, A Guide to Christian Literature on the Internet;
  • includes Not Just Bibles: A Guide to Christian Resources on the Internet
• 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
• RefDesk's Electronic Texts on the Internet

• 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
• 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; see also The Center for the Study of the Great Ideas.
  • Mortimer J. Adler's essay, Why Read Great Books?

• Other "Great Books" projects 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.
  • Malaspina Great Books texts and biographies in literature, art, music, theatre, science, and history, grouped on a timeline.
  • The reading list for the St. John's College academic program
  • The Great Books of Western Civilization, lists titles from the Great Books program at Mercer University.

Literature Sites

• University of Michigan Modern English Collection
• Bibliomania
• Classics at the Online Literature Library : Author list from Literature.org
• 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 Sites

• Classics in the History of Psychology . Recommended by Mr. Bundy.
• World Lecture Hall: Psychology A long list of courses in psychology available in whole or in part on the Web.

Nov. 2007