Electronic Books
Ebooks are electronic copies of texts delivered to the computer desktop and are usually searchable
by chapter, page number and sometimes by keywords within the texts. Ebooks can be freely available on
the World Wide Web (these are usually older works, free of copyright restrictions) or paid for by the Library.
The Library owns over 600,000 electronic books, all of which are accessible from the Lirbary Catalog or in one of our research databases.
To find Ebooks in the Library Catalog, use the advanced keyword search
and limit your search with the "material type"drop-down menu to Ebooks .
Once you find an Ebook title in the Library Catalog, click on the link provided and you will be directed to a browsable screen containing that book.
You should not need to log in or provide a password to access Ebooks found in the Library catalog except from off campus (use your UT EID).
The research databases known for their Ebook content are LIterature ONline(LION), Early English Books Online (EEBO) and Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO). These are accessible from the Find Articles Using Databases page.
To find Ebooks available on the World Wide Web try some of the following major websites. If you don't find what you need,
please contact the English Literature Bibliographer for more resources.
Major E-book and E-text resources
- Project Bartleby (opens to new window)
- From Columbia University, a searchable database of works by primarily early 19th- and late 20th-century authors.
Also includes Bartleby Verse, a collection of American and English poetry 1250-1920, and various reference works.
- The Camelot Project (opens to new window)
- Arthurian texts, images, bibliographies, and other information.
- Documenting the American South (opens to new window)
- From UNC-CH, a digitized library of Southern literature, beginnings to 1920. Also includes non-literary resources.
- Electronic Poetry Center (opens to new window)
- From the University of Buffalo, a site featuring contemporary experimental and innovative poetry, searchable by keyword.
Also includes audio files and links to poetry resources.
- The English Server (opens to new window)
- Very extensive and searchable collection of electronic texts, as well as information on critical theory,
calls for papers, humanities software, and more.
- Internet Poetry Archive (opens to new window)
- Features the work of contemporary poets from around the world, including Philip Levine, Robert Pinsky, Czeslaw Milosz
and Seamus Heaney (foreign language originals and English translations included).
- Project Gutenburg (opens to new window)
- Comprehensive site, texts available for download.
- University of Virginia Electronic Text Center (opens to new window)
- A standard-setting project containing over 70,000 humanities texts in 15 languages. Includes a
Middle English Collection,
the Mark Twain in His Times archive, the Modern English
Collection, and British Poetry 1780-1910.
- Victorian Women Writers Project (opens to new window)
- Transcriptions of works by British women writers of the 19th century.
- Wright American Fiction 1851-1875 (opens to new window)
- By the University of Indiana at Bloomington, this is a digitized collection of titles listed in Lyle Wright's seminal American Fiction bibliographies.
