Reading Accom. - Links to Books
Below are a number of links to web sites, libraries, and "clearinghouse" sites where books of all kinds may be found in text or html formats on the web. Many of these titles, because of copyright concerns, are titles not currently in print, or whose copyrights have expired and not been renewed. However, a surprising number of excellent library and other resources are available. If you are looking for access to printed materials using screen-readers, or other assistive technology, these may prove useful to you.
DISCLAIMER -- Neither Disability Services nor the University of Montana endorses or promotes any of these sites. They are simply offered for your use.
http://www.digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
The On-Line Books Page is a website that facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet. It also aims to encourage the development of such on-line books, for the benefit and edification of all.
Major parts of the site include:
http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/
Users can now access complete electronic versions of the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition; The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition; Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition; Simpson's Contemporary Quotations; and The American Heritage Book of English Usage. Each of these works may be browsed by the table of contents or index or searched by keyword. Unlike most of Bartleby's offerings, which are classic texts now out of copyright, these additions are all recent editions, the oldest dating to 1988. The new Bartleby homepage is attractive and easily navigated, offering pull-down menu access to its content in four categories: Reference, Verse, Nonfiction, and Literature. Users can also conduct keyword searches across all or selected areas of the site from the main page.
Further user note: a few aspects of the site require JavaScript (hence off-limits to Lynx users) but these are workaroundable through the search engines.
Project Gutenberg is the original grass-roots plain electronic text collection, featuring nearly 10,000 titles of public domain texts. Title and author searches are available on the site.
Includes reading lists, an email newsletter which gives updates of texts as they are added, and a search engine.
The IPL Online Texts Collection contains over 17,000 titles that can be browsed by author, by title, or by Dewey Decimal Classification. They can also be searched using the form.
The Humanities Text Initiative, a unit of the University of Michigan's Digital Library Production Service, has provided online access to full text resources since 1994. The Humanities Text Initiative (HTI) is an umbrella organization for the creation, delivery, and maintenance of electronic texts, as well as a mechanism for furthering the library community's capabilities in the area of online text.
http://www.infomotions.com/alex/
This is the Alex Catalogue of Electronic texts, a collection of digital documents collected in the subject areas of English literature, American literature, and Western philosophy.
http://www.hicom.net/~oedipus/etext.html
Welcome to Camera Obscura's meta-index of academic and scholarly resources. All of the archives and resources indexed in this document are either easily navigatable with speech or have been extensively re-indexed so that the information they contain is easily and immediately accessible via speech-synthesis and/or text-based access.
Since 1992, the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia has pursued twin missions with equal seriousness of purpose:
The Center combines an on-line archive of tens of thousands of SGML and XML-encoded electronic texts and images with a library service that offers hardware and software suitable for the creation and analysis of text. Through ongoing training sessions and support of teaching and research projects, the Center is building a diverse user community locally, serving thousands of users globally, and providing a model for similar humanities computing enterprises at other institutions.
