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ACLS History E-Book Project

The History E-Book Project is an electronic publishing initiative for books of high quality in the field of history. Approximately 500 full-text books were included in the initial launch of the project in September 2002. Texts are fully searchable and can also be browsed by title, author, and subject.

Early English Books Online (EEBO)

Contains complete page images for 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700). Selected works are also available as fully searchable text files.

Ebrary

A collection of thousands of online full text books in a variety of subject areas such as the arts, business/economics, computers, cooking, history, literary criticism, science, and travel. Full text content can be viewed and searched online without charge after installing the ebrary Reader, available from tne Web site.

Gutenberg-e

A collection of electronic books that have undergone an academic review process by historians brought together by the American Historical Association. The books represent a range of subjects, including Africa, colonial Latin America, and South Asia; Europe before 1800; and military history and history of foreign relations. These digital monographs also provide extensive documentation, hyperlinks to supplementary literature, images, music, video, and links to related Web sites.