Research Databases & Digital Collections

The Princeton Dante Project includes the full edition of Petrocchi’s text of the poem; a vew verse translation of the poem; texts of all the minor works (with translation); recitation of the poem in Italian; historical and interpretive notes; and direct links to the Dartmouth Dante Project as well as to other relevant Dante sites.

The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae, a research center at the University of California, Irvine, was founded in 1972 with the goal of creating a comprehensive digital collection of all surviving texts written in Greek from antiquity to present. By now, it has collected and digitized most texts written in Greek from Homer (eighth century BC) to the fall of Byzantium in 1453 AD and beyond. It contains more than 105 million words from over 12,000 works associated with 4,000 authors. It is constantly updated and improved with new features and texts. Access to the AAR community.

Similar to the Directory of Open Access Journals, the Directory of Open Access Books provides access to books available in open access following OAI protocol for metadata harvesting (OAI-PMH).

The Deutsches Archäologisches Institut has digitized a part of its valuable collection.

Offers full-text German-language publications in various disciplines.

... [Prima pars]: in quo tabulae et descriptiones omnium regionum (from the UCLA Library).

Sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania, the Online Books Page is a website that facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the internet.

Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books.