Other Digital Text Collections

the University of Virginia, which has the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities; thousands of books from the 19th century.

the University of Michigan, also scanning their 19th century holdings, much labeled as the Internet Public Library.

Gallica, at the Bibliothéque Nationale de France, some 100,000 books in image format, half of which are public domain.

Trésor de la Langue Française - 10,000 important works of French literature keyed in at the Université de Nancy. Copy at U of Chicago under the name ARTFL.

The "Digital Vault" of UMI, which is digitizing very large numbers of their microfilm holdings. This includes, for example, Early English Books Online, "will contain 125,000 titles" - all printing through 1700. (Not books - the NY Times back to 1851 and the Sanborn maps).

Commercial Libraries: - four different commercial ventures trying to sell books online.
Questia: 45,000 books, sold to individuals, $20/month for access
netLibrary: 40,000 books, sold via libraries, one viewer per book at a time
eBrary: 8,000 books, sold via libraries
Books24x7: 1700 current technical books, sold via libraries

Projekt Gutenberg-DE

the Oxford Text Archive - much just gathered elsewhere.

The American Memory Project at the Library of Congress - has done mostly photographs.

The Online Books Page at the University of Pennsylvania. This library contains over 17,000 digital books.

9/12/02 Thanks to Michael Lesk for starting this list.