In my searching for some digital repositories to review, I found some sites that I have to share because I imagine there might be one or two of you who will find at least one of them interesting or useful.
- NINES, Nineteenth-century Scholarship Online. This lovely site, among other things, aggregates peer-reviewed scholarly and educational tools for 19th-century study. Yes, of course, that includes literature.
- Humanities Text Initiative is a unit of the University of Michigan’s Digital Library Production Services. Through a grant from Sun MircoSystems and in partnership with a couple other institutions, HTI makes available on the internet for free an online journal of book reviews, a catalog of electronic texts available on the internet, and collections of prose and poetry.
- Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts. This site is a personal creation by a man I heard speak at a library and technology conference. I had forgotten about his site and found it again by accident. I am glad I did. Texts, images, open access journals and all kinds of digital goodies are on his site. He is a man who loves books while at the same time being enamored of a digital future and what a book might be able to do when freed from its binding.
- British Library Research Archive. This is a repository for papers and articles written by the staff of the British Library. There are also a few papers by readers who have used the Library’s collections for their research.
- ROAR, Registry of Open Access Repositories. This is a site that registers repositories to make them easier to find. There are over 1,000 repositories currently registered here. It’s not all books, it it also universities and other organizations. It’s fun to browse just to see the amazing scholarship that is going on.
- OAIster (pronounced ‘oyster’) is another open access repository registry. There is some duplication with ROAR, but not much. It is amazing how much is out there waiting to be discovered.
I hope you have fun poking around and find some good stuff. I know I could, and did, spend hours just looking.
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This is a very useful list! It’s kind of overwhelming to think of all that’s available out there. Overwhelming in a good way!
I bet you have so much fun finding these! I’m going to pick one and check it out otherwise I may be online all day
I checked out the Humanities Text Initiative site and found the Public Presidential Papers of Richard Nixon! Just yesterday my younger son called to tell me I just HAD to watch the Frost/Nixon movie (and proceeded to tell me all about Watergate). Of course, he wasn’t born until over a decade after Watergate, and I lived through it, but I loved hearing about it from him anyway. So, today, here’s your posting, and I can now tell Charlie to go to this site and read the Presidential Papers for himself! So interesting. Thank you thank you. (It’s kinda tricky getting your history from Hollywood).
Sarah, why thank you!
Dorothy, it is overwhelming and even more so since it is only the proverbial tip of the iceberg!
Iliana, I did have lots of fun. i hope whichever one you picked you enjoyed.
Grad, very cool, and what a coincidence! Glad to facilitate the finding
Thanks for giving us some more jewels.