Online Free Digital Collections

The University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative.

Developed in collaboration with the On-Line Book Page, this site concentrates on the development of on-line editions of older, often rare, out-of-copy works by women writers.

From The Tech, MIT's oldest and largest newspaper.

The UCLA-based Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts links to nearly 1,000 manuscripts by 193 authors in 20 languages from 59 libraries around the world. Highlights of the virtual holdings include: the largest surviving collection of the works of Christine de Pizan, an Irish copy of the Gospel of John, bound in ivory and presented to Charlemagne sometime around 800, and the Junius manuscript, one of only four major manuscripts preserving poetry in Old English, Dated to around 1000.

For eons storytellers have spun tales; this website is a collection of many of the major legends of western civilization - it includes supporting materials as well.

Provides free audio files of classic literature and other works in the public domain.

A collection of the treasures of children's literature published largely in the United States and Great Britain from before 1850 to beyond 1950. At the core of this Collection are books from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, housed in the Department of Special Collections and Area Studies at the University of Florida. A project of the State University System of Florida funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Over 3 million books free to read on the web, compiled and curated into one searchable catalog

The Perseus Project from Tufts University. It started out to offer access to classical era documents, but has since expanded to cover a number of historical periods.