Classics in the History of Psychology
Fulltext for a large number of historically significant public domain documents from the scholarly literature of psychology and allied disciplines. Texts are presented in html format with scanned graphics.  Includes James' _Principles_, other James, and some Freud and Janet.

Writings of Charles Darwin on the web
The most complete collection of Darwin's work ever published on the web- with original page numbers, illustrations etc. Process is ongoing as of June 2004.

Historical Works: Medicine in the Americas
-from PubMed Central
NCBI BookShelf

Sophie: A Digital Library of Works by German-Speaking Women
Covers the period 1740 - 1923.

Witchcraft Collection (Cornell University Library)
Cornell's Witchcraft Collection contains over 3,000 titles documenting the history of the Inquisition and the persecution of witchcraft.

University of California Press Scholarship Editions
Many titles by the UC Press available online. Some titles are available only to UC users; others are available to the public.

Studies in Scarlet: Marriage and Sexuality in the U.S. & U.K., 1815-1914
Images of over 420 separately published trial narratives from the Harvard Law School Library's extensive trial collections. Included are a number of trials of the wealthy and renowned such as an account of the adultery trial of Caroline, Queen Consort of George IV, the sodomy trial of Oscar Wilde, and the trial of Harry Thaw for the murder of Stanford White, the famous architect who was Evelyn Nesbit Thaw's lover. The larger part of the collection, however, consists of the stories of ordinary men and women thrust into the public eye when their marriages and love affairs went wrong or their relationships did not conform to social standards.

Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection
Numbering over 10,000 titles, May's pamphlets and leaflets document the anti-slavery struggle at the local, regional, and national levels. Much of the May Anti-Slavery Collection was considered ephemeral or fugitive, and today many of these pamphlets are scarce. Sermons, position papers, offprints, local Anti-Slavery Society newsletters, poetry anthologies, freedmen's testimonies, broadsides, and Anti-Slavery Fair keepsakes all document the social and political implications of the abolitionist movement.

Gallica
A digitization project of the Bibliothhque nationale de France. "Gallica 2," in trial mode through 2008, includes 60,000 books and 80,000 images (all out of copyright) as well as "thousands" of in-copyright books by arrangement with the publishers. The new site contains a link to the "old" Gallica.

British Library Integrated Catalogue
These previously separate catalogues are included in the Integrated Catalogue: General printed books pre-1975 Humanities and Social Sciences post-1975 Humanities and Social Sciences open-access reference books Science, Technology and Business Document Supply Books Document Supply Serials Document Supply Conferences Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections Cartographic Newspapers Printed Music Register of Preservation Surrogates

Archives Hub
A national gateway to descriptions of archives in UK universities and colleges.

ArchiveGrid
Provide centralized access for searching and retrieval of archival finding aids that have been encoded using SGML and the emerging standard for Encoded Archival Description (EAD). The finding aids are indexed centrally at RLG but are supported in a distributed environment  some reside on a server at RLG, others are located on other servers around the world. Archival Resources also includes access to RLG's AMC (Archival and Mixed Collections) file. AMC provides researchers with timely and comprehensive access to brief, high-level information for nearly half a million collections of manuscripts and archives, and has greatly enhanced the dissemination of information about the holdings in repositories around the world.

Center for Research Libraries
The Penn Library participates in CRL's area studies programs. A consortium of North American universities, colleges, and independent research libraries. The consortium acquires and preserves traditional and digital resources for research and teaching and makes them available to member institutions through interlibrary loan and electronic delivery.

Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature
-from Oxford Digital Reference Shelf

Oxford Companion to American Literature
-from Oxford Reference Online

Dictionary of Writers and their Works
-from Oxford Reference Online

Dictionary of Victorian London
a guide to the social history of 19th century London

Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms
-from Oxford Reference Online

Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature
-from Oxford Reference Online

Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature
-from Oxford Reference Online

Cambridge History of English and American Literature
Online version of 1907-21 edition. Bartleyby.com, 2000.

Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism

Oxford Essential Dictionary of Foreign Terms in English
-from Oxford Reference Online

Oxford Dictionary of Idioms
-from Oxford Reference Online

Oxford Dictionary of American Usage and Style
-from Oxford Reference Online

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
-from Oxford Reference Online

Nineteenth-Century Fiction
Searchable full-text collection of 250 novels from the period 1782 to 1903, including works by all the major Victorian novelists such as Dickens, Thackeray, the Brontks, Eliot and Hardy, as well as the landmarks of Gothic and other fiction from the Romantic period.

International Index to Black Periodicals Full Text
-from Black Studies Center
IIBP Full Text includes current and retrospective bibliographic citations and abstracts from over 150 scholarly and popular journals, newspapers and newsletters from the United States, Africa and the Caribbean--and full-text coverage of over 20 core Black Studies periodicals (1998 forward).
Holdings: Time period varies depending on journal title

Digital Dissertations (Dissertation Abstracts)
NOTE: On July 21, 2007, ProQuest Digital Dissertations will change search interfaces! Access will be via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) on the ProQuest platform. Indexing (since 1861 and abstracting (since 1980) for doctoral-level dissertations completed at North American universities. Dissertations from selected European universities are also listed. Selected master's theses are included since 1988.

One can search the database by: author, keyword in title and/or abstract, adviser, university code, date, degree. Boolean operators allow for combinations of fields.
Holdings: Indexing 1861-present, abstracts 1980-present, full-text PDF for most Penn dissertations from 1997 to the present.

Past Masters Philosophy Fulltext
British Philosophy 1600-1900 (Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, George Berkeley, David Hume, Adam Smith, Edmund Burke, Jeremy Bentham, David Ricardo, John Stuart Mill, John Dewey, others)
John Dewey - Collected Works
Immanuel Kant - Hauptwerke (in German)
Immanuel Kant - Philosophische Briefe und Vorlesungsnachschriften (in German)
G.W.F. Hegel: The Oxford Translations
Friedrich Nietzsche - Werke: Historisch-kritische Ausgabe (in German)
uvres Complhtes de Reni Descartes

North American Women's Letters and Diaries, Colonial to 1950
Fulltext of letters and diaries, published and manuscript, of American women during the Colonial period through 1950. Biographical information is provided for each writer. Primary source materials are searchable by document type and subject, relevant historical events, and author-specific information including author name, date, age, marital status, maternal status, and geographical location when writing, age at marriage and at first childbirth, number of marriages and of children, nationality and race, religion, occupation, and relevant personal events.

Literature Resource Center
Biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on nearly 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.
PLEASE NOTE: Penn has licensed two user "seats" for Literature Resource Center. If you try to connect and receive an error message that we have reached our limit of concurrent users, please give it 15 minutes or so and try again.

JSTOR
JSTOR specializes in making available the back issues of journals in a wide variety of humanities and social science disciplines. Issues are available both as images and as text, making searching possible both within each title and across the whole database.

 

Penn's subscription currently includes all the available collections:

• the Arts & Sciences Collection I, II, III, IV and the complement
• the Business Collection
• the Ecology & Botany Collection
• the General Science Collection
• the Language and Literature Collection
• the Music Collection

 

Access to journals from JSTOR is restricted to current Penn faculty, staff and students.

Printing from the JSTOR database requires downloading a helper application called JPrint.
Holdings: active

ARTstor
The ARTstor collection includes approximately 500,000 images of works of art, architecture and archaeology along with the necessary software to view the images, create personal groups of images and create presentations.

ISI Citation Indexes (Web of Science)
Indexes journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Allows for cited reference searching. Includes Science Citation Index, the Social Science Citation Index, and the Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Search for specific articles by subject, author, journal, and/or author address, as well as for articles that cite a known author or work.

Holdings: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED)--1945-present, Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)--1956-present, Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI)--1975-present. Updated weekly.

Index to Early American Periodicals
Subject index to the microfilm collections American Periodical Series I & II, (see also APS Online), which are located in the Van Pelt Microtext Center, first floor east. The Penn Library does not have a subscription to the third segment of the database which covers the time period 1850-1935 (APS III).

American Periodicals Series Online 1740-1900
Includes digitized images of the pages of 1,100 American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century. Titles range from Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine and America's first scientific journal, Medical Repository, to popular magazines (some still in print), such as Vanity Fair, Harper's and Ladies' Home Journal.
Holdings: 1740-1900

Periodicals Index Online
Humanities and social sciences. The scope is international, including journals in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and other Western languages.

19th Century Masterfile
Indexing to 19th century periodicals. Includes Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (1802-1906), which includes date and title information not in the print version, Stead's Index to Periodicals (1890-1902), known as the "British Poole's," Jones and Chipman's Index to Legal Periodicals (1786-1922), and Richardson's Index to Periodical Articles in Religion (1890-1899). (Penn subscribed to Series One only.) For more indexing of nineteenth century periodicals, see also Periodicals Contents Index.

American National Biography
The American National Biography (ANB) is the successor to The Dictionary of American Biography (DAB)(1926-1937). As such, it is a source of biographical information on Americans of significance, both American and significance broadly defined. The one fast rule for inclusion is that the person must have died before 1996. Seeking broader coverage than the DAB and cognizant of changes in focus in the study of history, many more women, people of color, and religious minorities are included here. Over 6,000 scholars contributed nearly 17,500 biographies of between 750 and 7,500 words. For each a standard format was followed beginning with a chronological description of the person's life and ending with an evaluation of the person's contemporary significance. Importantly, the each article ends with a bibliography of primary and secondary sources about the entry and location of relevant manuscripts. The online version of the ANB can be searched in several ways which make it in some ways more flexible than the print version. It can be searched by entry name, key word, standardized occupation categories, gender, birthplace, date of birth or death and other elements of the entries.

Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800
American publications from 1639 to 1800. Browsable by subject, genre, author, etc.

Evans TCP
The University of Michigan, NewsBank/Readex Co., and the American Antiquarian Society are cooperating in a Text Creation Partnership to create 6,000 accurately keyed and fully searchable SGML/XML text editions from among the 40,000 titles available in the Evans Early American Imprints Collection. Evans is the most significant collection of titles relating to the history of seventeenth and eighteenth century America, and the Text creation partnership seeks to create enduring digital text editions of the most frequently studied works. NewsBank/Readex is producing digital page images and searchable OCR (Optical Character Recognition) for the overall collection. The standards-based editions created and owned by Text Creation Partnership will link directly to the corresponding Newsbank/Readex page images and will provide a research and instructional tool of enduring scholarly and instructional value. There are currently approximately 1500 titles in the collection. (July 2006)

Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker 1801-1819
The continuation of Readex's Early American Imprints: Series I, Early American Imprints, Series II (1801-1819) provides full-text access to the 36,000 American books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the first nineteen years of the nineteenth century. The content is based on the authoritative bibliography by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker and has been supplemented by thousands of new items.

18th Century Collections Online ( ECCO )
"Nearly 150,000 English-language titles and editions published between 1701 and 1800 will be made available online over the course of the next two years. When complete, the product will allow full-text searching of more than 33 million pages of material, in essence, every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas."

Wright American Fiction 1851-1875
A collection of 19th century American fiction, as listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography American Fiction, 1851-1875. There are currently 1752 texts included (1602 unedited, 155 fully edited and encoded) by 845 authors