An increasing number of source texts of interest to researchers are becoming available in electronic format at various sites on the internet. Links to a number of these sites, organized according to language and/or subject (some sites are listed under more than one heading) are provided below. There are also references to specific texts, in particular for unusual languages and unusual texts. Users hoping to make use of them for any type of text analysis should be aware, however, that such public-domain texts may vary widely not only in format, but in quality and reliability as well.

Some general and multilingual collections and language dictionaries are listed below.

You may also wish to consult the list of major online text collections by subject.

• Online Books Page
  The most comprehensive guide to publicly accessible online e-books.
• Athena Authors and Texts Page
• EOS: Electronic Open Stacks, University of Chicago
  A collection of the University of Chicago Library's image-based texts (digital facsimiles).
  

• Bartleby.com
  About 40 classics in English, particularly strong in the field of poetry.
• Humanities Text Initiative, University of Michigan
  
• Internet Classics Archive
  A large collection of classical texts in English translation from MIT.
• Bibliomania
  A few classics in English.
• A Celebration of Women Writers
  A list of women writers with links to available texts on the net.
• Christian Classics Ethereal Library
  Texts in English, also translations.
• The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
  
• Eldritch Press
  
• EServer at Iowa State University
  Contains many literary and historical texts as well as contemporary scholarly papers.
• Electronic Text Center at University of Virginia: English text resources
  Texts in SGML-format.
• Labyrinth: Medieval Studies Infoserver: Old English Texts
  
• Labyrinth: Medieval Studies Infoserver: Middle English Texts
  
• LIBRO: The Library of Iberian Resources Online
  English-language scholarly works on medieval Spanish and Portuguese history
• Project Canterbury
  Collection of historic texts relating to the history and theology of Anglicanism.
• Project Gutenberg
  Many texts, not only in English, in pure ASCII-format.
• Rice University Electronic Text List
  
• Romantic Circles Electronic Editions (University of Maryland)
  
• Studies in Bibliography
  A full-text database of this journal, under development at the University of Virginia.
• Victorian Women Writers Project (Indiana University).
  
• University of California Ebooks
  Current scholarly works.

• Francophone African Poets in English Translation (University of Florida)

• Guide to Arabic Literature
  Middle East Studies, Global Studies, Columbia University Libraries
• Arabic Poetry
  Omar Al-Matar

• Avesta Zoroastrian Archives
  Contains the scriptures of the Zoroastrian religion.

• Chinese Resources at Voice of the Shuttle

• Project Laurens Janszoon Coster
  A collection of Dutch literary classics modelled on Project Gutenberg.
• Dutch Resources at Voices of the Shuttle

• Library of Ethiopian Texts
  Collection of scriptural and other works in Ethopic, some with parallel English translations, maintained by the Institute of Ancient Near Eastern Studies at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic

• Project Runeberg
  Includes a few texts in Finnish, such as the New Testament from the 1938 Bible translation (Raamattu) and Kalevala
• The Research Institute for the Languages of Finland
• Electric verse
  Poetry written specifically for the Internet by living Finnish and Finland-Swedish poets. Includes English and Swedish translations.

• French Literature Resources at Voice of the Shuttle
  
• ARTFL Database
  American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language, University of Chicago (ARTFL) is a database consisting of nearly 2000 texts, ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing.
• Association des Bibliophiles Universels (ABU)
  ABU tries to offer as many French public domain texts as possible.
• ATHENA: French Authors
  Collection of texts prepared by the Athena project at the University of Geneva, as well as many texts from other sources.
• Helvetia Page at Athena
  Contains works of many Francophone authors.
• HAPAX: French Resources on the Web
  A list of resources compiled at Sweet Briar College, including LaFontaine, Baudelaire, Hugo, Racine and many others.
• Labyrinth: Medieval Studies Infoserver: French Texts
  
• French e-Texts at the University of Virginia
• ARTFL Project: Bibles
  Includes the French translation by Louis Segond (1910).
• ARTFL Project: Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie
• Constitution of the Fifth Republic
  An ASCII version.
• Chrétien de Troyes, Le Chevalier de la Charrette
  Includes beautiful color images of Princeton's Garrett manuscript, microfilm-quality images of four other manuscripts/fragments, and manuscript transcriptions as well as an on-line version of Foulet and Uitti's edition.
• Jean Nicot, Thresor de la langue françoyse
  A French dictionary from 1606. The text is a fully searchable html version, maintained by ARTFL.

• The German Collection at University of Virginia
  Texts in SGML-format.
• 19th-century German stories
  From Virginia Commonwealth University.
• Martin Luther's translation of the Bible (ARTFL)
  
• Martin Luther's translation of the Bible (bibel-online.net)
  
• Richard Wagner Archive
  Writings of the composer and opera libretti.

• Classical Studies at the Voice of the Shuttle
  
• Perseus
  Contains texts in Greek and English translation, accompanied by apparatus criticus, morphological and lexical tools, and notes. The major authors of the classical period are represented, as well as some later authors whose works are useful for the study of the fifth century B.C. Resources for art and archeology are also included. The major text collections are as follows:
  • Ancient Greek Texts with Morphological Links to Text Tools
  • English Translations of Greek Texts in Perseus
  • Liddell - Scott - Jones Greek Dictionary
    
• Internet Classics Archive
  A large collection of classical texts in English translation from MIT.
• Papyri.info
  In Latin transcription, reproduces the recent editions by Helmut van Thiel (Hildesheim: Olms, 1991 and 1996).

• Magyar Elektronikus Konyvtar
  A wide-ranging collection of Hungarian texts in many fields.

• Celt Corpus of Electronic Texts (University of Cork)
  The online resource for contemporary and historical Irish documents in literature, history and politics.

• Digital Dante (Columbia University)
• Dartmouth Dante Project
• Princeton Dante Project
• Renaissance Dante in Print (1472-1629)
  An exhibition presenting Renaissance editions of Dante's Divine Comedy from the University of Notre Dame and the Newberry Library.
• The Decameron Web
  Contains texts of Bocaccio's Decameron in Italian and English as well as information about this work.
• Duecento
  Italian literature before Dante. Contains more than 2300 poems.
• Italian Literature (liberliber.it)
  
• Voice of the Shuttle, Italian language, literature, and history resources
  
• Labyrinth: Medieval Studies Infoserver: Italian Texts
  
• Caffè Poetel
  Contemporary Italian poetry written especially for the Internet.

• Classics Resources at the Voice of Shuttle
  
• Latin Text Archives at Wiretap
  Contains many classical and a few medieval Latin texts in pure ASCII-format.
• Labyrinth: Medieval Studies Infoserver: Latin Bookcase
  Classical and medieval Latin works.
• Latin Texts at Perseus
  Latin texts with English translations. The site also includes an electronic version of Lewis and Short's Latin Dictionary.
• Latin Texts: Recentiores
  A monograph series published by the University of Michigan Press embracing all aspects of post-classical Latin culture. Each volume is accompanied by some networked para-publication.
• Database of Nordic Neo-Latin Literature
  A database of printed books in Latin from or about the Scandinavian countries.
• Project Libellus
  Classical Latin texts.
  
• Corpus iuris civilis
  A cooperative hypertext edition of Justinian's legislation including the medieval Glossa ordinaria.
• William Ockham, Dialogus
  Latin and English texts, under the auspices of the British Academy edited by John Kilcullen and John Scott for the series Auctores Britannici Medii Aevi. The work on this edition is in progress.
• Internet Classics Archive
  A large collection of classical texts in English translation from MIT.

• The Swedish Language Bank
  
• Project Runeberg
  "An open and voluntary effort to create and collect classic works of Scandinavian literature and art." Includes works in Danish, Finnish, Icelandic, Norwegian, and Swedish.
• The Research Insitute for the Languages of Finland: The Swedish Department
  
• Icelandic Saga Database

• Russian and East European Studies
• Eastern European Resources at Voice of the Shuttle
  
• Russian Literature
  Selected works, including some translations into Russian, with an emphasis on the "art of ordinary people," collected and maintained by Sergei Naumov at the University of North Carolina.
• Biblioteka Maksima Moshkova
  "...belles-lettres, science fiction, political literature, technical documentation, history, poetry... etc."

• Spanish and Portuguese Literature Resources at Voice of the Shuttle
  
• Libro de fuente medieval
  Medieval and Byzantine sources and texts in Spanish and Latin.

• Turkish Literature at Voice of the Shuttle

• Estonian-English-Estonian Dictionary
  
• French-English Dictionary (ARTFL)
• French Literature, History, and Language Resources through Voice of the Shuttle
  
• German-English-German Dictionary
  This is a large dictionary with more than 120.000 entries. A smaller dictionary is available from Chemnitz. Also see the list of German literature, language, and history links available at Voice of the Shuttle
• Greek-English Dictionary (Perseus)
  This is the large, scholarly dictionary of Classical Greek by Liddell, Scott and Jones.