Off-Campus Resources
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Finding Aids
- The Online Books Page
- The most comprehensive listing of publicly-accessible online ebooks.
- EUREKA BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE MDF FILE (Searchable here by
Columbia affiliates only)
- The Research Library Group's Eureka Bibliographic Database contains many records of electronic texts, searchable by author, title, and
subject. After doing a search for an author, title, or subject, apply a limit for material type MDF.
- Oxford Text Archive
- The Archive contains electronic versions of more than 1500 literary works by many major authors in Greek, Latin, English and a dozen or more
other languages. You can go directly to the short title catalogue of works by language. Most
of the texts are not immediately available on the net, but may be made available upon request (Contact the
Electronic Text Service for assistance).
- Alex: A Catalogue of Electronic Texts on the Internet
(gopher)
- Automatic listing of texts available from the Oxford Text Archive, Project Gutenberg, the Online Book Initiative, and Wiretap, with the ability
to connect directly to each of those texts. (Note: these connections tend to be slower than direct links to the sites in question, which are
included on the list below).
Other Electronic Text Centers and Organizations
- Institute For Learning Technologies (Columbia Teachers College)
- Columbia Center for New Media in Teaching and Learning
- Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities
- Academic Text Service, Stanford University
- Humanities Text Initiative, University of Michigan
- Indiana University Library Electronic Text Resource Service
- Information Arcade, University of Iowa
- University of Virginia Electronic Text Center
Issues of relevance to Electronic Textual Work
- Copyright
- From the Institute of Learning Technologies, Teachers College, Columbia University.
- SGML, XML and the Text Encoding Initiative
- In order for electronic texts to be effectively searched and analyzed, they require some degree of markup, coding identifying key structural
(and possibly content and/or display) features. In order to promote the most efficient use and exchange of a growing body of electronic text
materials, efforts are being made by the scholarly and publishing community to establish standards for markup, and the standard that is emerging as
that of SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language) and, most recently XML (Extensible Markup Language), a simplified and more easily implementable
version of the latter. Since SGML and XML describe a method for markup rather than prescribing a specific set of markup tags, a parallel effort has
been made by the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) to propose sets of tags that researchers and publishers should use in marking up texts, to
facilitate the use of those texts by other scholars as well.
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