English : Digitized Books, Manuscripts and more

Digitized Literature, Correspondence, and Documents - World

Medieval Travel Writing This link opens in a new window
Medieval travel writing from the 13th to the 16th centuries. The chief focus is on journeys to central Asia and the Far East.
License Information: This license was negotiated by the Canadian Research Knowledge Network for its Digital Content Infrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences. There are no restrictions to the number of simultaneous users. Access is restricted to current students, faculty, and staff of the University of Saskatchewan, alumni patrons, and to "walk-in" users of the University of Saskatchewan Library for educational, research, and non-commercial personal use. It is accessible in the library, on campus, and remotely. Systematic copying or downloading of electronic resource content, including the downloading of a full issue, is not permitted by Canadian and International Copyright law.
Empire Online This link opens in a new window
Original documents relating to Empire Studies, covering cultural contact, empire writing and literature of empire, the visible empire, religion and empire, race, class & colonialism worldwide.
License Information: This license was negotiated by the Canadian Research Knowledge Network for its Digital Content Infrastructure Project. There are no restrictions to the number of simultaneous users. Access is restricted to current students, faculty, and staff of the University of Saskatchewan, alumni patrons, and to "walk-in" users of the University of Saskatchewan Library for educational, research, and non-commercial personal use. It is accessible in the library, on campus, and remotely. Systematic copying or downloading of electronic resource content, including the downloading of a full issue, is not permitted by Canadian and International Copyright law.
Women Writers Online This link opens in a new window
A full-text collection of early women’s writing in English. It includes full transcriptions of texts published between 1526 and 1850.
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Electronic Enlightenment This link opens in a new window
"Correspondence between the greatest thinkers and writers of the long 18th century and their families and friends, bankers and booksellers, patrons and publishers." Includes over 53,000 letters and documents from nearly 6,000 correspondents in original languages, and over 80,000 manuscripts and early editions.
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Victorian Popular Culture This link opens in a new window
Digitized books and documents describing Victorian popular culture and popular entertainment in America, Britain and Europe in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
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Digitized Books, Manuscripts, Pamphlets, Diaries and more - United Kingdom

English Historical Documents Online This link opens in a new window
Documents from 500 to 1914 covering a wide spectrum of topics. Primary sources include treaties, statutes, declarations, government and cabinet proceedings, military dispatches, orders, acts, sermons, newspaper articles, pamphlets, personal and official letters, diaries, and more
License Information: This license was negotiated by the Canadian Research Knowledge Network. There are no restrictions to the number of simultaneous users. Access is restricted to current students, faculty, staff, and alumni of the University of Saskatchewan, and to "walk-in" users of the University of Saskatchewan Library for educational, research, and non-commercial personal use. Accessible in the library, on campus, and remotely. Systematic copying or downloading of electronic resource content, including the downloading of a full issue, is not permitted by Canadian and International Copyright law.
ORLANDO: Women's Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present This link opens in a new window
Biographical and writing career entries on over a thousand writers, as well as writings in the areas of history, science, medicine, economics, and the law.
License Information: There are no restrictions to the number of simultaneous users. Access is restricted to current students, faculty, and staff of the University of Saskatchewan, and to "walk-in" users of the University of Saskatchewan Library for educational, research, and non-commercial personal use. It is accessible in the library, on campus, and remotely. Systematic copying or downloading of electronic resource content is not permitted by Canadian and International Copyright law.
MEMSO: Medieval and Early Modern Sources Online This link opens in a new window
Digitized medieval and early modern books and manuscript sources essential to the study of medieval and early modern Britain and Ireland.
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Early English Books Online (EEBO) This link opens in a new window
A full text collection of English printed works for the period 1475-1700.
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Early English Books Online - Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP) This link opens in a new window
SGML/XML encoded text editions for selections of the Early English Books Online (EEBO) corpus. All EEBO-TCP text is searchable in EEBO.
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Defining Gender, 1450-1910 This link opens in a new window
Original documents relating to Gender Studies: ephemera, pamphlets, college records, letters, ledgers, educational practice and pedagogy, government papers, illustrated writings on anatomy, midwifery, art and fashion, poetry, novels, ballads, drama, receipt books, literary manuscripts, and travel writing.
License Information: Access to Defining Gender is generously provided until 2014 by Adam Matthew Publications Ltd. in recognition of the work of Dr. Christopher Kent, Professor of History, as a Contributing Editor. This license was negotiated by the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) for its Digital Content Infrastructure Project. There are no restrictions to the number of simultaneous users. Access is restricted to current students, faculty, and staff of the University of Saskatchewan, alumni patrons, and to "walk-in" users of the University of Saskatchewan Library for educational, research, and non-commercial personal use. It is accessible in the library, on campus, and remotely. Systematic copying or downloading of electronic resource content, including the downloading of a full issue, is not permitted by Canadian and International Copyright law.
Perdita Manuscripts: Women Writers, 1500-1700 This link opens in a new window
Index of manuscripts of early modern women authors, including full digital facsimiles of over 230 selections,
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British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries: 1500 to 1950 This link opens in a new window
A collection of British and Irish women's diaries and correspondence, bringing "the personal experiences of nearly 500 women to researchers, students, and general readers."
License Information: This license was negotiated by the Canadian Research Knowledge Network. There are no restrictions to the number of simultaneous users. Access is restricted to current students, faculty, and staff of the University of Saskatchewan, alumni patrons, and to "walk-in" users of the University of Saskatchewan Library for educational, research, and non-commercial personal use. It is accessible in the library, on campus, and remotely. Systematic copying or downloading of electronic resource content is not permitted by Canadian and International Copyright law.
Internet Shakespeare Editions This link opens in a new window
Published scholarly resources in the area of Shakespeare Texts (old-spelling transcriptions, modern editions, facsimile images of originals), Contexts (multimedia resource providing contextual bibliographies, background of his ideas, politics, etc.) and Performance (current and historical performances providing a view of the way his plays have been interpreted over time).
This is an open access resource, freely available on the Internet.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO I & II) This link opens in a new window
Collection covering "every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in Great Britain during the eighteenth century, along with thousands of important works from the Americas." Topics include women's writing, the French Revolution, and Shakespeare editions.
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Digitized Books, Periodicals, and Government Documents - Canada

Canadiana Online This link opens in a new window
Three and a half centuries of Canadian documentary history: books, newspapers, magazines, annual reports,pre-1920 colonial provincial and federal government documents.
License Information: This license was negotiated by the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN). There are no restrictions to the number of simultaneous users. Access is restricted to current students, faculty, and staff of the University of Saskatchewan, alumni patrons, and to "walk-in" users of the University of Saskatchewan Library for educational, research, and non-commercial personal use. It is accessible in the library, on campus, and remotely. Systematic copying or downloading of electronic resource content is not permitted by Canadian and International Copyright law.