Wikisource:Sources
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A collection of resources that collect public domain texts, similar to those collected by Wikisource. Please consider viewing these sources when looking for works to add to our project.
SourcesEdit
With PagescanEdit
| Database | Proofing quality |
Pagescans | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Memory | excellent | partial | From Library of Congress |
| Anarchy Archives | good | partial | Some works are under copyright |
| Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica) | excellent | Yes | Mostly French-language works, with some English. Page image viewer with PDF downloads available. |
| Biodiversity Heritage Library | excellent | Yes | BHL in flickr / BHL Blog |
| British History Online | excellent | no | Core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles |
| British Library | excellent | yes | Run search, then refine the access options to "online" and the format to "book", pdf though may need deriving to djvu at Internet Archive (announcement) |
| Cambridge Digital Library | excellent | yes | Need to download image by image. Click on thumbnail and then you can get the link to the full image and build the download. |
| Christian Classics Ethereal Library | excellent | yes | Many formats available |
| CrossAsia @ University of Heidelberg | n/a | yes | Mostly Asian studies-related with PDF downloads |
| Digital Bodleian | n/a | excellent | Over a million pages, including very old English manuscripts. Can download as PDF. |
| Digital Book Index | variable | variable | This is really a meta-search, which links to texts in other locations |
| Distributed Proofreaders | excellent | some | List of available sources |
| Family history books | n/a | yes | Plus local histories. Predominantly PDF works; some have text layers (raw OCR), not all |
| Google Books | poor | yes | Not all texts are in the public domain. Many texts are only partly available. |
| Hathi Trust | variable | yes | PDF downloads only for members of certain institutions. Haiti Trust will mark PDF with your institution, the date accessed, and other information. You can download individual page images using the url scheme https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/imgsrv/image?id={ID};seq={N};size=10000;rotation=0. |
| Internet Archive | poor | yes | Most texts are raw OCR without proofreading |
| Library of Liberty | good | yes | Some works are under copyright |
| Modernist Journals Project | n/a | yes | Images stored in the format https://repository.library.brown.edu/iiif/image/bdr:Image_Number/full/,Image_Size/0/default.jpg . There is no default upper limit although most images have a maximum value of 3500 (increment is by 50). |
| UK Government Statute Law database | excellent | some | Many are Crown Copyright (expires after 50 years) |
| Universal Digital Library | poor | yes | Some works are under copyright (copyright status is indicated), many non-English works |
| University of Bielefeld | n/a | yes | |
| University of Florida Digital Collections (UFDC) | n/a | yes | Image viewer with PDF downloads |
| University of Hong Kong Libraries | n/a | yes | No evident main page for this repository so use a domain-scoped Google search. See also some Wikisource community notes about downloading from this repository. |
| University of Michigan library | NA | yes | Pagescans only |
| Washington State Historical Records Project | poor | yes | Many copyright expired historical works scanned at usable quality. Mostly northwestern US history, but not exclusively; some non-English. |
| Wilbourhall | excellent | yes | Classical works in several languages and translations, including Greek, Latin, Sanskrit, etc. |
| World Digital Library | n/a | yes | |
| Archaeological Survey of India | n/a | yes | pdf files of good quality; covering many subjects and many countries; some works under copyright |
| Digital Library of India | n/a | yes | Pages in TIFF format; requires TIFF reader for online page-by-page viewing and saving; requires DLI downloader for downloading PDF. Huge collection; variable scan quality; many copyrighted works |
| Digital Library of India ERNET | Good | yes | PDF books. Claims all books copyright expired. (5,50,000 books) |
| Maine Music Box | good | yes | collection of more than 22,000 musical works, consisting primarily of sheet music |
| Trinity's Access to Research Archive | good | yes | contains many Irish works |
| State Library of Western Australia | n/a | yes | mostly works concerning Australia, downloads as PDF |
| Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Images (SCETI) | n/a | yes | Mostly individual images. The advanced search is easier to use. |
| Northern Illinois University Dime Novels | good | yes | Collection of w:dime novels. OCR not included in PDFs, but is available separately. |
Without PagescanEdit
| Database | Proofing quality |
Pagescans | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baldwin Project | excellent | no | Children's books |
| Bartleby | excellent | No | Texts not already imported are listed at User:Quadell/Bartleby. |
| Bibliomania | good | no | Mostly reuses Gutenberg content |
| Dinsmore Documentation | excellent | no | Professional proofreaders, showing off their work |
| History Sourcebooks | good | no | Despite frequent © notices, texts are in the public domain |
| ibiblio | excellent | no | 19th Century Works on Indian history written by British authors. |
| Literature Network | good | no | Includes biographies and photos of authors |
| Project Gutenberg | variable | No | Texts proofed by the Distributed Proofreaders are of excellent quality. Others are less reliable. |
| Sacred Texts | excellent | no | includes original images |
| University of Virgina library | excellent | no | Many texts are only available to UV students and staff |
| Wake Forest University library | excellent | no | Many texts are annotated |
| Yale Law School's Avalon Project | good | no | Some works are under copyright |
PeriodicalsEdit
- UPenn Online Books Page Serials Catalogue: links to other sources of many periodicals.
- Modernist Journals: collection of journals from 1890 to 1922.
- British Newspaper Archive: collection of British newspapers from the 1700s onwards
- Some newspapers are free to view: a free account is needed. There is a list of titles at the end of this page
- Newspapers.com: access provided thorough the Wikipedia Library. You need to request access to this resource via the Wikipedia Library portal.
- NewspaperArchive.com: access provided thorough the Wikipedia Library. You need to request access to this resource via the Wikipedia Library portal.
- JSTOR (via the Wikipedia Library)
- Advantage Preservation. Large collection of American local newspapers.
- World Radio History. Radio and broadcasting periodicals
Specific collectionsEdit
- Archives of American Art
- Joshua Slocum books
- Letters of Van Gogh
- Letters of the Tudor family
- Letters of Louis Riel
- Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering & Technology
- McMaster University Archive for the History of Economic Thought (not all are public domain, but many are)
Local interestEdit
NebraskaEdit
See also: Portal:Nebraska
North CarolinaEdit
See also: Wikisource:WikiProject North Carolina
- Digital NC (newspapers, yearbooks, city directories, ...)
- North Carolina Digital Collections (state documents, periodicals, books, ...)
- NC Live (newspapers, journals, books, ...)
OregonEdit
See also: Wikisource:WikiProject Oregon
PennsylvaniaEdit
See also: Portal:Pennsylvania
- Bibliographies listed in the Eighteen Volumes The Cambridge History of English and American Literature.
Other resourcesEdit
Although these sites don't provide source texts, they may be useful to Wikisourcerors in other ways.
- LibriVox - public domain recordings of public domain works, in both mp3 and ogg.
- Upload the ogg files to the Commons, tagging the files with {{LibriVox public domain}}, and then use {{listen|Soundfile.ogg}} in the notes field of the work here on Wikisource.
- See also Help:LibriVox.
- WebCite - may be used to preserve online or e-published text (example).