Links to online books and resources relevant to both the Humanities in general and both Eighteenth-Century Studies and German Studies in particular. Websites marked with an asterisk require an institutional/individual subscription.
Humanities
E-Books:
- Cambridge Companions Online: PDFs of all Cambridge companion books Link*
- Online Library of Liberty: Natural Law classics Link
- Intelex Past Masters: Searchable versions of work by numerous philosophers Link*
- Perseus Digital Library: Greek and Latin texts Link
Digitized Books:
- ACLS Humanities E-books: Books relevant to scholars in the humanities Link*
- ANNO: Austrian Newspapers Link
- Archive.org: Media archive featuring digitized books Link
- ARTFL: French literary and cultural texts Link
- Digitale Sammlungen: Links to digital collections worldwide Link
- DPLA: Digital Public Library of America Link
- E-Rara: Digitized Books in Swiss Libraries Link
- Europeana: European cultural collections Link
- Gallica: French national library’s digital collections Link
- Literature Online: English/American Literature with criticism and references Link*
- Loeb Classical Library: Greek and Roman classics Link*
Eighteenth-Century Studies
E-Books
- Lessing: The first full English translation of the Hamburgische Dramaturgie Link
Digitized Books
- Clandestina: Clandestine Literature Link
- Dictionnaire: Pierre Bayle’s Dictionnaire historique et critique Link*
- Digital Haskalah: Jewish Enlightenment texts from Oxford University Link
- Electronic Enlightenment: Edited Early Modern correspondence Link
- Encyclopédie: A digitized version of Diderot and d’Alembert’s Encyclopédie Link*
- Frankfurter Gelehrte Anzeigen Link
- Gelehrte Journale und Zeitungen der Aufklärung Link
- Hume: David Hume’s major works Link
- IdRZ 18: Index of eighteenth-century German language journals Link
- Journal des Luxus und der Moden Link
- Reichspostreuter Link
- Rousseau: Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Collection complète des œuvres Link
- Zeitschriften der Aufklärung: Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century journals digitized by the UB Bielefeld. Link
- Zeitschriften des 18. Jahrhunderts: Eighteenth-century journals digitized by the ULB Halle Link
German Studies
E-Books
- Deutsche Lyrik: 600 years of German poetry Link*
- Digitale Bibliothek deutscher Klassiker: Searchable versions of books published by Deutscher Klassiker Verlag Link*
- Projekt Gutenberg-DE: German Project Gutenberg E-books Link
- Sophie: Digital library of works by German-speaking women Link
Digitized Books
- Bibliotheca Palatina Digital: Digitized collection of the Universität Heidelberg’s medieval manuscripts Link
- Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek: Culture and knowledge online Link
- Deutsches Textarchiv: Digitized books from the seventeenth to the twentieth century Link
- Digi20: Selected monographs from the publishers Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Fink, Schöningh, and Sagner Link
- DigiZeitschriften: Archive of digitized German journals Link
- DLO: De Gruyter’s collection of eighteenth century literature online Link*
- VD16: Sixteenth-century Texts Link
- VD17: Seventeenth-century Texts Link
- VD18: Eighteenth-century Texts Link
- ZVDD: Central listing of digitized texts Link
Online Resources
- DigiBaeck: German-Jewish History Online Link
- Germanistik im Netz: Fachinformationsdienst Link
- Kalliope Verbund: Catalog of Manuscripts Link
Dictionaries and Lexica
- DWB (Das deutsche Wörterbuch): The dictionary produced by the Grimm brothers Link
- Mittelhochdeutsche Wörterbücher: The four main dictionaries of Middle High German Link
- Wörterbuchnetz: Links to numerous dictionaries Link
- Z (Zedler): Grosses vollständiges Universal-Lexikon aller Wissenschafften und Künste. 64 vols. and 4 supplemental vols. Ed. Johann Heinrich Zedler. (Leipzig/Halle: Zedler, 1732-54). Link
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