Offline Resources

The Electronic Text Center currently supports the following databases and software packages:

English | German | Greek | Hebrew | Icelandic | Latin | Spanish | Tibetan

English Offline Resources

PC CD-ROMs

• The African American Newspaper Archives
  29,232 newspaper articles between 1827-1860
  
  
• American Heritage Talking Dictionary
  
  
• The Civil War Newspaper Archives
  11,482 articles between 1860 and 1865
  
  
• ClipArt Library
  3,000 pieces of clip art
  
  
• The Dead Sea Scrolls: Electronic Reference Library
  Thousands of images made from the Dead Sea Scrolls, with navigation software
  
  
• Dead Sea Scrolls Revealed
  Explore the Dead Sea scrolls, their translations, and their historical context
  
  
• The Essential Frankenstein
  The novel, with on-screen commentary by Leonard Wolf, period music, audio narration, illustrations and photos.
  
  
• The Haldeman Diaries
  Multimedia version of The Haldeman Diaries: Inside the Nixon White House, by former White House Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman
  
  
• ICAME corpora
  Thousands of modern English text samples (circa 1.5 million words -- roughly equivalent to 20 large novels) for linguistic study -- includes American, British, and Indian English samples
  
  
• Johnson's Dictionary
  Both the both the first and fourth editions, as searchable text and page-images
  
  
• Library of the Future
  3,500 literary titles
  
  
• Master Christian Library
  330 titles from the Western Christian tradition, spanning many centuries -- from Bibles to Patristic works to more modern writers such as John Wesley
  
  
• National Portrait Gallery
  3,093 images of Notable Americans
  
  
• Shakespeare's Poems
  Text and image facsimile of the 1640 editin of Shakespeare's Poems.
  
  
• The Soncino Talmud
  English and Hebrew versions of The Tanach; The Mishnah; The Babylonian Talmud; Rashi's commentary on the Torah; and Rashi's commentary on the Babylonian Talmud
  
  
• The Story of Civilization
  11 volumes of text, including 800 illustrations, photos and maps, plus a documentary of the Durants.
  
  
• The Trinity Apocalypse
  35 folio leaves of the manuscript in color, with a general description of the manuscript and an art historical description of each illustrated folio leaf.
  
  
• "Trouble Is My Business": the Raymond Chandler library
  16 titles: Chandler's novels and short stories, with while embedding in the text files audio clips, illustrations, a map of Chandler's Los Angeles, a time line, and personal letters.
  
  
• Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five
  The complete text of the 1969 novel with narrations, archival film footage, and a video interview with Kurt Vonnegut.
  
  
• Walt Whitman: Major Authors on CD-ROM
  250 titles, including manuscripts
  
  
• The Works of John Ruskin
  All thirty-nine volumes of the Works of John Ruskin (1903-1912), including more than 2,000 images
  
  
• World Shakespeare Bibliography
  Bibliography of 12,000 Shakespeare-related works published or produced from 1990-1993
  
  

Other PC texts

• Bible Windows
  13 works, including the Greek New Testament, the Hebrew Old Testament, the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint) and the Latin Vulgate
  
  
• The Dickens Web
  Dickens texts in a hypertext environment (StorySpace)
  
  
• Alex Haley: The Autobiography Of Malcolm X
  A Voyager Expanded Book that allows you to add margin comments and end notes.
  
  
• Aldous Huxley:
  Brave New World including Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves To Death
  
  
• Hypermikdash
  A discussion of the second Bais Hamikdash (the Second Temple, built in Jerusalem during the era of Ezra and Nehemiah), including 3D graphic images.
  
  
• The SGML Tagger
  Adds Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) to computer-based documents
  
  
• John Steinbeck:
  Of Mice And Men and the following selected stories: Cannery Row, The Red Pony, and The Pearl.
  
  
• Storyspace
  A hypertext authoring environment.
  
  
• Tennyson: In Memoriam Web
  The full text of Tennyson's poem, annotated with hypertext links to commentary (Storyspace).
  
  

Mac CD-ROMs

• American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century CD-ROM
  and songs, divided into three chapters: "19th-Century American Poets," "19th-Century Versions of American Indian Poetry," and "Folk Songs and Spirituals."
  
  
• Stephen Jay Gould On Evolution
  Steven Jay Gould's Bully for Brontosaurus, as well as a video lecture, other Gould essays related to evolution, related historical documents, maps, and the texts of Charles Darwin's Origin of the Species and Voyage of the Beagle.
  
  
• Arthur Miller's The Crucible
  The text, with graphics and quicktime movies regarding the play and its historical context.
  
  
• Marvin Minsky: The Society of Mind
  The text, with supplemental Quicktime movie clips
  
  
• Donald A. Norman: Defending Human Attributes in the Age of the Machine
  Don Norman's The Design of Everyday Things, Turn Signals Are the Facial Expressions of Automobiles, and Things that Make Us Smart, as well as other supplementary materials.
  
  
• Who Built America?
  A social history of the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with sound, films, charts and graphs, images, additional texts, and games.
  
  
• Writing Space: the computer, hypertext, & the history of writing
  The hypertext version of Jay David Bolter's printed text of the same name.
  
  

Other Mac texts

• Shakespeare and the Globe Theater
  Describes the life, world, theater, works and colleagues of Shakespeare. Includes illustrations, the script of A Midsummer Night's Dream as well as 154 sonnets and a selection of Shakespeare's major speeches.
  
  

German Offline Resources

• Kant: WordCruncher
  Contains Immanuel Kant's collected works.
  
  
• Robert Musil: WordCruncher
  A CD-ROM database containing the literary heritage of Robert Musil.
  
  
• Robert Musil: PEP
  A CD-ROM edition of the Musil Nachlaß
  
  
• Nietzsche Werke
  A CD-ROM that provides a searchable database of Friedrich Nietzsche's works.
  
  
• H. P. Karr's Lexicon der deutschen Krimi-Autoren
  

Greek Offline Resources

PC CD-ROMs

• PHI Workplace
  A Windows application designed to read and search through Classical texts produced by the Packard Humanities Institute.
  
  
• Bible Windows
  Bible Windows provides easy and complete access to the Analytical Greek New Testament and the Hebrew Old Testament as well as the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint) and the Latin Vulgate.
  
  

Mac CD-ROMs

• Perseus 2.0
  An enormous and extremely powerful database of materials relating to ancient Greece.
  
  

Other Mac texts

• Thesaurus Lingua Graeca (Pandora)
  A database of ancient Greek texts covering Homer through the 7th century A.D.
  
  

Hebrew Offline Resources

• Bar Ilan's Judaic Library (The Responsa Project)
  A CD-ROM containing a wide array of classic Judaic texts in Hebrew.
  
  
• The Soncino Talmud
  A CD-ROM containing several important Jewish texts in both Hebrew and English.
  
  
• The Sol and Evelyn Henkind Talmud Text Databank
  A fully searchable Talmud database.
  
  
• PHI Workplace
  A Windows application designed to read and search through Classical texts produced by the Packard Humanities Institute.
  
  
• The Dead Sea Scrolls: Electronic Reference Library
  A CD-ROM containing an electronic archive of several thousand electronic images made from scrolls and fragments from the Dead Sea Scrolls.
  
  
• The Dead Sea Scrolls Revealed
  An interactive CD-ROM that allows you to explore the actual Dead Sea scrolls and their translations
  
  
• HyperMikdash
  A software program which allows you to explore an electronic book called The Bais Hamikdash In Word and Picture.
  
  

Icelandic Offline Resources

• Íslendinga Sögur
  A CD-ROM containing 40 medieval narratives.
  
  

Latin Offline Resources

PC CD-ROMS

• Thomæ Aquinatis Opera Omnia
  Includes complete works plus 61 associated medieval texts; menus and on-line help are in English.
  
  
• CETEDOC Library of Christian Latin Texts (CLCLT)
  Database of Latin texts from the Western Christian tradition covering the Patristic era through the Middle Ages.
  
  
• EpiGraph
  Database of Roman inscriptions containing the complete text of all inscriptions found in volume VI of the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum.
  
  
• Monumenta Germaniae Historica
  A selection of texts from all five divisions (Scriptores, Leges, Diplomata, Epistolae, Antiquitates).
  
  
• PHI Workplace
  A Windows application designed to read and search through Classical texts produced by the Packard Humanities Institute.
  
  
• Bible Windows
  Bible Windows provides easy and complete access to the Analytical Greek New Testament and the Hebrew Old Testament as well as the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint) and the Latin Vulgate.
  
  

Mac texts

• Abbreviationes
  An electronic dictionary of medieval Latin abbreviations. The database currently contains nearly 50,000 entries.
  
  

Spanish Offline Resources

• ADMYTE (Archivo Digital de Manuscritos y Textos Españoles)
  An ongoing digital archive of Spanish texts and manuscripts written in Castilian before 1615.
  
  

Tibetan Offline Resources

• BUDSIR IV
  A digital editon of the complete Tipitaka and Atthakatha.