Use the following resources to search for specific works.
Alex
Use Alex,
North Carolina State University Libraries' gopher-based Catalog of
Electronic Texts to search for a specific work by title, by subject,
or author. Gopher is a reliable and easy, if unspectacular, method of
obtaining ASCII files.
Alcuin
Like Alex,
Alcuin is an etext
search engine maintained by the North Carolina State University
Libraries. What distinguishes Alcuin from Alex, is its
hypertextual interface. Alex uses the
Niso Common Command
Language. When entering your search terms, you can:
- enter a simple phrase, such as:
alice in wonderland
- qualify your searches by author and title fields:
-
use the text-string au to specify a search-by-author
example: au plato
- use the text-string ti to specify a search-by-title
example: ti republic
- use boolean operators to execute complex searches, such as:
aristotle or plato not (republic)
- use the following wildcards:
? (a question mark) to signify multiple characters
example: blind?
or # (a number/pound sign) to signify a single character
example: wom#n
Use the following query-submission form to search Alcuin for:
Carrie: A Virtual Library at the University of Kansas
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg via the Web
FTP Access
The On-line Books Page
If you are using Lynx, use either the
"search by
author" or
"search by
title" features of the
On-Line Books Pages.
When the page loads, press 's' and then type in a database
query, such as "irving, washington" or "letters from an american farmer"
(without, of course, the quotation marks!).
Hyperbooks: FTP archive
of complete works in the Mac HyperCard format from Dartmouth.
(URL ftp://ftp.dartmouth.edu/pub/Hyperbooks)
The Skeptic
Tank offers "Classic Books on Disk in ASCII format". A form allows
you to interactively choose from a wide variety of titles; once your form
inupt is submitted, the books will be delivered to you via email...
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created September 19, 1996
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