Electronic Book Collections

A collection of e-books across the entire range of the humanities.

Diaries, letters, and memoirs from over 2,000 authors, written before, during, and after the American Civil War. (Coverage: ranges from contemporary letters and diaries to those published many years after the Civil War).

Histories of cities and counties of the original thirteen states (with the exception of Virginia), plus Vermont and Maine. The collection includes more than 2,700 large volumes that have been manually rekeyed. It provides vivid portraits of people, places, and events—not just national figures, but local figures, demographics, social, economic, and cultural transformations.

Historical legislative and executive documents of Congress. (Coverage: 1789-1838)

An interactive, full-text eBook platform that features important works of scholarship in the history of art, architecture, decorative arts, design, and photography. Out-of-print titles and recent releases from academic and museum publishers, and peer-reviewed, born-digital content is also available.

The ARTFL Project is a consortium-based service that provides its members with access to North America's largest collection of digitized French resources. Along with ARTFL's flagship database ARTFL-FRANTEXT, ARTFL members are also given access to a variety of other subscriber databases. ARTFL also supports many Open Access databases. (Coverage:17th-20th centuries)

Integrated text and image content on world dress and fashion throughout history. Includes the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, an extensive E-Book collection, a large image bank, extra reference resources, and more.

Over 400 years of personal writings by women from England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. Shows the various shapes and formats of the diary as it evolved. Allows researchers to view history in the context of women’s thoughts—their struggles, achievements, passions, pursuits, and desires. (Complements Alexander Street’s North American Women’s Letters and Diaries.) (Coverage: 1500s - 1950)

Includes nearly every book, pamphlet, and broadside published in North America during the 17th and 18th centuries. The definitive resource for information about every aspect of life in 17th and 18th century America, from agriculture and auctions through foreign affairs, diplomacy, literature, music, religion, the Revolutionary War, temperance, witchcraft, and many other topics. (Coverage: 1639-1800)

Early work printed in the British Isles and North America, as well as works in English printed elsewhere. (Coverage: 1470-1700)

Provides authoritative, full-text e-books in a wide range of subject areas along with tools to find, use, and manage the information.

eBook titles representing a broad range of academic subjects. Titles are from a variety of publishers.

Digital images of thousands of books, pamphlets and broadsides published during the 18th c. (Coverage: 1701-1800) For the earlier period, see Early English Books Online.

Works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, as well as biographies, bibliographies and key secondary sources. Primary works represent a collection of thousands of works by influential authors as well as the works of lesser known or now forgotten literary figures. (Coverage: 8th century --)

The digital Loeb Classical Library extends the founding mission of James Loeb with an interconnected, fully searchable, growing virtual library of important Greek and Latin literature. Includes up-to-date and accurate English translations of hundreds of volumes of Latin and Greek texts.

Books, serials, political pamphlets, broadsides, government publications, proclamations and ephemera focusing on economics, political science, history, sociology, banking, finance, transportation and manufacturing.  Includes many rare titles and 1st editions in languages other than English. (Coverage: 1450-1945)

American and Canadian women’s diaries and correspondence, spanning more than 300 years. (Coverage: Colonial - 1950s)

A curated leisure reading collection of new and popular e-books and audiobooks. Your first step is to download the Libby app to your device. The Library's OverDrive Collection can be searched or browsed by logging into the app or searching DELCAT. 

Note: The OverDrive app was discontinued and replaced with Libby in May 2023.

Important primary source texts and translations in the history of philosophy and thought.

An integrated platform for books, journals, and other materials published by Springer, a major publisher of science and social sciences books and journals. The UD Library has acquired Springer eBooks in most subject areas. (Coverage: 2005 --)

Full-text of the most important dramatic works of 16th and 17th century Spain.

House and Senate Documents and Reports, constituting a rich set of primary source documents. Covers a variety of topics and may include reports of executive departments and independent organizations, reports of special investigations, etc. (Coverage: 1817-1994)

Database of the Women Writers Project (WWP), Northeastern University; a long-term research project devoted to early modern women’s writing and electronic text encoding. (Coverage: 1400-1850)