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EBooks & Library Information

  • Arizona State University Library
  • ASU Library's On-Line Catalog
  • The Library of Congress — Search the nation's library without leaving your desk. Perfect for building book lists, but you'll have to take a D.C. detour if you want to really browse.
  • The Internet Public Library — Like a real public library, this site organizes books and reference collections into rooms and stacks. Click on the image maps for reference, youth, literature, and so on, and you'll find lots of useful links to searchable indexes and downloadable texts.
  • The ETEXT Archives — Tap into electronic texts all over the Internet, including the Gutenberg electronic-books archive and a plethora of independent electronic publications and magazines.
  • The English Server at CMU — "The EServer (based in the English Department at Carnegie Mellon University) has published writings and artwork to online readers since 1990. Today we offer over twenty thousand works, covering a wide range of interests."
  • Library of E-Texts — The Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia cites as its purpose: 1. building and maintaining an internet-accessible collection of texts and images; 2. building and maintaining a user community adept at the creation and use of these materials.
  • Banned Books On-Line — From Ulysses to Huckleberry Finn, this is the place to go to read books that somebody, somewhere, sometime, thought shouldn't be read by anyone.
  • The Online Books Page — Searchable indexes and links to online texts.
  • Electronic Texts — John Labovitz's comprehensive guide to nearly every e-text site.
  • Project Bartleby — site offers unlimited access to books and information available on the web.

Zines

  • E-Zine List — Although the site is no longering being maintained, John Labovitz's comprehensive guide to nearly every online publication is still worth a look.
  • Atlantic Monthly
  • Bad Subjects — a zine "intended to promote radical thinking and public education about the political implications of everyday life."
  • The Columbia Journalism Review — The online version of the School of Journalism at Columbia University's journal offers commentary on issues in print and electronic journalism. The site includes current and archived articles as well as a search feature.
  • Criticism.Com — journal addresses the problems of  viewing the Internet as a new form of mass media, and it's effects on other media forms, like television and print. The site emphasizes the 'sound bite' as a new arbiter of cultural taste.
  • Dissent — Dissent is a quarterly magazine of the left, focused on politics, culture, and economics.
  • Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture
  • HotWired — HotWired covers music, art, travel, and the like, but with a postmodern digital zing
  • Mother Jones — The online version of a key progressive magazine dedicated to challenging conventional wisdom and promoting positive social change
  • The Nation — This is the online version of an established weekly liberal magazine containing articles, book reviews, opinion pieces, and a search feature.
  • National Review Online —The online version of this conservative magazine offers opinions on national news, pieces by conservative columnists, book and movie reviews, interviews, and an "outrage du jour."
  • Net  Effects — weekly newsletter that submits the net  to ethical, social, political critique.
  • Perforations (journal of culture & technology)
  • The Progressive —The online version of this progressive (or liberal) magazine focuses on "peace and social justice, and offers analyses of current events, columns, and interviews.
  • Salon — Brought together by Apple, Adobe, and Borders Books, Salon presents coffee-table arts and culture reading for the Web
  • TIME Magazine and Time Daily News Summary
  • U.S.News Online (U.S. News & World Report)
  • The Utne Reader — Eric Utne's alternative-press magazine, investigating contemporary social, cultural, and political issues. Reprints articles from over 2,000 alternative media sources, and online. version of  the magazine also offers Cafe Utne for discussions and online conferences.
  • Wired  Magazine — This online magazine features articles about current issues in technology. Learn about the latest developments on the Internet and the makers of the "New Economy" and culture in the twenty-first century

©2005 Katherine Heenan

updated: August 13, 2009