Last update: 29. April 2025

There are very many sources of texts, overviews, and libraries; this is only an annotated selection and does not claim to be complete.

• International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)
• The Oxford Text Archive at the University of Oxford, UK. It provides Thousands of texts in more than 25 languages.
• Corpus Resource Database (CoRD) at the University of Helsinki, Finland lists of lot of corpora, mostly for texts in English.
• The online book page offers list of text archives, also for Non-English languages sorted by languages
• Project Gutenberg gives access to 40.000 ebooks.
• Google books lets you search for books that are already scanned by Google.
• Literature online by ProQuest LLC over a third of a million full-text works of poetry, prose and drama in English, also in literary journals. It requires a registration.
• TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange (P3)
• Corpus Linguistics by Michael Barlow, last updated in 2006.
• Alex catalogue of electronic texts The Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts is a full-text indexed collection of classic American and English literature as well as Western philosophy in the public domain and written or translated into English.
• The British National Corpus is a 100 million word collection of samples of written and spoken language from a wide range of sources, designed to represent a wide cross-section of current British English, both spoken and written.
• The University of Virginia Electronic Scholar's Lab, former known as Text Centre at the University of Virgina provides a lot of texts, but most of them are restricted.
• On-Line Books by Author or by Title provided by the University of Pennsylvania.
• Free ebooks from classic literature to free contemporary ebooks.
• Full Text Archive provides texts in PDF format as a free download. Texts are out-of-copyright full texts of the world’s most-read books.
• Deutsches Film Institut in Frankfurt/Main, Germany, offers 80,000 publications on film history and theory, genres and motifs, film economy and technology, as well as film novels and published screenplays.
• German Bundestag (parliament) provides videos and their transcription and translation into English.
• Media Archive of Associated Press provides videos, images, and clips
• Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach (DLA) keeps several collection of german speaking authors, but you cannot access texts online.
• Deutsches Textarchiv (The German Text Archive) provides printed works in modern New High German Language, ranging from ca. 1600 to 1900. Images and electronic full-text are available online, the latter can be downloaded as HTML, XML, TCF or plain text.
• Medieval Nordic Text Archive (Menota) Menota can now offer almost 50 Medieval Nordic texts (around 1.8 million words), several of which are fully lemmatised. The majority of the texts are Old Icelandic or Old Norwegian, but there are also some Old Swedish texts. Old Danish texts as well as Latin ones (from the Nordic countries) are most welcome. A catalogue with full search facilities was opened on 29 June 2007.