Text Collection:
Text Archives

There are several well-known electronic text archives on the net. Look at the following information and see which site will suit your needs. Go to a couple of sites and download at least three texts you are interested in.

Famous Text Archives:

(a) Mainly old literary texts (before 1920)

  The Oxford Text Archive
  (http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/)
  - multilingual archive

  Project Gutenberg
  (http://www.gutenberg.net/)
  - includes copyright-free government documents

  The On-Line Books Page
  (http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/)

(b) Newspapers

   Newsbank
  (http://infoweb.newsbank.com)
   - An extremely large repository of British tabloid and broadsheet newspapers.

  News Resources
  (http://www.newo.com)
  - Links to news resources around the world

  CNN Plus: Transcripts
  (http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/)
  - CNN news transcripts classified into several categories
  - "Interview & Debate" could be a good spoken resource

  The Guardian
  (http://www.guardian.co.uk)

(c) Movie, drama, TV scripts

  The Daily Script
  (http://www.dailyscript.com/)

  Drew’s Scripts-O-Rama
  (http://www.script-o-rama.com/table.shtml)
  - Links to hundreds of movie and TV scripts.
  - Format varies.
  - Could be good resources for teaching spoken English

(d) E-text center in the United States

  Directory of Electronic Text Centers in the U.S.
  (http://scc01.rutgers.edu/ceth/infosrv/ectrdir.html)

(e) Netnews, discussion lists
Use Outlook Express or Netscape to connect to the news server (news.lancs.ac.uk). You can subscribe to hundreds of newsgroups on various topics.

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Text Collection:
Text Archives