The Global Jewish Database (Hebrew Responsa Project) contains the complete text of the Tanach, Midrashim, Babylonian Talmud, Rashi to Babylonian Talmud, Rambam, and more than 250 books of rabbinical responsa spanning a period of over a thousand years.
The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG) is an attempt to publish in electronic form all extant Greek texts up through the 6th century A.D. Still in production, the TLG disk currently contains ca. 58 million words. Marked up in the non-standard Beta code, the TLG was originally designed to run a special computer called Ibycus. There are now packages allowing the disk to be run on PC's and Mac's as well as on Ibycus.
Packard Humanities Institute (PHI) The ETC currently has two PHI disks. Disk 5.3 includes all Latin literature through A.D. 200, and biblical texts in Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Coptic Armenian and Aramaic. Disk 6 contains Greek inscriptions and Greek documentary papyri. The PHI disks can be accessed on Ibycus or a PC.
The Patrologia Latina Database, a collection of texts assembled and edited by the nineteenth-century priest and publisher Jacques-Paul Migne, has long been the standard edition for many patristic theologians. Its 221 volumes contain over 1,000 ecclesiastical authors who span the millennium from A.D. 200 through 1216. A fundamental resource for scholars of theology, philosophy, history, literature and linguistics, it comprises both major and minor Latin authors.
The CD-ROM Patrologia Latina Database will convert this collection to electronic form. The current release comprises about 100 volumes including the works of authors such as John Chrysostom, Peter Damian, and Anselm of Canterbury. The database contains the entire published text, complete with its scholarly apparatus of notes, glosses, and indexes, as well as the standard collection numbers. The text has been encoded with the Standard General Markup Language (SGML) which permits highly detailed as well as general searching. Single-word, phrase, proximity, and Boolean searches are possible as are analyses of syntax and diction and studies of morphology and semantics.
The CETEDOC Library of Christian Latin Texts contains more modern editions of some of these influential writings as well as others not included in the Patrologia. This CD-ROM contains texts from the Corpus Christianorum, a monumental publishing enterprise undertaken in the 1950's by the Belgian Benedictine Abbey of Steenbrugge with the ambitious goal of creating a "new Migne." It aims to publish the standard patristic and medieval Christian texts in scholarly editions that meet exacting twentieth-century standards. Included in the database to date are all of the 250 volumes in the Corpus Christianorum subseries Series Latina and Continuatio Medievalis, the complete works of Augustine, Jerome, Gregory the Great, other authors such as Hildegard of Bingen and Raymond Lull, and documents from the Church councils from the fifth to the eighth centuries.
Late Medieval Liturgical Offices is both a printed reference source and a set of texts and tools in electronic form. The textbase includes over 1500 medieval Latin liturgical offices and software tools for their analysis.
Past Masters is the largest available collection of electronic texts in philosophy. It comprises English translations of standard philosophical works as well as numerous works written in English. This growing corpus now contains modern critical editions of the works of Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, English Philosophers, the Continental Rationalists, and classical economic, social, and political thinkers. These electronic texts should interest students of philosophy, theology, intellectual history, economics, and political science.
English Poetry: The English Poetry Full-Text Database includes poetry written between 600 and 1900 whose texts have been encoded consistently and published electronically on CD-ROM. The database which holds machine-readable texts of 1350 poets, makes possible projects of literary research and analysis that would otherwise be difficult or impossible to carry out. English Poetry can be used to display and read any poem or part of a poem, it can be searched for any word or phrase, and its indexes can be browsed to establish variant spellings. Among many possible applications, database users can now easily identify quotations, establish word occurrences and frequencies, and analyze verse structures and other patterns.
William Shakespeare: The Complete Works reproduces the texts of Oxford University Press's 1986 printed edition. Marked-up in Cocoa, this is a modern-spelling edition of Shakespeare designed to be used with the Micro-OCP software package. Macbeth by William Shakespeare is a multimedia product incorporating the text of the play, commentary, textual analysis, a concordance, and motion-picture clips from Orson Welles'and Roman Polanski's productions of Macbeth and Akira Kurosawa's Throne of Blood.
American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century combines the Library of America's two-volume collection, edited by Yale professor John Hollander, into a single anthology. In addition to the poetry, American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century contains sound recordings and photographs of many poets.
The Complete Works of Jane Austen, published by Oxford University Press, reproduces R. W. Chapman's Oxford Illustrated Edition of Austen's works. Marked-up in SGML, the current release of the Works does not include the Minor Works; these will appear at a future date.
Library of the Future, 2nd edition, contains over 2,000 works of fiction and non-fiction on one CD-ROM. The texts are either originally in English or are in English translation. Texts included range from Aeschylus to Lewis Carroll.
Letteratura Italiana Zanichelli (LIZ ), a compendium of Italian texts, contains over 360 works of Italian Literature ranging from the Laudes creaturarum of St. Francis of Assisi to Coscienza di Zeno by Italo Svevo.
The Complete Maus presents the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and supplementary material including sketches, audio interviews, and photographs.