Research Guides: Modern Languages: A Research Guide: Online Foreign Language Texts

Free online digital texts available in French

French Studies Web: Wess Web
French Studies Web is part of the Western European Studies section of the Association of College and Research Libraries. Provides annotated links to scholarly web resources.

The following are Internet sites that make available free, online French texts: Please note that some of the sites may require special computer software for complete and accurate character recognition/translations:

ARTFl Project: American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language
In 1957 the French government initiated the creation of a new dictionary of the French language, the Trésor de la Langue Française. This resource was of great interest to scholars all around the world and an effective method of providing access to the materials was needed. Out of this need was born the American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language (ARTFL) Project, established in 1981 by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and the University of Chicago.
Project Gutenberg: French
Full text works and books in the public domain.

Free online digital texts available in Chinese

The following are Internet sites that make available free, online Chinese texts: Please note that some of the sites may require special computer software for complete and accurate character recognition/translations:

Project Gutenberg: Chinese
Full text works and books in the public domain.
University of Pittsburgh's EAL Digital Collections & Projects in Chinese
The University Library System (ULS) at the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) established its Chinese collection in 1960 after Pitt was selected as one of the 20 National Defense Education Act centers for Chinese studies.Today, the EAL has become one of the most prominent East Asian collections and ranks 14th in North America.

Free online digital texts available in German

Project Gutenberg: German
Full-text books and works in the public domain
German Studies Web: Wess Web
Provides annotated links to scholarly web resources.

Free online digital texts available in Japanese

University of Virginia Library Japanese Text Initiative
The University of Virginia Library Electronic Text Center and the University of Pittsburgh East Asian Library are pleased to sponsor the Japanese Text Initiative, a collaborative effort to make texts of classical Japanese literature available on the World Wide Web.

The following are Internet sites that make available free, online Japanese texts: Please note that some of the sites may require special computer software for complete and accurate character recognition/translations:

East Asian Library, University of Pittsburgh: Japanese Collection
The Japanese collection ranks the 15th (as of June 2009) in North America with over 127,900 monographic volumes, 246 current serial titles, 2,941 microforms, 704 CD-ROMs, and 481 multi-media resources. The Japanese collection is strong in Japanese economic history, linguistics and pedagogy, medical history, modern literature, history and culture of Japanese movies, pre-modern history of art, and religion of pre-modern period. Accessible through digital collections and interlibrary loan.

Free online digital texts available in Spanish

Antologia del Ensayo

Many primary sources on hispanic literature and culture can be found at websites such as these:

Centro Virtual Cervantes
Project Gutenberg: Spanish
Full text works and books in the public domain.