Electronic Text Center

The Electronic Text Center (1992-2007), known to many as “Etext,” served the University community’s teaching and research needs in the areas of humanities text encoding for over fifteen years. Many of the resources once available on Etext are now available via VIRGObeta, soon to become the primary access point for all U.Va. Library digital texts and images.

In the course of migrating thousands of texts from Etext to VIRGObeta, it was determined that certain resources were not eligible for inclusion. Many of the texts that were not migrated can be found among other university online text collections, Google Books, Open Library, and Project Gutenberg.

Sites which offer downloadable ebooks include Project Gutenberg, and Manybooks.net. We regret any inconvenience this may cause you and we wish you the best with your research.