Perseus Digital Library at Tufts University

Digital library collections enable institutions like universities, museums and historical socieities to provide access to numerous documents and works for of literature in an electronic format with the ability to search the content.

The Perseus Project at Tufts is a digital library collection for the study of the humanities. In the 1980s, the project began as a place to gather text and visual materials on the Archaic and Classical Greek world. Now the Perseus project is developing partnerships with other institutions to expand the holding of the digital collection."...The classical foundation has paved the way for literary and historical collections ranging from the English Renaissance to the American Civil War, and Greek tools became a foundation for the development of resources in Latin, Italian, and Arabic..."Resources include: Greek and Latin Texts, Shakespeare folios, Early Modern English Literature, Text of the History of London including Atlases and works of Charles Dickens.

Taken from: Crane, Gregory R. (ed.) The Perseus Project, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/, September, 2008.