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Parte del progetto di archiviazione digitale di facsimili del Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image (SCETI) della University of Pennsylvania Library presenta una piccola ma curata collezione di edizioni facsimilari digitalizzate di testi antichi e manoscritti dal 15esimo al 18esimo secolo riguardanti la filosofia, la magia, l'alchimia e la religione. Tra i testi digitalizzati lo 'Sceptical Chymist' (1661) di Robert Boyle, 'Disquisitions Relating to Matter and Spirit' (1777) di Joseph Priestley, 'Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God' (1706) di Samuel Clarke, il 'Theatricum Chemicum Britannicum' (1652) di Elias Ashmole.

Zembla is one of the finest Internet resources devoted to the Russian / American novelist and poet Vladimir Nabokov. It is organised by the library at Pennsylvania State University, and will be of interest to: students; enthusiasts; teachers; and researchers. Resources available here include: extensive biographical information on the author; excerpts from his work (including Nabokov's own readings from his poetry and his novel Pale Fale); detailed critical essays, bibliographies, creative writing based on Nabokov; and news on Nabokov mailing lists, conferences, summer schools, etc. The site also give information relating to the International Vladimir Nabokov Society and its publication 'The Nabokovian

END is a bibliographic database based on the Collection of British and American Fiction 1660-1830 held by the University of Pennsylvania's Rare Book & Manuscript Library. When completed, the database will include records of more than 3,000 novels and fictional narratives by canonical authors such as Daniel Defoe to Jane Austen as well as less well-known novelists like Mary Brunton and Mary Walker. Users will be able to perform both keyword and faceted searches across bibliographic records containing both edition-specific and copy-specific information about each novel.