About the Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts

The Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts is collection of full text content designed to facilitate and support a person's ongoing liberal arts education by providing the means to access, read, and analyze sets of digitized books, journal articles loosly surrounding the topics of American literature, English literature, and Western philosophy.

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• Alex Lite - A tiny, standards-compliant, and portable catalogue of electronic texts (download)
• Alex, the movie! - A dated but still rather valid description of the Catalogue
• Automatic metadata generation - An overview of how the subject tags were created
• Browsing - Briefly outlines how to access the Catalogue without searching
• Collection policy - Describes more specifically what the Catalogue contains
• How to make a book - Describes how to print Catalogue items and thermo-bind them
• Indexing and searching the Alex Catalogue - Some about the Catalogue's underlying infrastructure
• Lingua::EN::Bigram - Locally developed Perl module used to extract statistically significant two-word phrases