There are numerous online text archives of ancient and medieval material that are of particular interest to church historians, theologians, biblical scholars, archaeologists, and numerous other scholars. The following are those that have come to our attention. If there are additional sites to add to this listing, please

Many of these sites are working on the development of standards for electronic transmission and storage of documents. Issues that need to be addressed include: fonts and character sets; search engines; copyright, intellectual property and the academic exchange of information; and the location and format of permanent archives. If you are working on electronic texts, please give some consideration to these issues and the experiences of the researchers listed below.