InteLex Corporation's Past Masters series encompasses the largest collection of full-text electronic editions in philosophy in the world.

Since 1989, InteLex has been publishing the Past Masters® series of full-text humanities databases focusing on the needs of the scholarly community in the human sciences. Significant published databases cover the history of political thought and theory, education, religious studies, economics, classics, history and philosophy of science, germanic studies and sociology.

InteLex collections are assembled and published in both original language and in English translation, using meticulous text conversion processes. InteLex acquires and develops definitive editions of the full corpora of the seminal figures of the human sciences, including published and unpublished works, articles and essays, and correspondence.

Since 2001, InteLex has been producing the largest collection of English Letters in electronic form, in conjunction with Oxford University Press and Pickering and Chatto. This collection encompasses the letters, correspondence, and in some instances the diaries and the notebooks of the most significant figures in English literature, letters, politics, the church and the arts.

InteLex recently announced the Women Writers collection, which includes not only the correspondence and journals, but also the primary works of important women writers in the English Language.

“In the world of scholarly electronic publishing, InteLex continues to get it right, as they have from the beginning: working closely with scholarly editors, selecting high-quality editions to digitize, marking them up carefully and well according to international standards... -all at reasonable prices. I recommend InteLex databases to libraries wholeheartedly, not only because they are superior publications and a good deal, but also because InteLex is the kind of electronic publisher that academic libraries need most in the 21st century."


“ InteLex's resources in philosophy and social thought have long been a mainstay of our collection at the Electronic Text Service. The company's selection of resources, careful text editing, and sensitivity to the budgetary constraints of academic institutions make them a model of what scholarly academic publishing in the electronic field should be”