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  • Ebooks Online Library
    http://www.readasily.com/
    Around a dozen authors ranging from Aesop to Sun Tzu, with huge representation of Charles Dickens & Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, plus a goodly measure of Jules Verne & Mark Twain. This collection has been sourced from Project Gutenberg and prepared with special attention to the needs of visually impaired and older readers for online reading. You can set the font size & color, or background color, with just a click in the Settings panel.

  • Project Gutenberg
    http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
    Free public access to over 5000 classic public domain texts and references.

  • Bartleby.com
    http://www.bartleby.com/index.html
    Many classic reference works are available at this award-winning site, including the Encyclopedia of World History and The Harvard Classics.

  • Text Archive
    http://www.archive.org/details/texts
    Access to many different collections including Project Gutenberg, children's books, books from American and Canadian libraries, and specialty topics. Provided by the Internet Archive - don't miss this one!

  • The Open Library
    http://openlibrary.org/
    Creating free web access to important book collections from around the world.

  • E-Text Center
    http://etext.virginia.edu/ebooks/
    Over 2100 publicly-available ebooks from the University of Virginia.

  • Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
    http://www.infomotions.com/alex
    A collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy.

  • arXiv e-Prints
    http://www.arxiv.org
    Includes e-Print "preprints" in physics, mathematics, nonlinear sciences, and computer sciences, from Cornell University.

  • Athena
    http://un2sg4.unige.ch/athena/html/athome.html
    Thousands of mainly French and Swiss-authored e-texts, across a broad range of especially Literature, Science & the Arts. In .html &. rtf versions. Also many links to famous works in German, Dutch & English too. Prepared or linked for the Web by the University of Geneva. Expand your mind & education here.

  • Bibliomania
    http://www.bibliomania.com
    Offers more than 2,000 free classic texts, plus research works. In HTML format, readable by your web browser.

  • Bibliotheca Augustana
    http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~harsch/a_index.html
    A Latin e-library. Includes Bibliothecae Latina, Graeca, Anglica, Gallica, Germanica, Hispanica, Italica, Iiddica, Lusitana, Polonica et Russica.  Collectio textuum electronicorum. Hae paginae proponent Musa adiuvante in lingua Latina - facta et ficta.

  • CELT (Corpus of Electronic Texts).
    http://www.ucc.ie/celt
    Irish literary, historical & cultural texts, in Irish, Latin, Anglo-Norman French, and English. Presented in HTML, with a searchable online database. An initiative of University College, Cork, Republic of Ireland.

  • CogPrints
    http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk
    Cognitive Sciences Eprint* Archive - Includes a wide variety of papers in psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, philosophy, biology, medicine, anthropology and computer science. Material dates back as far as 1950, although most of it dates since 1990. Some areas of the archive require registration, to obtain a username and password. *Eprints here are defined as the digital texts of peer-reviewed research articles, before and after refereeing. Before refereeing and publication, the draft is called a "preprint." The refereed, published final draft is called a "postprint." Eprints may include both preprints and postprints, as well as any significant drafts in between, and any post publication updates.

  • Complete Works of William Shakespeare
    http://the-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/works.html
    Minus his poetry at present. The plays can be read either as a continuous text or by individual scenes. For reading online, in HTML.

  • The Digital Library of the Commons (DLC)
    http://dlc.dlib.indiana.edu
    An archive of international literature on "the commons" (i.e. that which is held in common or by a community).  Many useful features for both readers and contributing authors. A full-text Digital Library, a Working Paper Archive of author-submitted papers, and links to relevant references are included. Thanks to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the International Association for the Study of Common Property (IASCP) & the Indiana University Graduate School. As Adobe PDF files.

  • Digital Library for Earth System Education: DLESE
     http://www.dlese.org/dds/index.jsp
    Over 5,000 searchable educational resources. Items are also organized into themes or collections, broadly as environmental, geographical, geological, oceanographical and other physical sciences; space science and technology; policy and educational issues and the philosophy of science. Resources are not archived on site but in a variety of collaborating collections. Funded by the National Science Foundation.

  • Digital Library of Information Science and Technology: dLIST - http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/
    A repository of electronic resources in Library and Information Science (LIS) and Information Technology (IT). Contains published and unpublished papers, data sets instructional and help materials, pathfinder , reports & bibliographies. So far in English only. User registration required to access some areas. In HTML or PDF.

  • Elfwood 
    http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se
    Elfwood is a huge, non-profit home to amateur Fantasy/Sci-Fi literature and art, plus some How -To Guides. The site holds over twenty thousand works of art & literature by over fifteen hundred Science Fiction/Fantasy artists and writers.

  • The E Server  
    http://eserver.org
    Large & contemporary collection of online intellectual texts & resources, based at the University of Washington.

  • Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature 
    http://www.lib.virginia.edu/wess/etexts.html
    Links site for literary texts in Western European languages other than English. Languages include Catalan, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Irish, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish & Swedish.

  • Electronic Texts On The Internet 
    http://www.refdesk.com/factelec.html
    A useful links page with over eighty entries.

  • EuroDocs  
     http://eurodocs.lib.byu.edu
    Primary historical documents from Western Europe. Selected Transcriptions, Facsimiles and Translations.

  • Great Books Index  
    http://books.mirror.org/gb.home.html
    From Aeschylus to Virginia Woolf - links to online works, in English translation, by more than 130 classic authors. Please check for any copyright restrictions (which may in a few cases apply for other than reading online). A redoubtable effort from Ken Roberts of Ontario, Canada.

  • Great Books and Classics
    http://www.grtbooks.com
    Provides free HTML online versions of many famous authors from before 200 BC to the 20th Century. Linked with Amazon.com for commercial print offerings of the titles.

  • Internet Classics Archive
    http://classics.mit.edu
    More than 440 mainly Greco-Roman texts, with some Chinese and Persian. By 59 different authors. In English translation. For online reading, some downloads available.

  • Internet Public Library
    http://www.ipl.org/reading/books
    Over 20,000 free books available online. The Internet Public Library's Mission Statement says: " The Internet Public Library (IPL), is a public service organization and learning/teaching environment at the University of Michigan School of Information. The IPL Online Texts Collection contains over 20,000 titles that can be browsed by author, by title, or by Dewey Decimal Classification."

  • Kurt Stüber's Online Library - historic and modern biology books
    http://www.zum.de/stueber/
    Large library of books on biological subjects, many currently out of print and hard to obtain. Mostly German authors, but luminaries such as Charles Darwin are also present. In German, with some English and French (a few works are old enough to be in Latin). Online in text chapters or as individual scanned pages. Browse the collection by author, title, category or publication date.

  • MIT OpenCourseWare
    http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html  
    The first stage of an ambitious & generous plan to make all Massachusetts Institute of Technology course materials available on the Internet, for free download. Materials for 500 courses have been accessible since the end of September 2003. Materials are in English, but a number are also available in Spanish & Portuguese. Presented in HTML. However courses may include Adobe Acrobat PDF files, Java Applets, Shockwave, Real Player, Java, and MATLAB files (software for all of these may be downloaded from the site's Technical Requirements page). This so far unique gift is made possible by MIT with support from the William and Flora Hewlett & Andrew W. Mellon Foundations. Course list at     http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Global/all-courses.htm

  • National Academy Press
    http://www.nap.edu
    Read over 3,000 National Academy science, engineering, and health texts free online. You can also purchase print copies if you wish. These e-books represent the cream of U.S. research & policy opinion in these fields. Texts are presented in a fully-searchable "Open Book" format, which also allows for page browsing & internal links. Open Book" is HTML, & moreover the format is prepared so that you can send people an individual page reference as an URL. PDFs are also available. The U.S. National Academy of Sciences provides this site.

  • Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) - http://www.ndltd.org/
    Links to digital theses/dissertations available in Australia, Canada, many European nations, Hong Kong, Taiwan & the USA.

  • Online Books Page
     http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books
    This University of Pennsylvania site offers access to more than 16,000 books online. Plain presentation but well worth browsing.

  • Online Medieval and Classical Library
    http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL
    From The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle to Yvain, or The Knight With the Lion, & including such works as: The Lay of the Cid, The Song of Roland, the Nibelungenlied, Orlando Furioso, the High History of the Holy Graal, many Icelandic sagas, some Chaucer & much else besides. In HTML for reading online, or download in PKZIP v.2.04g compressed format. Thanks to Douglas B. Killings, Sun Systems & the University of California at Berkeley.

  • Oxford Text Archive
    http://ota.ahds.ac.uk
    From Oxford University, this archive was founded in 1976. High-quality, well-documented electronic texts for research and teaching. More than 2,500 resources in over 25 different languages. A premium academic resource. Public domain texts are freely available from the on-line catalogue and may be downloaded in a number of different formats. Some texts require the user to obtain the written permission of the origina    l.

  • Pennsylvania State University Electronic Classics Site: " The Labyrinth"
    http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/jimspdf.htm
    PSU's e-books are presented as .pdf files (Adobe Portable Document Format). Read them with the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Established in 1997, the site offers many classical works of literature in English, plus original works published by Penn State.

  • Perseus Project
    http://www.perseus.tufts.edu
    A great classical digital library site, with Greek & Latin texts, commentaries, an atlas, coin images, art, archaeology and more.

  • Project Libellus
    http://www.hhhh.org/perseant/libellus
    The University of Washington, Seattle, provides this library of Latin texts, readable in your web browser. In HTML & TeX (a subset of ASCII). Thirteen classical Latin authors represented.

  • Project Madurai
     http://www.tamil.net/projectmadurai
    Tamil Digital Library under preparation by voluntary effort. So far over 240 works in Tamil script are available, in TSCII (Tamil Script Code for Information Interchange) format. Old Tamil classic works predominate so far.

  • Project Runeberg  http://www.lysator.liu.se/runeberg
    Project Runeberg publishes free electronic editions of old Nordic literature on the Internet. Since 1992. More than 300 titles, mostly in Swedish, Norwegian, Danish & Icelandic.

  • SAIL-eprints
    http://eprints.bo.cnr.it/
    Find scientific or technical documents, published or unpublished, in Chemistry, Physics, Engineering, Materials Sciences, Nanotechnologies, Microelectronics, Computer Sciences, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Earth Sciences, Meteorology, Oceanography Agriculture and related application activities. SAIL enables searching over 70 institutional open access archives around the world.

  • Soil And Health Library http://www.soilandhealth.orgFree public library offering books on holistic agriculture, holistic health, self-sufficient living, and personal development.

  • Universal Library (under development)
    http://www.ul.cs.cmu.edu
    "The principal benefit of the Universal Library will be to supplement the formal education system by making knowledge available to anyone who can read and has access." A project of Carnegie Mellon University & the governments of China & India - much of the scanning will be done in the latter two countries. The million books project will have considerable content in many Indian and Chinese languages, as well as English.

  • University of Virginia Electronic Text Center
    http://etext.lib.virginia.edu
    More than 10,000 publicly accessible texts in thirteen languages (& over 164,000 publicly available images). These texts are available to web browsers, but in addition there are 2,000 + e-books available (in English) for MS Reader & Palm Reader.

  • Virtual Library
    http://www.vlib.org
    "The Virtual Library is the oldest catalog of the web, started by Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of html and the Web itself. Unlike commercial catalogs, it is run by a loose confederation of volunteers, who compile pages of key links for particular areas in which they are expert…" Fourteen primary categories to check out, or use the search engine.

  • World eBook Library
    http://netlibrary.net/WorldHome.html
    Opportunities to read or download thousands of HTML books online. Provides free, unlimited public access to a comprehensive collection of public domain texts & references, and links to thousand of on-line libraries around the world via the World Wide Web and/or Telnet. For a small annual fee, also offers access to over 60,000 PDF e-books and e-documents, plus 7,000 mp3 audio books. From the World Electronic Text Library Foundation, based in Honolulu, Hawaii.

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