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*Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg is the original free digital library of books no longer in copyright. So you'll find a great
many classic literary texts here. The full Gutenberg collection now exceeds 5,000 books. The whole
collection represents a monumental effort in unpaid, unselfish, labour since 1971.
The Project Gutenberg philosophy is to make information, books and other materials available to the
general public in forms a vast majority of computers, programs and people can easily read, use, quote,
and search.
Their books are usually in plain text (ASCII) format. However to improve the online reading experience you
can also use other reader software (check out our Software Page).
Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
A collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western
philosophy. You can search for and display texts from the collection & also search their content, & even
create on-the-fly PDFs for offline reading or printing.
arXiv e-Prints
Includes e-Print "preprints" in physics, mathematics, nonlinear sciences, and computer sciences. From
Cornell University with assistance from the National Science Foundation (USA), the National Institute for
Theoretical Physics (USA) and the University of Adelaide (Australia). Formats include PDF, PostScript, and
DVI.
Athena
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.
Bartleby.com
The Encyclopedia of World History and The Harvard Classics are among many free texts offered at this
award-winning site.
Bibliomania
Offers more than 2,000 free classic texts, plus research works. In HTML format, readable by your web
browser.
Bibliotheca Augustana
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).
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
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
but minus his poetry at present. The plays can be read either as a continuous text or by individual scenes.
New Cornell University Library Historical Monographs
Comprises 441 general monographs made available for online viewing as TIFF images, for personal or
research use only. Languages include English, Dutch, French, German, Latin, Portuguese & Spanish.
The Digital Library of the Commons (DLC)
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
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 (USA).
Digital Library of Information Science and Technology: dLIST
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.
Ebooks
Online Library 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. In very clear HTML
for online reading, this collection has been sourced from Project Gutenberg and prepared with special
attention to the needs for visually impaired and older readers. You can set the font size & colour, or
background colour, with just a click in the Settings panel.
Elfwood
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
Bit of a mind flip might be an exaggeration, but there is certainly nothing stodgy about this large &
contemporary collection of online intellectual texts & resources. Based at the University of Washington.
Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature
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
A useful links page with over eighty entries.
EuroDocs
Primary historical documents from Western Europe. Selected Transcriptions, Facsimiles and Translations.
Great Books Index
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
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
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
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". For questions about the online
texts collection, or how to search, please see their help page.
Kurt Stüber's Online Library
Historic and modern biology books 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
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
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)
Links to digital theses/dissertations available in Australia, Canada, many European nations, Hong Kong,
Taiwan & the USA.
Online Medieval and Classical Library
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
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 original
depositor.
Pennsylvania State University Electronic Classics Site: " The Labyrinth" PSU's e-books
are presented as .pdf files (Adobe's 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 Uni.
Perseus Project
A great classical digital library site, with Greek & Latin texts, commentaries, an atlas, coin images, art,
archaeology and more.
Project 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 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
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
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. NB: Downloading of e-documents
is possible only if it is permitted on the original archive.
Soil And Health Library
Free public library offering books on holistic agriculture, holistic health, self-sufficient living, and personal
development.
Universal Library (under development)
"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
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
"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
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.
Project Gutenberg is the original free digital library of books no longer in copyright. So you'll find a great
many classic literary texts here. The full Gutenberg collection now exceeds 5,000 books. The whole
collection represents a monumental effort in unpaid, unselfish, labour since 1971.
The Project Gutenberg philosophy is to make information, books and other materials available to the
general public in forms a vast majority of computers, programs and people can easily read, use, quote,
and search.
Their books are usually in plain text (ASCII) format. However to improve the online reading experience you
can also use other reader software (check out our Software Page).
Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
A collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western
philosophy. You can search for and display texts from the collection & also search their content, & even
create on-the-fly PDFs for offline reading or printing.
arXiv e-Prints
Includes e-Print "preprints" in physics, mathematics, nonlinear sciences, and computer sciences. From
Cornell University with assistance from the National Science Foundation (USA), the National Institute for
Theoretical Physics (USA) and the University of Adelaide (Australia). Formats include PDF, PostScript, and
DVI.
Athena
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.
Bartleby.com
The Encyclopedia of World History and The Harvard Classics are among many free texts offered at this
award-winning site.
Bibliomania
Offers more than 2,000 free classic texts, plus research works. In HTML format, readable by your web
browser.
Bibliotheca Augustana
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).
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
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
but minus his poetry at present. The plays can be read either as a continuous text or by individual scenes.
New Cornell University Library Historical Monographs
Comprises 441 general monographs made available for online viewing as TIFF images, for personal or
research use only. Languages include English, Dutch, French, German, Latin, Portuguese & Spanish.
The Digital Library of the Commons (DLC)
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
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 (USA).
Digital Library of Information Science and Technology: dLIST
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.
Ebooks
Online Library 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. In very clear HTML
for online reading, this collection has been sourced from Project Gutenberg and prepared with special
attention to the needs for visually impaired and older readers. You can set the font size & colour, or
background colour, with just a click in the Settings panel.
Elfwood
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
Bit of a mind flip might be an exaggeration, but there is certainly nothing stodgy about this large &
contemporary collection of online intellectual texts & resources. Based at the University of Washington.
Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature
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
A useful links page with over eighty entries.
EuroDocs
Primary historical documents from Western Europe. Selected Transcriptions, Facsimiles and Translations.
Great Books Index
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
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
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
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". For questions about the online
texts collection, or how to search, please see their help page.
Kurt Stüber's Online Library
Historic and modern biology books 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
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
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)
Links to digital theses/dissertations available in Australia, Canada, many European nations, Hong Kong,
Taiwan & the USA.
Online Medieval and Classical Library
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
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 original
depositor.
Pennsylvania State University Electronic Classics Site: " The Labyrinth" PSU's e-books
are presented as .pdf files (Adobe's 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 Uni.
Perseus Project
A great classical digital library site, with Greek & Latin texts, commentaries, an atlas, coin images, art,
archaeology and more.
Project 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 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
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
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. NB: Downloading of e-documents
is possible only if it is permitted on the original archive.
Soil And Health Library
Free public library offering books on holistic agriculture, holistic health, self-sufficient living, and personal
development.
Universal Library (under development)
"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
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
"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
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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