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Adelaide University Electronic Texts Collection This
growing collection of e-texts - currently more than 700 - includes classic works
of Literature, Philosophy, Science, and Medicine. Their own web editions, in
HTML. http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/
ANU E-Print Repository From the Australian National
University in Canberra, ACT (Australian Capital Territory). Holding about 1,500
items at the beginning of 2004. Material from 1987 on is included. User
registration (there is no charge) is required for some parts of the site.
http://eprints.anu.edu.au/
Australian e-Humanities Gateway is an initiative of
the Australian e-Humanities Network, a group funded by the Australian Research
Council.The network includes representatives from the Australian Academy of the
Humanities, the University of Sydney and the University of Newcastle. A portal
for digital resources in humanities disciplines in Australia.
http://www.ehum.edu.au/
eprints unimelb
The embryonic University of Melbourne
eprint collection. The oldest item dates back to 1945. In order to access some
areas of the archive, you'll need a user registration (no charge). http://eprints.unimelb.edu.au/
eprints @UQ
The
University of Queensland's digital repository. Covers material created since
1983, although most dates from 1998 on. Includes e-books, e-chapters, online
journals, various articles, working papers, conference papers and proceedings,
posters, miscellaneous research output, and pre-publication (draft) material.
OAI-compliant, the repository includes research output of UQ academic staff and
postgraduate students, both before and after peer-reviewed publication. Formats
used are HTML, ASCII text, PDF & Postscript. http://eprint.uq.edu.au/
OZLIT Electronic Texts
Not a library as such,
rather an Australian portal to an array of free e-book resources. Includes a
limited number of Australian e-texts. Courtesy of the leading state portal
VicNet.
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~ozlit/chapt4.html
Project Gutenberg of Australia produces books in
electronic form and makes them freely available to the public in accordance with
Australian copyright law. NB: Under Australian copyright law, literary,
dramatic, & musical work published, performed, communicated, or recorded and
offered for sale in an author's lifetime are protected for the life of the
author plus fifty years from the end of the year of the author's death. After
this time they enter into the public domain. Some e-books available here may
still be under copyright in the United States (where local laws have several
times extended copyright to levels not accepted within Australian jurisdiction).
Such works are therefore not available from the US site of Project
Gutenberg.
http://gutenberg.net.au//
SETIS (The Scholarly Electronic Text and Image Service at
the University of Sydney Library) Regarded as the leading University digital
collection in Australia. Plans are under way to further enlarge the size &
scope of SETIS. Includes also the University of Sydney digital theses collection
(currently over eighty theses available).
NB: While you may access many texts from the Web, a large
number are commercially licensed and available only to users at the University
of Sydney.
http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au//
Best
free Digital Libraries - World
***** 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).
http://www.gutenberg.net/
Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts is 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.
http://www.infomotions.com/alex
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. http://www.arxiv.org/
NB: There are
mirror sites in Australia, Brazil, China, France, Germany, UK, India, Israel,
Italy, Japan, Korea, Russia, Spain, Taiwan, & USA.
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.
Expand your mind & education here.
http://un2sg4.unige.ch/athena/html/athome.html
Bartleby.com The Encyclopedia of World History and
The Harvard Classics are among many free texts offered at this award-winning
site. Many classic reference works are available here. http://www.bartleby.com/index.html
Bibliomania Offers more than 2,000 free classic
texts, plus research works. In HTML format, readable by your web browser.
http://www.bibliomania.com/
Bibliotheca Augustana A Latin e-library. Includes
Bibliothecae Latina, Graeca, Germanica, Anglica, Gallica, Italica, Hispanica,
Polonica et Russica. "Collectio textuum electronicorum. AppleMac et Netscape his
paginis optimum visum dant. Ave Gatem et Exploratorem! " (Optimised for
Netscape).
http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~harsch/a_index.html
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.
http://www.ucc.ie/celt
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. http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/
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. For reading online, in HTML.
http://the-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/works.html
New 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. http://dlc.dlib.indiana.edu/
New 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).
http://www.dlese.org/dds/index.jsp
New 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. http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/
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.
http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/
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. http://eserver.org/
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.
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/wess/etexts.html
Electronic Texts On The Internet A useful links
page with over eighty entries
http://www.refdesk.com/factelec.html
EuroDocs Primary historical documents from
Western Europe. Selected Transcriptions, Facsimiles and Translations.
http://library.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs
New 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. http://books.mirror.org/gb.home.html
New 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. http://www.grtbooks.com/
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.
http://classics.mit.edu/
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.
http://www.ipl.org/reading/books
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. http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html
Course
list at
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Global/all-courses.htm
National Academy Press Read over 2,500 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.
http://www.nap.edu/
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.http://www.theses.org//
Online Books Page This University of Pennsylvania
site offers access to more than 16,000 books online. http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books
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.
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/
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. http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/
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.
http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/jimspdf.htm
Perseus Project A great classical digital library
site, with Greek & Latin texts, commentaries, an atlas, coin images, art,
archaeology and more.http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/
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.http://www.hhhh.org/perseant/libellus
Project Madurai Tamil Digital Library under
preparation by voluntary effort. So far 160 works in Tamil script are available,
in TSCII (Tamil Script Code for Information Interchange) format. Old Tamil
classic works predominate so far.
http://www.tamil.net/projectmadurai/
Project Runeberg Project Runeberg publishes free
electronic editions of old Nordic literature on the Internet. Since 1992. More
than 200 titles, mostly in Swedish.
http://www.lysator.liu.se/runeberg
Soil And Health Library Free public library offering
books on holistic agriculture, holistic health, self-sufficient living, and
personal development. http://www.soilandhealth.org/
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. For more information about this far-reaching
initiative see:
http://www.ul.cs.cmu.edu/
University of Virginia Electronic Text Center has
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.
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/
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.
http://www.vlib.org//
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 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.
http://netlibrary.net/WorldHome.html
Other Free Australian Books
Australian Institute of Marine Science Reference
library This collection may be read in either HTML and/or PDF.
http://www.aims.gov.au/pages/reflib/reflib-00.html
Desert Wave Publishing Based in the Alice (Alice
Springs, Northern Territory of Australia for our overseas readers). Provides a
number of free PDF e-books in areas such as job search, training, online
learning, how to e-publish yourself.
http://www.dwave.com.au/
Free Books in
English
Abacci Books This unusual site makes
Project Gutenberg free e-book classics available for download together with
reviews of those books from Amazon.com. Includes links to buy a hard copy if
desired. Access books by author, title, category or most popular.
http://www.abacci.com/books/default.asp
Abacci eBooks Over a thousand free e-books
for the Pocket PC & the PC (LIT files formatted for Microsoft Reader).
Includes Amazon.com reviews. A selection of both classic & lesser-known
works, thanks to site owner Peter Shanks, who personally formatted many.
http://www.abacci.com/msreader/default.aspx
Alive & Free A page of links to some recent books
from living authors available free on-line. Warning: many controversial authors
& titles here.
http://www.c3f.com/alivfree.html
Baen Free Library Commercial bookstore offers free
e-books in HTML Ms Reader, Palm, Rocket & RTF formats. Registration
requested.
http://www.baen.com/library
Black Mask With a goodly range of free e-books, this
site also endears by offering six e-book formats and a special Australian
section.
http://www.blackmask.com/page.php?do=page
Bookrags have 1,500 classic titles available, for
Palm or other handheld devices. http://www.bookrags.com/ebooks.html
Ebooks4free Links to" free e-books and manuscripts,
historical documents & literature, religion & magik, audio readings and
much more.." Multilingual site - languages include English, Italian, French,
German, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Sanskrit, Hebrew, Latin. The inner search
engine actually translates into three languages: English Italian and
(surprisingly!) Latin. In plain text, RTF, HTML, downloadable as.zip files, or
as PDFs.
http://www.ebooks4free.net/
Elegant Solutions Software Company have a great free
e- book site, with books downloadable to your PC: Motto:" Ebooks for people who
think". Don't forget to check out Kate's page or the children's page there, for
wonderful classic tales for young & old. http://esspc-ebooks.com/default.htm
FlipBooks Books prepared to be read in the FlipViewer
(see Software Page). A highly visual format especially suitable for displaying
albums of images etc.
http://www.fliplibrary.com/
Franklin Free Library Thousands of free titles in
text and HTML file formats. Some titles are also available for purchase as
Franklin Reader formatted e-books.
http://www.franklin.com/freelibrary
Literature @ SunSITE Collection of digital literary
texts from famous, mostly U.S.authors. May be read online, printed, or
downloaded for further study.
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Literature/
Litrix Reading Room Features works of literature in
English, including classics, mystery, horror, sci-fi, westerns, Sherlock Holmes,
Americana. In HTML. For reading online, or save each chapter to read offline in
your web browser. Thanks to novelist Stan Jones of Anchorage, Alaska.
http://www.litrix.com/authors.htm
Lysator Free e-books Lysator is a lively academic
computer society & major e-publishing stalwart located at Linköping
University in Sweden. Here are a few miscellaneous e-texts they offer. http://www.lysator.liu.se/
Mary Jo's E-texts for the Palm Her selections include
the Oz Books, a number of classics in literature, & various fan fiction. All
files are zipped for easy downloading.
http://www.dogpatch.org/etext.html
Memoware have lots of free documents in a
multiplicity of categories and a variety of formats for Palms & other PDAs.
Award-winning site.
http://www.memoware.com/
MS (Microsoft) Reader (.lit) e- books: Over 1,500
available. You may search the listings by "author", "title" & "most popular"
headings.
http://www.mslit.com/default.asp?mjr=FRE
PalmPilot E-Text Ring 80+ sites featuring free or
for-purchase texts formatted for Palm readers.
http://www.pda-archives.com/pilot/10.htm
PDA Librarian Jill Thompson of Greencastle-Antrim
High School in Pennsylvania's site. Jill offers small but carefully-chosen
selections in the following categories: Outstanding Books for the College Bound;
Best Novels Written in the English Language; Downloads Available by Author;
Great Books For Teens; Political Documents. Also Educational Uses For PDAs, plus
other helpful information.http://user.pa.net/~thompson/
Phoenix Library Based on the Rocket eBook, but now
offering titles in several languages & a wide range of formats (Adobe,
Microsoft, MobiPocket & Franklin in addition to the Rocket/ REB reader
editions) http://www.phoenix-library.org/
Planet PDF Free eBooks area Recent asset for popular
classic novels in the PDF format.
http://www.planetpdf.com/mainpage.asp?webpageid=2311
Qvadis Library offers nearly 6,000 e-text titles in
32 categories, all free. All formatted for Palm OS devices. http://www.qvadis.com/exlibris/ebooks.html#library
Scorpius Digital Publishing have many free e-books
available at: http://scorpiusdigital.com/freebooks/index.html
Only in Microsoft Reader however.
StoneGarden Net Publishing Free or inexpensive
e-books in both fiction and nonfiction. In Microsoft Reader and Adobe PDF
formats. Registration (free) with this site is required.
http://www.stonegarden.net/
Tale Wins Marleen Roberts' site for authors &
readers.
http://www.talewins.com/
Webooks.com eLibrary Links to over 2,200 free e-books
in html, for reading online. In sixteen broad categories, also includes journals
& magazines.
http://www.web-books.com/cool/ebooks/Library.htm
NB: Many commercial e-bookstores also offer a number of
free e-books on their sites.
Free Books in Urdu
Full text Urdu
Books
Iqbal Cyber
Library
Free Audio books
Audiobooks for free
Many classics of
literature available, in 25 categories (including Adventure, Crime Mystery,
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Westerns, Thrillers, Martial Arts, Spy Stories,
Historical & Humour). Also a few non-fiction items. All as mp3 files.
However only files playing at 8 Kb/sec files are free. Requires registration,
& the supply of some personal information.
http://%20www.audiobooksforfree.com/
World-Other Languages, Regional and
National
NB: If characters in non-Roman fonts do not display, you
will need to configure your browser to read them by setting the Font/Encoding
Preferences.
African Digital Library
Addressing third world
information imbalance by offering free access to anyone living in Africa, this
netLibrary-supported initiative lives at:
http://AfricaEducation.org/adl
New Free Apache
e-books You can read these online in English, Apache, or in parallel
translation (for the latter two, download the Apache/Navajo font provided
onsite). Some tales have intriguing titles, such as
Coyote Misses Real
Rabbit, The Woman Who Had Horse Power and The Foolish People
Acquire Coffee. http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/apache/
Free Arabic e-books
UAE Yearbook 2002 in Arabic,
French & English. Also UAE: A New Perspective. Download each chapter
separately, in PDF.
http://www.uaeinteract.com/uaeint_misc/pdf/index.asp
Mega-links site for Arab literature & culture.
http://www.arabsites.com/links/Arts_and_Humanities
/Literature
New Free Belarusian
e-books at the Belarusian e-Library. Offers Belarusian literature in
Belarusian, plus some English, German & other translations.
http://knihi.com/
New Free Brasilian
e-books More than sixty free titles from 26 authors,
including José de Alencar, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis and Afonso Henrique da
Lima Barreto. All public domain books or with author permission. Available as
downloads for offline reading - formats include Word, PDF, RTF and some Palm
PDB. http://vbookstore.uol.com.br/nacional
New Some free
Brasilian Law e- books in Portuguese, plus the Constitution of Brasil in
English.
http://www.lifestylesbrazil.com/modules.php?op=
modload&name=Downloads&file=index
Free Chinese e-books Supplied by the New Threads
Chinese Cultural Society, this electronic library is
claimed to be the most
complete web archive available of Chinese classic texts.
http://www.xys.org/
http://www.dtnets.com/index.htm
Free Colombian e-books More than a dozen free
Colombian e-books are available in Spanish
from this site. Historical &
literary topics predominate. Formatted for the Adobe Reader.
http://www.epigrafe.com/
Free Croatian e-books
New Classics of Croatian
Literature. Major Croatian works up to the beginning of the 20th century,
variously as online text, RTF or PDF files.
http://www.ffzg.hr/infoz/dzs/popis.htm
Some
free works by contemporary Croatian writers, to read online.
http://www.elektronickeknjige.com/
Free Esperanto e-books eLibrejo. Over 270 books
(both original and translated) in Esperanto. For downloading in .pdf format.
(Use the Adobe Reader software). Subjects include fiction, poetry, theatre,
religion, classic & historic works, children's literature.
http://www.esperanto.nu/eLibrejo
Free Farsi e-books Non-fiction online in HTML across a range
of topics.
http://www.farsibooksonline.blogspot.com/
Free French e-books
Bibliothèque nationale de France (National Library of France).
"Sur les 30 millions de pages du fonds numérisé des imprimés de la Bibliothèque
nationale de France, dont un peu plus du tiers relève du XIXe siècle, Gallica
permet dès à présent d'accéder à quelques 2500 ouvrages numérisés en mode image,
complétés par UN extrait de la base " Frantext " du CNRS qui permet la
consultation de plus de 250 volumes saisis en mode texte." http://gallica.bnf.fr/
Bibliothèque Universelle (ABU). L'accès libre au texte
intégral d'oeuvres du domaine public francophone sur Internet depuis 1993.
http://abu.cnam.fr/
Bibliopolis. La bibliothèque des lettres : plus de 2000
ouvres (sciences humaines et littérature) en texte intégral sont consultables.
Grâce au logiciel Trevi, vous pourrez effectuer toutes les recherches possibles
sur les auteurs, les ,,,
http://www.bibliopolis.fr/
Le Château. Offers more than 100 electronic texts of
classical French literature. Offrant aussi Le Salon, rassemblant Des
sites traitants de textes et auteurs présents dans le Château.
http://www.le-chateau.ilias.com/
Social
sciences: many classic and contemporary Francophone social sciences books. In
Word, PDF and RTF formats. As of July 2004 the collection offers 954 original
works from 361 different authors . Thanks to sociology professor Jean-Marie
Tremblay, the University of Québec at Chicoutimi, & the Toulouse Academy of
France.
Social
sciences: many classic and contemporary Francophone social sciences books. In
Word, PDF and RTF formats. As of July 2004 the collection offers 954 original
works from 361 different authors . Thanks to sociology professor Jean-Marie
Tremblay, the University of Québec at Chicoutimi, & the Toulouse Academy of
France.
http://www.uqac.uquebec.ca/zone30/
Classiques_des_sciences_sociales
Free German e-books
This
free page of a German e-book store offers a few titles, mostly as PDF
files.
http://www.ebooks.at/freebie.html
Ten free German titles
http://www.dibi.de/cgi-bin/ebook.storefront
Free Hebrew e-books
Project Ben-Yehuda aims to make the public domain classics of Hebrew
literature freely accessible to Hebrew readers, as searchable HTML works. Note
the browser requirements indicated in
the FAQ.
http://benyehuda.org
Free Hungarian e-books Large list of free Magyar
elektronikus könyvtárak (Hungarian e-libraries) available at http://www.mek.iif.hu/porta/virtual/magyar/ekonyvt
Free Italian e-books
Antologia della Letteratura Italiana. Novels, poetry, plays &
other texts, both classic & contemporary. In HTML, for reading online.
Includes some Dante, Boccaccio, St Francis of Assisi, Alessandro Manzoni and
Enrico Maria Ferrari. An initiative of Riccardo Scateni.
http://www.crs4.it/HTML/Literature.html
Free e-books in Italian. Yes, cost is null, zero, niente.
Genres include novels, poetry, classics, plays, biographies, horror &
fantasy, &New Economy. In MS Reader format only.
http://www.ebookgratis.it//
The Manuzio Project, a free Italian online book site.
http://www.liberliber.it/home/index.asp
Ozoz.
Classic texts in Italian, English and Latin. Available as HTML (versione
ipertestuale); RTF (ideale
per la stampa dei libri); TXT (puro testo): &
for download zipped.
http://www.ozoz.it/cyberbooks.htm
Free Japanese e-books
Aozora
Bunko. More than 2000 works of copyright-free Japanese literature. Various
formats available, incl. HTML, download zips and Japanese e-book format.
http://www.aozora.gr.jp/
Free Korean e-books
Digital Han'gukhak. From the Academy of Korean Studies.
http://www.koreandb.net/
Kim Mun-gi's Classical Korean literature site.
http://bh.knu.ac.kr/~mkkim
Korean Poetry online
http://www.poet.co.kr/index.html
Free multilingual Literary e-books " E-books of
criticism, essays, poetry, dramas, translations in many languages which can be
downloaded, printed, read for free." In English, French, Portuguese, Romanian,
Serbo-Croatian & Spanish. Italian, Esperanto & Arabic also feature.
http://www.gallup.unm.edu/~smarandache/
eBooksLiterature.htm
Free Polish e-books
Polish
literature online, thanks to the University of Gdansk.
http://monika.univ.gda.pl/~literat/index.htm
Polska
Biblioteka Internetowa. Includes classic Polish literature among its
collections, and Polish translations of famous works from other nations. In
HTML.
http://www.pbi.edu.pl/
Free Portuguese e-books
Virtual Books. PDF
downloads of titles from a goodly range of authors.
http://virtualbooks.terra.com.br/freebook/
freebook_portugues1.htm
Projecto
Vercial has a few free books, for downloading as PDFs.
http://www.ipn.pt/literatura/
Free Russian e-books
Biblioteka Agava, more online goodies.
http://www.biblioteka.agava.ru/index.htm
Electronic
Publications Library. Works from Chekov, Gogol, Pushkin, Tolstoy and other
famous
Russian authors. For Reading online in HTML. All in Russian.
http://public-library.narod.ru/
Moshkov's Library. Hundreds of free e-books.
http://www.lib.ru/
Books in Russian formatted for Palm OS devices in .prc
format.
http://www.palmpc.ru//
Russian electronic environmental library.
http://www.ecoline.ru/books/index.htm
Russian SciFi & Fantasy books available online here, in
both Russian & English. Pioneering site, since 1996. http://www.rusf.ru/
Free Sanskrit e-books The Puranas (64), and Sanskrit Proverbs, are
available as downloadable
MS Word documents from this site. The Purana file
is zipped.
http://www.dharmicscriptures.org/literature.htm
Free Serbian e-books Projekat Rastko. Biblioteka
srpske kulture. The most popular e-library in Serbia and Montenegro. In
addition, some Serbian literature is offered in other languages including
English, German, French, Spanish, Romanian, Slovenian, Russian, &
Ukrainian.
http://www.rastko.org.yu/
Free Slovenian
e-books Slovenian texts - copyright-free classic Slovenian literature, with
a few
authorised modern items. Available to read online.
http://www.ijs.si/lit/leposl.html
Free Spanish e-books
Free literary unpublished
texts, especially in Spanish and Catalan.
http://www.badosa.com/
e-autores. Includes Latin American national sites. Audio
books also available.
http://www.e-autores.com/Free.htm
A small but careful selection of literature and useful
non-fiction in Spanish, for the PocketPC device, Smartphone or Windows PC
(Microsoft Reader format).
http://www.mipcdebolsillo.com/biblioteca
Free Swedish
e-books
eBoklagret Omnibus. More than 230 works
from 41 Swedish authors, as PDF downloads. http://www.omnibus.se/eBoklagret
Free Turkish e-books
Türk Öyküleri Sandigi.
From Texas Tech University, popular Turkish tales and other literature,
in
both Turkish and English versions. Download as PDFs for the Adobe Reader 5.0 or
above.
NB: for reading, study, or citation only.
http://aton.swco.ttu.edu/
Sufism & Science. MS Reader format.
http://www.ahmedbaki.com/turkce/ebooklar
(English versions also available at http://www.ahmedbaki.com/english/ebooks/,
with German to come).
Free Ukrainian
e-books The Electronic Library of Ukrainian Literature. Classic texts
of Ukrainian prose. Available in both HTML and PDF formats.Thanks to Prof. Maxim
Tarnawsky at the University of Toronto, Canada, various Ukrainian publishers and
other supporters.
http://www.utoronto.ca/elul/
Free USA e-books. USA Today's Open Book
program. Presented as a separate section on the newspaper's website, Open Book
runs original stories from well-known novelists and offers them free to all
visitors. http://www.openbook.usatoday.com/
Free Vietnamese e-books Vietnamese Literature
Electronic Library.
http://www.vhvn.com/
Free Welsh e-books
Llyfrgell Owen - a Library of Welsh Language Texts.
Works are presented In plain
text format. This fledging site lacks funding
and welcomes volunteers to enlarge it. Apêl yw hon felly am gydweithwyr,
cyfranogwyr a chyfranwyr.
http://llyfrgell.cymraeg.org/
Individual Topics/Miscellaneous
Alchemy e-books
The text is plain, but an amazing array of illustrations on this unusual site
more than compensate. Most works are in English, but six other languages are
also represented. A huge site, from alchemy authority Adam McLean.
http://www.levity.com/alchemy/home.html
British Women Romantic Poets
Project E-text
editions of poetry by British and Irish women written (not necessarily
published) between 1789 and 1832, a period traditionally known in English
literary history as the Romantic period. A digital initiative of the University
of California, Davis, from the Shields Library. Available in HTML &
SGML.
http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/BWRP
Children's/Young Adult Books
A variety of famous
classic titles.
http://www.bookspot.com/onlinebooks/childrens.htm
Comics
Free daily comic strips with back archives.
Related goodies for sale. They have Ginger Meggs!
http://www.comics.com/
Lots of e-freebies from DC.
http://www.dccomics.com/
Computing
Betabooks. Allows computing
professionals to view partial and sometimes complete text versions of selected
emerging technology titles online. Bet@Books viewing is free, & invites
comments and feedback.
http://books.mcgraw-hill.com/betabooks
Dan Preston's Infoheaven site offers his e-book "How
To Buy The Perfect Computer" free. For those who join his mailing list or
purchase books, other free items are available.
http://infoheaven.bravepages.com/DansEBOOK/PerfCPUindex.htm
Free Windows
Security e-books. Surprisingly, these individual chapters or entire books are dowloadable in .pdf format. You need to register to access them.
http://www.windowsitlibrary.com/ebooks
Realtime
Publishers offer some valuable free Windows titles in Microsoft .lit or Adobe
PDF formats.
("Real-time publishing" is the concept of posting a book as
chapters/volumes are written, making up-to-the
minute information available.
You need to register to read the books - registered users will be notified via
email when new chapters/volumes are added or existing content modified. Series
include The Definitive Guides (for technical professionals), The
Shortcut Guides (for the busy administrator and developer), and The
Savvy Consumer Guides for consumers.
http://cc.realtimepublishers.com/rtp.asp
Cooking
The USENET Cookbook Main dishes,
appetizers & snacks, bread/pasta, beverages, cookies or cakes, sauces,
salads, soups, deserts, vegetable dishes etc. Vegetarian alternatives offered.
Permission to copy without fee all or part of this material is granted provided
that the copies are not made or distributed for direct commercial advantage.
Copying is by permission of the USENET Community Trust or the original
contributor. {Copyright (c) 1987 USENET Community Trust}.
http://www.lysator.liu.se/etexts/recept/main.html
e-Cookbooks.net Some 18 free samples are available
from this commercial site, as pdfs for Adobe Acrobat Reader.
http://www.e-cookbooks.net/
Current Affairs
From prolific writer Shmuel (Sam) Vaknin:
lively, controversial musings on issues in economics, politics, the Balkans,
international affairs, history, psychology and more. Download as MS Word, RTF or
PDF files.
http://samvak.tripod.com/freebooks.html
E-book publishing This fledgling
e-publisher/bookstore also offers some free inspirational/New Age titles, free
covers for e-authors & a free e-book on drawing. In PDF at:
http://www.ebookpublishing.us/ebookcategories/free.htm
Electronics ee.com A free technical library and
professional community for electrical and electronics engineers. Contains over
5,600 documents in a variety of forms. Qualified contributions welcome. Resource
areas include aerospace, analogue and digital design, biomedical technology,
computer engineering, consumer electronics, digital signal processing, dsp,
electric power, microprocessors, nanotechnology, magnetic & electro physics,
jobs, meeting, business, research and development, semiconductors,
telecommunication, vlsi. In PDF & PostScript. Members need to register, but
visitors are also welcomed.
http://www.electronics-ee.com/
English literature and Classics
Elibron.Over two hundred titles, in PDF format, also
versions for PC/Mac or for Palm, Visor & PocketPC. Free, with paperback
versions also available for purchase.
http://www.elibron.com/english/lists/free_ebook.phtml
Literature Post. A collection of classic books, plays,
stories and poems for online reading. Nearly seventy
authors are represented.
In plain text.
http://www.literaturepost.com/
Virtual Imprint. A select catalogue of free original and classic fiction.
Available for download in MS Reader, Adobe Reader ( PDF), or to read online in
your Web browser (in their Virtual Imprint WebBook format - a simple but
bookmarkable double page layout. IE 5+ recommended). Their home page also offers
an array of purchasable services for bibliophiles.
http://www.virtualimprint.com/catalog.shtmll
A
number of famous Irish literary works available free to download as text or RTF
files, also some HTML short stories to read online. Yes, all of the following
famous "English" authors were actually Irish - George
Bernard Shaw, Bram
Stoker (author of Dracula), Jonathan Swift, J.M.Synge, Oscar Wilde.
http://www.ireland-information.com/irishliterature.htm
Brennan Emerson's works. Fiction and philosophy as novel, short story or poetry,
plus the author's autobiography. Three books available for online reading;
downloads are as zipped plain text files.
http://www.geocities.com/kingmarcine
General Reference
AllRefer.com
Provides a free encyclopedia
(Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, from the Columbia University Press) &
gazetteer, medical encyclopedia & other valuable reference resources.
Thousands of articles available here in HTML, with useful links to related
topics.
http://www.allrefer.com/
Mathematics
The Electronic Library of Mathematics
contains free online journals, article collections, and monographs in the field
of mathematics. View on-line or download as .pdfs for offline use.
http://www.emis.de/ELibEMS.html
Collection of more than thirty e-books. Mostly in English,
with some in French, Romanian, Russian. As .pdfs for Adobe Acrobat Reader.
http://www.gallup.unm.edu/~smarandache/eBooks-otherformats.htm#E-Books%20of%20Mathematics
Medicine
Site dedicated to the promotion of free
access to medical books over the Internet. 550+ books to read online in English,
French, German & Spanish, plus a few titles in Catalan, Italian, Portuguese,
Norwegian, Romanian, Russian & Turkish. http://freebooks4doctors.com
Handhelds for Doctors. Read the text free. A paperback
version is also available for purchase.
http://www.handheldsfordoctors.com/book/text/index.htm
National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
Bookshelf. A collection of searchable biomedical books for the Web.
Illustrated, in HTML. Medical issues covered include asthma, cancer, high blood
pressure, obesity, & retroviruses. There are also more general works on
topics including the Cell, Developmental Biology, Glycobiology, Genes and
Disease, Immunobiology and Neurochemistry.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=Books
Medical
Dictionary Online "A free online medical dictionary search engine for
definitions of medical terminology, pharmaceutical drugs, healthcare equipment,
health conditions, medical devices, specialty terms and medical abbreviations."
Note that definitions are brief, and should only be considered as a launching
pad
for further research.
http://www.online-medical-dictionary.org/
Military/History
Hermilitary.com offer a selection
of historical, military & literary titles as .pdf downloads to read offline.
These range from Sun Tzu's "The Art of War" to Tolstoy's "War & Peace",
& Stephen Crane's "The Red Badge of Courage". Also offer the famous" CIA
World Factbook", adult classic fiction & classic children's books too. The
site also supplies Flipbrowser as a download, so you can view their featured
books online in an enhanced format.
http://www.hermilitary.com/bookclub/ebook.htm
Philosophy
New The Internet
Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Alphabetical and searchable. A voluntary academic
effort.
http://www.utm.edu/research/iep//
Poetry Many traditional poems, plus lyrics of
traditional songs. To read online, or download as zipped files to your PC.
http://www.indbazaar.com/soulkurry/books.asp?cat=14
Science The Public Library of Science is provided by
"a non-profit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the
world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource".
PLoS will publish its own journals. So far there is PLoS Biology (a
monthly, launched October 2003, both online and in print). PLoS Medicine
is to follow during 2004. Formats used are HTML & PDF.
http://www.plos.org/
Science Fiction/Fantasy & Horror
Online since
August 1997, UK-based Infinity Plus publishes some original fiction, but
mostly republishes those short stories & other shorter works you're always
trying to find again. With extra input from many writers that you may not see
anywhere else. As such, this wonderful archive is a boon to devotees. Online in
HTML, or you can save them ('Save as...') to read off-line. However please
remember they remain copyright for all purposes other than simple reading.
http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/index.htm
SF/Fantasy e-books & assistance for the physically
impaired. ReadAssist is an organization of Science Fiction and Fantasy
fans with an easy-to-use site streamlined to assist those with physical
disabilities. They provide links to sources of both free and purchasable written
and audio e-books, in those genres. Further links are to software & hardware
of use to those with impaired mobility or vision.
http://www.readassist.org/
Gormglaith, by Heidi Wyss. 76,000 words of radical feminist separatist
literature set in what is claimed to be a scientifically plausible future.
Aesthetically presented for online reading.
http://www.literateweb.com/wyss.htm
Technical Reports Online
"The Virtual Technical
Reports Center". Links to technical reports, preprints, reprints, dissertations,
theses, and research reports of all kinds, as either full-text reports or
searchable extended abstracts
http://www.e-book.com.au/<font%20face="Arial">http://
www.lib.umd.edu/ENGIN/TechReports/Virtual-TechReports.html
Travel Universal Currency Converter, in free e-book
format. With useful travel/tourist info. about
Australia/Victoria/Melbourne.
http://www.vicds.com.au/currency_comparer.htm
IIT - Information Interactive Technology This
Netherlands-based site offers some classic e -books include Wodehouse humour,
Sherlock Holmes and a serious essay About Violence and Democracy. There
are also mini travel guides for all European countries. In PDF, use the Adobe
Reader. Patience may be required; this site is slow to download for modem
users.
http://www.ebookseguides.com/
U.S. Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution, all
Amendments, the Monroe Doctrine, the Emancipation Proclamation & the
Gettysburg Address. Fully indexed. Available free as a downloadable zip file
(requires a zip utility to decompress). Download the FREEDOM.ZIP (40kb), from
R.E. Harvey, at:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/r_harvey
U.S. Rightwing Christian Fundamentalism The
Institute for Christian Economics is a Texas-based, U.S. Christian
fundamentalist site. Many "bible-based" religious & social titles are
offered, plus a substantial foray into conservative and pro-free market
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