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ÇOMU e-Books

 

It contains full text free e-books published by Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University. The archive is planned to include more than 100 e-books published at ÇOMU in the near future.

Project Gutenberg

 

It is a project carried out by volunteers to digitize, archive and distribute cultural artifacts.
Google Books

 

Books out of copyright can be viewed online and those in the public domain can be downloaded and saved.

HathiTrust

 

A shared repository of US research libraries containing over 10 million digital volumes. Not all are freely accessible, but over 2.5 million public domain digital works are available for download.

ipl2 (Internet Public Library)

 

45,000+ full-text works, novels and non-fiction online reference works. Collections are categorised by subject to facilitate browsing, but all collections can be browsed at the same time.

Online Books Page

 

A regularly updated list of 1 million e-books available for free online reading, updated by the University of Pennsylvania library.

Open Library

 

A project of the Internet Archive provides a record of 20 million books and access to 1.7 million scanned books. The search is limited to e-books only.

National Academies Press

 

Over 4000 titles from the US National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine and National Research Council are available for download. Free PDFs can only be used from the NAP site and remain subject to copyright laws.

InTech

 

Multidisciplinary open access publisher of more than 2000 books and journals covering Science, Technology and Medicine.

American Memory

 

This historical collection contains 1500 19th-century American e-books in various subject areas.

DOAB: Directory of Open Access Books

 

It includes 1265 academic peer-reviewed books from 35 publishers, including publications from several universities.

Making of America (Michigan University)

 

The digital library of American social history contains about 1600 digital books from the years 1850-1877.

Questia

 

Over 5000 classic and rare books can be read online for free.

University of California Press

 

Over 500 titles from UCP's Scholarship Editions are available for public use. These titles cover the arts, sciences, history, music, religion and fiction.

bookboon.com

 

1000 free e-books categorized by discipline.

bartleby

 

The full text of many classic literary works, including Shakespare.

Blake Archive

 

The archive includes electronic copies of William Blake's "illuminated books" as well as many of his paintings, drawings and manuscripts.

CARRIE

 

This full text electronic library, hosted by the European University Institute in Italy, contains digitised original documents as well as history ebooks.

Film Studies for Free

 

A list of available e-books on film studies.

From the Archives (Guggenheim)

 

This site from the Guggenheim has 65 free exhibition catalogues with exhibitions of artists such as Francis Bacon and Kandinsky, as well as movements and themes.

Gallica

 

Gallica is the digital library of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France and its partners. Online since 1997, it has added thousands of new items every week and now offers access to several million documents.

HSRC Press

 

South African open access publisher in the social sciences. The press publishes research data from the Human Sciences Research Council and externally written works. Many titles are free to download.

Literature Project

 

Collection of full-text books, poems, theatre plays and speeches.

Making of America (Cornell University)

 

The digital library of American social history contains 267 digital books from the 19th century, mostly focussed on series.

ManyBooks

 

Classic texts can be downloaded in various formats to cover different types of e-book readers. New titles are added regularly and an RSS is used for new additions.

Open Book Publishers

 

An independent academic publisher in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Most of the books are available for free online reading.

Page by Page Books

 

It enables the online reading of publicly available e-books and the presentation of web pages in a series.

Perseus Digital Library

 

A searchable and browsable e-book collection. Their largest collections are classics and 19th-century American studies. Other collections are Arabic, German and Renaissance material.

Society of Antiquities of Scotland

 

In addition to conference activities, this site provides access to out-of-print archaeological monograph series.

Botanicus

 

Portal for free access to historical botanical literature from the Missouri Botanical Garden Library. Currently contains over 1000 titles (books and journals) with recent additions available via RSS feed. Images are free for non-commercial use.

FreeBooks4Doctors

 

This site provides access to 360 free medical books.

NCBI Bookshelf

 

The library site of the National Centre for Biotechnology Information provides free access to books and documents on life sciences and health care.

O'Reilly Open Books Project

 

Collection of free e-books in computer science.

Chicago University Press free monthly ebook

 

It is a different e-book available free of charge every month from the University of Chicago Press.

Cornell University Library Historical Monographs Collection

 

A collection of monographs from different disciplines whose copyright has expired.

E-Books Directory

 

A growing list of e-books, documents and lecture notes available for free download. It is possible to search by subject and see current supplements or popular titles.

Adelaide

 

Collection of classical studies in literature, philosophy, science, religion and history.

Note: These are published as new editions, without any attempt to sort the print copies.

Global Text Project

 

A collection of e-textbooks in business, programming, education, health, science and social sciences.

Internet Archive Text Archive

 

It includes various novels, popular books, children's books, historical texts and academic books.

OAPEN Library (Open Access Publishing in European Networks)

 

It is an open-access library that can be used free of charge as PDF documents from European publishers and addresses many disciplines with 860+ titles in various languages. Within the scope of the OAPEN-UK JISC e-book project, there are 30 titles from UK publishers.

Ohio State University Press

 

It provides open access to a variety of scholarly texts, especially in the fields of literature and history.

University of Pittsburgh Press

 

The multi-disciplinary collections of over 750 monographs are available for open access.

Wikibooks

 

They are open-content textbooks for many disciplines that can be edited by anyone. Many books are incomplete. However, these quality books are recognised by the community as representing the highest quality of wikibooks.