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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
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/
***** 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
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
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
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 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
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
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/OMACL
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 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
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/
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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
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
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
Lysator Free e-books Lysator is a lively academic computer society & major e-
publishing stalwart located at Link?ping University in Sweden. Here are a few
miscellaneous e-texts they offer.
http://www.lysator.liu.se/etexts
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
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
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
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.
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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
New Free Brasilian e-books More than sixty free titles from 26 authors, including
Jos�� 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/mod...oads&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 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
New Free Farsi e-books Non-fiction online in HTML across a range of topics.
http://www.farsibooksonline.blogspot.com
Le Chateau. Offers more than 100 electronic texts of classical French literature.
Offrant aussi Le Salon, rassemblant Des sites traitants de textes et auteurs
pr��sents dans le Chateau.
http://www.le-chateau.ilias.com
New 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 Qu��bec at Chicoutimi, & the Toulouse Academy of
France.
http://www.uqac.uquebec.ca/zone30/C...iences_sociales
New 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 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/
New 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
New 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 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/~smaranda...sLiterature.htm
New 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
New Projecto Vercial has a few free books, for downloading as PDFs.
http://www.ipn.pt/literatura
New 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