Electronic Books
HUL's Choice Collection:
- Ebscohost eBook Collection - A collection of over 110,000 electronic books from top publishers.
- APA eBooks - Full text of American Psychological Association books.
- Springer Engineering eBook Collection - a collection of over 125 electronic books in the engineering discipline.
- Richard K. Miller Business Handbooks - market research reports in the fields of energy, healthcare, and consumer markets.
- Business Expert Press - concise ebooks covering specific areas of business, including supply & operations management, international business, social media, finance, accounting, public relations, and marketing strategy.
Recommended Publicly Available Sites:
(select a category)
See the Open-Access Resources Libguide for more information on some of the sources listed below.
General/Broad Spectrum
| Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts Texts of public domain or freely-distributed materials in English and American literature and western philosophy. Western Philosophy 400 BC to present, English literature 700 AD to present, and American literature 1700 AD to present. Image gallery and blog. |
| Bibliomania Texts of fiction, poetry, short stories, and drama; summaries, study guides, biographical information and links to research sites on the authors and works. |
| Digital General Collection (University of Michigan) |
| eBooks @Adelaide Texts of classic works of literature, philosophy, science, and history. |
| Google Books Search and preview millions of books from libraries and publishers worldwide using Google Book Search. Discover a new favorite or unearth an old classic. |
| Haithi Trust Over 5 million volumes from various large United States libraries. |
| ICDL - International Children's Digital Library Children's literature. |
| Internet Archive Includes many books which are no longer under copyright. Films and many other types of materials may also be accessed at this site. The books may also be accessed via the Internet Archives's Open Library site. |
| Nassau Digital Doorway ebook lending library for anyone possessing a library card for a public library in the nassau library system. |
| National Academy Press 4,000+ books, including newly published books. |
| Oxford Text Archive |
| Project Bartleby Extensive text collections of verse, fiction, and non-fiction, as well as reference sources and presidential inaugural addresses; international, but primarily American and British authors. |
| Project Gutenberg Texts of 25,000+ books, including many traditional and popular classics. 100,000+ titles are available at Project Gutenberg Partners, Affiliates and Resources |
| The On-Line Books Page Out-of-copyright or with-permission texts. Individual works, author collections, and runs of serials such as magazines, journals, and newspapers. 30,000+ texts covering virtually all disciplines Includes texts organized under ‘women writers,’ ‘banned books’ and ‘prize winners.’ |
Fiction
| Early American Fiction Publicly-accessible subset of restricted UVA site containing text of 158 volumes by 52 authors and 199 manuscript items and 124 non-text images covering the years 1789-1875. |
| Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction Text of both the 50-volume “5-foot shelf of books” and the 20-volume Shelf of Fiction by 30 authors from 7 nations; novels, romances, and short stories, biographical information, literary criticism and interpretation by known scholars. |
Folklore/Mythology
| Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts Texts of major authors such as Aesop and Hans Christian Andersen as well as extensive coverage of lesser known authors and works; links to online encyclopedias of folklore and fairytales, essays and analysis, etc. |
Foreign/Multiple Languages
| ATHENA: Books 10,000 e-text books served by a number of international e-text centers. Searchable by subject, nationality, full-text, etc.; links indicate the language the text is written in; typically several language versions are available. |
| Australian Literary and Historical Texts Literary and historical works from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries; fiction, non-fiction, and verse. |
| Celt Corpus of Electronic Texts Image and electronic text versions of classic Irish literature in Irish, Latin, Old Norse, Anglo-Norman French and English (with translations); fiction and non-fiction from the 13th century to the present. |
| Electronic Text collections in Western European Literature Texts in Catalan, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Irish, Italian, latin, Norwegian, Old Norse and Icelandic, Portuguese, Provencal, Spanish and Swedish. All works are in their original language, and include illuminated manuscripts, verse, prose, epics, and sagas. |
| MARABU: Mannheimer Texts Online (Mannheimer Reihe Altes Buch) Digital images of rare books and manuscripts from old Mannheim libraries. Texts are German works, or works in Latin by German authors; portrait galleries, emblem and fable books, maps, writings of and about learned women, sources of the Chinese Philosophical E-text Archive Chinese philosophical texts, including Pre-Qin, Song through Mid-Qing, and late Qing and Republic texts. Texts are in Chinese characters. |
| OAPEN Open source peer reviewed scholarly books from European countries. |
History
| American Memory Project 90+ collections covering virtually all disciplines; books, articles, pamphlets, letters, speeches, and other forms of written communication as well as visual images and audio recordings. |
| Documenting the American South Texts of contemporaneous books and manuscripts from pre-colonial through early 20th century periods. Collections include the Colonial and State Records of North Carolina, First Century of the First State, First-Person Narratives of the American South, Library of Southern Literature, North American Slave Narratives, the Southern Homefront 1861-1865 (diaries, personal correspondence, textbooks, sermons, pamphlets, Confederate government documents, business reports, hospital reports, etc.). |
| Harvard University Library Open Collections Project Historical materials from the Harvard collections that are often unique. |
| Internet History Sourcebooks Project Collections of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts. The three main sourcebooks are Ancient History, Medieval History, and Modern History. Subsidiary sourcebooks are African History, East Asian History, Global History, Indian History, Islamic History, Jewish History, History of Science, and Women’s History. It also contains an Online Guide to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans’ History. |
| Making of America Texts of primary sources in American social history from antebellum through reconstruction. The collection contains 10,000+ books and 50,000+ journal articles. Images of original documents; some have been transcribed into electronic text format. 99 volumes focus on New York City. |
| The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School: Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy Texts from pre-18th century to the present. Organized into Major Collections, with bibliographies. |
Medieval/Renaissance
| Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse Texts of Middle English prose and verse. |
| Luminarium Four collections: Medieval (Middle English 1350-1485), Renaissance (English Literature 1485-1603), Early 17th Century (1603-1660) and Restoration (1660-1785). Prose and verse, links to biographical information, essays and other resources; Portraits of the authors, and major works of art from the period. Also contains two special sections on Contemporary Women Writers and Irish Literature, Mythology, Folklore and Drama. |
| Renascence Editions: An Online Repository of Works Printed in English Between the Years 1477 and 1799. Texts of books, plays, essays, verse, and speeches from that time, including the complete works of Edmund Spenser. |
| The Online Medieval and Classical Library Texts of major medieval and classical works. |
Modern English
| Circles: Electronic Editions Texts of Romantic Period literature and culture; prose, verse, letters of that period, with scholarly commentary and essays, sound files, maps, etc. |
| University of Virginia Electronic Text Center – Modern English Collection Texts by and about African-Americans, Native Americans, women writers, Thomas Jefferson; texts about the American Civil War, texts for young readers, literature in translations, best sellers from 1900-1930, and UVA special collections. NOTE: Click on “Non-UVA users: search the publicly-accessible texts” link before browsing to restrict results to public access items. |
| Victorian Women Writers Project Texts by 19th century British women authors; anthologies, novels, political pamphlets, religious tracts, children’s books, poetry and verse drama. |
Poetry/Verse
| American Verse Project Text of American poetry volumes; primarily 19th century, but also 18th and 20th century. |
| British Women Romantic Poets 1789-1832 Text of volumes of verse and individual works by British women written between 1789 and 1832. |
| The Internet Poetry Archive. Texts of selected works from seven contemporary poets – Philip Levine, Seamus Heaney, Czelaw Milosz, Robert Pinsky, Yusef Komunyakaa, Margaret Walker and Richard Wilbur. Readings by the author can be downloaded for listening; also contains biographical information, bibliographies, questions for the reading audience and commentary. |
| The Milton Reading Room Almost the entirety of Milton’s verse and prose and aims to include all materials in the near future. Works are annotated, with phrases hyperlinked to explanations. |
| The Poets’ Corner Texts of 6700+ works, including medieval ballads, traditional ballads, popular songs of centuries past, interpretations of American Indian chants, sonnets, narratives; selections range from single quatrains to entire books. |
| Representative Poetry Online Text of hundreds of poems with hyperlinked indexes to works, glossary of poetic terms, poetry criticism, and a section on Canadian poetry. |
Science/Social Science
| ATHENA: Texts related to Science Science-related texts from a variety of e-text servers. Links indicate text language. |
| Classics in the History of Psychology Texts of hundreds of classic articles and books from psychology and relating to the history of psychology, special collections on specific topics in psychology, related documents at other sites, and a section for ‘Suggested Primary Source Reading Assignments for History of Psychology Courses.’ |
| Cogprints: Cognitive Science E-print Archive Full-text published book chapters, articles, papers on cognition from the fields of psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, computer science, philosophy and biology. |
| Marxist Internet Archive Texts include books, editorials, essays, organizational documents, etc. The site also has an “encyclopedia of Marxism”. Site and all texts can be accessed in over 45 languages. |
| The On-Line Books Page Out-of-copyright or with-permission texts. Individual works, author collections, and runs of serials such as magazines, journals, and newspapers. 30,000+ texts covering virtually all disciplines Includes texts organized under ‘women writers,’ ‘banned books’ and ‘prize winners.’ |
Single Titles/Authors
| Chambers Book of Days Digitized reprint of the original ‘Chamber’s Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the Calendar.’ This book was published in 1879, and gives historical information of note for each calendar day. |
| The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Texts of the complete works of William Shakespeare. |
| The Milton Reading Room Almost the entirety of Milton’s verse and prose and aims to include all materials in the near future. Works are annotated, with phrases hyperlinked to explanations. |
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