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| Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts |
A collection of freely available electronic books, including items from American literature, English literature, and Western philosophy. |
| Amazon Search Inside the Book |
Amazon's Search Inside the Book feature allows you to search and access selected full-text from over 120,000 titles. More than 190 publishers are participating including Wiley, Time Warner Book Group, Simon & Schuster, Inc., Random House, Inc., Publishers Group West, Incorporated, McGraw-Hill Professional, Holtzbrinck Publishers and HarperCollins Publishers.
Run a search and click on the book title of interest. If Look Inside or Search Inside appears above the image of the book cover, click on the book cover. On the next screen, under the book cover, you should see either Search Inside This Book or Look Inside This Book. Click on this in order to locate the exact pages within the book that contain your keyword. You'll need to register with Amazon in order to access the full text.
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| American Hypertexts |
Online texts of American literature, including Crevecoeur, de Tocqueville, Henry Adams, Mark Twain and more. |
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| CELT - Corpus of Electronic Texts |
"Brings the wealth of Irish literary and historical culture to the Internet, for the use and benefit of everyone worldwide. It has a searchable online database consisting of contemporary and historical texts from many areas, including literature and the other arts." |
| ClassicBookshelf.com |
| Provides free full-text access to classic fiction, including Jane Austen, Cervantes, Dostoevsky, D H Lawrence and Bram Stoker. |
| Complete Works of William Shakespeare |
| Established 1993, this site provides access to the complete set of Shakespeare's plays and poetry. |
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| Documenting the American South |
| "A collection of sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century. As of September 1, 2002, DAS includes [full-text] 1,168 books and manuscripts." Developed and maintained by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
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| Humanities Text Initiative |
The Humanities Text Initiative, a unit of the University of Michigan's Digital Library Production Service, has provided online access to full text resources since 1994. The Humanities Text Initiative (HTI) is an umbrella organization for the creation, delivery, and maintenance of electronic texts, as well as a mechanism for furthering the library community's capabilities in the area of online text. The collections are freely available. Emphasis is on American, and religious works. |
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| International Children's Digital Library |
"The International Children's Digital Library (ICDL) is a five-year project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to create a digital library of international children's books. This five-year research project, being conducted by the University of Maryland/College Park (UMCP) and the Internet Archive, has five primary goals ... [including] ... to create a collection of more than 10,000 books in at least 100 languages that is freely available to children, teachers, librarians, parents, and scholars throughout the world via the Internet ... " |
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| Joseph Rowntree Foundation |
Over 600 books and research findings available to download for free from The Joseph Rowntree Foundation. The JRF are one of the largest social policy research and development charities in the UK. The research is carried out in partnership with a large variety of academic and other institutions.
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| National Academies Press |
The US-based National Academy Press provides free access to more than 2,500 of its electronic books. You may search, read, and print individual pages (subject to copyright restrictions). Subject areas include the sciences, food and nutrition, education, environment, public policy, public health, urban development and economics.
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On-line Books Page |
Maintained by the University of Pennsylvania, this site provides a search engine to locate over 15,000 free electronic books provided by a range of international publishers and agencies. Virtually all subjects are covered. Both historical texts and recent publications are included.
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Online Economics Textbooks |
Online textbooks covering the subject areas of microeconomics, macroeconomics, econometrics, game theory and public finance.
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United Nations University Press Books |
Free full-text electronic books in the following subject areas: land management, development, environment and sustainability, food and nutrition, natural resources development.
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University of California Press eScholarship Editions |
The University of California Press eScholarship Editions are made available through a partnership between the University of California Press and the California Digital Library's eScholarship program. Nearly 400 of the titles are available to the general public; the rest are for University of California faculty, staff, and students only.
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University of Virginia Library's Etext Center |
1,600 publicly-available ebooks including classic British and American fiction, major authors, children's literature, American history, Shakespeare, African-American documents, the Bible, and much more.
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Wikibooks |
A free textbook project: "Wikibooks is dedicated to developing and disseminating free, open content textbooks and other classroom texts."
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Wikisource |
"Wikisource is a project to create a repository of source texts in any language which are either in the public domain, or are released under the GFDL... Wikisource currently has 803 pages."
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