"The Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts is a collection of digital documents. The scope of documents in the collection include items from American literature, English literature, and Western philosophy." The Catalogue allows you to search for and display texts from the collection, and also to search the content of the located texts. You can even
search multiple texts at the same time.
This is a collection of public-domain materials useful for theological research. Since most of the works are older, historical items, the site will be more helpful for those doing historical studies or seeking primary documents. Early Church Fathers, listed separately below, is part of this site.
"The Early Church Fathers is a 38-volume collection of writings from the first 800 years of the Church," which is divided into Ante-Nicene, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers. This site allows you to read and search the entire collection.
Full-text access to thousands of books covering every academic subject area. When you use PILOT: The Library's Catalog to search for books, your results will include links to these e-books.
Helpful resources: Complete ebrary User Guide or One-page ebrary Overview
Free, full-text, online medical resources, including FreeMedicalJournals.com and FreeBooks4Doctors.com. You can also sign up for the weekly Amedeo.com literature newsletters, which provide an overview of new articles published in the journals and topics that you select.
This is a searchable collection of over 200 e-books in the Forensic Sciences and related fields. Use it to find latest techniques in forensic analysis, the right questions to ask an expert witness, case studies to present in the classroom, and much more!
Gutenberg Bible
The Gutenberg Bible represents one of the pivotal technological advances in human history--the ability to mass produce books. Beautifully digitized copies of the Gutenberg Bible are available online at these sites.
A tremendous collection of online resources and primary documents from the Library of Congress National Digital Library Program. Resources are organized into different collections, including: Presidents, Native American history, Civil War photographs, personal manuscripts, baseball cards, sheet music, etc.
This free site from the Liberty Fund provides online, full-text access to authoritative editions of the classic (i.e., older!) books in economics, along with related works in history, political theory and philosophy. It also includes many other resources useful for researching economic theory and practice.
Books Online: Economics, Reference, and General Interest is an LEL page providing links to other online text collections.
Full-text access to thousands of books covering a wide range of academic subjects. When you use PILOT: The Library's Catalog to search for books, your results will include links to these e-books. (Internet Explorer is recommended for NetLibrary.)
More than 3,000 books online! NAP publishes the reports issued by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council. Although the site will be happy to sell you physical copies, you can read many (but not all) of the books online for free. Look for the "FREE!" link.
Links you to thousands of books online. Due to copyright issues, many--but not all--of the items are old. You can search by author and/or title, and there is also a subject list grouped by Library of Congress classification. The site also points you to a number of other places to find texts and reproductions.
"Perseus is an evolving digital library" that includes texts from the Classics, Papyri, and Renaissance eras, as well as historic materials relating to London, California, and the Upper Midwest. Many items include both the text and facsimile reproductions of the original work. Since scholarship is a prime concern, many texts include critical notes, textual variants, and links to other resources.
Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books. They offer about 30,000 free, online books. Due to copyright restrictions, most of these are older, "classic" texts.
A small, but important, online collection of rare books from the areas of natural history and the history of science and technology. Beautiful full color images of each page of the originals is available.
The University of Pittsburgh Press has made 521 monographs available for free, online access. Titles come from the Pitt Latin American Series, Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies, and Composition, Literacy and Culture. The majority of these titles are out-of-print, but are now available online. You can search within the books, or browse by author, title, or topic.
The WTOelibrary provides access to WTO publications (in a variety of languages!). This includes publications, reports, and documents published by the WTO. Covers: Ecotourism, Ethics, Financing, Market Research, Planning & Management Policy, Poverty Alleviation, Sustainable Development, Tourism Market Trends, etc.
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