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copyright. So you'll find a great many classic literary texts here. The full Gutenberg collection now exceeds 5,000 books.
Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts is a collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy. You can search for and display texts from the collection & also search their content, & even create on-the-fly PDFs for offline reading or printing.
http://www.infomotions.com/alex
arXiv e-Prints Includes e-Print "preprints" in physics, mathematics, nonlinear sciences, and computer sciences. From Cornell University with assistance from the National Science Foundation (USA), the National Institute for Theoretical Physics (USA) and the University of Adelaide (Australia). Formats include PDF, PostScript, and DVI. http://www.arxiv.org
NB: There are mirror sites in Australia, Brazil, China, France, Germany, UK, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Russia, Spain, Taiwan, & USA.
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
Bibliotheca Augustana A Latin e-library. Includes Bibliothecae Latina, Graeca, Germanica, Anglica, Gallica, Italica, Hispanica, Polonica et Russica. "Collectio textuum electronicorum. AppleMac et Netscape his paginis optimum visum dant. Ave Gatem et Exploratorem! " (Optimised for Netscape).
http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~harsch/a_index.html
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
CogPrints Cognitive Sciences Eprint* Archive - Includes a wide variety of papers in psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, philosophy, biology, medicine, anthropology and computer science. Material dates back as far as 1950, although most of it dates since 1990. Some areas of the archive require registration, to obtain a username and password. *Eprints here are defined as the digital texts of peer-reviewed research articles, before and after refereeing.
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
The Digital Library of the Commons (DLC) An archive of international literature on "the commons" (i.e. that which is held in common or by a community). Many useful features for both readers and contributing authors. A full-text Digital Library, a Working Paper Archive of author-submitted papers, and links to relevant references are included. Thanks to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the International Association for the Study of Common Property (IASCP) & the Indiana University Graduate School. As Adobe PDF files.
http://dlc.dlib.indiana.edu
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. http://www.dlese.org/dds/index.jsp
Digital Library of Information Science and Technology: dLIST A repository of electronic resources in Library and Information Science (LIS) and Information Technology (IT). Contains published and unpublished papers, data sets instructional and help materials, pathfinder , reports & bibliographies. So far in English only. User registration required to access some areas. In HTML or PDF.
http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/
Ebooks Online Library Around a dozen authors ranging from Aesop to Sun Tzu, with huge representation of Charles Dickens & Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, plus a goodly measure of Jules Verne & Mark Twain. In very clear HTML for online reading, this collection has been sourced from Project Gutenberg and prepared with special attention to the needs for visually impaired and older readers. You can set the font size & colour, or background colour, with just a click in the Settings panel. http://www.readasily.com/
Elfwood Elfwood is a huge, non-profit home to amateur Fantasy/Sci-Fi literature and art, plus some How -To Guides. The site holds over twenty thousand works of art & literature by over fifteen hundred Science Fiction/Fantasy artists and writers.
http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se
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
EuroDocs Primary historical documents from Western Europe. Selected Transcriptions, Facsimiles and Translations.
http://library.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs
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
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.ndltd.org/
New Zealand Digital Library Collections available include historical documents, humanitarian and development information, computer science technical reports and bibliographies, literary works, and magazines. A project of the University of Waikato, variously in HTML and PDF.
http://www.sadl.uleth.ca/nz/cgi-bin/library
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 Libellus The University of Washington, Seattle, provides this library of Latin texts, readable in your web browser. In HTML & TeX (a subset of ASCII). Thirteen classical Latin authors represented.
http://www.hhhh.org/perseant/libellus
Project Madurai Tamil Digital Library under preparation by voluntary effort. So far 160 works in Tamil script are available, in TSCII (Tamil Script Code for Information Interchange) format. Old Tamil classic works predominate so far.
http://www.tamil.net/projectmadurai/
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
SAIL-eprints Find scientific or technical documents, published or unpublished, in Chemistry, Physics, Engineering, Materials Sciences, Nanotechnologies, Microelectronics, Computer Sciences, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Earth Sciences, Meteorology, Oceanography Agriculture and related application activities.
Soil And Health Library Free public library offering books on holistic agriculture, holistic health, self-sufficient living, and personal development.
http://www.soilandhealth.org
Universal Library (under development) "The principal benefit of the Universal Library will be to supplement the formal education system by making knowledge available to anyone who can read and has access." A project of Carnegie Mellon University & the governments of China & India - much of the scanning will be done in the latter two countries. The million books project will have considerable content in many Indian and Chinese languages, as well as English. For more information about this far-reaching initiative see:
http://www.ul.cs.cmu.edu
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/
World eBook Library Opportunities to read or download thousands of HTML books online. Provides free, unlimited public access to a comprehensive collection of public domain texts & references, and links to thousand of on-line libraries around the world via the World Wide Web and/or Telnet. For a small annual fee, also offers access to over 60,000 PDF e-books and e-documents, plus 7,000 mp3 audio books. From the World Electronic Text Library Foundation, based in Honolulu, Hawaii.
http://netlibrary.net/WorldHome.html
Free Books in English
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
Dr Jack Cross's Electronic Archive A collection of Dr Jack Cross's writings, plus major historical works deposited with the Bodleian Library. Many are PDFs. Under "Fragments of our Lives: Primary Sources" includes many of the seminal historical source documents of the modern Western world, from Homer's The Odyssey and The Iliad, & The History of Herodotus toThe Anglo Saxon Chronicle and key works by Dante, Milton, Goethe, Darwin and many more.
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/djp/cross/
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
FlipBooks Books prepared to be read in the FlipViewer (see Software Page). A highly visual format especially suitable for displaying albums of images etc.
http://www.fliplibrary.com
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
Free Novels Online and Free Online Cyberbooks Nearly fifty new novels ranging over many genres, including SF/Fantasy, mystery, romance, humour and lots more. A gift from new authors seeking your attention. Either as HTML or as downloadable files.
http://www.starry.com/free-online-novels/index.htm
Indefinet.com This site features a select list of specialised websites related to online e-books. Some are free sites, others offer books for sale.
http://www.indefinet.com/Litonlineebooks.htm
Literature @ SunSITE Collection of digital literary texts from famous, mostly U.S.authors. May be read online, printed, or downloaded for further study.
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Literature/
Litrix Reading Room Features works of literature in English, including classics, mystery, horror, sci-fi, westerns, Sherlock Holmes, Americana. In HTML. For reading online, or save each chapter to read offline in your web browser. Thanks to novelist Stan Jones of Anchorage, Alaska.
http://www.litrix.com/authors.htm
Lysator Free e-books Lysator is a lively academic computer society & major e-publishing stalwart located at Linköping University in Sweden. Here are a few miscellaneous e-texts they offer.
http://www.lysator.liu.se/etexts
manybooks.net Free PDA e-books. Many thousands of public domain e-books from Project Gutenberg and elsewhere. They're available here either to read online in plain text or formatted to download for the Adobe Reader, Palm eReader, Palm Doc, iSilo, Rocketbook and other r-reader softwares.
http://manybooks.net/
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
Memoware have lots of free documents in a multiplicity of categories and a variety of formats for Palms & other PDAs. Award-winning site.
http://www.memoware.com
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
PDA Librarian Jill Thompson of Greencastle-Antrim High School in Pennsylvania's site. Jill offers small but carefully-chosen selections in the following categories: Outstanding Books for the College Bound; Best Novels Written in the English Language; Downloads Available by Author; Great Books For Teens; Political Documents. Also Educational Uses For PDAs, plus other helpful information.
http://user.pa.net/~thompson/
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
Read Print A great selection of free classic novels, stories, plays and non-fiction available online from over ninety authors. Browse the author list for your favourites.
http://www.readprint.com
Scorpius Digital Publishing have many free e-books available at: http://scorpiusdigital.com/freebooks/index.html Only in Microsoft Reader however.
StoneGarden Net Publishing Free or inexpensive e-books in both fiction and nonfiction. In Microsoft Reader and Adobe PDF formats. Registration (free) with this site is required.
http://www.stonegarden.net
Tale Wins Marleen Roberts' site for authors & readers.
http://www.talewins.com
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
WORD IQ Over ten thousand online e-books, in plain text. Available in order of popularity or search for title.
http://www.wordiq.com/books/index.php
Alchemy e-books The text is plain, but an amazing array of illustrations on this unusual site more than compensate. Most works are in English, but six other languages are also represented. A huge site, from alchemy authority Adam McLean.
http://www.levity.com/alchemy/home.htmlAmerican Indian tales - Coyote Stories/Poems Native American stories from the American Indian Heritage Foundation, online in HTML.
http://www.indians.org/welker/coyote.htmNew Books for Phones
Freebooks for phones
This text-to-phone site enables you to progressively download free classic literature (Poe, Verne, H.G. Wells, Conan Doyle, Brothers Grimm and many others) to your mobile phone (Am.=cell phone). You can also rotate the text to read in a more useful "landscape" format if desired. Moreover you can even request most of the books from Project Gutenberg.
http://www.tx2ph.comBritish Women Romantic Poets
Project E-text editions of poetry by British and Irish women written (not necessarily published) between 1789 and 1832, a period traditionally known in English literary history as the Romantic period. A digital initiative of the University of California, Davis, from the Shields Library. Available in HTML & SGML.
http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/BWRPChemistry This useful site from Alexander Ragoisha of Byelorussia offers free Full-Text Journals in Chemistry. Most are English language, with a section in Russian. Usually in HTML and/or PDF.
http://www.chemistry.bsu.by/abc/current/fulltext.htmChildren's/Young Adult Books
A variety of famous classic titles.
http://www.bookspot.com/onlinebooks/childrens.htmChildren's Books Online: the Rosetta Project Children's illustrated literature. Hundreds of children's books online. Because of the high picture content each page is presented as a separate image file (jpeg), or the whole book may be downloaded as a compressed (zip) file to read offline. In English, with some translated variously into Chinese, Farsi, Finnish, French, Dutch, German, Greek, Italian, Spanish, Maori, Polish, Romanian or Swedish.
http://www.childrensbooksonline.org/Comics
Free daily comic strips with back archives. Related goodies for sale. They have Ginger Meggs!
http://www.comics.comLots of e-freebies from DC.
http://www.dccomics.comComputing
Free Computer and Scientific books online Over 480 full-text computer & internet books (some titles offer excerpts only). The front webpage shows new or updated titles, while the rest may be accessed alphabetically or by searching the database. You may also buy a paperback edition. In HTML for online reading, access one chapter at a time.
http://hogan-productions.com/booksBetabooks. Allows computing professionals to view partial and sometimes complete text versions of selected emerging technology titles online. Bet@Books viewing is free, & invites comments and feedback.
http://books.mcgraw-hill.com/betabooksDan Preston's Infoheaven site offers his e-book "How To Buy The Perfect Computer" free. For those who join his mailing list or purchase books, other free items are available. http://infoheaven.bravepages.com/DansEBOOK/PerfCPUindex.htm
Free Windows Security e-books. Surprisingly, these individual chapters or entire books are dowloadable in .pdf format. You need to register to access them.
http://www.windowsitlibrary.com/ebooksRealtime Publishers offer some valuable free Windows titles in Microsoft .lit or Adobe PDF formats.
("Real-time publishing" is the concept of posting a book as chapters/volumes are written, making up-to-the minute information available. You need to register to read the books - registered users will be notified via email when new chapters/volumes are added or existing content modified. Series include The Definitive Guides (for technical professionals), The Shortcut Guides (for the busy administrator and developer), and The Savvy Consumer Guides for consumers.
http://cc.realtimepublishers.com/rtp.aspCooking
The USENET Cookbook Main dishes, appetizers & snacks, bread/pasta, beverages, cookies or cakes, sauces, salads, soups, deserts, vegetable dishes etc. Vegetarian alternatives offered. Permission to copy without fee all or part of this material is granted provided that the copies are not made or distributed for direct commercial advantage. Copying is by permission of the USENET Community Trust or the original contributor. {Copyright (c) 1987 USENET Community Trust}.
http://www.lysator.liu.se/etexts/recept/main.htmle-Cookbooks.net. Some 18 free samples are available from this commercial site, as pdfs for Adobe Acrobat Reader.
http://www.e-cookbooks.netCurrent Affairs
From prolific writer Shmuel (Sam) Vaknin: lively, controversial musings on issues in economics, politics, the Balkans, international affairs, history, psychology and more. Download as MS Word, RTF or PDF files.
http://samvak.tripod.com/freebooks.htmlDigital Issues
"Get Digitized" e-book Clueless about all things digital? I mean, absolutely no idea, really? Or just unsure about one or two devices or applications? This 40 page illustrated primer will give you the basic lowdown on everything from computers and PDA's to WiFi, BlueTooth and that mysterious acronym VoIP. http://www.digitizeme.info/freedownload.html
Digital Signal Processing Library A useful select library for those interested in electronics,
Digital Signal Processing (DSP) projects, mathematics for programmers and related topics. It links to titles that are free to download or read online. Some in PDF format, or zipped, others in HTML for your Web browser. Most books are available in individual chapters. .
http://www.e-dsp.com/books.phpE-book publishing This fledgling e-publisher/bookstore also offers some free inspirational/New Age titles, free covers for e-authors & a free e-book on drawing. In PDF at: http://www.ebookpublishing.us/ep/free.htm/
Economics The OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) "groups 30 member countries sharing a commitment to democratic government and the market economy", and does extensive economic and social research. You can get some summary information from OECD publications free here (or pay for full texts as .pdf downloads, or order print copies from their bookshop).
http://new.sourceoecd.org/Electronics ee.com A free technical library and professional community for electrical and electronics engineers. Contains over 5,600 documents in a variety of forms. Qualified contributions welcome. Resource areas include aerospace, analogue and digital design, biomedical technology, computer engineering, consumer electronics, digital signal processing, dsp, electric power, microprocessors, nanotechnology, magnetic & electro physics, jobs, meeting, business, research and development, semiconductors, telecommunication, vlsi. In PDF & PostScript. Members need to register, but visitors are also welcomed.
http://www.electronics-ee.comEnglish language reference
English dictionary. Over 320,000 references & still growing, with both US and British spellings. On this minimalist (no frills) website you can look up words alphabetically or by search. From Mike Harding.
http://www.english-dictionary.us/English to American Dictionary. Prepared by a Scot who has spent some time in the USA, this fine work helps puzzled English speaking people understand American expressions better .
http://english2american.com/Etymology. The Online Etymology Dictionary. In HTML. This valuable, attractively presented resource is from historian and author Douglas Harper.
http://www.etymonline.com/English literature and Classics
Elibron Over one thousand titles online in plain text, also versions for PC/Mac or for Palm, Visor & PocketPC. Free, with paperback and other versions also available for purchase.
http://www.elibron.com/english/lists/free_ebook.phtmlLiterature Post A collection of classic books, plays, stories and poems for online reading.
Nearly seventy authors are represented. In plain text.
http://www.literaturepost.comVirtual Imprint A select catalogue of free original and classic fiction. Available for download in
MS Reader, Adobe Reader ( PDF), or to read online in your Web browser (in their Virtual Imprint WebBook format - a simple but bookmarkable double page layout. IE 5+ recommended). Their
home page also offers an array of purchasable services for bibliophiles.
http://www.virtualimprint.com/catalog.shtmlA number of famous Irish literary works available free to download as text or RTF files, also some
HTML short stories to read online. Yes, all of the following famous "English" authors were actually Irish - George Bernard Shaw, Bram Stoker (author of Dracula), Jonathan Swift, J.M.Synge, Oscar Wilde.
http://www.ireland-information.com/irishliterature.htmBrennan Emerson's works. Fiction and philosophy as novel, short story or poetry, plus the author's autobiography. Three books available for online reading; downloads are as zipped plain text files.
http://www.geocities.com/kingmarcineNew The Literary Encyclopedia More than a thousand scholars have contributed to this huge
Web reference work, focused on literature in English. With nearly three thousand entries, and well
over 5million words, there's any amount to learn here about writers, literary works and literary topics, plus numerous links to more. And they throw in a bit of a Books-in-print too!
http://www.litencyc.com/General Reference
AllRefer.com Provides a free encyclopedia (Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, from the Columbia University Press) & gazetteer, medical encyclopedia & other valuable reference resources.
Thousands of articles available here in HTML, with useful links to related topics.
http://www.allrefer.comDictionaries of 14 languages - English, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Hebrew,Italian, Japanese, Latin, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Turkish &Vietnamese. Also specialised dictionaries including Computers, Law, Science.
http://www.online-dictionary.net/start.htm/History
Periodical Historical Atlas of Europe
How have the states of Europe changed from century to century in the last two millenniums?
Check it out in the 21 maps of this atlas. Some interesting Roman features too.
http://www.euratlas.com/summary.htmMathematics
The Electronic Library of Mathematics contains free online journals, article collections, and
monographs in the field of mathematics. View on-line or download as .pdfs for offline use.
http://www.emis.de/ELibEMS.htmMathWorld. A comprehensive and interactive mathematics encyclopedia intended for students, educators, maths enthusiasts and researchers. Claimed to be the Web's most complete maths resource.
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/New "Pseudocolor in Pure and Applied Mathematics", a free on-line e-book in progress with source code by Douglas C. Youvan. In HTML for your Web browser.
http://www.youvan.com/ , mirrored at http://www.pseudocolor.com/Medicine
Medical Dictionary Online. "A free online medical dictionary search engine for definitions of medical terminology, pharmaceutical drugs, healthcare equipment, health conditions, medical devices, specialty terms and medical abbreviations." Note that definitions are brief, and should only be considered as a launching pad for further research. A handy resource, but self-diagnosers should note the disclaimer.
http://www.online-medical-dictionary.orgMedical Encyclopedia An online medical and health encyclopedia containing information on over 1,500 topics, including conditions, diseases, injuries, nutrition, surgeries, symptoms, tests and special topics. Use alphabetically or through the search function. The site also features significant current news stories and a variety of other resources.
http://www.healthopedia.com/encyclopedia.html/National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Bookshelf. A collection of searchable biomedical books for the Web. Illustrated, in HTML. Medical issues covered include asthma, cancer, high blood pressure, obesity, & retroviruses. There are also more general works on topics including the Cell, Developmental Biology, Glycobiology, Genes and Disease, Immunobiology and Neurochemistry. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=Books
Freebooks for doctors
Site dedicated to the promotion of free access to medical books over the Internet. 550+ books to read online in English, French, German & Spanish, plus a few titles in Catalan, Italian, Portuguese, Norwegian, Romanian, Russian & Turkish.
http://freebooks4doctors.comHandhelds for Doctors. Read the text free. A paperback version is also available for purchase.
http://www.handheldsfordoctors.com/book/text/index.htmMilitary History
Richard Jensen offers a large page oflinks to a wide variety of resources in this subject area, from ancient times to present day. Jensen is an American scholar (retired Professor of History) http://tigger.uic.edu/%7Erjensen/military.htmlNew Personal Finances
Debt Management
A debt management company provides free downloads on some debt and credit related topics. More may follow. In PDF format for the Adobe Reader.
http://www.debtconsolidationcare.com/books/Philosophy
The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Alphabetical and searchable. A voluntary academic effort. http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/Poetry Many traditional poems, plus lyrics of traditional songs. To read online, or download as zipped files to your PC.
http://www.indbazaar.com/soulkurry/books.asp?cat=14Research
New FreeFullText.com provides direct links to over 7000 scholarly periodicals which allow some or all of their online content to be viewed by anyone for free (though some may require free registration).
http://www.freefulltext.com/Science The Public Library of Science is provided by "a non-profit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource". PLoS will publish its own journals.
E-Library of Science Mathematics e-books plus a few philosophy, physics and other titles. In pdf format (use the Adobe Reader).
http://www.gallup.unm.edu/~smarandache/eBooks-otherformats.htmScience Fiction/Fantasy, & Horror
Doctor Who e-books. Never screened, these Seventh Doctor stories from1992-1997 are a rare treasure from the friendly folk at the BBC. Online, by page in SHTML, or in plain text chapters if you wish to print them out.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/doctorwho/ebooks/Online since August 1997, UK-based Infinity Plus publishes some original fiction, but mostly republishes those short stories & other shorter works you're always trying to find again. With extra input from many writers that you may not see anywhere else. .
http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/index.htmSF/Fantasy e-books & assistance for the physically impaired. ReadAssist is an organization of Science Fiction and Fantasy fans with an easy-to-use site streamlined to assist those with physical disabilities. They provide links to sources of both free and purchasable written and audio e-books, in those genres. http://www.readassist.org
Gormglaith, by Heidi Wyss. 76,000 words of radical feminist separatist literature set in what is claimed to be a scientifically plausible future. Aesthetically presented for online reading.
http://www.literateweb.com/wyss.htmGodspawn, by A. Zoic. A prophetic title with a human clone hero. Written at sunny Balmoral Beach in Sydney, & available in no less than 11 formats. Worth visiting the site for the impressive audio-visual opening alone (Active X controls must be enabled -if you get a blank site, check your browser settings).
http://www.Godspawn.com/Grotesque, A Gothic Epic, by Graven. An intense, illustrated Gothic novel about religion and the Black Death. With animated sound effects, online in HTML plus. Excellently presented, but with its gruesome theme not for the faint-hearted.
http://www.gegraven.comTechnical Reports Online
"The Virtual Technical Reports Center". Links to technical reports, preprints, reprints, dissertations, theses, and research reports of all kinds, as either full-text reports or searchable extended abstracts
http://www.lib.umd.edu/ENGIN/TechReports/Virtual-TechReports.htmlTelevision
Encyclopedia of Television. Includes more than 1,000 essays examining programmes, people, historic moments and trends, disputes, scandals and much else in the saga of the small screen. Also contains histories of major TV networks and broadcasting systems around the world, plus resource materials, photos and bibliographical information.
http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/index.htmlTravel Universal Currency Converter. (Previous e-book version not currently available).
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IIT - Information Interactive Technology This Netherlands-based site offers some classic e -books include Wodehouse humour, Sherlock Holmes and a serious essay About Violence and Democracy. There are also mini travel guides for all European countries. In PDF, use the Adobe Reader. Patience may be required; this site is slow to download for modem users.
http://www.ebookseguides.comU.S. Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution, all Amendments, the Monroe Doctrine, the Emancipation Proclamation & the Gettysburg Address. Fully indexed. Available free as a downloadable zip file (requires a zip utility to decompress). Download the freedom.zip (40kb) under the sub-heading Freedom documents, from R.E. Harvey, at:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/r_harveyU.S. Rightwing Christian Fundamentalism The Institute for Christian Economics is a Texas-based, U.S. Christian fundamentalist site. Many "bible-based" religious & social titles are offered, plus a substantial foray into conservative and pro-free market economics & politics. http://www.freebooks.com/
Website Development Rick Rouse provides several free e-books, downloadable as zip files, for webmasters. They include How To Get Thousands Of Links To Your Website and How To Triple Your Website Traffic Every 90 Days under the heading Webmaster Freebies. Also some useful software for webmasters.
http://www.rlrouse.com/freebies.htmlWilliam Blake Archive Literary and visual works by William Blake and his circle. Includes fully searchable and scalable electronic editions of all of Blake's 19 illuminated works. In HTML & SGML. With Biography, Glossary, and Chronology. Sponsored by the U.S. Library of Congress, with some high-powered support. http://www.blakearchive.org.uk/main.html