Community and Guest Resources

"A union catalog of electronic books, texts, and documents." Provides access to more than 140,000 English language records for both commercial and non-commercial eBooks from more than 1,800 publishers and private publishing organizations. Full-text for more than half of the titles is available free. Includes most major disciplines and ranges from the highly scholarly to the contemporary and popular. Each record lists author, title, edition, format, price (if any), and publishing organization.

Offers a single point of access to millions of items—photographs, manuscripts, books, government documents, sounds, moving images, and more—from libraries, archives, and museums around the United States. Users can browse and search the DPLA’s collections by timeline, map, format, and topic.

Academic peer-reviewed books from a variety of publishers.

A multi-lingual online collection of millions of digitized books, newspapers, film clips, maps, photographs and documents from European museums, libraries, archives and multi-media collections.

Provides access to books, manuscripts, maps, images, newspapers, magazines, periodicals, sound records, music, scores, and other materials digitized by the Bibliothèque Nationale de France and by partner libraries. Select the Advanced Search for additional options. The search interface is available in French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, and English.

Search the full-text of a growing collection books and view information about each book. Full-text is available for those books that are out of copyright. Sample pages or brief excerpts may be available for material still under copyright.

A collaborative repository of millions of books, government publications, dissertations, journals, and other published and unpublished materials. Titles published prior to 1923 and those that are open access or Creative Commons-licensed are available full-text. Other materials include limited-access searching. -- Access to the resource is unrestricted, but Rutgers affiliates can log in to gain access to additional features such as full-text download and the ability to create permanent collections.

A searchable open-access archive of electronic texts.

A search engine for locating public domain texts, open books, free audio books, ad-supported books and more on more than 700 websites.

Includes a wealth of freely accessible resources from a variety of original formats: book, manuscript, photograph, audio, etc.

The goal of the Project is to digitize a million books to create a free-to-read, searchable digital library of materials in multiple languages.

"The OAPEN Library contains freely accessible academic books, mainly in the area of humanities and social sciences."

A search tool that aims to make the discovery of open content easier. Includes books, textbooks, primary sources, videos, audios, and other types of material. Developed at SUNY Geneseo's Milne Library.

"Listing over 1 million free books on the Web." Searchable by author, title, or subject.

"An open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published." Browse by subject or search. Part of the Internet Archive.

Browse the full title or author listing, or search for a book in this collection of downloadable etexts. Includes classic works that are in the public domain, with the majority of the texts being in English.

The Standard Ebooks project differs from other etext projects in that it aims "to make free public domain ebooks that are carefully typeset, cleaned of ancient and irrelevant ephemera, take full advantage of modern ereading technology, are formatted according to a detailed style guide, and that are each held to a standard of quality and internal consistency."

Primary materials from countries and cultures around the world, inlcuding books, manuscripts, photographs, maps, and more.

A collection of electronic texts and links to texts originally written in or about the Americas from 1492 to approximately 1820. From the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities.

Standardized, accurate XML/SGML encoded electronic text editions of almost 50,000 early print books.

"Provided so that all students and scholars of Middle Eastern language can access and study Syriac literature. In addition to literary works and manuscripts from past centuries, the collection is replete with texts, video and audio depicting modern Syriac scholarly work."

A program of the American Historical Association and Columbia University Press, the site provides scholarly monographs in digital format. These electronic books include extensive documentation, hyperlinks to supplementary literature, images, music, video, and links to related web sites.

Rare books, journals, and manuscripts on subjects ranging from advertising and aeronautics to zinc sculpture and Zuni cuisine. The focus is on the broad topics of History and Culture, Art and Design, and Science and Technology.

Search and read works of literature by authors such as Dickens, Tolstoy, Shakespeare, and many others.

"A repository of full-text literary and linguistic resources." Some resources are freely available to the public, other restricted.

Classic Christian books in electronic format including scriptures, commentaries, sermons, volumes from the first 800 years of the church, plus a variety of non-English, less classic, and non-Christian books.

"Provided so that all students and scholars of Middle Eastern language can access and study Syriac literature. In addition to literary works and manuscripts from past centuries, the collection is replete with texts, video and audio depicting modern Syriac scholarly work."

"A freely available non-profit archive of electronic texts about religion, mythology, legends and folklore, and occult and esoteric topics."

A free online archive of biomedical books and videos.

Books on a wide range of topics in science, engineering, and health. As of June 2011, "PDFs of reports that are currently for sale on the National Academies Press (NAP) Website and PDFs associated with future reports will be offered free of charge to all Web visitors."

An online searchable collection of books, reports, databases, and other scholarly literature in biology, medicine, and the life sciences. From the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).

Rare books, journals, and manuscripts on subjects ranging from advertising and aeronautics to zinc sculpture and Zuni cuisine. The focus is on the broad topics of History and Culture, Art and Design, and Science and Technology.

Searches across major repositories of open access textbooks and educational resources.

Includes textbooks that "are free to use and distribute, and are licensed to be freely adapted or changed with proper attribution."

Searchable full text access to publications from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Search or browse official publications from all branches of the U.S. government. Includes presidential documents, congressional committee prints, hearing transcripts, congressional reports, GAO reports, and many other publications.

Documents related to homeland security policy, strategy, and organizational management. Materials included are from federal, state and local governments; international governments and institutions; nonprofit organizations and private sector entities; think tanks, research centers, colleges and universities. Includes text as well as video and audio materials.

Provides direct access to the IMF’s periodicals, books, working papers and studies, as well as data and statistical tools. Areas covered include macroeconomics, globalization, development, trade and aid, technical assistance, demographics, emerging markets, policy advice, poverty reduction, and more.

Covers all types of official United Nations documentation, beginning in 1994. Older documents are added on a daily basis. Also provides access to the resolutions of the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council, and the Trusteeship Council from 1946 onwards. Does not include press releases, UN sales publications, the United Nations Treaty Series, or information brochures issued by the Department of Public Information.

Read only access to publications, journals, data, and series published by the United Nations Secretariat, and its funds and programs.

Includes, documents, votes, speeches, selected maps, and publications in the public domain.

Provides access to over 100,000 publications written by USGS scientists over the century-plus history of the bureau.

Full text access to publications from the World Health Organization.

The official open access repository for research outputs and knowledge products from the World Bank. Includes full-text books, reports, working papers, technical papers, serials, and other materials.