e-Books

• ALEX - The Alex catalogue of electronic texts is a collection of public domain documents from American and English literature, and western philosophy. It is searchable online.

  arXiv.org e-Print archive - Specialises in scientific information.

• ATHENA - Gives access to e-texts mainly by French and Swiss authors, and some French and Swiss documents in the literature, science and arts areas.
• Bartleby Project - Publishes literature, reference and verse, providing unlimited access to books and information on the web, free of charge.
• CELT - The online resource for Irish history, literature and politics. CELT is the Corpus of Electronic Texts, with a searchable online database of contemporary and historical texts.
• Digital Book Index - Provides links to over 134,000 title records from more than 1800 commercial and non-commercial publishers, universities and private sites. About 94,000 of these books, texts and documents are available free. You will need to create your own log in. This site searches many other sites.
• DLC - Digital Library of the Commons - A gateway to international literature, containing a working paper archive of author-submitted papers, a full-text digital library, and link to relevant reference sources on the study of the commons. Focus areas are diverse and multi-disciplinary, including: adaptive systems, efficiency, environmental policy, equity, experimental economics, free riding, game theory, gender, institutional design principles, new institutional economics, participatory management systems, property rights regimes, resilience, regulation, sustainability
• E-book directory - Searchable and organised by category.
• E Server. Org - Attempts to provide an alternative niche for quality work, particularly writings in the arts and humanities resources on the origins of multicultural literature in the US , links to art, architecture, and aesthetic theory etc. E Server.org offer 44 collections on such diverse topics as contemporary art, race, Internet studies, sexuality, drama, design, multimedia, accessible publishing and current political and social issues.
• EuroDocs - Online sources for European history. (Selected transcriptions, facsimiles, and translations).
• Free E-books.net - Specialises in collecting free fiction, tutorial, marketing and business E-Books organised into categories.
• Great Books and Classics - Here you will find links to classic works of religion, philosophy, politics, science, history and literature from both East and West, spanning nearly four thousand years of human history. Works are indexed alphabetically by Author or Title, and chronologically by Author (or work, if anonymous). There are also separate indexes for works included in various reading lists, and works which are available in languages other than English.
• Munseys - Searchable database comprised of 1,000's of e-books organised by category, for browsing.
• Online Books Page - Lists over 20,000 free books on the web.
• Oxford text archive - Collects and preserves high quality electronic texts in the Arts and Humanities areas. Current resources top 2,500 in 25 languages.
• Project Gutenberg - Tthe oldest provider of free electronic books on the Internet, with more than 13,000 titles. All titles can be freely downloaded and read, and redistributed for non-commercial use. The website includes a search interface for the titles held.
• Turning the pages - From the British Library , this site Turning the Pages is the award-winning interactive program that allows museums and libraries to give members of the public access to precious books while keeping the originals safely under glass. Turning the Pages allows visitors to virtually 'turn' the pages of manuscripts in a realistic way, using touch-screen technology and interactive animation. They can zoom in on the high- quality digitised images and read or listen to notes explaining the beauty and significance of each page.
• WessWeb - European literature electronic texts western European studies section. This page lists Internet sources for literary texts in the western European languages other than English. Translations are mentioned only when they are included in collections of original language texts, or when they are themselves of interest. Collections are listed more or less in order of size; individual authors are listed alphabetically.