From the Australian
National University in Canberra,
ACT (Australian Capital Territory).
Holding over 2,460 items as of May 2005. Material from 1987 on is
included. User registration (there is no charge) is required for some
parts of the site.Subject Categories included: Arts, Astronomy &
Astrophysics, Biological Sciences, Business and Economics, Chemistry,
Electronic Publishing, Engineering, Environmental Sciences, Humanities,
Law, Medicine, Physical Sciences & Mathematics and Social Sciences.
Australian
e-Humanities Gateway is an initiative
of the Australian e-Humanities Network, a group funded by the Australian
Research Council. The network includes representatives from the Australian
Academy of the Humanities, the University of Sydney and the University
of Newcastle. A portal for digital resources in humanities disciplines
in Australia.
Curtin
University of Technology Institutional
Repository espace@Curtin provides access to research produced by Curtin
University of Technology staff and postgraduate students. Around 260
items were available as at May 2005 covering material from 1980 onwards.
An institutional archive
of research papers produced at Queensland
University of Technology by QUT staff and
postgraduate students. Items now deposited span from 1984 to date,
and this fast-growing new collection already offers no less than 967
of them (in May 2005).
The embryonic University
of Melbourne eprint collection. The oldest item dates
back to 1945. In order to access some areas of the archive, you'll
need a user registration (no charge).
The University
of Queensland's Digital Repository.
Covers material created since 1983, although most dates from 1998
on. Includes e-books, e-chapters, online journals, various articles,
working papers, conference papers and proceedings, posters, miscellaneous
research output, and pre-publication (draft) material. OAI-compliant,
the repository includes research output of UQ academic staff and postgraduate
students, both before and after peer-reviewed publication. Formats
used are HTML, ASCII text, PDF & Postscript.
The Monash
University ePrint Repository
showcases and archives quality research output of Monash University
staff. As of May 2005 it held 122 e-prints covering the period 1996-2004.
Project
Gutenberg of Australia produces
books in electronic form and makes them freely available to the public
in accordance with Australian copyright law. NB: Under Australian
copyright law, literary, dramatic, & musical work published, performed,
communicated, or recorded and offered for sale in an author's lifetime
are protected for the life of the author plus fifty years from the
end of the year of the author's death. After this time they enter
into the public domain. Some e-books available here may still be under
copyright in the United States (where local laws have several times
extended copyright to levels not accepted within Australian jurisdiction).
Such works are therefore not available from the US site of Project
Gutenberg.
Project Gutenberg is
the original free digital library of books no longer in copyright.
So you'll find a great many classic literary texts here. The full
Gutenberg collection now exceeds 5,000 books. The whole collection
represents a monumental effort in unpaid, unselfish, labour since
1971.
The Scholarly
Electronic Text and Image
Service at the University of Sydney
Library. Regarded as the leading University digital
collection in Australia. Includes also the University of Sydney digital
theses collection (currently around two hundred theses available).
NB: While you may access many texts from the Web, a large number are
commercially licensed and available only to users at the University
of Sydney.
The University
of Tasmania ePrint Repository. Research materials
covering as far back as 1968 have now been deposited here. By May
2005 there were 126 of them.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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. Before refereeing and publication, the
draft is called a "preprint." The refereed, published final
draft is called a "postprint." Eprints may include both
preprints and postprints, as well as any significant drafts in between,
and any post publication updates.
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.
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. Resources
are not archived on site but in a variety of collaborating collections.
Funded by the National Science Foundation (USA).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
"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.
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.
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.
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. SAIL
enables searching over 70 institutional open access archives around
the world. NB: Downloading of e-documents is possible only if it is
permitted on the original archive.
"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.
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.
"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.
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.
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.
Desert
Wave Publishing Based in the Alice
(Alice Springs, Northern Territory of Australia for our overseas readers).
Provides a number of free PDF e-books in areas such as job search,
training, online learning, how to e-publish yourself.
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. Titles
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.
Elegant
Solutions Software & Publishing
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. Titles
(Download Microsoft Reader
from "Useful Links" to read books
from this site)
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.
InTechOpen is a fast-growing Open Access reading platform for InTech publications, enabling free access to the latest research developments within the fields of Science, Technology and Medicine. Read, download & share more than 420 FREE SCIENTIFIC BOOKS.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Scorpius
Digital Publishing have many free
e-books available. Only avaialble for reading in Microsoft Reader.
(Download Microsoft Reader from "Useful
Links" to read books from this site)
Free or inexpensive
e-books in both fiction and nonfiction. In Microsoft Reader and Adobe
PDF formats. Registration (free) with this site is required.Free or
inexpensive e-books in both fiction and nonfiction. In Microsoft Reader
and Adobe PDF formats. Registration (free) with this site is required.
A Links to over 2,200
free e-books in html, for reading online. In 16 broad categories (Business,
Classics, Computers/Internet,
Engineering, Entertainment, Life
Sciences, Humanities, Gen. Science,
Medicine, Society, Phys. Sci/Math
and Teens and Kids) also includes journals
& magazines.
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.
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.
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.
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.
7 - Comics
Free daily comic strips with back
archives. Related goodies for sale. They have Ginger Meggs! Comics
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.
Betabooks.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.
Free
Windows Security e-books. Surprisingly,
these individual chapters or entire books are dowloadable in .pdf
format. You need to register to access them.
Realtime
Publishersoffer
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.
9 - Cooking
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}.
e-Cookbooks.net.Some 18 free samples are
available from this commercial site, as pdfs for Adobe Acrobat Reader.
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 (Rich Text Format) or PDF files.
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
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.
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.
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.
A 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.
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.
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, and numerous links to more. And
they throw in a bit of a Books-in-print too!
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.
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.
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.
A comprehensive and
interactive mathematics encyclopedia intended for students, educators,
maths enthusiasts and researchers. Claimed to be the Web's most complete
maths resource.
"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.
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.
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.
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)
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).
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.
Never screened, these Seventh Doctor
stories from 1992-1997 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.
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. As such, this wonderful archive
is a boon to devotees. Online in HTML, or you can save them ('Save
as...') to read off-line. However please remember they remain copyright
for all purposes other than simple reading.
SF/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. Further links are to software &
hardware of use to those with impaired mobility or vision.
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.
Godspawn, 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).
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.
Links to technical
reports, preprints, reprints, dissertations, theses, and research
reports of all kinds, as either full-text reports or searchable extended
abstracts.
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.
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.
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.
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. Books are available in HTML or the DjVu compressed
file format. The site authors recommend the latter, which they claim
is superior to & less memory-hungry than PDF for representing
original works. A free DjVu reader may be downloaded from the site.
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.
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.
The unrestricted access
to scientific knowledge will have a major impact on medical practice.
FreeBooks4Doctors! is dedicated to the promotion of free access to
medical books over the Internet.
