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Please use the library homepage to find fulltext
articles that the library subscribes to. These are some free titles
available on the Internet. Most of the books are older and outside
of the copyright date. In an emergency, this would be a fast way to
have access to a Shakespeare play or an older fiction work. Journals DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals "This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages. There are now 2182 journals in the directory." PubMed Central "PubMed Central (PMC) is the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature." Internet Library of Early Journals 6 full text titles from the 18th century and 19th century. arXiv contains open-access reprints from journals covering Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science and Quantitative Biology. This site was created by Cornell University and partially funded by the National Science Foundation. Books (mostly in English but some French, Latin, Greek) Bartleby is a huge online library which includes the Harvard Classics and Shelf of Fiction, dictionaries, poetry and other reference works. Internet Archive (text archive) "The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library, with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format. Founded in 1996 and located in the Presidio of San Francisco, the Archive has been receiving data donations from Alexa Internet and others. In late 1999, the organization started to grow to include more well-rounded collections. Now the Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages in our collections." The Literature Network "We offer searchable online literature for the student, educator, or enthusiast. To find the work you're looking for start by looking through the author index. We currently have over 1900 full books and over 3000 short stories and poems by over 250 authors. Our quotations database has over 8500 quotes." Includes Shakespeare, the King James version of the Bible and many more titles. Online Books Page "The Online Books Page is a website that facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet." This page lists over 25,000 titles from Bartleby, Gutenberg and many more sources. A good place to look first. Open-Access Text Archive Over 32,000 items available in October, 2006. Open Library "The Open Library website was created by the Internet Archive to demonstrate a way that books can be represented online. The vision is to create free web access to important book collections from around the world. Books are scanned and then offered in an easy-to-use interface for free reading online. If they're in the public domain, the books can be downloaded, shared and printed for free. They can also be printed for a nominal fee by a third party, who will bind and mail the book to you. The books are always FREE to read at the Open Library website." Project Gutenberg contains over 18,000 free books including books in Chinese, English, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Spanish and 40 other languages. HUGE list. Alex Catalog of Electronic Texts These 2000 titles can be viewed or downloaded as text, pdf, html,and for palmpilots. Bibliomania Over 2000 titles in poetry, fiction, short stories - including Alcott, Stevenson, Edith Wharton, Thomas Hardy. Complete Works of Shakespeare This site was produced at MIT. Cranky Librarian Works by Twain, Sax Rohmer, Blake, Bronte. Digital Book Index "Digital Book Index provides links to more than 130,000 title records from more than 1800 commercial and non-commercial publishers, universities, and various private sites. About 90,000 of these books, texts, and documents are available free, while many others are available at very modest cost." Great Literature Online includes poetry and fiction. Institute for Learning Technologies Have English translations of Aristotle, Locke, Plato and more from books dated around 1900. Luminarium Works from Medieval, Renaissance, and 17th Century Literature - Chaucer, Malory, Sir Thomas More, Elizabeth I, Milton and many more. Perseus Digital Library, created at Tufts University, includes classics (Greek, Latin and some translations) and English Renaissance as well as image archives. University of Virginia's Ebook Library You can find Shakespeare, the Bible, classics, Early American fiction, and more. You can also search the collection. Books in French ABU: la Bibliothèque Universelle Texts in French by Flaubert, Pascal, Zola and more. Gallica Over 70,000 works and 80,000 images are available online from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.
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