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<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <TITLE>The Online Books Page: Archives and Indexes</TITLE> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="olbp.css" /> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"> <style type="text/css"> p.ctr {text-align: center} h2 {text-align: center} h3 {text-align: center} </style> </head> <body> <header> <h1><a href="https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/" class="logolink">The Online Books Page</a></h1> </header> <h2>ARCHIVES AND INDEXES</h2> <p class="ctr"> <A HREF="#general">General</A> -- <A HREF="#foreign">Non-English Language</A> -- <A HREF="#specialty">Specialty</A> </p> There's a vast range of online literature beyond what we index individually on The Online Books Page. Below we list some of the major sources and indexes of free online texts, in all languages, both general and specialized. <h2 id="general">General</h2> These are large, general-purpose collections with substantial English-language listings. For archives that mainly carry other languages, see the <A HREF="#foreign">non-English languages archive listings</A>. We break these out into categories: <br> <p class="ctr"> <A HREF="#large">Large-scale repositories</A> -- <A HREF="#index">Significant indexes and search aids</A> -- <A HREF="#small">Significant smaller-scale archives</A> </p> <h3 id="large">Large-scale repositories</h3> <p>These are big collections of texts, big enough to act as small library-like collections in their own right. The threshold for inclusion here may rise over time. Listed alphabetically.</p> <UL> <LI> <a href="http://books.google.com/">Google Books</a> (page images of 10,000,000+ fully readable volumes, plus many more copyrighted books available via excerpts and snippets) <UL> <li> <a href="http://books.google.com/advanced_book_search">Advanced Book Search</a> (may be easier to find specific free titles via this page)  </UL> <LI> <A HREF="http://www.hathitrust.org/"> HathiTrust Digital Library</A> (3,000,000+ freely readable titles, and additional search-only titles, from Google and elsewhere) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.archive.org/details/texts"> Internet Archive Ebooks and Texts</A> (20,000,000+ freely readable volumes; page images and some transcriptions) <LI> Project Gutenberg (over 70,000 items, mostly book transcriptions) <UL> <li> <A HREF="http://www.gutenberg.org/">Via Web site at gutenberg.org</A> <li> <A HREF="ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/"> Via FTP at Ibiblio (direct access to Gutenberg files, may be messy)</A> </UL> </UL> <h3 id="index">Significant indexes and search aids</h3> <p>The sites below primarily provide search engines, indexes or useful link lists for finding online books. </p> <UL> <LI> <A HREF="http://un2sg4.unige.ch/athena/html/athome.html">ATHENA</A> (multilingual text index in Switzerland) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.digitalbookindex.org/index.cgi">Digital Book Index</A> (free and for-pay books online; registration-based) <LI> <A HREF="https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/"> The Online Books Page</A> (the site that includes this directory) <LI> <A HREF="http://vos.ucsb.edu/">Voice of the Shuttle</A> and its <A HREF="http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=3">English Literature</A> section </UL> <h3 id="small">Significant smaller-scale archives</h3> <p>Everything else we see worth listing that doesn't fit in <a href="#specialty">more specialized categories</a>. </p> <UL>  <LI> <A HREF="http://ota.ox.ac.uk/"> Oxford Text Archive</A> (in the UK) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.bibliomania.com/">The Bibliomania Library</A> (from Data Text; UK based) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/ets/eos/">Electronic Open Stacks</A> (preservation digitization at Chicago) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.intratext.com/"> IntraText Digital Library</A> (5000+ texts, multilingual, main focus on religion, Latin, Italian, and science) <LI> <A HREF="https://quod.lib.umich.edu/lib/colllist/?byFormat=Text%20Collections&accessFacet=public"> Michigan Digital Public Text Collections</A> (100+ collections open to the public) <LI> <A HREF="https://standardebooks.org/"> Standard Ebooks</A> (appealingly laid out editions of texts from Project Gutenberg and elsewhere, in Ereader-friendly formats) <LI> <A HREF="http://gutenberg.ca/">Project Gutenberg Canada</A> (Literature in the public domain in Canada) <LI> <A HREF="https://www.fadedpage.com/index.php">Faded Page</A> (4000+ books in the public domain in Canada) <LI> <A HREF="http://freeread.com.au/">Roy Glashan's Library</A> (Literature in the public domain in Australia) <LI> <A HREF="https://www.globalgreyebooks.com/">Global Grey Ebooks</A> (Literature in the public domain in the UK/Europe, formatted for E-readers) </UL> <hr> <h2 id="foreign">Non-English Languages</h2>  <UL> <LI> Afghan languages (including Pashto and Dari): <A HREF="http://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/">Afghanistan Digital Library</A> <LI> Alaskan languages (including Aleut, Alutiiq, Tlingit, and Yup'ik): <A HREF="http://www.asna.ca/alaska/">Alaskan Orthodox Texts</A> <LI> Arabic: <A HREF="http://dlib.nyu.edu/aco/">Arabic Collections Online</A> (10,000+ public domain volumes; at NYU) <LI> Armenian: <A HREF="http://armenianhouse.org/index-am.html">Armenian House Library</A> (Armenian section) <LI> Australian indigenous languages: <A HREF="http://callcollection.batchelor.edu.au/">CALL Collection</A> (books and other literature, with many items digitized) <LI> Catalan / Valencian: <UL> <LI> <A HREF="http://lluisvives.com/"> Biblioteca Virtual Joan Lluís Vives</A> (mostly Catalan materials) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.uoc.edu/lletra/especials/folch/"> Selecció de Poesia Catalana</A> (Catalan poetry) </UL> <LI> Chamorro: <A HREF="http://chamorrobible.org/"> Chamorro Bible website</A> (also has other Chamorro literature and language resources) <LI> Chinese: <UL> <LI> <A HREF="http://chinese.dsturgeon.net/"> Chinese Text Project</A> (annotated Chinese classics) </UL> <LI> Classical Languages: <UL> <LI> <A HREF="http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/bibliography/index.htm"> An Analytical Bibliography of On-Line Neo-Latin Titles</A> (index of over 60,000 items, edited by Dana Sutton) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.google.com/googlebooks/ancient-greek-and-latin.html"> Ancient Greek and Latin Texts</A> (selected from Google Books) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~harsch/augusta.html"> Bibliotheca Augustana</A> (Latin texts arranged by century) <LI> <A HREF="http://capricorn.bc.edu/siepm/books.html">Electronic Resources for Medieval Philosophy Studies: Digitized Books</A> (at Boston College) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/"> The Latin Library</A> (edited by William L. Carey) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.hhhh.org/perseant/libellus/"> Project Libellus</A> (at the University of Washington) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/"> Perseus Digital Library</A> (classical Greek, Latin, and other texts at Tufts) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.textkit.com/"> Textkit</A> (Greek and Latin learning tools) <LI> <A HREF="https://digi.vatlib.it/all/"> Vatican Library Digital Collections</A> (mostly in Latin) </UL> <LI> Czech: <A HREF="https://www.en.nkp.cz/digital-library/digital-libraries"> National Library of the Czech Republic Digital Libraries</A> <LI> Danish: <A HREF="http://www.adl.dk/"> Arkiv for Dansk Litteratur</A> (in Denmark) <LI> Dutch: <UL> <LI> <A HREF="http://www.arsfloreat.nl/"> Ars Floreat</A> (philosophy and religion texts in Dutch) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.delpher.nl/"> Delpher</A> (100 million pages of historic Dutch-language texts) <LI> <A HREF="https://www.dbnl.org/"> Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren</A> </UL> <LI> Ethiopian languages: <A HREF="https://www.vhmml.org/readingRoom/"> Virtual Hill Museum Reading Room</A> (includes Ethiopian and other languages) <LI> Farsi (Persian): <UL> <LI> <A HREF="http://www.ketabfarsi.com/"> Ketab Farsi</A> (Farsi books online) <LI> <A HREF="https://persianbooks2.blogspot.com/"> Persianbooks</A> (index at blogspot.com) </UL> <LI> French: <UL> <LI> <a href="http://athena.unige.ch/athena/">ATHENA</a> e-texts <LI> <A HREF="http://artfl-project.uchicago.edu/content/public-databases"> ARTFL Public Databases</A> (free portion of this French literature collection) <LI> <A HREF="http://cedric.cnam.fr/ABU/"> Association des bibliophiles Universels</A> (public domain French texts; in France) <LI> <A HREF="https://www.ebooksgratuits.com"> Ebooks Libres et Gratuits</A> (2000+ public domain French language books) <LI> <A HREF="http://classiques.uqac.ca/"> Les Classiques des Sciences Sociales</A> (French-language social science classics; at U. du Québec) <LI> <A HREF="http://gallica.bnf.fr/">Gallica</A> from the Bibliotheque Nationale de France (5 million+ documents in French and other languages) <LI> <a href="http://contentdm.warwick.ac.uk/cdm/">Marandet Collection of French Plays</A> (several digitized collections from before 1789 through 1835; at Warwick) </UL> <LI> Gaelic: <ul> <li> <A HREF="http://www.ucc.ie/celt/"> CELT Project</A> (Irish electronic texts) <li> <A HREF="http://corpas.ria.ie/"> Corpas Stairi煤il na Gaeilge / Historical Irish Corpus, 1600-1926</A> (at Royal Irish Academy) </ul> <LI> German: <UL> <LI> <A HREF="http://www.literature.at/">Austrian Literature Online</A> (Austrian works, mostly in German) <LI> <A HREF="https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/">Göttinger Digitalisierungszentrum</A> (German and some English etexts) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.uni-mannheim.de/mateo/index.html">MATEO</A> (Mannheim texts online) <LI> <A HREF="http://sophie.byu.edu/"> Sophie</A> (work by German-speaking women; at BYU) <LI> <A HREF="http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/">Projekt Gutenberg-DE</A> (German texts; no direct relation to the US-based Project Gutenberg) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.religio.de/">Religio</A> (Texts in German on religion) <LI> <A HREF="http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Zeitschriften">WikiSource: Zeitschriften</A> (list of links to digitized pre-1930 German periodicals) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.zeno.org/">Zeno.org</A> (free German literature) </UL> <LI> Hawaiian: <UL> <LI> <A HREF="https://libweb.hawaii.edu//digicoll/newspapers.htm">Hawaiian Language Newspapers</A> (at hawaii.edu) <LI> <A HREF="https://ulukau.org/">Ulukau: The Hawaiian Electronic Library</A> </UL> <LI> Hebrew: <UL> <LI> <A HREF="http://www.daat.ac.il/index.aspx">Daat</A> (includes medieval Jewish philosophy full texts) <LI> <A HREF="https://www.hebrewbooks.org/">HebrewBooks.org</A> (over 50,000 out of print Seforim and other classical Hebrew books) <LI> <A HREF="https://www.nli.org.il/en/discover/manuscripts/hebrew-manuscripts">International Collection of Digitized Hebrew Manuscripts</A> (at National Library of Israel) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.mechon-mamre.org/">Mechon Mamre</A> (classical Jewish texts and others) <LI> <A HREF="http://benyehuda.org/">Project Ben-Yehuda</A> (in Israel) <LI> <A HREF="https://www.sefaria.org/">Sefaria Library</A> (religious texts in Hebrew and other languages) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.tshuvos.com/">Tshuvos.com</A> (Tshovos seforim) <LI> <A HREF="http://yizkor.nypl.org/">Yizkor Books</A> (Holocaust memorial books; at NYPL) </UL> <LI> Hungarian: <A HREF="http://mek.oszk.hu/"> Magyar Elektronikus Könyvtár</A> (Hungarian electronic library) <LI> Icelandic and Old Norse: <UL> <LI> <A HREF="http://www.malid.is/">M谩li冒.is</A> (Icelandic dictionaries and language resources) <LI> <A HREF="https://www.snerpa.is/net/index.html">Netutgafan</A> (classic Norse texts) </UL> <LI> Italian: <UL> <LI> <A HREF="http://www.liberliber.it/"> Liber Liber</A> (from Italy) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.pelagus.org/"> Pelagus Letteratura Italiana</A> (searchable index of Italian literature and sites) </UL> <LI> Indian languages: <ul> <li> <A HREF="https://www.granthsanjeevani.com/">Granth Sanjeevani</a> (rare books and other historic materials, many in Indian languages) <li> <A HREF="https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/">National Digital Library of India</a> (among other languages; registration required) <li> <A HREF="https://www.rekhta.org/">Rekhta</a> (poetry in Urdu and other languages) </ul> <LI> Japanese: <UL> <LI> <A HREF="http://www.aozora.gr.jp/"> Aozora Bunko</A> (2000+ works of public domain Japanese literature) <LI> <A HREF="https://kotenseki.nijl.ac.jp/?ln=en#"> Database of Pre-Modern Japanese Works</A> (from the National Institute of Japanese Literature) <LI> <A HREF="https://www.loc.gov/collections/japanese-censorship-collection/about-this-collection/?loclr=blogloc"> Japanese Censorship Collection</A> (1000+ works submitted to imperial censors in the early 20th century) <LI> <A HREF="http://dl.ndl.go.jp/"> National Diet Library Digital Collections</A> (hundreds of thousands of digital documents, mostly in Japanese) </UL> <LI> Korean: <UL> <LI> <A HREF="https://rmda.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/collection/kawai"> Kawai Collection</A> (digitized Korean classical manuscripts and books) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.nl.go.kr/english/search/full_text_db.jsp"> National Library of Korea Digitized Materials</A> (mostly in Korean) </UL> <LI> Ladino (Judeo-Spanish): <A HREF="https://content.lib.washington.edu/sephardicweb/index.html"> Sephardic Studies Digital Collection</A> (at the University of Washington) <LI> Maori: <A HREF="http://www.nzdl.org/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=p&p=about&c=niupepa"> Maori Niupepa Collection</A> (newspapers written for Maori audience, 1842-1932) <LI> Mayan: <a href="http://www.famsi.org/mayawriting/codices/index.html">Maya Hieroglyphic Writing: The Ancient Codices</a> <LI> Polish: <UL> <LI> <A HREF="http://staropolska.gimnazjum.com.pl/"> Staropolska</A> (Old Polish literature) <LI> <A HREF="http://monika.univ.gda.pl/~literat/books.htm"> Wirtualna Biblioteka Literatury Polskiej</A> (Virtual Library of Polish Literature) </UL> <LI> Portuguese: <UL> <LI> <A HREF="http://ebooksbrasil.org/"> ebooksbrasil</A> (Brazilian literature, mostly Portuguese) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.jornaldepoesia.jor.br/"> Jornal de Poesia</A> (Portuguese poetry) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.literaturabrasileira.ufsc.br/"> Literatura Brasileira: Digital Library of Portuguese-Language Literature</A> <LI> <A HREF="http://alfarrabio.di.uminho.pt/vercial/programas.htm"> Projecto Vercial</A> (Portuguese authors and literature) </UL> <LI> Romanian: <ul> <LI> <A HREF="http://restitutio.bcub.ro/">Restitutio</A> (digital platform of 'Carol I' Central University Library in Bucharest) </ul> <LI> Russian: <ul> <LI> <A HREF="http://armenianhouse.org/index-ru.html">Armenian House Library</A> (Russian section) </ul> <LI> Sanskrit: <UL> <LI> <A HREF="http://www.dvaita.net/">Dvaita Text Resources</A> (classic Hindu texts) <LI> <A HREF="http://vedicreserve.mum.edu/">Reading the Vedic Literature in Sanskrit</A> (at Maharishi University) <LI> <A HREF="http://sanskritdocuments.org/">Sanskrit Documents</A> (archive, index, and forum) </UL> <LI> Scandinavian Languages: <A HREF="http://runeberg.org/"> Project Runeberg</A> (from Sweden) <LI> Serbian (see also South Slavic Languages): <A HREF="http://www.rastko.org.rs/"> Projekat Rastko</A> (Serbian texts and images) <LI> Scots/Scottish: <A HREF="http://www.scottishcorpus.ac.uk/"> Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech</A> (in the UK; also has English) <LI> Slovak: <A HREF="http://zlatyfond.sme.sk/">Zlatý Fond</A> (in Slovakia) <LI> Slovenian (see also South Slavic Languages): <UL> <LI> <A HREF="http://bos.zrc-sazu.si/main_si_l2.html"> Beseda: Virtualna Slovenska Knjigarna</A> <LI> <A HREF="http://www.ijs.si/lit/leposl.html"> Slovenian texts</A> (in Slovenia) </UL> <LI> South Slavic languages (see also Serbian, Slovenian, etc.): <UL> <LI> <A HREF="http://library.borut.eu/"> Virtual South Slavic Literature Library</A> </UL> <LI> Spanish: <UL> <LI> <A HREF="http://cervantesvirtual.com/"> Biblioteca Virtual Miguel De Cervantes</A> (Spanish texts; JavaScript-dependent) <LI> <A HREF="http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/"> CLACSO</A> (social science books in Spanish) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.elaleph.com/">Elaleph</A> (Spanish-language PDF texts) <LI> <A HREF="http://parnaseo.uv.es/Lemir/Textos/index.htm">Textos Lemir</A> (medieval Spanish texts) </UL> <LI> Sumerian: <a href="https://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/">Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature</a> (at Oxford) <LI> Swahili: <ul> <li> <a href="http://lpca.socsci.uva.nl/aps/index.html">Archives of Popular Swahili</a> <li> <a href="http://www.christadelphian.or.tz/materials/swahili">Swahili Christadelphian literature</a> </ul> <LI> Syriac: <A HREF="http://lib.byu.edu/digital/cua/"> Syriac Studies Reference Library</A> (at BYU; also includes texts in Latin and other languages) <LI> Tamil: <UL> <LI> <A HREF="http://www.projectmadurai.org/"> Project Madurai</A> <LI> <A HREF="http://tamildigitallibrary.in/"> Tamil Virtual Library</A> </UL> <LI> Tibetan: <ul> <li> <A HREF="https://archive.org/details/buddhist-digital-resource-center"> Buddhist Digital Resource Center</A> (Collection of Buddhist literature, mostly in Tibetan) <li> <A HREF="http://dharmacloud.tsadra.org/"> Timeless Treasuries</A> (Tibetan Buddhist literature from the Tsadra Foundation) </ul> <LI> Turkish: <ul> <li> <A HREF="http://aton.ttu.edu/"> Uysal-Walker Archive of Turkish Oral Narrative</A> (at Texas Tech) <li> <A HREF="https://www.wikilala.com/"> Wikilala</A> (digitized Ottoman Turkish documents) </ul> <LI> Ukrainian: <A HREF="http://sites.utoronto.ca/elul/"> Electronic Library of Ukrainian Literature</A> (at Toronto) <LI> Welsh: <ul> <li> <A HREF="http://www.testunau.org/"> Llyfrgell Owen</A> (online library of Welsh-language texts) <li> <A HREF="https://www.llgc.org.uk/discover/digital-gallery/printed-material/"> National Library of Wales Digital Gallery</A> (online materials in Welsh and English) </ul> <LI> Yiddish: <UL> <LI> <A HREF="https://sites.google.com/site/mendeledervaylik/library">Mendele Yiddish Texts</A> <LI> <A HREF="https://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/collections/digital-yiddish-library">Yiddish Book Center Digital Yiddish Library</A> (11,000+ titles via archive.org) <LI> <A HREF="http://yizkor.nypl.org/">Yizkor Books</A> (Holocaust memorial books; at NYPL) </UL> </UL> <hr> <h2 id="specialty">Specialty Archives</h2> <p class="ctr"> These are listed by category: <br> <A HREF="#academic">Academic Presses and Institutions</A> -- <A HREF="#agriculture">Agriculture</A> -- <A HREF="#arch">Architecture</A> -- <A HREF="#art">Art and Crafts</A> -- <A HREF="#audio">Audio</A> -- <A HREF="#black">Blacks</A> -- <A HREF="#books">Books, Printing, and Publishing</A> -- <A HREF="#children">Children</A> -- <A HREF="#comics">Comics and Graphic Novels</A> -- <A HREF="#computing">Computing</A> -- <A HREF="#dissertations">Dissertations</A> -- <A HREF="#drama">Drama</A> -- <A HREF="#economics">Economics</A> -- <A HREF="#film">Film, Televison, and Radio</A> -- <A HREF="#folklore">Folklore</A> -- <A HREF="#history">Historical</A> -- <A HREF="#homeec">Home Economics</A> -- <A HREF="#literary">Literary</A> -- <A HREF="#military">Military</A> -- <A HREF="#music">Music and Dance</A> -- <A HREF="#new">New Original Works</A> -- <A HREF="#occult">Occult and Paranormal</A> -- <A HREF="#philosophy">Philosophy</A> -- <A HREF="#poetry">Poetry</A> -- <A HREF="#politics">Politics, Government, Law</A> -- <A HREF="#portable">Portable Reader Editions</A> -- <A HREF="#regional">Regional</A> -- <A HREF="#religion">Religion</A> -- <A HREF="#science">Science, Technology, Social Science and Math</A> -- <A HREF="#sf">Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror</A> -- <A HREF="#serials">Serials</A> -- <A HREF="#sports">Sports, Games and Recreation</A> -- <A HREF="#textbooks">Textbooks and Instructional Materials</A> -- <A HREF="#women">Women</A> </p> <h3 id="academic">Academic Presses and Institutions</h3> Some presses and academic institutions have put a substantial number of free online books on their site. They are listed below. <ul> <li> <a href="http://epress.anu.edu.au/">ANU Press</a> (800+ open access ebooks, with print copies for sale, from the Australian National University) <li> <a href="http://www.aupress.ca/">AU Press</a> (100+ open access ebooks in English and French, with print copies for sale, from the Athabasca University in Canada) <li> <a href="https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/search?newSearchRecord&browse&product=bloomsburyOpenAccess">Bloomsbury Open Access Titles</a> (190+ open access academic books) <li> <a href="https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/open-access-titles">Bristol University Press</a> (40+ open access books) <li> <a href="https://authors.library.caltech.edu/view/types/book.html">CaltechAUTHORS books</a> (200+ open access books from Caltech authors) <li> <a href="https://core.ac.uk/">CORE</a> (aggregation of millions of open access research texts, including some books) <li> <a href="http://www.digitalculture.org/books/">Digital Culture Books</a> (50+ free current and recent titles from the University of Michigan Press) <li> <a href="http://www.doabooks.org/">Directory of Open Access Books</a> (17,000+ open access academic books from 300+ publishers; JavaScript required) <li> <a href="http://fordham.bepress.com/press/">Fordham University Press</a> (40+ open access backlist books) <LI> <a HREF="https://repository.library.georgetown.edu/handle/10822/549395">Georgetown University Publications</A> (80+ volumes from Georgetown University Press, many from Georgetown's Round Table on Languages and Linguistics) <li> <a href="http://www.gutenberg-e.org/">Gutenberg-e</a> (36 open access monographs from Columbia University Press and the American Historical Association) <li> <a href="http://about.jstor.org/open-access?cid=eml_jb_OA_10_2016">JSTOR Open Access eBooks</a> (5000+ titles from various academic publishers, many also available on publisher sites) <li> <a href="https://www.manchesteropenhive.com/">Manchester Openhive</a> (200+ open access books, 3 open access journals) <li> <a href="https://publishing.monash.edu/books/open-access/">Monash University Publishing</a> (60+ open access books) <li> <a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/open-access">MIT Press Open</a> (100+ open access books) <li> <a href="http://www.nap.edu/">National Academies Press</a> (9000+ free online books in sciences and social sciences) <li> <a href="http://openaccessbooks.nyupress.org/">NYU Press Open Square</a> (70+ titles, mostly from the 1990s) <li> <a href="http://oapen.org/home">OAPEN Library</a> (9000+ open access books in humanities and social sciences from various scholarly publishers) <li> <a href="https://ohiostatepress.org/books/Openaccess.htm">Ohio State University Press Open Access initiative</a> (70+ free online books in humanities and social sciences; additional free OSU Press titles, mixed in with some information on recent in-print books not yet online, are <a href="https://kb.osu.edu/dspace/handle/1811/131">here</a>) <li> <a href="https://about.muse.jhu.edu/muse/open-access-overview/">Project MUSE Open Access books and journals</a> (1800+ books and 5 journals from various university presses) <li> <a href="https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/purduepress_ebooks/index.html">Purdue University Press Books</a> (50+ open access titles) <li> <a href="https://www.springeropen.com/books">SpringerOpen open access books</a> (about 1000 titles published 2010-present) <li> <a href="https://open.sydneyuniversitypress.com.au/index.html">Sydney Open Library</a> (50+ open access titles from Sydney University Press) <li> <a href="https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-press">UCL Press</a> (University College London: 30+ free academic books) <li> <a href="http://www.adelaide.edu.au/press/titles/">University of Adelaide Press</a> (40+ free academic books) <LI> <A HREF="https://dspace.ucalgary.ca/handle/1880/100115"> University of Calgary Press Open Access Books</A> (100+ titles) <li> University of California Press: <ul> <li> <a href="https://www.luminosoa.org/">Luminos</a> (70+ post-2014 books, released open access upon publication) <li> <a href="https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/">UC Press E-Books 1982-2004</a> (700+ free pre-2005 books under "public books" advanced search option) </ul> <li> <a href="http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/cgi-bin/meta.cgi?format=dlg&query=Coll:ugapressbks">University of Georgia Press Georgia History Ebooks</a> (49 books on Georgia history, mostly mid-20th century) <li> <a href="https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/communities/e2314e3c-1aaa-4920-8b96-e91242765dd7">University of Hawaii Press</a> (80+ open access books and journals) <li> <a href="https://www.fulcrum.org/michigan?f%5Bopen_access_sim%5D%5B%5D=yes">University of Michigan Press Open Access</a> (200+ free academic books) <li> <a href="https://publishing.lib.umn.edu/">University of Minnesota Library Publishing Services</a> (journals, books, textbooks) <li> <a href="https://manifold.umn.edu/">University of Minnesota Press Open Access titles</a> (150+ free scholarly monographs) <li> <a href="https://ruor.uottawa.ca/handle/10393/12941">University of Ottawa Press Open Access Publications</a> (80+ open access books, in English and French) <li> <a href="https://digital.library.pitt.edu/collection/university-pittsburgh-press-digital-editions">University of Pittsburgh Press Digital Editions</a> (700+ free scholarly monographs, 1938-2004) <li> <a href="http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/usupress_pubs/">Utah State University Press Publications</a> (100+ free scholarly monographs) <li> <a href="https://wayne.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/wayne-open">Wayne Open Books</a> (50+ free academic books) </ul> <h3 id="agriculture">Agriculture</h3> <UL> <LI> <A HREF="http://chla.library.cornell.edu/"> Core Historical Literature of Agriculture</A> (at Cornell) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/historicpublications/"> Historical Publications of the Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station</A> (at Kansas State) </UL> <h3 id="arch">Architecture</h3> <UL> <LI> <A HREF="http://archnet.org/library/">Archnet Digital Library</A> <LI> <A HREF="https://archive.org/details/buildingtechnologyheritagelibrary&tab=collection">Building Technology Heritage Library</A> (pre-1964 US and Canadian architecture and building literature) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.ncmodernist.org/library.htm">US Modernist</A> (modernist architecture magazines of the mid-20th century) </UL> <h3 id="art">Art and Crafts</h3> <UL> <LI> <A HREF="https://www.antiquepatternlibrary.org/"> Antique Pattern Library</a> (public domain needlework pattern books) <LI> <A HREF="https://www.aci-iac.ca/art-books/"> Canadian Online Art Book Project</a> (60+ recent books on Canadian art and artists) <LI> <A HREF="https://libraries.psu.edu/about/collections/english-emblem-book-project/emblem-books"> Digital Emblem Books</A> (at Penn State) <LI> <A HREF="https://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/DLDecArts"> Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture</A> (at Wisconsin) <LI> <A HREF="https://www.getty.edu/publications/virtuallibrary/index.html"> Getty Publications Virtual Library</A> (300+ books from the Getty Museum and Institutes) <LI> <A HREF="https://oa.letterformarchive.org/"> Letterform Online Archive</A> (open access to digitized publications with distinctive design or typography) <LI> <A HREF="https://www.metmuseum.org/met-publications/all?waysToRead=downloadPdf%2CreadOnlinehttps://www.metmuseum.org/met-publications/all?waysToRead=downloadPdf%2CreadOnline"> MetPublications: Titles with downloadable PDFs and/or full-text online</A> (exhibition catalogues and other free online books from the Metropolitan Museum of Art) <LI> <A HREF="https://www2.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/weavedocs.html"> On-Line Digital Archive of Weaving Documents</A> (at Arizona) <LI> <A HREF="https://www.iampeth.com/content.aspx?page_id=22&club_id=765903&module_id=662602"> Rare Books on Calligraphy and Penmanship</A> (at the Internet Archive via iampeth.com) </UL> <h3 id="audio">Audio</h3> <UL> <LI> <A HREF="http://librivox.org/"> LibriVox</A> (hear public domain books read aloud, and contribute your own readings) <LI> <A HREF="http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/"> PennSound</A> (literary readings) <LI> Project Gutenberg's <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/categories/1">human-read</a> and <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/categories/2">machine-generated</a> audio titles <LI> <A HREF="https://www.storynory.com/"> Storynory</A> (audio books for children) </UL> <h3 id="black">Black Writers and Subjects</h3> <UL> <LI> <A HREF="http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19/toc.html"> Digital Schomburg African American Women Writers of the 19th Century</A> (at nypl.org) <LI> <A HREF="http://metalab.unc.edu/docsouth/neh/neh.html">North American Slave Narratives</A> (at UNC) <LI> <A HREF="http://metalab.unc.edu/docsouth/church/index.html">The Church in the Southern Black Community</A> (at UNC) </UL> <h3 id="books">Books, Printing, and Publishing</h3> <UL> <LI> <A HREF="http://www.oakknoll.com/digitalbooks.php"> Digital Books About Books</A> (listing at Oak Knoll) <LI> <A HREF="https://libraries.psu.edu/about/collections/english-emblem-book-project/emblem-books"> Digital Emblem Books</A> (at Penn State) <LI> <A HREF="http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/reading/"> Reading: Harvard Views of Readers, Readership, and Reading History</A> (with hundreds of online books about books and reading) </UL> <h3 id="children">Children's Literature</h3> <UL> <LI> <A HREF="http://ufdc.ufl.edu/Baldwin/all"> Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature</A> (~6000 digitized books at University of Florida) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.bibli.org/"> Bibli's Bookshelf</A> (designed with developmental disabilities in mind; JavaScript required) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.childrensbooksonline.org/"> Children's Books Online: The Rosetta Project</A> <LI> <A HREF="http://c.web.umkc.edu/crossonm/zzz-online_versions.htm"> Children's Series Books Available Online</A> (index at umkc.edu) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.gatewaytotheclassics.com/home.php"> Gateway to the Classics</A> (~400 classic children's books, 1880-1922, free to read; others by subscription) <LI> <A HREF="http://hockliffe.dmu.ac.uk/home.html"> Hockliffe Project</A> (hundreds of early British children's books) <LI> <A HREF="http://en.childrenslibrary.org/index.shtml"> International Children's Digital Library</A> <LI> <A HREF="https://www.loc.gov/collections/childrens-book-selections/"> Library of Congress Children's Book Selections</A> (70 titles) <LI> <A HREF="http://palmm.fcla.edu/juv/"> Literature for Children</a> (70+ rare titles, most from late 19th century, at FCLA) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.merrycoz.org/BOOKS.HTM"> Nineteenth-Century American Children and What They Read</A> (edited by Pat Pflieger) <LI> <A HREF="https://archive.org/details/yrlsc_childrens"> UCLA Children's Book Collection</A> (1800+ selected books on the Internet Archive) </UL> <h3 id="comics">Comics and Graphic Novels</h3> <UL> <LI> <A HREF="https://digitalcomicmuseum.com/"> Digital Comic Museum</A> (public domain comic books; free registration required only for issue downloads) <LI> <A HREF="https://www.comicsfanzines.co.uk/"> Fanscene</A> (comics fanzines online) </UL> <h3 id="computing">Computing</h3> <UL> <LI> <A HREF="http://www.atariarchives.org/"> Atariarchives.org</A> (classic personal computing books and articles from the 1970s and 1980s) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.atarimagazines.com/"> Classic Computer Magazine Archive</A> (lots of information about 1970s-1990s microcomputers) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.flightsimbooks.com/"> FlightSimBooks</A> (books about computer flight simulators) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.techtoolblog.com/archives/195-free-online-programming-books"> Free Online Programming Books</A> (from Techtoolblog) <LI> <A HREF="https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/mssmallbiz/2017/07/11/largest-free-microsoft-ebook-giveaway-im-giving-away-millions-of-free-microsoft-ebooks-again-including-windows-10-office-365-office-2016-power-bi-azure-windows-8-1-office-2013-sharepo/"> Microsoft eBook Giveaway</A> (300+ titles on Microsoft technologies; not clear if persistent) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/"> Open Books Project</A> (at O'Reilly) </UL> <h3 id="dissertations">Dissertations and Theses</h3> <UL> <LI> <A HREF="http://ethos.bl.uk/"> EThOS: Electronic Theses Online Service</A> (thousands of British theses and dissertations; registration required; payment may be required for digitization of theses not yet in digital form; may be down in 2024 due to recent cyberattack) <LI> <A HREF="https://ndltd.org/"> Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations</A> (millions of free online theses and dissertations, and links to other major thesis sites) <LI> <A HREF="https://oatd.org/"> Open Access Theses and Dissertations</a> (search for over 7 million free theses and dissertations from around the world) </UL> <h3 id="drama">Drama</h3> <UL> <LI> <A HREF="http://drama.pepperdine.edu/19C/">19th Century Playtext Database</A> (at Pepperdine) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.folkplay.info/Texts.htm">Historical Database of Folk Play Scripts</A> (compiled by Peter Millington) <LI> <a href="http://contentdm.warwick.ac.uk/cdm/">Marandet Collection of French Plays</A> (several digitized collections from before 1789 through 1835; at Warwick) <LI> <a href="http://victorian.nuigalway.ie/modx/">Victorian Plays Project</A> (350+ 19th century play scripts) </UL> <h3 id="economics">Economics</h3> <UL> <LI> <A HREF="https://historyofeconomicthought.mcmaster.ca/"> History of Economic Thought Archives</A> (at McMaster) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.nzdl.org/gsdlmod?a=p&p=about&c=hdl"> Humanity Development Library</A> (at NZ Digital Library; may not be currently maintained) <LI> <A HREF="https://www.idrc.ca/en/resources/publications"> International Development Research Centre</A> (free online books selection; in Canada) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.econlib.org/"> Library of Economics and Liberty</A> (at econlib.org) </UL> <h3 id="film">Film, Television, and Radio</h3> <UL> <li> <A HREF="https://www.histv.net/anthologie-des-premiers-textes">Histoire de la Television</A> (articles and books on early television history, in French and English) <LI> <A HREF="http://mediahistoryproject.org/">Media History Digital Library</A> (hundreds of books and dozens of magazines from 19th and 20th centuries) </UL> <h3 id="folklore">Folklore</h3> <UL> <LI> <A HREF="http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/mb?a=listis;c=992786597;sort=title_a;pn=1;lmt=ft">Folklore From Indiana University</A> (13,000+ volumes fully viewable online, mostly older) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.folkplay.info/Texts.htm">Historical Database of Folk Play Scripts</A> (compiled by Peter Millington) </UL> <h3 id="history">Historical</h3> This section includes general or wide-area historical archives and indexes. For sites that focus on a particular country, state, or region, see the <a href="#regional">regional</a> section. <UL> <LI> <A HREF="https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/cgi-bin/bluemtn"> Blue Mountain Project</A> (Historic avant-garde periodicals; at Princeton) <LI> British Library <A HREF="http://www.bl.uk/treasures/treasuresinfull.html">Treasures in Full</A> and <A HREF="http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Default.aspx">Digitised Manuscripts</A> <LI> <A HREF="http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/"> Center of Military History</A> (historical books and documents by the US Army) <LI> <A HREF="https://www.cwis.org/chief-george-manuel-memorial-indigenous-library/"> Chief George Manuel Memorial Indigenous Library</A> (Indigenous studies digital documents; at cwis.org) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.deremilitari.org/"> De Re Militari</A> (medieval military history) <LI> <A HREF="https://digitizedmedievalmanuscripts.org/"> Digitized Medieval Manuscripts</A> (index of 500+ libraries with digitized manuscripts) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.disabilitymuseum.org/lib/"> Disability History Museum Library</A> (books, images, and other artifacts) <LI> <A HREF="http://eada.lib.umd.edu/"> Early Americas Digital Archive</A> (at Maryland) <LI> <A HREF="http://etana.org/coretexts"> ETANA Core Texts</A> (Near Eastern text archive) <LI> <A HREF="https://manuscrits-france-angleterre.org/polonsky/en/content/accueil-en"> France-Angleterre, 700-1200</A> (800 medieval manuscripts) <li> <a href="https://news.google.com/newspapers">Google News newspapers</a> (most are historic and from the US and Canada, but some are newer or from elsewhere) <LI> <A HREF="https://historyofeconomicthought.mcmaster.ca/"> History of Economic Thought Archives</A> (at McMaster)  <LI> <A HREF="http://webatomics.com/Classics/"> The Internet Classics Archive</A> (Greek and Roman texts) <LI> <A HREF="https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/"> Internet History Sourcebooks</A> (at Fordham) <LI> <A HREF="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/home.html"> LacusCurtius: Into the Roman World</A> (history of ancient Rome: at Chicago) <LI> <A HREF="http://libro.uca.edu/"> Libro</A> (Iberian historical resources, at the Univ. of Central Arkansas) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.luminarium.org/lumina.htm"> The Luminarium</A> (medieval - 17th century English literature) <LI> <A HREF="http://mcllibrary.org/"> The Medieval and Classical Literature Library</A> (at mcllibrary.org) <LI> <A HREF="https://archive.org/details/columbiamrlpamphlets"> Missionary Research Library Pamphlets</A> (3000+ works about various parts of the world, from Columbia) <LI> <A HREF="http://digital.library.pitt.edu/nietz/"> Nineteenth Century Schoolbooks</A> (at Pitt) <LI> <A HREF="https://sites.google.com/site/onlinedirectorysite/"> Online Historical Directories</A> (and newspaper links; most free, some by subscription) <LI> <A HREF="http://the-orb.arlima.net/library.html"> ORB Library</A> (medieval texts) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/"> Perseus Project</A> (classical Greek texts in translation; at Tufts) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.luminarium.org/renascence-editions/ren.htm"> Renascence Editions</A> (16th-18th century texts, ed. by Richard Bear) <LI> <A HREF="http://dlxs.library.cornell.edu/m/mayantislavery/"> Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection</A> (thousands of pamphlets at Cornell) <LI> <A HREF="http://digital.library.northwestern.edu/schulze.html"> Schulze-Greenleaf Library</A> (250+ 16th-century printed books; at Northwestern) <LI> <A HREF="https://dpul.princeton.edu/lapidus"> Sid Lapidus Collection on Liberty and the American Revolution</A> (2700+ books and other documents, mostly British and American) <LI> <A HREF="https://fau.digital.flvc.org/islandora/object/fau%3Aallweiner"> Spirit of America Digital Collection</A> (800+ 18th century pamphlets and almanacs, mostly imported from outside America) <LI> <A HREF="http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/vwwp/welcome.do"> Victorian Women Writers Project</A> (at Indiana) <LI> <A HREF="http://digital.library.cornell.edu/w/witch/"> Witchcraft Collection</A> (at Cornell) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.wdl.org/en/"> World Digital Library</A> (digitized heritage materials from all countries) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/"> World War I Document Archive</A> (at BYU) <LI> <A HREF="http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/print/search.html?q=World+War+I+Pamphlet+Collection&qt=dla-standard"> World War I Pamphlet Collection</A> (at Penn) <LI> <A HREF="http://yizkor.nypl.org/">Yizkor Books</A> (Holocaust memorial books; at NYPL) </UL> <h3 id="homeec">Home Economics</h3> <UL> <LI> <A HREF="https://archive.org/details/cbk?tab=collection"> Cookbooks and Home Economics</A> (10,000+ books from various California libraries; at archive.org) <LI> <A HREF="https://d.lib.msu.edu/fa"> Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project</A> (at MSU) <LI> <A HREF="https://bipadi.ub.edu/digital/collection/fonsgrewe"> Fons Grewe</A> (cookery and other books at Barcelona; multilingual texts and interface) <LI> <A HREF="https://portal.getty.edu/virtualcollections#vc-Cookbook%20Collection%20(Getty%20Research%20Institute)"> Getty Research Institute Cookbook Collection</A> (100+ titles from the 15th to 20th centuries) <LI> <A HREF="https://digital.library.cornell.edu/collections/hearth"> HEARTH</A> (home economics and related disciplines; at Cornell) </UL> <h3 id="literary">Literary</h3> See also <A HREF="#history">historical</A> (for literature from a certain period), and <A HREF="#new">new original works</A> (for web-published literature) and <A HREF="#poetry">poetry</A>.  <UL> <LI> <A HREF="http://www.erbzine.com/mag18/indexape.htm"> The Ape-Man: His Kith and Kin</A> (literary and nonfiction precursors to <cite>Tarzan</cite>, edited by Georges Dodds) <LI> <A HREF="https://adc.library.usyd.edu.au/index.jsp?page=home"> Australian Digital Collections</A> (at U-Sydney) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/cphome.stm"> Camelot Project</A> (Arthurian texts; at Rochester) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.apfa.esrc.unimelb.edu.au/home.html"> Colonial Australian Popular Fiction: A Digital Archive</A> (at Melbourne) <LI> <A HREF="http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/dp/pennies/home.html"> Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls</A> (at Stanford) <LI> <A HREF="https://www.exclassics.com/">The Ex-Classics Web Site</A> (100+ transcriptions of once-popular books) <LI> <A HREF="https://www.lib.umn.edu/clrc/digital-dime-novels"> Hess Collection Sample Dime Novels</A> (at UMN) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.yorku.ca/inpar/"> In Parentheses</A> (PDF files of world literature; in Canada) <LI> <A HREF="https://minorvictorianwriters.org.uk/index.htm"> Minor Victorian Poets and Authors</A> (in the UK) <LI> <A HREF="http://dimenovels.lib.niu.edu/"> Nickels and Dimes</A> (1800+ dime novels, 1860-1915; at Northern Illinois University) <LI> <A HREF="http://pulpgen.com/pulp/downloads/index.html"> Online Pulps</A> (index of pulp fiction at pulpgen.com) <LI> <A HREF="https://prosody.princeton.edu/"> Princeton Prosody Archive</A> (thousands of books on the study of language and poetry) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/"> Sur La Lune Fairy Tales</A> (folktales from around the world republished, annotated and discussed) <LI> <A HREF="https://readallaboutit.com.au/"> To Be Continued... The Australian Newspaper Fiction Database</a> (serialized literature from Trove) <LI> <A HREF="https://wdl.mcdaniel.edu/"> The Westminster Detective Library</A> (American short detective fiction prior to 1891) <LI> <A HREF="https://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/TEIgeneral/welcome.do?brand=wright"> Wright American Fiction, 1851-1875</A> (at Indiana) <LI> <A HREF="https://yellowbacks.digitalscholarship.emory.edu/"> Yellowbacks</A> (19th century British mass-market novels; at Emory) </UL> <h3 id="military">Military</h3> <UL> <LI> <A HREF="http://www.maxwell.af.mil/au/aul/aupress/"> Air University Press</A> (books on air, space, and the military, most downloadable) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/"> Center of Military History</A> (historical books and documents by the US Army) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.deremilitari.org/"> De Re Militari</A> (medieval military history) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.hillsdale.edu/academics/history/War/index.htm"> Documents in Military History</A> (300+ historical documents at Hillsdale) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.adtdl.army.mil/"> General Dennis J. Reimer Training and Doctrine Digital Library</A> (army field manuals, etc.) <LI> <A HREF="http://napoleonic-literature.com/"> Napoleonic Literature</A> (including online books on his military campaigns) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.ndu.edu/inss/books/book_titles.htm"> National Defense University Online Books</A> </UL> <h3 id="music">Music and Dance</h3> <UL> <LI> <A HREF="https://www.loc.gov/collections/dance-instruction-manuals-from-1490-to-1920/about-this-collection/"> An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals, ca. 1490-1920</A> (at Library of Congress) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/"> ChoralWiki / Choral Public Domain Library</A> (thousands of choral scores) <LI> <A HREF="http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/sheetmusic/"> Historic American Sheet Music</A> (3000+ pieces, 1850-1920: at Duke) <LI> <A HREF="http://imslp.org/wiki/"> IMSLP Petrucci Music Library</A> (500,000+ scores, 50,000+ recordings; in Canada) <LI> <A HREF="http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/inharmony/"> IN Harmony: Sheet Music From Indiana</A> (10,000+ pieces from various Indiana institutions) <LI> <A HREF="https://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/"> Lester S. Levy Sheet Music Collection</A> (30,000+ pieces of American popular music; at Johns Hopkins) <LI> <A HREF="https://www.loc.gov/collections/?fa=original-format%3Anotated+music&c=80"> Library of Congress Digital Collections with sheet music</A> (40+ collections with over 100,000 pieces) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.mutopiaproject.org/"> Mutopia</A> (2,000+ newly formatted scores of classical music, free to reuse) <LI> <A HREF="http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/sheetmusic/">Sheet Music Consortium</A> (search for 250,000+ sheet music items from 40+ institutions) </UL> <h3 id="new">New Original Works</h3> These archives have substantial collections of material that has been first published first on the Net, or that appeared on the Web shortly after their original publication. See also Wikipedia's article on <A HREF="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_fiction">Web fiction</A>, which mentions or indirectly links to a number of sites featuring online writing from amateurs and professionals. <UL> <LI> <A HREF="http://www.theassayer.org/"> The Assayer</A> (review free titles from various sources) <LI> <A HREF="http://directory.eliterature.org/"> Electronic Literature Directory</A> (index of works written for the digital medium) <LI> <A HREF="http://newfreebooks.com/"> New Free Books</A> (fiction reissues and originals) </UL> <h3 id="occult">Occult and Paranormal</h3> <UL> <LI> <A HREF="http://www.iapsop.com/"> International Association for the Preservation of Spiritualist and Occult Periodicals</A> (up to the start of World War II) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/tup-onl.htm"> Theosophical University Press</A> (occult books from 19th and 20th centuries) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.esotericarchives.com/index.html">Twilit Grotto: Archives of Western Esoterica</A> (at esotericarchives.com) </UL> <h3 id="philosophy">Philosophy</h3> <UL> <LI> <A HREF="http://crvp.org/publications/publications.html">Council for Research in Values and Philosophy Publications</A> <LI> <A HREF="https://earlymoderntexts.com/">Early Modern Philosophy</A> (classic philosophy texts modernized and edited by Jonathan Bennett) <LI> <A HREF="http://capricorn.bc.edu/siepm/books.html">Electronic Resources for Medieval Philosophy Studies: Digitized Books</A> (mostly in Latin and other classical languages; at Boston College) <LI> <A HREF="http://philpapers.org/">PhilPapers: Online Research in Philosophy</A> (searches can be filtered to only include free online materials) </UL> <h3 id="poetry">Poetry</h3> <UL> <LI> <A HREF="http://www.ahapoetry.com/"> Aha! Poetry</A> (tanka, haiku, and other forms) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.hti.umich.edu/english/amverse/"> American Verse Project</A> (at Michigan) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/"> Australian Poetry Library</A> (over 700 books and many other poems and readings) <LI> <A HREF="http://canadianpoetry.org/"> Canadian Poetry</A> (at Western University) <LI> <A HREF="http://capa.conncoll.edu/"> Contemporary American Poetry Archive</A> (at Connecticut College) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/"> Eighteeenth Century Poetry Archive</A> (2000+ works and 200+ profiled authors) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.auburn.edu/~downejm/hyperepos.html"> HyperEpos</A> (index of online epic poetry) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.jornaldepoesia.jor.br/"> Jornal de Poesia</A> (Brazilian poetry) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.thing.net/~grist/l&d/lighthom.htm"> Light and Dust</A> (modern poetry) <LI> <A HREF="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems"> Poetry Foundation Archive</A> (thousands of poems, and poetry-related features) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.poetryintranslation.com/"> Poetry in Translation</A> (A. S. Kline's large collection of translations) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/"> Poets' Corner</A> (7000+ poems; edited by Steve Spanoudis) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.emule.com/poetry/"> The Poetry Archives</A> (5000+ poems; at emule.com) <li> <A HREF="https://www.rekhta.org/">Rekhta</a> (Urdu poetry) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.sonnets.org/"> Sonnet Central</A> (sonnets and criticism; edited by Eric Blomquist) </UL> <h3 id="politics">Politics, Government, Law</h3> <UL> <LI> <A HREF="https://africanactivist.msu.edu/"> African Activist Archive</A> (thousands of documents, images, and other materials on 20th century African political activism; at Michigan State) <LI> <A HREF="https://www.lib.msu.edu/branches/dmc/digital/?coll=1"> American Radicalism Collection</A> (at MSU) <LI> <A HREF="http://avalon.law.yale.edu/default.asp"> The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School</A> (historic law-related texts) <LI> <A HREF="https://catalog.gpo.gov/"> Catalog of U.S. Government Publications</A> (at GPO; includes digital and print) <LI> <A HREF="https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/"> CIA Freedom of Information Act Electronic Reading Room</A> (declassified CIA reports, documents, and histories) <LI> <A HREF="https://www.congress.gov/"> Congress.gov</A> (US laws and legislation; see also <a href="https://www.propublica.org/datastore/dataset/congressional-data-bulk-legislation-bills">US Congress Bulk Data Set on Bills</a>) <LI> Congressional Research Service reports: <a HREF="https://crsreports.congress.gov/">Official site</a> -- <a HREF="https://www.everycrsreport.com/">EveryCRSReport</a> <LI> <A HREF="http://www.modern-constitutions.de/nbu.php?page_id=cf2bf1a9ce737906a2cc483486798452"> Constitutions of the World Online</A> (1000+ constitutional documents; in Germany) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.cfr.org/publication/allreports.html"> Council on Foreign Relations reports</A> (250+ publications on US-international issues) <LI> <A HREF="http://library.indstate.edu/about/units/rbsc/debs/pamph2.html"> Debs collection of political pamphlets</A> (hundreds digitized from a collection of 2000+ print pamphlets; at Indiana State) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.marxisthistory.org/subject/usa/eam/index.html"> Early American Marxism</A> (covering 1864-1946; at marxisthistory.org) <LI> <A HREF="http://digital.library.lse.ac.uk/collections/fabiansociety"> Fabian Society Online Archive</A> (500+ British tracts, 1884-2000) <LI> <A HREF="https://repository.library.georgetown.edu/handle/10822/555527"> Georgetown Law Library digital collections</A> (historic legal dictionaries, law journals, etc.) <LI> <A HREF="https://www.govinfo.gov/"> GovInfo</A> (searchable index to US government documents) <LI> <A HREF="http://socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/law/hamlyn/lectures/archive/"> Hamlyn Lectures series</A> (law lectures, 1949-recent; in the UK) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.icrc.org/ihl.nsf"> International Humanitarian Law: Treaties and Documents</A> (at icrc.org) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.law.cornell.edu/"> Legal Information Institute</A> (index to law text resources; at Cornell) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.lehmanlaw.com/lib/lib/default.htm"> Lehman Lee Law Library</A> (Chinese laws and commentary) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.marxists.org/"> Marxists.org Internet Archive</A> (at marxists.org) <LI> <A HREF="http://oll.libertyfund.org/"> Online Library of Liberty</A> (1000+ full text books and pamphlets, sponsored by Liberty Fund, Inc.) <LI> <A HREF="http://opencrs.com/"> OpenCRS</A> (public access to research reports on current political events prepared for the US Congress) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.reasoninrevolt.net.au/">Reason in Revolt: Source Documents of Australian Radicalism</A> (in Australia) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.socialisthistory.ca/"> Socialist History Project</A> (primary sources and recent essays on Canadian socialism) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.spunk.org/"> Spunk Library</A> (anarchist and related texts; in the Netherlands) <LI> <A HREF="http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/t/trial/index.php"> Trial Pamphlets Collection</A> (contemporary accounts of 17th-19th century US trials; at Cornell) </UL> <h3 id="portable">Portable Reader Editions</h3> <UL> <LI> <A HREF="http://feedbooks.com/">Feedbooks</A> (thousands of public domain titles in EPub, Mobi, Kindle, and other formats) <LI> <A HREF="http://manybooks.net/">Manybooks.net</A> (over 25,000 titles formatted for PDAs, Kindles, Iphones, and other devices) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.mslit.com/default.asp?mjr=FRE">Microsoft Reader Free eBooks</A> (for PocketPC and Windows platforms; for-pay books also offered) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.webring.org/cgi-bin/webring?ring=pilot_text;list">PalmPilot E-Text Ring</A> (80+ sites featuring free or for-pay texts formatted for Palm readers) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.qvadis.com/exlibris/library.html">Qvadis Library</A> (free texts in proprietary Palm format; requires purchase of reader software) <LI> A few sites make many of their titles available in popular formats for portable devices, as well as standard Web formats. Notable sites in this category include  the <A HREF="http://www.baen.com/library/">Baen Free Library</A>. </UL> <h3 id="regional">Regional</h3> Books concerning various regions can also be found in general resources in the <a href="#history">historical</a> section. <UL> <li>Africa: <ul> <li>General and multinational: <ul> <LI> <A HREF="https://africanactivist.msu.edu/"> African Activist Archive</A> (thousands of documents, images, and other materials on 20th century African political activism; at Michigan State) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.issafrica.org/publications"> Institute for Security Studies publications</A> (on issues of crime and corruption in southern Africa) </ul> <li>Egypt: <ul> <LI> <A HREF="https://journals.ekb.eg/"> Egyptian journals</a> (free articles in 500+ titles, at Egyptian National Library and Archives) </ul> <li>South Africa: <ul> <LI> <A HREF="http://www.disa.ukzn.ac.za/"> Digital Innovation South Africa</a> (50+ online books and other media on the socio-political history of South Africa) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/library-resources/library-search.htm"> South African History Online</a> (online books and other historical materials) </ul> </ul> <li>Asia: <ul> <li>General and multinational: <ul> <LI> <A HREF="http://e-asia.uoregon.edu/">E-Asia Digital Library</A> (at Oregon) <LI> <A HREF="https://oi.uchicago.edu/research/catalog-publications">Oriental Institute Online Publications</A> (at Chicago) </ul> <li>Burma (Myanmar): <ul> <LI> <A HREF="https://mmdl.utoronto.ca/">Myanmar Manuscript Digital Library</A> (at the University of Toronto) </ul> <li>China: <ul> <LI> <A HREF="http://www.nlc.cn/newen/atbooks/"> Ancient Books</a> (thousands of digitized books and images at the National Library of China) <LI> <A HREF="https://www.loc.gov/collections/chinese-rare-books/"> Chinese Rare Book Digital Collection</A> (at the Library of Congress) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.lehmanlaw.com/lib/lib/default.htm"> Lehman Lee Law Library</A> (Chinese laws and commentary) <LI> <A HREF="http://lib.hku.hk/database/"> HKUL Digital initiatives</A> (includes a number of works on Hong Kong history, economy and government) </ul> <li>India: <ul> <LI> <A HREF="https://indianlabourarchives.org/"> Archives of Indian Labour</A> (documents on workers in India, 1931-present) <li> <A HREF="https://www.granthsanjeevani.com/jspui/">Granth Sanjeevani</a> (rare books and other historic materials, many in Indian languages) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.kkvlibrary.com/"> KKV Repository</A> (500+ digitized rare books related to India; downloads may be slow) <li> <A HREF="https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/"> National Digital Library of India</A> (registration required) </ul> <li>Israel: <ul> <LI> <A HREF="http://web.nli.org.il/sites/NLI/English/digitallibrary/Pages/default.aspx"> National Library of Israel Digital library</A> (texts, images, and other documents on Israel, Jews, and related subjects) </ul> <LI> Japan: <ul> <LI> <A HREF="https://kotenseki.nijl.ac.jp/?ln=en#"> Database of Pre-Modern Japanese Works</A> (from the National Institute of Japanese Literature) <LI> <A HREF="http://dl.ndl.go.jp/"> National Diet Library Digital Collections</A> (hundreds of thousands of digital documents, mostly in Japanese) </ul> <LI> Korea: <ul> <LI> <A HREF="https://rmda.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/collection/kawai"> Kawai Collection</A> (digitized Korean classical manuscripts and books) <li> <A HREF="http://www.nl.go.kr/english/search/full_text_db.jsp"> National Library of Korea Digitized Materials</A> (books, newspapers, and more; mostly in Korean) </ul> <LI> Persian Gulf region: <ul> <LI> <A HREF="https://www.qdl.qa/en"> Qatar Digital Library</A> (modern history and culture of the Gulf area, in English, Arabic, and other languages) </ul> <LI> Philippines: <ul> <li> <A HREF="http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/portales/literatura_filipina_en_espanol/"> Literatura Filipina en Español</A> (at Cervantes Virtual) <li> <A HREF="http://digilib.ust.edu.ph/"> Lumina Pandit II</A> (material related to the Philippines and the University of Santo Tomas) </ul> <LI> Singapore: <ul> <li> <A HREF="https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/printheritage/index.htm"> BookSG</a> (rare publications on Singapore and vicinity from the National Library of Singapore; most but not all free to read in full) </ul> <LI> Turkey / Ottoman Empire: <ul> <li> <A HREF="https://www.wikilala.com/"> Wikilala</A> (digitized printed texts from the Ottoman Empire) </ul> </ul> <li>Europe: <ul> <li>General and multinational: <ul> <LI> <A HREF="https://echo.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/home"> ECHO: European Cultural Heritage Online</A> (mostly history of science materials) <LI> <A HREF="https://www.europeana.eu/"> Europeana</A> (portal for books, images, music, and multimedia from European cultural institutions) <LI> <A HREF="https://manuscrits-france-angleterre.org/polonsky/en/content/accueil-en"> France-Angleterre, 700-1200</A> (800 medieval manuscripts from France and England) </ul> <li>Austria: <ul> <LI> <A HREF="http://anno.onb.ac.at/"> ANNO- Austrian Newspapers Online</A> (in German, from Österreichische Nationalbibliothek) </ul> <li>Belgium: <ul> <LI> <A HREF="http://belgica.kbr.be/fr/coll/jour/jour_fr.html"> Historic Belgian newspapers online</A> (in French and Dutch, from Belgian Royal Library) </ul> <li>Germany: <ul> <LI> <A HREF="http://zefys.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/list/"> ZEFYS</A> (historic German and German-language newspapers) </ul> <li>Hungary: <ul> <LI> <A HREF="https://www.hungarianhistory.com/"> Corvinus Library</A> (Hungarian historical books) </ul> <li>Ireland: <ul> <LI> <A HREF="https://celt.ucc.ie/"> CELT Project</A> (Irish electronic texts) <LI> <A HREF="https://repository.quinnipiac.edu/"> Ireland's Great Hunger Museum Database</A> (at Quinnipiac) <LI> <A HREF="https://www.isos.dias.ie/"> Irish Script on Screen</A> (digitized Irish manuscripts with commentary) </ul> <li>Poland: <ul> <LI> <A HREF="https://kpbc.ukw.edu.pl/dlibra"> Kujawsko-Pomorska Digital Library</A> (in Poland) <LI> <A HREF="https://www.sbc.org.pl/"> Silesian Digital Library</A> (in Polish, German, and English) </ul> <li>Spain: <ul> <LI> <A HREF="https://warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/archives_online/digital/scw/"> Trabajadores: The Spanish Civil War Through the Eyes of Organised Labour</A> (at Warwick) </ul> <li>United Kingdom: <ul> <LI> <A HREF="https://archive.org/details/bristol-record-society-collection"> Bristol Record Society</A> (300+ books and other texts related to the history of Bristol, England) <LI> <A HREF="https://www.british-history.ac.uk/"> British History Online</A> (digital library of medieval and modern British history) <LI> <A HREF="https://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/digital/collection/p16445coll4"> Historical Directories of England and Wales</A> (local and trade directories, 1750-1919) <LI> <A HREF="http://digital.nls.uk/histories-of-scottish-families"> Histories of Scottish Families</A> (from the National Library of Scotland) <LI> <A HREF="https://www.imuseum.im/newspapers/"> iMuseum Newspapers and Publications</A> (covering the Isle of Man, 1892-1960; may need to enter a search before being able to browse publications) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/"> Manx Note Book</A> (with full texts on the history of the Isle of Man) <LI> <A HREF="https://www.library.wales/catalogues-searching/catalogues/specialist-catalogues"> National Library of Wales Digital Resources</A> (Welsh and related materials) </ul> </ul> <li>North and Central America: <ul> <li>Canada: <ul> <LI> <A HREF="http://www.canadiana.org/"> Canadiana</A> (with texts in English and French, most free, some paywalled) <LI> <A HREF="https://www.aci-iac.ca/art-books/"> Canadian Online Art Book Project</a> (60+ recent books on Canadian art and artists) <LI> <A HREF="http://collections.mun.ca/"> Memorial University of Newfoundland Digital Archives</A> (featuring numerous texts on Newfoundland and Labrador and the maritime provinces) <LI> <A HREF="http://sabnewspapers.usask.ca/">Saskatchewan Historic Newspapers Online</A> (at usask.ca) <LI> <A HREF="https://archive.sdgcounties.ca/">SDG Newspaper and Photo Digitization Project</A> (historic newspapers from the United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario) <LI> <A HREF="https://library.ucalgary.ca/digital">University of Calgary Digital Collections</A> (includes several local history collections for Alberta and elsewhere in Canada) </ul> <li>Caribbean Area: <ul> <li> <A HREF="http://www.dloc.com/">Digital Library of the Caribbean</a> (at dloc.com) <li> <A HREF="http://dcdp.uoc.cw/">Dutch Caribbean Digital Platform</a> (includes both open and restricted-access digital materials, mostly in Dutch) </ul> <li>United States: <ul> <li> General: <ul> <LI> <A HREF="https://library.brown.edu/cds/temperance/"> Alcohol, Temperance, and Prohibition</A> (US anti-alcohol history, 1800s through 1933; at Brown) <LI> <A HREF="http://dlxs.richmond.edu/w/wtp/"> America at War, 1941-1945</A> (Army Talks and G.I. Roundtable pamphlets; at University of Richmond) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.americanjourneys.org/"> American Journeys: Eyewitness Accounts of Early American Exploration and Settlement</A> (at Wisconsin) <li> <a href="https://about.jstor.org/revealdigital/american-prison-newspapers/">American Prison Newspapers, 1800s-Present: Voices From the Inside</a> (open access at JSTOR) <LI> <A HREF="http://antislavery.eserver.org/"> Antislavery Literature</A> (historic and contemporary slavery narratives and commentary; at eserver.org) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/"> Center of Military History</A> (historical books and documents by the US Army) <LI> <A HREF="http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/"> Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers</a> (at Library of Congress) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.theancestorhunt.com/yearbooks.html"> College, University, and High School Yearbooks</A> (free yearbooks from schools around the US) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.marxisthistory.org/subject/usa/eam/index.html"> Early American Marxism</A> (covering 1864-1946; at marxisthistory.org) <LI> <A HREF="http://digitalcollections.smu.edu/all/cul/hgp/"> Historic Government Publications From World War II</A> (at Southern Methodist University) <LI> <A HREF="http://gethelp.library.upenn.edu/guides/hist/onlinenewspapers.html"> Historical Newspapers Online</a> (various US newspapers inside and outside the LC collection above) <LI> <A HREF="http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/immigration/"> Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930</A> (at Harvard) <LI> <A HREF="https://www.loc.gov/collections/japanese-american-internment-camp-newspapers/about-this-collection/"> Japanese-American Internment Camp Newspapers, 1942-1946</A> (at LC) <LI> <A HREF="https://loc.gov/collections"> Library of Congress Digital Collections</A> (historical texts and other media, mostly US-related) <LI> <A HREF="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moagrp/"> Making of America</A> (mid-19th century American texts) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.nps.gov/history/history/hisnps/"> National Park Service History</A> (at nps.gov) <LI> <A HREF="https://ufdc.ufl.edu/hnccoll"> NewspaperCat: Catalog of Digital Historical Newspapers</A> (from the US and the Caribbean; at the University of Florida) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.polyweb.net/library/"> Primary Source Documents Pertaining to North American History</A> <LI> <A HREF="http://dlxs.library.cornell.edu/m/mayantislavery/"> Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection</A> (thousands of pamphlets at Cornell) <LI> <A HREF="https://dpul.princeton.edu/lapidus"> Sid Lapidus Collection on Liberty and the American Revolution</A> (2700+ books and other documents, mostly British and American) <LI> <A HREF="https://www.loc.gov/collections/united-states-telephone-directory-collection/"> U.S. Telephone Directory Collection</A> (at the Library of Congress) <LI> <A HREF="http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ww/"> Women Working, 1870-1930</A> (women in the US economy; at Harvard) </ul> <li> US regions: <ul> <LI> South: <ul> <LI> <A HREF="http://docsouth.unc.edu/">Documenting the American South</A> (at UNC) <LI> <A HREF="http://jrshelby.com/sc-links/sc-texts.htm"> Online Library of the Southern Campaign of the American Revolution</A> (by John Robertson) </ul> <LI> West: <ul> <LI> <A HREF="http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/resources/archives/"> Archives of The West</A> (historical texts supplementing the PBS mini-series) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/mmarch.html"> Library of Western Fur Trade Historical Source Documents</A> (at xmission.com) </ul> </ul> <li> US states: <ul> <li> Alabama: <ul> <li> <a href="http://alabamamosaic.org/">Alabama Mosaic</a> </ul> <li> Arizona: <ul> <li> <a href="https://azmemory.azlibrary.gov/">Arizona Memory Project</a> </ul> <li> Colorado: <ul> <LI> <A HREF="http://www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org/"> Colorado Historic Newspapers</A> (75+ local papers from 19th-century Colorado) </ul> <li> Connecticut: <ul> <LI> <A HREF="http://cslib.cdmhost.com/cdm/">Connecticut State Library Digital Collections</A> (photos, books, and other materials from CT history) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.quinnipiac.edu/academics/arnold-bernhard-library/resources/e-texts/quinnipiacs-digitized-connecticut-history-books/"> Quinnipiac Digitized Connecticut History Books</A> </ul> <li> Florida: <ul> <LI> <A HREF="http://susdl.fcla.edu/fh/"> Florida Heritage Collection</A> (at fcla.edu) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/UFDC/"> University of Florida Digital Collections</A> (see the "Florida" subsection) </ul> <li> Georgia: <ul> <li> <a href="http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/">Digital Library of Georgia</a> <li> <a href="http://wgnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/wgnewspapers/search">West Georgia Historic Newspapers Archive</a> (6 papers collectively covering 1843-1942) </ul> <li> Hawaii: <ul> <LI> <A HREF="https://libweb.hawaii.edu//digicoll/newspapers.htm">Hawaiian Language Newspapers</A> (at hawaii.edu) <LI> <A HREF="http://ulukau.org/">Ulukau: The Hawaiian Electronic Library</A> </ul> <li> Illinois: <ul> <li> <a href="http://illinoisharvest.grainger.uiuc.edu/">Illinois Harvest</a> (at UIUC) <li> <a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/cdm/">Illinois Digital Archives</a> (digital collections Illinois State Library and other Illinois institutions) </ul> <li> Kansas: <ul> <LI> <A HREF="http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/archives/index.html"> Digital Skyways of the KSGenWeb</A> (genealogical resources) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.kancoll.org/"> Kansas Collection</A> (regional historical resources) </ul> <li> Kentucky: <ul> <LI> <A HREF="http://kdl.kyvl.org/"> Kentuckiana Digital Library</A> </ul> <li> Louisiana: <ul> <li> <a href="https://www.louisianadigitallibrary.org/">Louisiana Digital Library</a> </ul> <li> Minnesota: <ul> <li> <a href="https://www.mnhs.org/newspapers/hub">Minnesota Digital Newspaper Hub</a> (at Minnesota Historical Society) </ul> <li> Mississippi: <ul> <LI> <A HREF="http://www.msdiglib.net/"> Mississippi Digital Library</A> (includes local and civil rights history collections; at usm.edu) </ul> <li> Nevada: <ul> <li> <a href="https://unr.dgicloud.com/islandora/object/directories%3Aroot">Reno and Sparks city directories</a> </ul> <li> New Jersey: <ul> <LI> <A HREF="http://www.njdigitalhighway.org/"> New Jersey Digital Highway</A> (at Rutgers) <LI> <A HREF="https://www.njstatelib.org/research_library/services_for/state_government/dspace/"> New Jersey State Library Digital Collections</A> </ul> <li> New York: <ul> <LI> <A HREF="http://www.buffaloresearch.com/fulltext.html"> Buffalo Full Text</A> (index of online books related to Buffalo, NY and vicinity) <LI> <A HREF="http://digital.library.cornell.edu/n/nys/"> New York State Historical Literature Collection</A> (at Cornell) </ul> <li> North Carolina: <ul> <LI> <A HREF="http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/historyfiction/"> Eastern North Carolina Digital Library</A> (at ecu.edu) <LI> <A HREF="http://digital.ncdcr.gov/"> North Carolina Digital Collections</A> (various formats) </ul> <li> Ohio: <ul> <li> <a href="http://hdl.handle.net/2186/ksl:clevelandbooks">Books on Cleveland Collection</a> (at Case Western) <li> <a href="https://www.ohiomemory.org/">Ohio Memory: An Online Scrapbook of Ohio History</a> </ul> <li> Oregon: <ul> <LI> <A HREF="http://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/"> Historic Oregon Newspapers</A> (at the University of Oregon) <LI> <A HREF="http://soda.sou.edu/"> Southern Oregon Digital Archives</A> (at sou.edu) </ul> <li> Tennessee: <ul> <LI> <A HREF="http://historic-memphis.com/photobooks.html"> Memphis Photo Books</A> (from the early 20th century; at Historic Memphis) </ul> <li> Texas: <ul> <li> <a href="http://texashistory.unt.edu/">Portal to Texas History</a> (at University of North Texas) </ul> <li> Utah: <ul> <li> <a href="https://digitalnewspapers.org/">Utah Digital Newspapers</a> (at University of Utah) </ul> <li> Vermont: <ul> <li> <a href="https://dp.la/search?partner=%22Vermont%20Green%20Mountain%20Digital%20Archive%22">Vermont Green Mountain Digital Archive</a> (at DPLA) </ul> <li> Washington: <ul> <LI> <A HREF="https://washingtondigitalnewspapers.org/"> Washington Digital Newspapers</A> (at Washington State Library) </ul> <li> Wyoming: <ul> <li> <a href="http://www.wyonewspapers.org/">Wyoming Newspaper Project</a> </ul> </ul> </ul> </ul> <li>Oceania: <ul> <li>Australia: <ul> <LI> <A HREF="https://adc.library.usyd.edu.au/index.jsp?page=home"> Australian Digital Collections</A> (at U-Sydney) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.nla.gov.au/ferg/"> Australian Periodical Publications, 1840-1845</A> (at National Library of Australia) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.apfa.esrc.unimelb.edu.au/home.html"> Colonial Australian Popular Fiction: A Digital Archive</A> (at Melbourne) <LI> <A HREF="http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper"> Historic Australian Newspapers, 1803-1954</A> (at National Library of Australia) </ul> <li>New Zealand: <ul> <LI> <A HREF="http://www.enzb.auckland.ac.nz/"> Early New Zealand Books</a> (100+ books about New Zealand published in the 19th century) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.nzetc.org/"> New Zealand Electronic Text Centre</a> (full text books and other materials on New Zealand and South Pacific Islands; not all items are open access) <LI> <A HREF="http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/"> Papers Past</a> (19th and 20th century newspapers and periodicals from New Zealand) </ul> </ul> <li>South America: <ul> <li>Chile: <ul> <LI> <A HREF="http://www.memoriachilena.cl/"> Memoria Chilena</A> (Chilean historical books and other materials in Spanish) </ul> </ul> </UL> <h3 id="religion">Religion</h3> <UL> <LI> <A HREF="https://www.accesstoinsight.org/"> Access to Insight</A> (readings in Therevada Buddhism) <LI> <A HREF="https://www.al-islam.org/"> Ahlul Bayt Digital Islamic Library Project</A> (at al-islam.org) <LI> <A HREF="https://www.amazingfacts.org/media-library/read/c/1/t/free-book-library"> Amazing Facts Free Book Library</A> (Seventh-Day Adventist material) <LI> <A HREF="https://www.arsfloreat.nl/"> Ars Floreat</A> (spiritual texts in Dutch) <LI> <A HREF="https://bahai-library.com/"> Bahá'i Library Online</A> (at bahai-library.org) <LI> <A HREF="https://vedabase.io/en/"> Bhaktivedanta Vedabase</A> (Hare Krishna, other Eastern religion texts) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.buddhanet.net/ebooks.htm"> BuddhaNet eBook Library</A> (texts in PDF format) <li> <A HREF="https://archive.org/details/buddhist-digital-resource-center"> Buddhist Digital Resource Center</A> (follow link to site for more search options) <li> <A HREF="https://www.bps.lk/library.php"> Buddhist Publication Society On-Line Library</A> <LI> <A HREF="http://www.qhpress.org/catalog/"> Catalog of Old Quaker Writings (17th, 18th, and 19th Centuries)</A> (online and some print resources; at qhpress.org) <LI> <A HREF="https://www.chabad.org/books"> Chabad Lubavitch Books</A> (books on Hasidic Judaism) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.ccel.org/"> Christian Classics Ethereal Library</A> (at Calvin College) <LI> <A HREF="https://docsouth.unc.edu/church/">The Church in the Southern Black Community</A> (at UNC) <LI> <A HREF="https://esr.earlham.edu/dqc/"> Digital Quaker Collection</A> (at Earlham) <LI> <A HREF="https://www.swami-krishnananda.org/"> Divine Life Society</A> (writings on Hindu religion and philosophy) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.dvaita.net/">Dvaita Text Resources</A> (classic Hindu texts in Sanskrit) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.gnosis.org/library.html">The Gnostic Society Library</A> (at gnosis.org) <LI> <A HREF="http://wesley.nnu.edu/holiness-classics-library/"> Holiness Classics Library</A> (Christian books and articles at the Wesley Center) <LI> <A HREF="https://www.sacred-texts.com/index.htm"> Internet Sacred Text Archive</A> (various religions) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.intratext.com/"> IntraText Digital Library</A> (5000+ texts on religion and other subjects, multilingual) <LI> <A HREF="https://www.alislam.org/books/"> Islamic Books Library at alislam.org</A> (Ahmadiyya movement texts) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.jewishdigitalcollections.com/"> Jewish Digital Collections and Jewish Study Guides</A> (index by Diane Romm) <LI> <A HREF="http://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/judaica/nav/index/all"> Judaica collection of Goethe Universitat</A> (7000+ digitized texts, in German and various other languages) <LI> <A HREF="https://lollardsociety.org/?page_id=6"> Lollard Society Bibliographies</A> (200+ Lollard-related online books, plus many more citations) <LI> <A HREF="https://cf.uba.uva.nl/en/collections/rosenthaliana/menasseh/"> Menasseh Ben Israel collection</A> (17th century printings of Jewish texts; in the Netherlands) <LI> <A HREF="http://muggletonian.org.uk/"> Muggletonian.org.uk</A> (source materials and commentary on the 17th-century English religious movement) <LI> <A HREF="http://anglicanhistory.org/"> Project Canterbury</A> (Anglican history and related texts; at anglicanhistory.org) <LI> <A HREF="https://christian.net/pub/resources/text/wittenberg/wittenberg-home.html"> Project Wittenberg</A> (Lutheran texts; at Christian.net) <LI> <A HREF="https://vedicreserve.miu.edu/">Reading the Vedic Literature in Sanskrit</A> (at Maharishi International University) <LI> <A HREF="https://webfiles.acu.edu/departments/Library/HR/restmov_nov11/www.mun.ca/rels/restmov/subs/texts.html"> Restoration Movement texts </A> (at Abilene Christian University) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.voskrese.info/spl/index.html"> Saint Pachomius Library</A> (Orthodox and other Christian texts; at voskrese.info) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.infidels.org/library/"> Secular Web Library</A> (atheist and related literature; at infidels.org) <LI> <A HREF="https://www.sefaria.org/"> The Sefaria Library</A> (Jewish texts in Hebrew and other languages) <LI> <A HREF="https://content.lib.washington.edu/sephardicweb/index.html"> Sephardic Studies Digital Collection</A> (Ladino Jewish texts at the University of Washington) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.swrb.com/newslett/newslett.htm"> Still Waters free text archive</A> (new and classic Calvinist texts) <LI> <A HREF="http://swedenborgdigitallibrary.org/"> Swedenborg Digital Library</A> (text by Emmanuel Swedenborg and his followers) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.tertullian.org/"> Tertullian Project</A> (ancient and early medieval Christian-related texts) <LI> <A HREF="http://commons.ptsem.edu/"> Theological Commons</A> (75,000+ titles from the Princeton Theological Seminary and elsewhere) <LI> <A HREF="http://dharmacloud.tsadra.org/"> Timeless Treasuries</A> (Tibetan Buddhist literature from the Tsadra Foundation) <LI> <A HREF="https://www.a2z.org/wtarchive/archive.htm"> WTArchive</A> (out of print public domain publications of the Watch Tower Society and related authors) </UL> <h3 id="science">Science, Technology, Social Science, and Math</h3> <UL> <LI> <A HREF="http://aimath.org/textbooks/approved-textbooks/">American Institute of Mathematics Approved Textbooks</A> (freely accessible recent college-level textbooks on mathematical topics) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.acnatsci.org/library/collections/imls/index.html">American Natural Science in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century</A> (from Philadelphia's Academy of Natural Sciences) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.arxiv.org/">ArXiv.org e-Print archive</A> (technical papers straight from the labs) <LI> <A HREF="http://giessen.fol.nl/"> Astronomical Books Online</A> (index in the Netherlands; if site not available yet try <A HREF="http://sites.netscape.net/jpvdgiessen/">this mirror</A>) <LI> <A HREF="http://ads.harvard.edu/books/"> Astrophysics Data System Virtual Library</A> (by NASA; at Harvard) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.clacso.org.ar/biblioteca"> Biblioteca Virtual de CLACSO</A> (social science books in Spanish) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/"> Biodiversity Heritage Library</A> (from the Smithsonian and other institutions) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.cabi-publishing.org/Bookshop/Readingroom/index.asp"> CABI Publishing Reading Room</A> (full text of life sciences texts from UK publisher) <LI> <A HREF="http://classiques.uqac.ca/"> Les Classiques des Sciences Sociales</A> (French-language social science classics; at U. du Québec) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.computerhistory.org/explore/"> Computer History Museum Explore Overview</A> (various online primary documents and finding aids) <LI> <A HREF="http://mathbooks.library.cornell.edu/"> Distributed Digital Library of Mathematical Monographs</A> (interface to several collections) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.emis.de/ELibEMS.html"> Electronic Library of Mathematics</A> (in Germany) <li> <a href="http://www.freemedicaljournals.com/">Free Medical Journals</a> (index of 1400+ journals with at least some free online articles) <LI> <A HREF="http://historical.library.cornell.edu/math/"> Historical Math Monographs</A> (multilingual; at Cornell) <LI> <A HREF="http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/topview.html"> Literature and Medicine Database</A> (at NYU) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.nap.edu/"> National Academies Press</A> (online science books and summaries) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Literature/index.html"> National Center for Biotechnology Information</A> (online medical books and papers) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.neonatology.org/classics/classics.html"> Neonatology on the Web: Classic Papers and Books</A> (at neonatology.org) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/"> Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center</A> (lots of wildlife publications) <LI> <A HREF="https://www.princeton.edu/~ota/"> Office of Technology Assessment Reports</A> (200+ government reports on scientific and technological issues, 1970s-1990s) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.unu.edu/hq/library/hq_press.htm"> United Nations University Press</A> <LI> <A HREF="http://www.nwrc.usgs.gov/diglib.htm"> USGS National Wetlands Research Center Digital Collections</A> <LI> <A HREF="http://www.vh.org/"> The Virtual Hospital</A> (texts on medical issues) </UL> <h3 id="sf">Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror</h3> <UL> <LI> <A HREF="http://www.baen.com/library/"> Baen Free Library</A> (free electronic versions of selected Baen SF titles) <LI> <A HREF="https://efanzines.com/"> eFanzines.com</A> (science fiction fanzines online) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.freesfonline.de/"> Free Speculative Fiction Online</A> (links to SF stories throughout the Net) <LI> Hevelin Fanzine Collection (at University of Iowa): <A HREF="https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/islandora/search/hevelin?type=dismax">scanned issues</A> -- <A HREF="https://diyhistory.lib.uiowa.edu/collections/show/18">issues with transcriptions</A> <LI> <A HREF="http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/search.jsp?Erp=20&N=38537+38532&Ns=p_dig_date_record&Nso=1&view=grid"> Merril Digital Archives</A> (100+ classic SF titles in Canadian public domain) </UL> <h3 id="serials">Serials</h3> The following are some major directories of open-access serials. See also <a href="https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/serials.html">our own serials listings</a>. <ul> <li> <a href="https://about.jstor.org/revealdigital/american-prison-newspapers/">American Prison Newspapers, 1800s-Present: Voices From the Inside</a> (open access at JSTOR) <li> <a href="http://www.doaj.org/">Directory of Open Access Journals</a> (19,000+ free scientific and scholarly journals) <li> <a href="http://ezb.ur.de/ezeit/index.phtml?lang=en&colors=1">EZB Electronic Journals Library</a> (green-coded ones are free) <li> <a href="http://www.freemedicaljournals.com/">Free Medical Journals</a> (index of 1400+ journals with at least some free online articles) <li> <a href="https://news.google.com/newspapers">Google News newspapers</a> (most are historic and from the US and Canada, but some are newer or from elsewhere) <li> <a href="http://voices.revealdigital.com/">Independent Voices</a> (alternative press periodicals from the late 20th and early 21st century) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.iapsop.com/"> International Association for the Preservation of Spiritualist and Occult Periodicals</A> (up to the start of World War II) <li> <a href="http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Search/Home?fqor-format%5b%5d=Serial&page=1&ft=ft">HathiTrust full text serials</a> (browse 150,000+ free online serials, mostly historic; for searches, you will have to re-select "Serial" in the results)  <li> <a href="http://www.medicalheritage.org/">MHL: Medical Heritage Library</a> (300+ historic medical journal runs, and over 100,000 historic book and journal volumes) <LI> <A HREF="http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Zeitschriften">WikiSource: Zeitschriften</A> (list of links to digitized pre-1930 German-language periodicals) <li> <a href="http://wisewiki.org/tiki-index.php?page=WISE+Digital+Library+%28WDL%29">WISE Digital Library</a> (300+ digitized periodicals on fringe science and related topics) </ul> <h3 id="sports">Sport, Games, and Recreation</h3> <UL> <LI> <A HREF="http://www.archerylibrary.com/"> The Archery Library</A> (old archery books, prints, and articles) <LI> <A HREF="https://www.loc.gov/collections/early-baseball-publications/about-this-collection/?loclr=blogloc"> Early Baseball Publications</A> (from the Library of Congress) <LI> <A HREF="https://digital.la84.org/"> LA84 Foundation Digital Archive</A> (sports related journals, magazines, and books) <LI> <A HREF="https://digitalarchives.usga.org:8463/library/index.php/campaign"> Seagle Electronic Golf Library</A> (SEGL; from the USGA Museum) </UL> <h3 id="textbooks">Textbooks and Instructional Materials</h3> <UL> <LI> <A HREF="https://open.bccampus.ca/"> BCCampus OpenEd</A> (250+ open textbooks described and linked; in Canada) <LI> <A HREF="http://www.openculture.com/free_textbooks"> Free Textbooks: A Meta Collection</A> (index of 200 free textbooks from various sources) <LI> <A HREF="https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/"> Open Textbook Library</A> (1000+ openly licensed, complete textbooks for review by faculty; from the University of Minnesota) <LI> <A HREF="https://openstax.org/"> OpenStax College Textbooks</A> (40+ openly licensed textbooks from Rice University) </UL> <h3 id="women">Women</h3> <UL> <LI> <A HREF="http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/"> A Celebration of Women Writers</A> (local feature) <LI> <A HREF="http://womensbios.lib.virginia.edu/"> Collective Biographies of Women</A> (with links to Google books; by Alison Booth) <LI> <A HREF="http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19/toc.html"> Digital Schomburg African American Women Writers of the 19th Century</A> (at nypl.org) <LI> <A HREF="http://womenwriters.digitalscholarship.emory.edu/"> Emory Women Writers Resource Project</A> (at Emory) <LI> <A HREF="http://sophie.byu.edu/"> Sophie</A> (work by German-speaking women; at BYU) <LI> <A HREF="http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/vwwp/welcome.do"> Victorian Women Writers Project</A> (at Indiana) <LI> <A HREF="http://archives.drexelmed.edu/womanmd/home.php"> Women Physicians: A Digital Collection</A> (at Drexel) <LI> <A HREF="http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ww/"> Women Working, 1870-1930</A> (at Harvard) </UL> <hr> <p class="ctr"> <A HREF="https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/">Home</A> -- <A HREF="lists.html">Books</A> -- <A HREF="news.html">News</A> -- <A HREF="features.html">Features</A> -- <b>Archives</b> -- <A HREF="inside.html">The Inside Story</A> </p> <p class="ctr"> <i>Edited by John Mark Ockerbloom (onlinebooks@pobox.upenn.edu) <br> <a href="licenses.html">OBP copyrights and licenses</a> </i> </p> </body> </html>