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Directory of Free
Electronic Texts (E-books)
 You
can't beat free. Save a tree and read a
book online.
Electronic books are a great resource when you can't find the printed book,
and you don't need to read the entire book cover-to-cover. .
Many of the electronic
text sites require Adobe Acrobat Reader®
in order to view the books in PDF. You can download a free copy of the
latest version of Reader at the
Adobe site.
Available
Only to the WSC Community:
All electronic books
that are in the Worcester State library collection can be found by
looking in the
Library Catalog. These have call numbers just like regular books,
followed by the small lower case letters eb. You will find them listed when
you do a search in the catalog and there is an electronic text available
for that subject. All of our purchased E texts are through the Net Library
vendor.
 E Books are here at
Net Library.
Public domain collection of
classics and a "Library Collection" of almost 4,000 recently published
books purchased for check out
only to WSC library users. Electronic titles in business, careers, complete Idiot's guides, computer how-to
books, consumer law, consumer health, self-help, sports and sports coaching,
general how-to books, study guides, travel and Web development and so on. However, if you
are looking for an e-text on biology or literary criticism, this is not
the collection for you.
first time users
info (PDF)
Oxford Reference Online
- From one of the world's most
respected reference publishers, the core collection brings together 100
well-known and trusted dictionaries and reference books for foreign
languages, quotations, mythology, science, medicine, philosophy, and
more.
Gale Virtual Library -
database
of 30+ encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for
multidisciplinary research
Full text entries from
standard reference titles for Biographies are
available from the Biography Resource Center such as 20 titles in
the Who's Who series, Contemporary [Artists, Dramatists,
Musicians, Novelists] and hundreds more volumes of important
biographical resources..
Major Collections of E books
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Project Gutenberg
- 19,000 free online books that can also be downloaded. Classic
texts in the public domain
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Online Books Page
- University of Pennsylvania site lists 25,000 free books on the Web.
Can search by subject and Library of Congress call number
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Page by Page Books -
hundreds of classic books in HTML format
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Project Bartleby -
preeminent publisher of literature, reference and verse. Includes
the complete works of Shakespeare, Harvard Classics, King James
Bible, American Heritage Dictionary 4th edition, thousands more.
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Alex Catalogue of
Electronic Texts - public domain titles from American and
English literature as well as Western philosophy
- Electronic
Text Center - over 70,000 humanities texts in 13 languages
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Voice of the Shuttle - Web site
for humanities research from the University of California, Santa
Barbara
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Online Medieval and Classical Library
- literary works from these civilizations
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The Library of the
Internet Shakespeare Edition - via the University of
Victoria. View and compare
facsimiles of the works as originally printed; explore in-depth
annotation of the plays as they are edited by our team of scholars
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Making of America -
digital library of primary sources in American social history from
the antebellum period through reconstruction.
Contains approximately 9,500 books and 50,000 journal
articles with 19th century imprints
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Free Medical
Books - 650 books, mostly in English but some in other languages
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Free e-books - registration is required but it is free. Download
books to your PC
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E Server
- based at Iowa State Univ. Over 35,000 works; also includes audio
and software/free shareware. Publishes material in the arts and
humanities.
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National
Academies Press - 3,000 science, engineering and health texts
free online
Historic Documents of the U.S. such as the Constitution, Bill of Rights,
Declaration of Independence and other historical texts online can be
located using the links on our Research Guide in
Government.
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Other Web
Resources - selective indexes to free E-books
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Digital Book Index -
links to more than 140,000 title
records from more than 1800 commercial and non-commercial publishers,
universities, and various private sites. About 100,000 of these books,
texts, and documents are available free, while many others are available at
very modest cost
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eBook Locator -
offers up-to-the-minute information on tens of
thousands of E-Books from over 400 publishers worldwide
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Full Text
Books Online - from the Carnegie Library, Pittsburgh PA with descriptive
annotations of each collection link
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Internet Public
Library - no longer maintains its own collection but now has great links
to other full text sites
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