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| Athena | Mainly French and Swiss authors and documents. Nearly 10,000 links to books on philosophy, science, classics, literature, history, economics, etc. Multilingual. |
| Cornell University Library eBooks | Free access to over 70,000 full text electronic books from the holdings of the libraries of Cornell University. |
| DOAB: Directory of Open Access Books | Over 1200 academic peer-reviewed books from 33 publishers |
| Europeana | Out of copyright books from European research libraries. |
| Google Book Search | Search for the full text of books. |
| Inter-Disciplinary Press eBooks | Access to a growing collection of this publisher’s free eBooks. |
| International Deveolpment Research Centre (IDRC) eBooks | This site provides information, and in many instances free full text access, to books published by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) which is a Canadian Crown corporation . |
| Internet Archive | eBooks available from international libraries open-access archives. |
| OAPEN Library | Open access academic books in the humanities and social sciences. |
| Oxford Text Archive | Thousands of titles in over 25 different languages. |
| Project Gutenberg | Over 36,000 titles, in several languages and different eBook formats. |
Free eBooks that can be read online
| Alex Catalogue of Electronic texts | A collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy. |
| Bibliomania | More than 2000 free texts, study guides and reference resources in novels, poetry and biograhies. |
| NCBI Bookshelf | A growing collection of online biomedical textbooks made available by the (US) National Centre for Biotechnology Information. |
| Online Literature Library | Classic works of literature |
| Page by Page Books | Hundreds of classic books in literature and history. |
| Project Bartleby | Literature, reference and poetry. |
| Universal Library | Titles in all subjects, hosted by the Carnegie Mellon University. |