Other Electronic Book Collections

Besides our subscription eBook collections, which can be searched in our e-Book Catalog, some older books that are in the public domain (i.e., they are no longer under copyright protection) have been made available on the web. Use the links below to explore these collections:

• Project Gutenberg - 20,000+ E-Books
• Bartleby.com: Great Books Online - classics and general reference works
• Classics in the History of Psychology - 200+ books
• Cornell University Library Digital Collections - dozens of scanned primary source texts
• Directory of Electronic Text Centers - list of university-hosted collections
• Electronic Text Center
• eServer.org - huge collection of books, articles, audio, images, etc.
• Google Book Search (Beta version - search full-text of thousands of books)
• Google Directory - Poetry collections
• Humanities Text Initiative
• Historical Monographs Collection at Cornell University
• Internet Archive Texts - 400,000+ open-access texts
• LibriVox - 800+ public-domain audio books
• National Academies Press - 3,000+ scholarly tomes
• Ohio State University Press Open Access Collection - 60 scholarly titles in history and literature
• Online Books - University of Pennsylvania
• Perseus Digital Library - texts from the classical and renaissance eras
• Questia - 67,000 books, but registration and subscription fee required for unlimited access
• Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image (SCETI) - rare books & manuscripts from U. Penn
• eScholarship Public Collection
• U.N. Full-Text Collection - 100s of books on agriculture, development, environment, food, etc.
• Wright American Fiction 1851-1875 - 2,800+ 19th century works of American fiction.
• Yahoo! Directory of Electronic Literature