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Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
The Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts is collection of digital documents. The scope of documents in the collection include items from American literature, English literature, and Western philosophy.Texts are searchable and can be downloaded in a range of formats including pdf.

Bartleby: Great Books Online
The preeminent Internet publisher of  literature, reference and verse, providing students, researchers and the intellectually curious, with unlimited access to books and information on the web, free of charge.

Bibliomania
Free online literature and study guides.

Blackmask Online
Over 10,000 online books including classics, fictions, history works, poetry, references, etc. are available in full text, in various formats such as Ms-Reader, Acrobat, and Rocket eBook.

Books 24 x 7
Referenceware for professionals, is the largest collection of current online reference content. Backed by innovative technology, Referenceware is the leading enterprise-wide solution for instant learning. The web site offers IT titles. Individual subscriptions are available, and free trials are offered.

Ebooks.com
The world's leading source of eBooks. Subscription required to view content. 

Ebrary
Contains book and journal content  in a range of subjects. Subscription required to view content. Free trials are offered.

Electronic Text Centre
Contains approximately 45,000 online and offline humanities texts in twelve languages such as English, French, German, Latin, Chinese, Russian, and Hebrew. Some texts are not publicly accessible.

Eserver.org
The English Server has been publishing humanities texts online since 1990. It offers over 27,000 works, covering a wide range of interests, e.g. art, architecture, drama, fiction, poetry, history, political theory, cultural studies, philosophy, women's studies and music. Users can browse or search the full text of their public collection.

Free eBooks
Free-eBooks.net specializes in collecting free fiction, tutorial, marketing and business eBooks as well as resources to aid you in promoting eBooks.Registration is required.

Internet Public Library: Books
Collects over 20,000 online books that can be read for free on the Internet. They can be searched or browsed by title, author or subject (Dewey classification).

Knovel
Online interactive books and databases for sciences and engineering. Free trials are offered.

LWWoncology
Contains textbooks and other resources provided by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins that cover medicine and related topics. Subscription is required and free trials are available.

National Academies Press
Over 2,500 books can be read online free from National Academies Press, which publishes works from National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and National Research Council, etc. Covers a great variety of subjects.

NCBI Bookself
Free ebooks provided by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) 

OAIster
Provides free access to a wide range of full-text resources made available by the academic community. You can search and retrieve books, journal articles, technical reports, preprints, theses, working papers, audio files, images, etc., by harvesting digital resources from over 100 research libraries and institutions worldwide.

Online Books Page
Contains more than 12,000 English works in various formats. The site only indexes books that are full text, free, and not copyrighted. Users can search or browse the listings by author and title, subject, new listings. There are three special exhibits: A Celebration of Women Writers, Banned Books On-Line, and Prize Winners On-Line.

Oxford Text Archive
The Oxford Text Archive hosts AHDS Literature, Languages and Linguistics. It collects, catalogues and preserves high-quality electronic texts for research and teaching. The Oxford Text Archive currently distributes more than 2000 resources in over 20 different languages, and is actively working to extend its catalogue of holdings.

Project Gutenberg
A resourceful electronic archive containing extensive electronic texts of light literature, classical literature, historical documents, reference tools, etc. The database is searchable and the texts can be downloaded.

Questia
The World's Largest Online Library of Books. Questia is the first online library that provides 24/7 access to the world's largest online collection of books and journal articles in the humanities and social sciences, plus magazine and newspaper articles. You can search each and every word of all of the books and journal articles in the collection. Individual subscription required, free trial available.

Safari Tech Books Online
A searchable collection of IT books. Individual subscription required.

The World eBook Library
The World Electronic Book Library Foundation is a global coordinated effort to preserve and disseminate classic works of literature, serials, bibliographies, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference works in a number of languages and countries around the world.  Their mission is to serve the public, aid students and educators by providing free public access to the world's most complete collection of electronic texts on-line as well as offer a variety of services and resources that support and strengthen the instructional programs of education, elementary through post baccalaureate studies.