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Bartleby
Library provides access to reference works such as the Columbia
Encyclopedia, the American Heritage Dictionary and the Roget's
Thesaurus. It also contains ebooks on history, verses and
quotations, cooking, as well as works by selected authors.
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Barnes
& Noble provides access to over 100 ebooks on American
and European literature, Philosophy & Science, Politics &
History, etc.
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Bookface provides
access to ebooks, categorized into many subject areas such as Arts
& Entertainment, Classics, Literature, Poetry, Science
Fiction, Travel, etc. This free service requires a one-time
registration.
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Council
on Library & Information Resources (CLIR) provides
access to full-text reports, white papers, newsletters and
research briefs on library and information-related topics.
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E-Editions
by the University of California Press offers nearly 60 ebooks online,
categorized into subject areas such as European History, African
Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, South Asian Studies, Literature and
Classics. The collection can be browsed by title or subject.
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Electronic
Text Center by the University of Virginia provides access to
over 1,200 titles of literary works, including classic British and
American fiction, children's literature, American history and Shakespeare. Available
for online viewing or download for the MS Reader.
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The
EServer at Carnegie Mellon offers more than
29,000 works online,
ranging from arts and culture to history and politics. It includes
book-length nonfiction and miscellaneous literatures, scripts of plays
ranging from modern to classics, and articles.
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Fliplibrary
provides access to over 2,500 eText books searchable by keywords,
author, title and categorized into various subjects such as
Fiction, Natural History, Poetry, Drama, Science, Technology,
Religion, etc.
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The
Internet Public Library Online Texts Collection
contains over 12,000 titles
which can be browsed by Dewey classification, author and title. The collection
includes "various online books, stories, essays, poems, articles, dramas, letters and
speeches that are freely available over the Internet."
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Missouri
Botannical Garden contains several illustrated guides to
plants such as grasses and medicinal plants, published in the 17th
and 18th centuries.
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National
Academy Press offers over 1,800 books online. The books are
categorized into various subjects, and can also be searched by title or
text using their search engine.
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NetLibrary
offers over 4,000 ebook titles for free, in addition to the titles which
the Library subscribes.
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The
On-Line Books Page contains a searchable listing of over
11,000 English ebooks
available on the Internet for free. Created and maintained by John Mark Ockerbloom
at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Project
Gutenberg makes available public domain publications in ASCII
text format. Included are light literature, like Alice in Wonderland and
Aesop's Fables, heavy literature such as Shakespeare's plays and
reference materials like Roget's thesarus. The files are for downloading
and viewing offline.
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University
of California Press offers nearly 60 books online,
including books on International Studies, Classics, Literature,
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