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Ebook Central (Proquest) This link opens in a new window
More than 1,800,000 ebook titles that can be either read online using a web browser or downloaded.
ACLS Humanities E-Books This link opens in a new window
Nearly 3700 full text titles have been provided by the American Council of Learned Societies
Business Expert Press This link opens in a new window
Books, e-books and other materials that focus on business and corporate education
Very Short Introductions This link opens in a new window
Very Short Introductions offer concise introductions to a diverse range of subject areas from Climate to Consciousness, Game Theory to Ancient Warfare, Privacy to Islamic History, Economics to Literary Theory.
Cambridge Histories Online This link opens in a new window
Scholarly overview essays about American and world history from the neolithic (5000 BCE) to the recent past.
Cambridge Companions Online This link opens in a new window
Scholarly essays about literature, religion, history and other topics in the humanities. It covers from the Bronze Age (3000 BCE) to the present.

Gale Virtual Reference Library This link opens in a new window
The first screen will display a variety of subject categories for our E-books
Choose a subject area to see an array of electronic books
Oxford Reference This link opens in a new window
Two million digitized entries spanning 25 different subject areas.

Librivox - free audiobooks
LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the net. Our goal is to make all public domain books available as free audio books. We are a totally volunteer, open source, free content, public domain project.
The Online Books Page
Website featuring a searchable index of millions of books that are freely available to read online. Maintained by the University of Pennsylvania Libraries.
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg offers over 53,000 free ebooks: choose among free epub books, free kindle books, download them or read them online.
We carry high quality ebooks: Most Project Gutenberg ebooks were previously published by bona fide publishers. We digitized and diligently proofread them with the help of thousands of volunteers.
Standard ebooks
The Standard Ebooks project is a volunteer driven, not-for-profit effort to produce a collection of high quality, carefully formatted, accessible, open source, and free public domain ebooks that meet or exceed the quality of commercially produced ebooks.