- Afghan languages (including Pashto and Dari): Afghanistan Digital Library
- Armenian: Armenian House Library (Armenian section)
- Bulgarian: Bulgarian Poetry Archive (at Columbia)
- Catalan / Valencian:
- Biblioteca Valenciana
- Biblioteca Virtual Joan Lluís Vives (mostly Catalan materials)
- Selecció de Poesia Catalana (Catalan poetry)
- Chamorro: Chamorro Bible website (also has other Chamorro literature and language resources)
- Chinese:
- Chinese Text Project (annotated Chinese classics)
- Classical Languages:
- An Analytical Bibliography of On-Line Neo-Latin Titles (index of over 20,000 items, edited by Dana Sutton)
- Bibliotheca Augustana (Latin texts arranged by century)
- The Latin Library (edited by William L. Carey)
- Project Libellus (FTP from U-Washington)
- Perseus Digital Library (classical Greek, Latin, and other texts at Tufts)
- Textkit (Greek and Latin learning tools)
- Czech: Memoria Project (Czech National Library digitized documents)
- Danish: Arkiv for Dansk Litteratur (in Denmark)
- Dutch:
- Ars Floreat (philosophy and religion texts in Dutch)
- Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren
- Laurens Jansz. Coster
- Esperanto: Literaturo en Esperanto (at best.com)
- Farsi (Persian):
- Farsibooksonline (index at blogspot.com)
- Ketab Farsi (Farsi books online)
- Persian Stories E-Library (Ketabkhaneh Dastanhaye Farsi)
- French:
- ATHENA French and Swiss texts
- Association des bibliophiles Universels (public domain French texts; in France)
- Le Château (French texts and commentary; at ilias.com)
- Les Classiques des Sciences Sociales (French-language social science classics; at U. du Québec)
- Gallica from the Bibliotheque Nationale de France (lots of 19th-century French texts)
- Nos Racines: Les Histoires Locales du Canada en Ligne (both French and English texts)
- Gaelic: CELT Project (Irish electronic texts)
- German:
- Austrian Literature Online (Austrian works, mostly in German)
- Göttinger Digitalisierungs-Zentrum (German and some English etexts)
- MATEO (Mannheim texts online)
- Sophie (work by German-speaking women; at Emory)
- Projekt Gutenberg-DE (German texts; no direct relation to the US-based Project Gutenberg)
- Religio (Texts in German on religion)
- Hawaiian: Hawaiian Language Newspapers (at hawaii.edu)
- Hebrew:
- Daat (includes medieval Jewish philosophy full texts)
- HebrewBooks.org (out of print Seforim)
- Mechon Mamre (classical Jewish texts and others)
- Project Ben-Yehuda (in Israel)
- Seforim Online (classic Hebrew texts)
- Tshuvos.com (Tshovos seforim)
- Yizkor Books (Holocaust memorial books; at NYPL)
- Hungarian: Magyar Elektronikus Könyvtár
- Icelandic / Old Norse: Netutgafan (classic Norse texts)
- Italian:
- Biblioteca Telematica (public domain Italian literature)
- Italian Literature in HTML (from Italy)
- Ozoz Cyberbooks (Italian and English classics)
- Pelagus Letteratura Italiana (searchable index of Italian literature and sites)
- Progetto Manuzio / Liber Liber (from Italy)
- Japanese:
- Aozora Bunko (2000+ works of public domain Japanese literature)
- Polish:
- Polska Biblioteka Internetowa (260+ Polish books online)
- Staropolska (Old Polish literature)
- Wirtualna Bibliotka Literatury Polskeiy (Virtual Library of Polish Literature)
- Portuguese:
- ebooksbrasil (Brazilian literature, mostly Portuguese)
- Jornal de Poesia (Portuguese poetry)
- Literatura Brasileira
- Projecto Vercial (Portuguese authors and literature)
- Supervirtual (Brazilian-based index of online books in Portuguese and other languages)
- VBS Literatura Brasileira (Brazilian literature)
- Russian:
- Armenian House Library (Russian section)
- Russkaya Literatura v Internete (at friends-partners.org)
- Sanskrit: Dvaita Text Resources (classic Hindu texts)
- Scandinavian Languages:
- eBoklagret Omnibus (Swedish texts)
- Project Runeberg (from Sweden)
- Serbian: Projekat Rastko (Serbian texts and images)
- Scots/Scottish: Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech (in the UK; also has English)
- Slovak: Projekt Bernolák (in Slovakia)
- Slovenian:
- Beseda: Virtualna Slovenska Knjigarna (in Sweden)
- Slovenian texts (in Slovenia)
- Spanish:
- Biblioteca Electronica Cristiana (Christian electronic texts in Spanish)
- Biblioteca Virtual de CLACSO (social science books in Spanish)
- Biblioteca Virtual Miguel De Cervantes (Spanish texts; JavaScript-dependent)
- Comedia Library (Hispanic classical theater texts)
- Elaleph (Spanish-language PDF texts)
- Memoria Chilena (Chilean historical books and other materials in Spanish)
- Textos Lemir (medieval Spanish texts)
- Tamil: Project Madurai (at tamil.net)
- Turkish: Uysal-Walker Archive of Turkish Oral Narrative (at Texas Tech)
- Ukrainian: Electronic Library of Ukrainian Literature (at Toronto)
- Welsh: Llyfrgell Owen (online library of Welsh-language texts)
- Yiddish:
- Mendele Yiddish Texts (at Trinity College)
- Yizkor Books (Holocaust memorial books; at NYPL)
Specialty Archives
These are listed by category:
Academic Presses -- Agriculture -- Architecture -- Art and Crafts -- Audio -- Blacks -- Books, Printing, and Publishing -- Children -- Computing -- Dissertations -- Drama -- Economics -- Historical -- Home Economics -- Literary -- Military -- Music and Dance -- New Original Works -- Philosophy -- Poetry -- Politics, Government, Law -- Portable Reader Editions -- Religion -- Science, Social Science and Math -- Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror -- Serials -- Sports, Games and Recreation -- Textbooks and Instructional Materials -- Women
Academic Presses
The following presses have put a substantial number of free online books on their site.- National Academies Press (3000+ free online books in sciences and social sciences)
- University of California eScholarship Editions (500+ free books under "public books" option)
Agriculture
- Core Historical Literature of Agriculture (at Cornell)
- Historical Publications of the Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station (at Kansas State)
Architecture
Art and Crafts
- Decorative Arts and Material Culture E-Facsimiles (at Wisconsin)
- English Emblem Book Project (at Penn State)
- On-Line Digital Archive of Weaving Documents (at Arizona)
- Rare Books on Calligraphy and Penmanship (at iampeth.com)
Audio
- AudioBooksforFree.com (classic and modern MP3 titles, with ads)
- LibriVox (hear public domain books read aloud, and contribute your own readings)
- PennSound (literary readings)
- Project Gutenberg's human-read and machine-generated audio titles
- Wired for Books (readings and interviews, in streaming audio)
Black Writers and Subjects
- Digital Schomburg African American Women Writers of the 19th Century (at nypl.org)
- North American Slave Narratives (at UNC)
- The Church in the Southern Black Community (at UNC)
Books, Printing, and Publishing
- Digital Books About Books (listing at Oak Knoll)
- English Emblem Book Project (at Penn State)
Children's Literature
- Baldwin Project (classic children's literature, 1880-1922)
- The Best Children's Literature on the Net (GeoCities-based index to classics and originals)
- Bibli's Bookshelf (designed with developmental disabilities in mind)
- Children's Books Online: The Rosetta Project
- Children's Literature Web Guide (at Calgary)
- Children's Series Books Available Online (index at umkc.edu)
- Digitized Juvenile Literature Collection (at Florida State)
- Hockliffe Project (hundreds of early British children's books)
- International Children's Digital Library (requires special Java-based software to access books)
- Nineteenth-Century American Children and What They Read (edited by Pat Pflieger)
Computing
- Andamooka books (open content titles, mostly computer-related)
- Atariarchives.org (classic personal computing books and articles from the 1970s and 1980s)
- Classic Computer Magazine Archive (lots of information about 1970s-1990s microcomputers)
- FlightSimBooks (books about computer flight simulators)
- Free Online Programming Books (from Techtoolblog)
- InformIT Reference Library (by Macmillan)
- Open Books Project (at O'Reilly)
Dissertations and Theses
- Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (based at Virginia Tech)
Drama
- 19th Century Playtext Database (at Pepperdine)
- Historical Database of Folk Play Scripts (compiled by Peter Millington)
Economics
- History of Economic Thought Archives (at McMaster)
- Humanity Development Library (at Tulane)
- International Development Research Centre (free online books selection; in Canada)
- Library of Economics and Liberty (at econlib.org)
- Palgrave Economics Library (registration required -- more details)
Historical
- 1st-Hand-History Foundation (18th and 19th century texts, mostly northwestern US and American Indian history)
- The American Colonist's Library (primary sources for early US history)
- American Journeys: Eyewitness Accounts of Early American Exploration and Settlement (at Wisconsin)
- American Memory (historical texts and other media: Library of Congress)
- Antislavery Literature (historic and contemporary slavery narratives and commentary; at eserver.org)
- Archives of The West (historical texts supplementing the PBS mini-series)
- Australian Literary and Historical Texts (at U-Sydney)
- British History Online (digital library of medieval and modern British history)
- British Library Treasures in Full (digitizations of historically significant works)
- Buffalo Full Text (index of online books related to Buffalo, NY and vicinity)
- CARTAH Electronic Text archive (historical texts on Romania and vicinity)
- CELT Project (Irish electronic texts)
- Center of Military History (historical books and documents by the US Army)
- Corvinus Library (Hungarian historical books)
- De Re Militari (medieval military history)
- Disability History Museum Library (books, images, and other artifacts)
- Documenting the American South (at UNC)
- Documents in Military History (300+ historical documents at Hillsdale)
- Dumbarton Oaks Electronic Texts (Byzantine studies, Pre-Columbian Studies, and History of Landscape Architecture)
- Early Americas Digital Archive (at Maryland)
- Early Canadiana Online (2000+ texts in English and French)
- eHistory Books (about 20 books, mostly in US history)
- ETANA Core Texts (Near Eastern text archive; at Case Western)
- Eighteenth Century E-Text (index at Rutgers)
- Etexts in Irish and Connecticut History (at Quinnipiac)
- Exploring Ancient World Cultures (at Evansville)
- Fourth World Documentation Project (Indigenous studies; at cwis.org)
- Historical Directories (local and trade directories for England and Wales, 1750-1919)
- Historical Colorado Newspapers (75+ local papers from 19th-century Colorado)
- Historical Text Archive (at Mississippi State)
- History of Economic Thought Archives (at McMaster)
- The Internet Classics Archive (Greek and Roman texts)
- Internet Medieval Sourcebook (at Fordham)
- Internet Modern History Sourcebook (at Fordham)
- Kansas Collection (regional historical resources)
- Kentuckiana Digital Library E-Texts (at kyvl.org)
- LacusCurtius: Into the Roman World (history of ancient Rome: at Kansas)
- Libro (Iberian historical resources, at the Univ. of Central Arkansas)
- The Luminarium (medieval - 17th century English literature)
- Making of America (mid-19th century American texts)
- Manx Note Book (with full texts on the history of the Isle of Man)
- Mardos Memorial Library of On-Line Books and Maps (US local histories and genealogical aids)
- Memoria Chilena (Chilean historical books and other materials in Spanish)
- Memoria Project (Czech history; in Czech and Latin)
- Mountain Men Diaries, Narratives, and Letters (at xmission.com)
- National Park Service History Online Books (at nps.gov)
- Nineteenth Century Schoolbooks (at Pitt)
- North Carolina History and Fiction Digital Library (at ecu.edu)
- Online Library of the Southern Campaign of the American Revolution (by Jogn Robertson)
- Online Medieval and Classical Library (at omacl.org)
- ORB Library (medieval texts)
- Our Roots / Nos Racines: Canada's Local Histories Online (in French and English)
- Perseus Project (classical Greek texts in translation; at Tufts)
- Renascence Editions (16th-18th century texts, ed. by Richard Bear)
- Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection (thousands of pamphlets at Cornell)
- Steam Engine Library (at Rochester)
- Victorian Women Writers Project (at Indiana)
- Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1820-1940 (at Binghamton)
- Women Working, 1870-1930 (at Harvard)
- World War I Document Archive (at BYU)
- Yizkor Books (Holocaust memorial books; at NYPL)
Home Economics
- Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project (at MSU)
- Fons Grewe (cookery and other books at Barcelona; multilingual texts, Spanish interface)
- HEARTH (home economics and related disciplines; at Cornell)
Literary
See also historical (for literature from a certain period), and new original works (for web-published literature) and poetry.For literary criticism, the Internet Public Library's Online Literary Criticism Collection is a good starting point.
- The Ape-Man: His Kith and Kin (literary and nonfiction precursors to Tarzan, edited by Georges Dodds)
- Arthur's Classic Novels (4000+ titles)
- Australian Literary and Historical Texts (at U-Sydney)
- Camelot Project (Arthurian texts; at Rochester)
- Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls (at Stanford)
- Elizabethan Authors (16th century literature and criticism online)
- Gaslight (mystery, adventure, and weird tales and discussion)
- Hess Collection Sample Dime Novels (at UMN)
- In Parentheses (PDF files of world literature; in Canada)
- Online Pulps (index of pulp fiction at pulpgen.com)
- Sur La Lune Fairy Tales (folktales from around the world republished, annotated and discussed)
- West Midlands Literary Heritage E-texts (literature by authors from that region)
- Wright American Fiction, 1851-1875 (at Indiana)
Military
- Air University Press (books on air, space, and the military, most downloadable)
- Center of Military History (historical books and documents by the US Army)
- De Re Militari (medieval military history)
- Documents in Military History (300+ historical documents at Hillsdale)
- General Dennis J. Reimer Training and Doctrine Digital Library (army field manuals, etc.)
- Napoleonic Literature (including online books on his military campaigns)
- National Defense University Online Books
Music and Dance
- An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals, ca. 1600-1920 (at LOC)
- The Choral Public Domain Library (thousands of choral scores)
- Historic American Sheet Music (3000+ pieces, 1850-1920: at Duke)
- Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music (at JHU)
- Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1820-1860 and 1870-1885 (over 62,000 songs: at LOC)
- Mutopia (hundreds of newly formatted scores of classical music, free to reuse)
- Sheet Music Consortium (cross-search sheet music collections of 5 institutions; nearly 100,000 records)
New Original Works
These archives have substantial collections of material that has been first published first on the Net, or that appeared on the Web shortly after their original publication. See also the Open Directory's Online Writing links, which include pointers to many such archives, large and small, of varying quality.- The Assayer (review free titles from various sources)
- C&C Clocktower Fiction (featuring SF, mystery, and horror)
- Coach House Books (poetry and other experimental works, from Canada)
- Cyber-Books (unpublished and prepublished; at starry.com)
- Electronic Literature Directory (index of works written for the digital medium)
- Free-Fiction.com (online novels and stories, with reviews; Javascript required)
- IPL New Media Fiction Collection (using the Internet to tell stories in new ways)
- Star Thrower Publishing (modern and experimental online literature)
Philosophy
- Council for Research in Values and Philosophy Publications
- International Directory of On-Line Philosophy Papers (at Hong Kong)
Poetry
- Aha! Poetry (tanka, haiku, and other forms)
- American Verse Project (at Michigan)
- British Women Romantic Poets, 1789-1832 (at UC Davis)
- Canadian Poetry (at uwo.ca)
- Contemporary American Poetry Archive (at Connecticut College)
- HyperEpos (index of online epic poetry)
- Jornal de Poesia (Brazilian poetry)
- Light and Dust (modern poetry)
- Poetry Foundation Archive (thousands of poems, and poetry-related features)
- Poetry in Translation (A. S. Kline's large collection of translations)
- Poets' Corner (6000+ poems; edited by Steve Spanoudis)
- The Poetry Archives (3000+ poems; at emule.com)
- Sonnet Central (sonnets and criticism; at AOL)
Politics, Government, Law
- The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School (historic law-related texts)
- American Radicalism Collection (at MSU)
- Lehman Lee Law Library (Chinese laws and commentary)
- Marxists.org Internet Archive (at marxists.org)
- Registry of U.S. Government Publication Digitization Projects (at gpoaccess.gov)
- Spunk Library (anarchist and related texts; in the Netherlands)
- Thomas (US laws and legislation)
Portable Reader Editions
- Manybooks.net (over 10,000 titles formatted for PDAs and Web browsers)
- Microsoft Reader Free eBooks (for PocketPC and Windows platforms; for-pay books also offered)
- PalmPilot E-Text Ring (80+ sites featuring free or for-pay texts formatted for Palm readers)
- Qvadis Library (free texts in proprietary Palm format; requires purchase of reader software)
- A few sites make many of their titles available in popular formats for portable devices, as well as standard Web formats. Notable sites in this category include the Baen Free Library.
Religion
- Access to Insight (readings in Therevada Buddhism)
- Ahlul Bayt Digital Islamic Library Project (at al-islam.org)
- Amazing Facts Library (Seventh-Day Adventist material)
- Ars Floreat (spiritual texts in Dutch)
- Bahá'i Academics Resource Library (at bahai-library.org)
- Bhaktivedanta Book Trust (Hare Krishna, other Eastern religion texts)
- Biblioteca Electronica Cristiana (Christian electronic texts in Spanish)
- BuddhaNet eBook Library (texts in PDF format)
- Catalog of Quaker Writings of the 17th, 18th, and 19th Centuries (online and some print resources; at qhpress.org)
- Chabad Lubavitch Books (books on Hasidic Judaism)
- Christian Classics Ethereal Library (at Calvin College)
- The Church in the Southern Black Community (at UNC)
- Classical Jewish texts (in Hebrew, in Israel)
- Digital Christian Library (at thedcl.org)
- Digital Quaker Collection (at Earlham)
- Divine Life Society (writings on Hindu religion and philosophy)
- The Church in the Southern Black Community (at UNC)
- Classical Jewish texts (in Hebrew, in Israel)
- Dvaita Text Resources (classic Hindu texts in Sanskrit)
- Holiness Classics Library (Christian books and articles at the Wesley Center)
- Internet Sacred Text Archive (various religions)
- IntraText Digital Library (5000+ texts on religion and other subjects, multilingual)
- Islamic Books Library at alislam.org (Ahmadiyya movement texts)
- Menasseh Ben Israel collection (17th century printings of Jewish texts; in the Netherlands)
- The Online Swedenborgian Library (at swedenborg.org)
- Pointing the Way: Christian Literature on the Internet (at ICLNet)
- Project Wittenberg (Lutheran texts; at ICLnet)
- Restoration Movement texts (at mun.ca)
- Rosicrucian Fellowship Library (at rosicrucian.com)
- Saint Pachomius Library (Orthodox and other Christian texts; at ocf.org)
- Secular Web Library (atheist and related literature; at infidels.org)
- Still Waters free text archive (new and classic Calvinist texts)
- Tertullian Project (ancient and early medieval Christian-related texts)
- Theosophical University Press (occult books from 19th and 20th centuries)
- Theravada Text Archives (new and classic Buddhist texts)
Science, Social Science, and Math
- American Natural Science in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century (from Philadelphia's Academy of Natural Sciences)
- ArXiv.org e-Print archive (technical papers straight from the labs)
- Astronomical Books Online (index in the Netherlands; if site not available yet try this mirror)
- Astrophysics Data System Virtual Library (by NASA; at Harvard)
- Biblioteca Virtual de CLACSO (social science books in Spanish)
- CABI Publishing Reading Room (full text of life sciences texts from UK publisher)
- Les Classiques des Sciences Sociales (French-language social science classics; at U. du Québec)
- Distributed Digital Library of Mathematical Monographs (interface to several collections)
- Electronic Library of Mathematics (in Germany)
- Free Medical Journals (index of 1400+ journals with at least some free online articles)
- Historical Math Monographs (multilingual; at Cornell)
- Literature and Medicine Database (at NYU)
- National Academies Press (online science books and summaries)
- National Center for Biotechnology Information (online medical books and papers)
- Neonatology on the Web: Classic Papers and Books (at neonatology.org)
- Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center (lots of wildlife publications)
- Office of Technology Assessment Reports (200+ government reports on scientific and technological issues, 1970s-1990s)
- United Nations University Press
- The Virtual Hospital (texts on medical issues)
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror
- Baen Free Library (free electronic versions of selected Baen SF titles)
- eFanzines.com (science fiction fanzines online)
- Free Speculative Fiction Online (links to SF stories throughout the Net)
- Gateway (online SF short stories)
- HorrorMasters Classic Horror (public domain books and stories; requires recent version of Acrobat Reader or other PDF 1.4 program)
- Infinity Plus (SF, fantasy, and horror stories from current published authors)
- Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (authorized online fiction from members, some free)
- Science Fiction Resource Guide (texts and author information)
Serials
The following are some major directories of open-access serials. See also our own serials listings.- Directory of Open Access Journals (free scientific and scholarly journals)
- Electronic Journals Library (green-coded ones are free)
- Free Medical Journals (index of 1400+ journals with at least some free online articles)
- Jan Szczepanski's lists of OA-journals (summary files of thousands of current and historic journals)
Sport, Games, and Recreation
- Amateur Athletic Foundation Digital Archive (sports related journals, magazines, and books)
Textbooks and Instructional Materials
- Open CourseWare Finder (search for free course materials from several universities)
- Textbook Revolution (index of free textbooks and educational materials online, with reviews)
Women
- A Celebration of Women Writers (local feature)
- British Women Romantic Poets, 1789-1832 (at UC Davis)
- Digital Schomburg African American Women Writers of the 19th Century (at nypl.org)
- Emory Women Writers Resource Project (at Emory)
- Sophie (work by German-speaking women; at Emory)
- Victorian Women Writers Project (at Indiana)
- Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1820-1940 (at Binghamton)
- Women Physicians: A Digital Collection (at Drexel)
- Women Working, 1870-1930 (at Harvard)
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