Free e-books

The University of Geneva’s e-text archive of works by French and Swiss authors.

Contains works in Latin, Greek, German, English, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Russian and Yiddish.

Free books online from the University of Adelaide.

Provides public access to hundreds of academic titles.

A page providing links to other free e-book sites.

An online library of digitised books held at the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Mainly French works from the nineteenth century.

Carnegie-Mellon’s Million Book Project is a collaborative effort by over twenty institutions world-wide. Books are scanned and then indexed using OCR.

A large archive of free e-books. Includes pulp literature as well as the usual classic works. Read the original “Buck Rogers”: Armageddon 2419 AD. Shudder at the purple prose and political incorrectness.

Includes an index of online books, directories and archives of online texts. Highlights special collections, such as a Celebration of Women Writers, Banned Books Online and Prize Winning Books Online.

Project Gutenberg’s collection consists of more than 17,000 e-books, which are mostly older literary works out of copyright in the United States.

Includes works by Australian writers and works about Australia.

Download reports from the RAND corporation covering issues of US national security, education, health, law, and science.

This page provides links to a range of open-access archives. Includes a large number of audio-visual resources.

Access to free e-books.

Search over 3,000 titles from the National Academy of Sciences (US).

The Oxford University Press Reading Room offers sample chapters and extracts from a range of its new publications.

Contains a selection of free chapters from new Princeton University Press publications.

Scholarly titles from the University of Illinois Press, mainly covering US history.