Thư viện giáo tŕnh điện tử
của Bộ giáo dục
Thư viện giáo tŕnh điện tử Nhu liệu học mở (Open Courseware)
http://ocw.mit.edu
http://www.ocwconsortium.org
http://cnx.org/Connexions
Các
bộ sưu tập
số từ thư
viện số Đại
học khoa học
tự nhiên
http://gralib.hcmuns.edu.vn:7778/portal/page?_pageid=54,13844,54_13864&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL
Sách
nói của
báo Tuổi
trẻ
http://www3.tuoitre.com.vn/Media/BookMedia.aspx
Website đọc sách
trực tuyếncủa Công
ty Công
nghệ và Truyền
thông Quang
Minh DEC
Ebook
for you
Diễn
đàn sách điện
tử
http://www.thuvien-ebook.com/forums/
Sách
điện tử Google
Sách
điện tử Microsoft
Trang
web chia sẻ tài liệu Scribd
Dự
án Gutenberg: Thư viện
khoảng 17,000 tên sách
điện tử miễn phí thuộc nhiều ngôn ngữ và
lĩnh vực, chủ
đề. Đây là
những tác phẩm
đă hết thời
hạn bảo vệ
bản quyền tác giả. Cung cấp
các chức
năng liệt kê danh mục,
cơ chế t́m kiếm toàn văn, thư tin, các bài viết. Người dùng
có thể
tải về các tác phẩm
này dưới nhiều
khuôn dạng khác nhau như
ascii text, HTML, mp3 (sách nói)
Quotes Matrix: Trích dẫn
các câu
danh ngôn
từ các tác phẩm văn học,
triết học cổ
điển và hiện
đại. Các mục
có thể
liên kết
chéo với
nhau theo
từ khóa liên quan và
đượcc
nhóm thành
nhiều chủ đề
đa dạng.
http://www.cstone.net/~irksome/
Bralyn
E-text Archive: Văn bản điện tử
của các tác phẩm văn học,
lịch sử, khoa học xă
hội, tiếu lâm và văn
hóa.
Alex Catalogue
of Electronic Texts:Sưu
tập các tác phẩm kinh điển
của văn học
Anh-Mỹ và các trước tác triết
học phương Tây.
Người dùng cũng
có thể
tải về tập
tin nén (khuôn
dạng tar.gz) chứa
toàn bộ
các truyện có trên web site này.
http://www.infomotions.com/alex/
Hypertexts in American Studies: Tủ sách
văn học Mỹ gồm
các tác
phẩm tiêu biểu
của rất nhiều
tác giả
(chỉ gồm các tác phẩm
đă hết thời
hạn bảo vệ
bản quyền)
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/hypertex.html
Rivertrout:
Sưu tập những
nhiều bức thư
có nội
dung sâu sắc và giầu tính nghệ
thuật về cuộc
sống, t́nh yêu, đạo lư và hy vọng.
Read Print: Thư viện
trực tuyến với
hàng ngàn
tên sách
điện tử miễn phí.
Wordtheque:
Một cơ sở
dữ liệu tiểu
thuyết, tài liệu
kỹ thuật và tác phẩm
dịch thuộc nhiều
ngôn ngữ
khác nhau.
Có khoảng
150 tên sách
tiếng Việt (sử
dụng phông chữ
VNI)
Medieval and Classical Library: Sưu tập các tác phẩm
văn học của
thời kỳ Trung cổ.
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL/
Making of
http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/moagrp/
Globusz
Publishing: Một bộ sưu tập
khá đồ sộ
các sách
điện tử miễn phí ở
cả thể loại
tiểu thuyết và truyện người thật
việc thật. Bộ sưu tập bao gồm cả các tác phẩm
kinh điển và những tác phẩm
mới.
PSU's Electronic Classics Series:
Các tác
phẩm văn học
cổ điển được
lưu dưới khuôn
dạng PDF.
http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/jimspdf.htm
Great Books Collection: Gồm hơn 300 tác phẩm kinh điển
thuộc các thể loại tiểu thuyết,
kịch, bài luận,
diễn văn; 25000 câu danh ngôn;
ảnh chân dung những
người nổi tiếng. Người
dùng có
thể đọc trực
tiếp trên giao diện web.
http://www.greatbookscollection.org/
The Online Books
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/titlestart?A
The European Library
Lên kết đến rất nhiều bộ sưu tập của nhiều thư viện ở Châu Âu, trong số đó có nhiều tài nguyên được số hoá và cho phép đọc trực tuyến.
The European Libraryis a free service that offers access to the
resources of the 47 national libraries of
Currently The European Library gives access to 150
million entries across
http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org
Miscellaneous Books:
Adelaide University Electronic Texts Collection
This growing collection of e-texts - currently more than 700 - includes classic works of Literature, Philosophy, Science, and Medicine.
From the
Australian e-Humanities Gateway
Australian e-Humanities
Gateway is an initiative of the Australian e-Humanities
Network, a group funded by the Australian Research Council. The network
includes representatives from the
Curtin University of Technology
Curtin University of Technology Institutional Repository espace@Curtin provides access to research produced by Curtin University of Technology staff and postgraduate students. Around 260 items were available as at May 2005 covering material from 1980 onwards.
ePrints Queensland University of Technology
An institutional archive of research papers produced at QueenslandUniversity of Technology by QUT staff and postgraduate students. Items now deposited span from 1984 to date, and this fast-growing new collection already offers no less than 967 of them (in May 2005).
eprints University of Melbourne
The embryonic
The
Monash University ePrint Repository
The
Project Gutenberg of Australia
Project Gutenberg
of Australia produces books in electronic form and makes them
freely available to the public in accordance with Australian copyright law. NB:
Under Australian copyright law, literary, dramatic, & musical work
published, performed, communicated, or recorded and offered for sale in an
author's lifetime are protected for the life of the author plus fifty years
from the end of the year of the author's death. After this time they enter into
the public domain. Some e-books available here may still be under copyright in
the
Project Gutenberg is the original free digital library of books no longer in copyright. So you'll find a great many classic literary texts here. The full Gutenberg collection now exceeds 5,000 books. The whole collection represents a monumental effort in unpaid, unselfish, labour since 1971.
The Scholarly Electronic
Text and Image Service at
the
The
Best Free Digital Libraries:
Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
Alex Catalogue ofElectronic Texts is a collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy. You can search for and display texts from the collection & also search their content, & even create on-the-fly PDFs for offline reading or printing.
Includes e-Print "preprints" in Physics,
Mathematics, Nonlinear Sciences, and Computer
sciences. From
Thousands of mainly French and Swiss-authored
e-texts, across a broad range of especially Literature, Science
& the Arts. In .html &. rtf versions. Also many links
to famous works in German, Dutch & English too. Prepared or linked for the
Web by the
The Encyclopedia of World History and The Harvard Classics are among many free texts offered at this award-winning site. Many classic reference works are available here.
Bibliomania Offers more than 2,000 free classic texts, plus research works. In HTML format, readable by your web browser.
Augustana A Latin e-library. Includes Bibliothecae Latina, Graeca, Germanica, Anglica, Gallica, Italica, Hispanica, Polonica et Russica. "Collectio textuum electronicorum. AppleMac et Netscape his paginis optimum visum dant. Ave Gatem et Exploratorem! " (Optimised for Netscape).
CELT (Corpus of Electronic Texts)
Irish literary, historical
& cultural texts, in Irish, Latin, Anglo-Norman French,
and English. Presented in HTML, with a searchable online database. An
initiative of
Cognitive Sciences Eprint* Archive - Includes a wide variety of papers in psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, philosophy, biology, medicine, anthropology and computer science. Material dates back as far as 1950, although most of it dates since 1990. Some areas of the archive require registration, to obtain a username and password.
*Eprintshere are defined as the digital texts of peer-reviewed research articles, before and after refereeing. Before refereeing and publication, the draft is called a "preprint." The refereed, published final draft is called a "postprint." Eprints may include both preprints and postprints, as well as any significant drafts in between, and any post publication updates.
The Digital Library of the Commons (DLC)
An archive of international literature on
"the commons" (i.e. that which
is held in common or by a community). Many useful features for both readers and
contributing authors. A full-text Digital Library, a Working Paper Archive of author-submitted
papers, and links to relevant references are included. Thanks to the Andrew W.
Mellon Foundation, the International Association for the Study of Common
Property (IASCP) & the
Digital Library for Earth
System Education (DLESE)
DLESE
Over 5,000 searchable educational resources. Items are also organized into
themes or collections, broadly as environmental, geographical, geological, oceanographical and other
physical sciences; space science and technology; policy and educational issues
and the philosophy of science. Resources are not archived on site but in a
variety of collaborating collections. Funded by the National Science Foundation
(
Digital Library of Information Science and Technology (dLIST)
A repository of electronic resources in Library and Information Science (LIS) and Information Technology (IT). Contains published and unpublished papers, data sets instructional and help materials, pathfinder , reports & bibliographies. So far in English only. User registration required to access some areas in HTML or PDF.
Elfwood is a huge, non-profit home to amateur Fantasy/Sci-Fi literature and art, plus some How -To Guides. The site holds over twenty thousand works of art & literature by over fifteen hundred Science Fiction/Fantasy artists and writers.
Bit of a mind flip might be an exaggeration, but
there is certainly nothing stodgy about this large & contemporary
collection of online intellectual texts & resources. Based at the
Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature
Links site for literary texts in Western European languages other than English. Languages include Catalan, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Irish, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish & Swedish.
Electronic Texts On The Internet
A useful links page with over eighty entries.
Primary historical documents from
From Aeschylus
to Virginia Woolf - links to online works, in English translation, by more than
130 classic authors. Please check for any copyright restrictions (which may in
a few cases apply for other than reading online). A redoubtable effort from Ken
Roberts of
Provides free HTML online versions of many famous authors from before 200 BC to the 20th Century. Linked with Amazon.com for commercial print offerings of the titles.
More than 440 mainly Greco-Roman texts, with some Chinese and Persian. By 59 different authors. In English translation. For online reading, some downloads available.
Over 20,000 free books available online. The Internet Public Library's Mission Statement says: " The Internet Public Library (IPL), is a public service organization and learning/teaching environment at the University of Michigan School of Information. The IPL Online Texts Collection contains over 20,000 titles that can be browsed by author, by title, or by Dewey Decimal Classification". For questions about the online texts collection, or how to search, please see their help page.
The first stage of an ambitious & generous
plan to make all Massachusetts Institute of Technology course materials
available on the Internet, for free download. Materials for 500 courses have
been accessible since the end of September 2003. Materials are in English, but
a number are also available in Spanish & Portuguese. Presented in HTML.
However courses may include Adobe Acrobat PDF files, Java Applets, Shockwave,
Real Player, Java, and MATLAB files
(software for all of these may be downloaded from the site's Technical
Requirements page). This so far unique gift is made possible by MIT with
support from the William and Flora Hewlett & Andrew W. Mellon Foundations.
Read over 2,500
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD)
Links to digital theses/dissertations available
in
Collections available include historical
documents, humanitarian and development information, computer science technical
reports and bibliographies, literary works, and magazines. A project of the
This
Online Medieval and Classical Library
From The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle to Yvain, or The Knight With the Lion, & including such
works as: The Lay of the Cid, The Song
of Roland, the Nibelungenlied,
Orlando Furioso, the High History
of the Holy Graal, many Icelandic
sagas, some Chaucer & much else besides. In HTML for reading online, or
download in PKZIP v.2.04g compressed format. Thanks to Douglas B. Killings, Sun
Systems & the
From
Pennsylvania State University Electronic Classics Site
"The Labyrinth" PSU's e-books are presented as .pdf files (Adobe's Portable Document Format). Read them with the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Established in 1997, the site offers many classical works of literature in English, plus original works published by Penn. State Uni.
A great classical digital library site, with Greek & Latin texts, commentaries, an atlas, coin images, art, archaeology and more.
The
Tamil Digital Library under preparation by voluntary effort. So far 160 works in Tamil script are available, in TSCII (Tamil Script Code for Information Interchange) format. Old Tamil classic works predominate so far.
Project Runeberg publishes free electronic editions of old Nordic literature on the Internet. Since 1992. More than 200 titles, mostly in Swedish.
Find scientific or technical documents, published or unpublished, in Chemistry, Physics, Engineering, Materials Sciences, Nanotechnologies, Microelectronics, Computer Sciences, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Earth Sciences, Meteorology, Oceanography Agriculture and related application activities. SAIL enables searching over 70 institutional open access archives around the world. NB: Downloading of e-documents is possible only if it is permitted on the original archive.
Free public library offering books on holistic agriculture, holistic health, self-sufficient living, and personal development.
Universal Library (under development)
"The principal benefit of the Universal
Library will be to supplement the formal education system by making knowledge
available to anyone who can read and has access." A project of
University of Virginia Electronic Text Center
Has more than 10,000 publicly accessible texts in thirteen languages (& over 164,000 publicly available images). These texts are available to web browsers, but in addition there are 2,000 + e-books available (in English) for MS Reader & Palm Reader.
"The Virtual Library is the oldest catalog of the web, started by Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of html and the Web itself. Unlike commercial catalogs, it is run by a loose confederation of volunteers, who compile pages of key links for particular areas in which they are expert…" Fourteen primary categories to check out, or use the search engine.
Complete Works of William Shakespeare but minus his poetry at present. The plays can be read either as a continuous text or by individual scenes. For reading online, in HTML.
Opportunities to read or download thousands of HTML books online. Provides free, unlimited public access to a comprehensive collection of public domain texts & references, and links to thousand of on-line libraries around the world via the World Wide Web and/or Telnet. For a small annual fee, also offers access to over 60,000 PDF e-books and e-documents, plus 7,000 mp3 audio books. From the World Electronic Text Library Foundation, based in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Other Free Books:
Australian Institute of Marine Science Reference library
This collection may be read in either HTML and/or PDF.
Desert Wave Publishing Based in the Alice (Alice Springs, Northern Territory of Australia for our overseas readers). Provides a number of free PDF e-books in areas such as job search, training, online learning, how to e-publish yourself.
Over a thousand free e-books for the Pocket PC & the PC (LIT files formatted for Microsoft Reader). Includes Amazon.com reviews. A selection of both classic & lesser-known works, thanks to site owner Peter Shanks, who personally formatted many. Titles
Commercial bookstore offers free e-books in HTML Ms Reader, Palm, Rocket & RTF formats. Registration requested.
With a goodly range of free e-books, this site also endears by offering six e-book formats and a special Australian section.
1,500 classic titles available, for Palm or other handheld devices.
Dr Jack Cross's Electronic Archive
A collection of Dr Jack Cross's writings, plus major historical works deposited with the Bodleian Library. Many are PDFs. Under "Fragments of our Lives: Primary Sources" includes many of the seminal historical source documents of the modern Western world, from Homer's The Odyssey and The Iliad, & The History of Herodotus toThe Anglo Saxon Chronicle and key works by Dante, Milton, Goethe, Darwin and many more.
Elegant Solutions Software & Publishing Company
Elegant Solutions Software & Publishing Company have a great free e- book site, with books downloadable to your PC: Motto:" Ebooks for people who think". Don't forget to check out Kate's page or the children's page there, for wonderful classic tales for young & old. Titles
(Download Microsoft Reader from "Useful Links" to read books from this site)
Free Online Novels and Cyberbooks
Nearly fifty new novels ranging over many genres, including SF/Fantasy, mystery, romance, humour and lots more. A gift from new authors seeking your attention. Either as HTML or as downloadable files.
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Literature/
Collection of digital literary texts from famous, mostly U.S.authors. May be read online, printed, or downloaded for further study.
Features works of literature in English,
including classics,mystery, horror,
sci-fi, westerns,
Sherlock Holmes,
Lysator
is a lively academic computer society & major e-publishing stalwart located
at
Free PDA e-books. Many thousands of public domain e-books from Project Gutenberg and elsewhere. They're available here either to read online in plain text or formatted to download for the Adobe Reader, Palm eReader, Palm Doc, iSilo, Rocketbook and other r-reader softwares.
Mary Jo's E-texts for the Palm
Her selections include the Oz Books, a number of classics in literature, & various fan fiction. All files are zipped for easy downloading.
Memoware have lots of free documents in a multiplicity of categories and a variety of formats for Palms & other PDAs. Award-winning site.
MS (Microsoft) Reader (.lit) e- books
Over 1,500 available. You may search the listings by "author", "title" & "most popular" headings.
80+ sites featuring free or for-purchase texts formatted for Palm readers.
Jill Thompson of Greencastle-Antrim High School in Pennsylvania's site. Jill offers small but carefully-chosen selections in the following categories: Outstanding Books for the College Bound; Best Novels Written in the English Language; Downloads Available by Author; Great Books For Teens; Political Documents. Also Educational Uses For PDAs, plus other helpful information.
Recent asset for popular classic novels in the PDF format.
Qvadis Library offers nearly 6,000 e-text titles in 32 categories, all free. All formatted for Palm OS devices.
A great selection of free classic novels, stories, plays and non-fiction available online from over ninety authors. Browse the author list for your favourites.
Scorpius Digital Publishing have many free e-books available. Only avaialble for reading in Microsoft Reader. (Download Microsoft Reader from "Useful Links" to read books from this site)
Free or inexpensive e-books in both fiction and nonfiction. In Microsoft Reader and Adobe PDF formats. Registration (free) with this site is required.Free or inexpensive e-books in both fiction and nonfiction. In Microsoft Reader and Adobe PDF formats. Registration (free) with this site is required.
Tale Wins Marleen Roberts' site for authors & readers.
A Links to over 2,200 free e-books in html, for reading online. In 16 broad categories (Business, Classics,Computers/Internet, Engineering,Entertainment,Life Sciences, Humanities,Gen. Science,Medicine,Society,Phys. Sci/Math andTeens and Kids) also includes journals & magazines.
IQ Over ten thousand online e-books, in plain text. Available in order of popularity or search for title.
Individual Topics/Miscellaneous:
The text is plain, but an amazing array of illustrations on this unusual site more than compensate. Most works are in English, but six other languages are also represented. A huge site, from alchemy authority Adam McLean.
American Indian tales - Coyote Stories/Poems
Native American stories from the American Indian Heritage Foundation, online in HTML.
Project E-text editions of poetry by British and Irish women written (not necessarily published) between 1789 and 1832, a period traditionally known in English literary history as the Romantic period. A digital initiative of the University of California, Davis, from the Shields Library. Available in HTML & SGML.
This useful site from Alexander Ragoisha of
A variety of famous classic titles.
Children's Books Online: the Rosetta Project
Children's illustrated literature. Hundreds of children's books online. Because of the high picture content each page is presented as a separate image file (jpeg), or the whole book may be downloaded as a compressed (zip) file to read offline. In English, with some translated variously into Chinese, Farsi, Finnish, French, Dutch, German, Greek, Italian, Spanish, Maori, Polish, Romanian or Swedish.
Comics
Computing
Cooking
From prolific writer Shmuel (Sam) Vaknin: lively, controversial musings on issues in economics, politics, the Balkans, international affairs, history, psychology and more. Download as MS Word, RTF (Rich Text Format) or PDF files.
This fledgling e-publisher/bookstore also offers some free inspirational/New Age titles, free covers for e-authors & a free e-book on drawing.
The OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) "groups 30 member countries sharing a commitment to democratic government and the market economy", and does extensive economic and social research. You can get some summary information from OECD publications free here
A free technical library and professional community for electrical and electronics engineers. Contains over 5,600 documents in a variety of forms. Qualified contributions welcome. Resource areas include aerospace, analogue and digital design, biomedical technology, computer engineering, consumer electronics, digital signal processing, dsp, electric power, microprocessors, nanotechnology, magnetic & electro physics, jobs, meeting, business, research and development, semiconductors, telecommunication, vlsi.
English language reference
Over 320,000 references & still growing, with
both US and British spellings. On this minimalist (no frills) website you can
look up words alphabetically or by search.
Prepared by a Scot who has spent some time in the
The Online Etymology Dictionary. In HTML. This valuable, attractively presented resource is from historian and author Douglas Harper.
English literature and Classics
Over one thousand titles online in plain text,
also versions for PC/Mac or for Palm, Visor & PocketPC.
A collection of classic books, plays, stories and
poems for online reading. Nearly seventy
authors are represented.
A select catalogue
of free original and classic fiction. Available for download in MS Reader,
Adobe Reader ( PDF), or to read online in your Web browser (in their Virtual
Imprint WebBook format - a simple
but bookmarkable double page
layout. IE 5+ recommended). Their home page also offers an array of purchasable
services for bibliophiles.
A number of famous Irish literary works available
free to download as text or RTF files, also some HTML short stories to read
online. Yes, all of the following famous "English" authors were
actually Irish - George Bernard Shaw, Bram Stoker (author of Dracula), Jonathan
Swift, J.M.Synge, Oscar Wilde.
Fiction and philosophy as novel, short story or poetry,
plus the author's autobiography. Three books available for online reading;
downloads are as zipped plain text files.
More than a thousand scholars have contributed to this huge Web reference work, focused on literature in English. With nearly three thousand entries, and well over 5million words, there's any amount to learn here about writers, literary works and literary topics, and numerous links to more. And they throw in a bit of a Books-in-print too!
General Reference
Provides a free encyclopedia (Columbia Electronic
Encyclopedia, from the Columbia University Press) & gazetteer, medical
encyclopedia & other valuable reference resources. Thousands of articles
available here in HTML, with useful links to related topics.
English, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Hebrew,Italian, Japanese, Latin, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Turkish &Vietnamese. Also specialised dictionaries including Computers, Law, Science.
History
How have the states of
Mathematics
The Electronic Library of Mathematics contains
free online journals, article collections, and monographs in the field of
mathematics. View on-line or download as .pdfs
for offline use.
A comprehensive and interactive mathematics encyclopedia intended for students, educators, maths enthusiasts and researchers. Claimed to be the Web's most complete maths resource.
Medicine
"A free online medical dictionary search
engine for definitions of medical terminology, pharmaceutical drugs, healthcare
equipment, health conditions, medical devices, specialty terms and medical
abbreviations." Note that definitions are brief, and should only be
considered as a launching pad for further research. A handy resource, but self-diagnosers should note the
disclaimer.
An online medical and health encyclopedia
containing information on over 1,500 topics, including conditions, diseases,
injuries, nutrition, surgeries, symptoms, tests and special topics. Use alphabetically
or through the search function. The site also features significant current news
stories and a variety of other resources.
A collection of searchable biomedical books for the Web. Illustrated, in HTML. Medical issues covered include asthma, cancer, high blood pressure, obesity, & retroviruses. There are also more general works on topics including the Cell, Developmental Biology, Glycobiology, Genes and Disease, Immunobiology and Neurochemistry.
Richard Jensen offers a large page oflinks to a wide variety of resources in this subject area, from ancient times to present day. Jensen is an American scholar (retired Professor of History)
The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Alphabetical and searchable. A voluntary academic effort.
Many traditional poems, plus lyrics of traditional songs. To read online, or download as zipped files to your PC.
Research
Provides direct links to over 7000 scholarly
periodicals which allow some or all of their online content to be viewed by
anyone for free (though some may require free registration).
The Public Library of Science is provided by "a non-profit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource". PLoS will publish its own journals.
E-Library of Science Mathematics
E-books plus a few philosophy, physics and other titles. In pdf format (use the Adobe Reader).
Science Fiction/Fantasy, & Horror
Never screened, these Seventh Doctor stories from
1992-1997 are a rare treasure from the friendly folk at the BBC. Online, by
page in SHTML, or in plain text
chapters if you wish to print them out.
Online since August 1997, UK-based Infinity
Plus publishes some original fiction, but mostly republishes those short
stories & other shorter works you're always trying to find again. With
extra input from many writers that you may not see anywhere else. As such, this
wonderful archive is a boon to devotees. Online in HTML, or you can save them
('Save as...') to read off-line. However please remember they remain copyright
for all purposes other than simple reading.
SF/Fantasy e-books & assistance for the
physically impaired. ReadAssist
is an organization of Science Fiction and Fantasy fans with an easy-to-use site
streamlined to assist those with physical disabilities. They provide links to
sources of both free and purchasable written and audio e-books, in those
genres. Further links are to software & hardware of use to those with
impaired mobility or vision.
Gormglaith,
by Heidi Wyss. 76,000 words of
radical feminist separatist literature set in what is claimed to be a
scientifically plausible future. Aesthetically
presented for online reading.
Godspawn,
by A. Zoic. A prophetic title
with a human clone hero. Written at sunny Balmoral
Beach in Sydney, & available in no less than 11 formats. Worth visiting the
site for the impressive audio-visual opening alone (Active X controls must be
enabled -if you get a blank site, check your browser settings).
Grotesque, A Gothic Epic, by Graven. An intense, illustrated Gothic novel about religion and the Black Death. With animated sound effects, online in HTML plus. Excellently presented, but with its gruesome theme not for the faint-hearted.
Technical Reports Online
Links to technical reports, preprints, reprints, dissertations, theses, and research reports of all kinds, as either full-text reports or searchable extended abstracts.
Television
Includes more than 1,000 essays examining programmes, people, historic moments and trends, disputes, scandals and much else in the saga of the small screen. Also contains histories of major TV networks and broadcasting systems around the world, plus resource materials, photos and bibliographical information.
Universal Currency Converter.
IIT - Information Interactive Technology
This Netherlands-based site offers some classic e -books include Wodehouse humour, Sherlock Holmes and a serious essay About Violence and Democracy. There are also mini travel guides for all European countries. In PDF, use the Adobe Reader. Patience may be required; this site is slow to download for modem users.
Fully indexed. Available free as a downloadable zip file (requires a zip utility to decompress). Download the freedom.zip (40kb) under the sub-heading Freedom documents, from R.E. Harvey.
U.S. Rightwing Christian Fundamentalism
The Institute for Christian Economics is a Texas-based, U.S. Christian fundamentalist site. Many "bible-based" religious & social titles are offered, plus a substantial foray into conservative and pro-free market economics & politics. Books are available in HTML or the DjVu compressed file format. The site authors recommend the latter, which they claim is superior to & less memory-hungry than PDF for representing original works. A free DjVu reader may be downloaded from the site.
Rick Rouse provides several free e-books, downloadable as zip files, for webmasters. They include How To Get Thousands Of Links To Your Website and How To Triple Your Website Traffic Every 90 Days under the heading Webmaster Freebies. Also some useful software for webmasters.
Literary and visual works by William Blake and his circle. Includes fully searchable and scalable electronic editions of all of Blake's 19 illuminated works. In HTML & SGML. With Biography, Glossary, and Chronology. Sponsored by the U.S. Library of Congress, with some high-powered support.
Free Medical Books:
The unrestricted access to scientific knowledge will have a major impact on medical practice. FreeBooks4Doctors! is dedicated to the promotion of free access to medical books over the Internet.
Read the text free. A paperback version is also available for purchase.