eBooks | Digital Collections
| Electronic Reference Sources
The web sites listed on this page offer full text ebooks and digital materials
that are freely available to anyone with an Internet connection. Most
free ebook
collections contain literary classics and other
works that are no longer protected under copyright law. Due to
copyright restrictions, few books published recently or during the 20th
century are available for free on the Internet.
The most extensive of the
free ebook collections listed below are
Bartleby,
Bibliomania,
Online Books Page, and
Project Gutenberg.
Miami Dade College students and employees also have
free access to subscription-based ebook collections via the LINCCWeb
Databases.
(Valid Borrower ID and PIN required. Borrower ID = MDC student or employee
number ; PIN = last 4 digits of MDC student or employee number. When connected to
list of database subjects, choose Electronic Books.)
eBooks
Academy of American Poets: Find a Poem |
Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts Works of American and English literature and Western philosophy. |
American
Literature
Novels and short stories by major
American authors. |
American Studies at the University of Virginia Literary works by
well-known American authors. |
American Verse Project
American poetry prior to 1920. |
AudioBooksForFree.com |
Avalon Project at Yale Law School
Documents in law, history and diplomacy from the ancient world to the 21st century.
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Banned Books Online Books that
have been the objects of censorship or censorship attempts. |
Bartleby
A large
collection of literary classics and general reference works. |
Bibliomania
Classic
fiction, drama, poetry and short stories, plus study guides and
reference works. |
Biblioteca Digital Cervantina
The complete works of Cervantes in Spanish. Includes an English translation of Don Quixote.
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Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes
Works by major Spanish language authors.
Some include audio or video recitations. |
British Poetry 1780-1910: a Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions
Also includes earlier works such as Beowulf and Paradise Lost. |
Classic Reader Literary classics, poetry, short stories, drama, and children's stories. |
Classic Short Stories
Short stories by Guy de Maupassant, Nathaniel
Hawthorne, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, O. Henry, Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose
Bierce, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and others. |
ClassicAuthors.net
Literary classics. |
Classics in ASCII
Literary classics and reference works. |
Complete Works of William Shakespeare |
Contemporary American Poetry Archive |
Cornell
University Libraries: Digital Books |
Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature
Internet sources for literary texts in the western European languages other than English.
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eScholarship Editions
Books from academic presses on a range of topics, including art,
science, history, music, religion, and fiction. Over 500 titles are publicly
accessible. |
Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts |
FullBooks |
Google
Book Search
Google's partnership with a
number of publishers and libraries allows users to search the full text of books
to learn where to buy or borrow them. Books no longer protected under copyright
laws may
be viewed in their entirety. |
Great Literature Online (see
ClassicAuthors.net) |
Harvard Classics & Shelf of
Fiction
One of the most comprehensive anthologies of
literary works from ancient times through the 20th century. |
Humanities Text Initiative
Digitized versions of books in the University of Michigan collection.
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Internet Classics Archive
Works of classical literature (mainly Greco-Roman, plus some Chinese and Persian) in English translation.
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Jack London's
Writings |
King James Bible |
Knowledgerush
Hundreds of public domain titles. |
Labyrinth Library: Middle English Bookcase
Includes Everyman, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Canterbury Tales, and other Middle English works.
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Learn Library
British and American literary classics.
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LibriVox
Free public domain audiobooks. |
Lionheart
Love poems spanning four centuries of English, American, and
African-American literature.
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Literature Network
Books, short stories, and poems by over 250
authors. |
Literature.org
Classic works of English literature.
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Luminarium
Medieval, Renaissance, and 16th century literary works.
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Online Books Page
Over 20,000 ebooks compiled by the University of Pennsylvania.
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Online Library of Literature
(see
Literature.org) |
Online Medieval & Classical Library |
Page by Page Books
British and American literary classics and short fiction in an easy-to-read,
individual page format. Includes several inaugural addresses of U.S. Presidents.
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Poetry Archive
Famous poems arranged by author and subject. |
Project Gutenberg
A large collection of ebooks in ASCII format.
|
Rare Book Room
Digitized images of some of the world's greatest
books, including Shakespeare's First Folio, Benjamin Franklin's Poor
Richard's Almanac, and Galileo's Starry Messenger. |
Read Book Online
Novels, short stories, poems, essays, and plays by
well-known American, English, and Irish authors. |
Read Print
Literary classics.
|
Representative Poetry Online English poems from the Old English period to the
present day. |
Sonnet Central
An archive of English sonnets, commentary, relevant web links, and a forum for poets.
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Turning the Pages
A digital gallery of great books from the British
Library. Includes Leonardo da Vinci's personal notebook, Mozart's musical diary,
Jane Austen's The History of England, and other valuable manuscripts. |
Victorian Women Writers Project |
Women Romantic-Era Writers |
World Wide School
Literary works, plus etexts on various subjects such as history, geography,
science, and philosophy.
|
Wright
American Fiction 1851-1875
A searchable collection of 19th century American fiction, as
listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography American
Fiction, 1851-1875. |
Digital Collections
American Memory
Digitized materials from the collections of the
Library of Congress. Includes written and spoken words, sound
recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet
music that document the American experience. |
American Rhetoric
A database of landmark American
speeches by political, religious, and cultural figures captured
in print and audiovisual formats. |
Cuban Heritage Collection
Digitized photographs, manuscripts, letters,
memorabilia, and other materials from the
Cuban Heritage Collection at the University of Miami's Otto G. Richter Library. |
Darwin Online
The complete publications of Charles Darwin, plus
thousands of his private papers and handwritten manuscripts. |
Documenting the American South
Primary sources related to Southern history, literature, and culture from
the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century. Includes
books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews,
and songs.
|
Edgar Allan Poe
Digital Collection |
Everglades Digital Library
Florida International University's collection of
scientific and technical reports, natural history writings, educational and
interpretive materials, datasets, maps, photos, and Internet sites relating to
the Everglades. |
Florida Memory Project
Documents, photographs, and other materials from the collections of the Florida State Archives. |
Jack London Online
Collection |
Lest We Forget: The Triumph Over Slavery
A virtual exhibition created by the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center
for Research in Black Culture in conjunction with the UNESCO Slave Route
Project. |
Making of America
A digital library of primary sources in American social history
from the antebellum period through reconstruction. |
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
Thousands of digital images of
Japanese
prints, early American maps, vintage posters, illuminated manuscripts, sheet-music covers, dust jackets, menus, cigarette cards, Civil War photographs,
illustrations relating to the American Revolution, archival photographs of New York City buildings and streetscapes,
and more. |
OAIster
A union catalog of over 19 million digital
resources from over 1,000 organizations developed by the University of Michigan
and harvested using OAI-PMH (the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata
Harvesting). |
Picturing Hemingway: A Writer in His Time |
Publication of Archival, Library and Museum Materials (PALMM Collection)
Collections of digitized materials including the Florida Heritage Collection, Florida Historical Legal Documents,
Literature for Children, Reclaiming the Everglades, World Map Collections, and more.
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Schomberg
Center for Research in Black Culture (New York Public Library)
Digital collections include African American Women Writers of the 19th Century,
Images of African Americans from the Nineteenth Century, and the online version
of exhibitions from the Schomberg Center. |
World Digital Library
Makes available on the Internet, free of
charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries
and cultures around the world. |
Electronic Reference
Sources
Reference eBooks | Reference Web Sites
Reference
eBooks
American Heritage Spanish Dictionary,
2nd ed. (2001)
Spanish-English/Inglés-Español |
AskOxford.com Dictionaries
Includes searchable online versions of the
Compact Oxford English Dictionary, the Concise Dictionary of First
Names, and the Little Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. |
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919) |
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
(1898) |
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia |
Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age
of Fable (1913) |
Cambridge History of English and American Literature
(1921) |
CIA World Factbook
Demographic, political,
geographical and economic data on the countries of the
world. Includes full-color maps and flags of all nations. |
Concise Dictionary of First Names |
The Elements of Style (1918)
William Strunk, Jr.'s classic reference book on
the rules of English language usage and principles of composition. |
Emily
Post's Etiquette (1922) |
Fannie
Farmer's Boston Cooking School Cook Book (1918) |
Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States |
Information Please Almanac |
Information Please Atlas |
Merck
Manual |
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Thesaurus,
Spanish-English Dictionary, and Medical Dictionary |
Occupational Outlook Handbook
Descriptions of a wide
range of careers. Includes information on working
conditions, training and education needed, earnings, and
trends. |
Robert's Rules of Order (1915) |
Roget's International Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases (1922) |
Statistical Abstract
of the United States |
Reference
Web Sites
For more reference web sites, click
here.
Last updated: September
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