Division of Library Services

 

Directory of Open Access Books
A searchable index of peer-reviewed books published under Open Access with links to the full-text at publisher websites or repositories.

Google Books
Search the full text of books from selected libraries and publishers. May include short excerpts and sometimes provides access to the full text.

New Zealand Electronic Text Centre
Free archive of New Zealand and Pacific islands books, manuscripts and journals. Includes an archive of Maori documents, as well as some classics of New Zealand literature, and literature relating to New Zealand natural history.

The Online Books Page
Listing of more than 35,000 free web-accessible books in a variety of disciplines from the University of Pennsylvania.

Project Gutenberg
Contains thousands of books in the public domain.

Questia
Free access to more than 5000 titles in the public domain.

World Digital Library
International collection of texts supported by UNESCO and developed by a team at the US Library of Congress in collaboration with partner institutions in many countries.

Bibliomania
Full text of many British, European and North American literary classics.

Fairy Tales and Stories
Works of Hans Christian Andersen.

Gay-ebooks.com.au
Site dedicated to the promotion of gay writing in Australia. Many free downloads.

Internet Sacred Text Archive
Books on religions, mythology, folklore and esoterica.

Lesbian-ebooks.com.au
Site dedicated to the promotion of lesbian writing in Australia. Many free downloads.

Making of America
A digital library of primary sources in social history of the US.

Marxist Internet Archive
Contains the writings of 592 authors representing a spectrum of political, philosophical, and scientific thought, generally spanning the past 200 years.

Oxford Text Archive
Literary and linguistic resources.

Literature Project
Literature Project is a collection of classic books, poems, speeches, and plays.

Asian Development Bank
Most recently published ADB documents are available freely via the internet. Use the search menu to find reports on a specific country or topic.

Cambodia Development Resource Institute
Many of CDRI's publications can be downloaded free.

Ebook Business
More than 10,000 free business ebooks.

USAID Documents
USAID's Development Experience Clearinghouse (DEC) is the largest online resource for USAID funded technical and program documentation, with over 150000 documents available for electronic download.

World Bank Publications & Documents
Thousands of documents and reports published by the World Bank are available as free downloadable documents. Use the search menu to find reports on a specific country or topic.

e-books directory
Freely downloadable books on varying educational topics.

National Academies Press - Education
Many of National Academies Press's publications can be read free online.

Open Book Project
The Open Book Project seeks to encourage and coordinate collaboration among students and teachers for the development of high quality, freely distributable textbooks and educational materials on a wide range of topics.

Textbook Revolution
A student-run site dedicated to increasing the use of free educational materials by teachers and professors.

Universal Digital Library
Free-to-read, searchable collection of books.

Core Historical Literature of Agriculture
Large collection of agriculture texts published in the 19th and 20th centuries. Scholars have selected the titles in this collection for their historical importance.

Free Computer Books
Free computer, mathematic, technical books and lecture notes.

National Academies Press - Science
Many of National Academies Press's publications can be read free online. NAP publishes in various scientific disciplines, including agriculture, biology and life sciences, computers and information technology, earth sciences, environmental sciences, food and nutrition, health and medicine, mathematics, chemistry and physics.

Sustainable Tourism CRC
Free access to hundreds of research reports on sustainable tourism in Australia.