Internet Resources : E-Books and E-Texts

E-Books and E-Texts

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中國哲學書電子化計劃 = Chinese Text Project

An e-text system which presents texts of Chinese classics in a structured, cross-referenced, and searchable form. Modern Chinese and English translations are available for many works.
(Added: 9-Jun-2006 / Hits [2013- ]: 21)

中央研究院漢籍電子文獻

Provides a powerful cross-database search engine for searching 二十五史, 十三經, 上古漢語語料庫(摘要), 樂府詩集, 台灣文獻叢刊, 中華民國史事日誌, etc. All are browsable as well.
(Added: 4-Nov-2000 / Hits [2013- ]: 94)

國家哲學社會科學學術期刊數據庫 = National Social Science Database

Provides fulltext access to selected journal issues published by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, mainly in recent years. Users are required to register in order to download the articles.
(Added: 7-May-2013 / Hits [2013- ]: 38)

漢斯出版社 = Hans Publishers

Targets at open-access academic journal publishing. It has about 100 Chinese titles in areas such as science and engineering, environment, economics, humanities and social sciences.
(Added: 7-May-2013 / Hits [2013- ]: 39)

網路展書讀

This site of Chinese classical literature provides searchable literary works, commentaries, reference material, treatises, etc. Its Chinese and English versions of The Dream of Red Chamber, including analysis, is a searchable database. Also contains a 唐宋文史資料庫, and other literary works.
(Added: 7-Apr-1999 / Hits [2013- ]: 8)

臺灣大學學術期刊資料庫 = National Taiwan University Journal Database

A database of articles and reports from journals published by various departments of the National Taiwan University. There are a total of 32 academic journals and the full-text coverage is from 2003 to the present.
(Added: 24-Feb-2010 / Hits [2013- ]: 13)

高等學校中英文圖書數字化國際合作計畫 = China-US Million Book Digital Library Project

One can search Chinese books in these categories: 古籍, 民國圖書, 民國期刊, 現代圖書, 學位論文. Some resources are available in full text, but registration is required for viewing. There is also a good collection of calligraphy resources, searchable by character. Offered by Zhejiang University Library.
(Added: 28-Jul-2008 / Hits [2013- ]: 10)

Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts

A collection of digital documents collected in the subject areas of English literature, American literature, and Western philosophy. Users can locate a title by searching or browsing the catalogue. Other features include searching the contents of located texts and on-the-fly creation of PDF files.
(Added: 16-Oct-1998 / Hits [2013- ]: 8)

Bartleby.com : Great Books Online

Offers complete electronic version of preeminent contemporary reference works, e.g. Columbia Encyclopedia; The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language; Simpson's Contemporary Quotations; Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, etc. There are also full text of many classic works, e.g. Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Oxford Book of English Verse, etc.
(Added: 17-Nov-1999 / Hits [2013- ]: 11)

BASE: Bielefeld Academic Search Engine

A multi-disciplinary search engine for academically relevant web resources created by Bielefeld University Library in Germany. It indexes over 21 million academic documents from worldwide sources. The Advanced Search allows users to limit results by document format such as videos and primary data. Its Eurovoc Thesaurus can search for terms and synonyms in 21 languages, which is useful for retrieving documents from repositories in different countries.
(Added: 17-Nov-2009 / Hits [2013- ]: 8)

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

Contains links to over 1100 free, full-text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. Titles included have undergone peer-review or editorial quality control. About 300 titles are searchable on article level.
(Added: 15-Jul-2003 / Hits [2013- ]: 9)

DSpace@MIT: MIT's Institutional Repository

MIT's online institutional repository containing MIT Research in digital form, including over 20,000 MIT theses, preprints, technical reports, working papers, conference papers, images, and more.
(Added: 30-Sep-1999 / Hits [2013- ]: 18)

e-Asia Digital Library

A collection of e-books and full-text web resources, with a total of over 4,000 items (books, films, maps, images, and audios) about China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. Some books require special reader devices or software to view the content. Funded by University of Oregon Library.
(Added: 24-Feb-2010 / Hits [2013- ]: 9)

Electronic Text Center

Holds approximately 70,000 online and offline humanities texts in 15 languages such as English, French, German, Latin, Chinese, Russian, and Hebrew, with more than 350,000 related images. Some texts are not publicly accessible.
(Added: 9-Jul-1999 / Hits [2013- ]: 5)

Google Book Search

Offers downloads of copyright-free books in PDF format. For copyrighted ones, you can search the content and see bibliographic data and some pages. One can also check which libraries in your region hold the book through Open WorldCat.
(Added: 12-Sep-2005 / Hits [2013- ]: 8)

Harvard Classics and Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction

A comprehensive anthology of classics and fiction, equivalent of the 50-volume “5-foot shelf of books” and the 20-volume "Shelf of Fiction". They cover every major literary figure, philosopher, religion, folklore and historical subject through the 20th century.
(Added: 29-Dec-2004 / Hits [2013- ]: 6)

Hathi Trust Digital Library

A collaborative repository of over 10 million volumes of digital content from research libraries including content digitized via the Google Books project and Internet Archive digitization initiatives, as well as content digitized locally by libraries.
(Added: 5-Sep-2012 / Hits [2013- ]: 15)

HKUST Institutional Repository

Archives the scholarly output of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. It contains over 2,000 journal articles, conference papers, presentations, and doctoral theses. Full texts are available for public access.
(Added: 11-Jul-2006 / Hits [2013- ]: 8)

Internet Archive

An Internet library offering access to historical collections that exist in digital format, it includes texts, audio, moving images, software, and archived web pages, and provides services for adaptive reading and information access for the blind and other persons with disabilities.
(Added: 24-Sep-2007 / Hits [2013- ]: 8)

JSTOR Register & Read

A new, experimental program to extend free, read-online access to a subset of the content in JSTOR, a shared digital library created, specifically to those not affiliated with participating institutions. Includes approximately 1,200 journals from more than 700 publishers. Required registration.
(Added: 5-Mar-2013 / Hits [2013- ]: 100)

LibriVox: Acoustical Liberation of Books in the Public Domain

LibriVox's goal is to make all public domain books available as free audio books. There are several options for listening. The first step is to get the audio files (mp3 or ogg vorbis) into your own computer and then use a media player (itunes, winamp, windows media player) to play the files. Or you can download an entire book using the subscribe feature in iTunes.
(Added: 15-Dec-2008 / Hits [2013- ]: 5)

National Academies Press

Over 3,000 books can be read online free from National Academies Press, which publishes works from National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and National Research Council, etc. Covers a great variety of subjects.
(Added: 7-Apr-1999 / Hits [2013- ]: 10)

OAIster

Provides free access to 23 million digital scholarly resources, such as books, journal articles, technical reports, preprints, theses, working papers, audio files, images, etc. harvested from over 1,100 institutions worldwide.
(Added: 4-Dec-2002 / Hits [2013- ]: 27)

On-Line Books Page

To facilitate free online access to books on a wide range of subjects, this site lists over 25,000 free books also browsable by Librry of Congress Classification no. Hosted by the University of Pennsylvania Library.
(Added: 6-Jul-1999 / Hits [2013- ]: 8)

Open CRS: Congressional Research Reports for the People

Provides searching and links to over 10,000 U.S. Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports which are available in the public domain, covering a variety of topics on political events in the U.S. and other countries.
(Added: 14-Dec-2006 / Hits [2013- ]: 6)

Open Textbook Catalog

A catalog of open textbooks created and reviewed by faculty members of University of Minnesota. Openly licensed policy with complete books items only. Materials such as lecture notes, online courses, etc. are provided only as supplements to textbooks listed in the catalog.
(Added: 12-Dec-2012 / Hits [2013- ]: 13)

Page by Page Books

It offers hundreds of classic books and famous speeches that can be read online for free.
(Added: 4-Dec-2002 / Hits [2013- ]: 7)

Project Gutenberg

A resourceful archive containing extensive e-texts and audio files of literature, historical documents, reference tools, etc. The texts & audio files can be downloaded.
(Added: 3-Mar-1999 / Hits [2013- ]: 8)

RAND: Reports & Bookstore

The full texts of RAND research publications are available online. Users may browse by category or search the database. Available also RAND classics, subject area bibliographies, reviews, etc.
(Added: 3-Feb-2004 / Hits [2013- ]: 5)

UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004

Over 500 books from the University of California Press are offered freely to the public, through partnership with California Digital Library's eScholarship program. The rest are for University of California members only.
(Added: 10-Feb-2003 / Hits [2013- ]: 6)

Universal Digital Library: Million Book Project

Designed "to create a Universal Library which will foster creativity and free access to all human knowledge." and hosted at Carnegie Mellon University, the project offers full images of books in many different languages (Most are in Chinese or English) and subject areas. About 50 scanning centers worldwide, mostly in China and India, provide the content. Pages display in HTML or TIFF format, which requires a downloadable viewer 'djvu'.
(Added: 28-Jul-2008 / Hits [2013- ]: 9)

Versita: Emerging Science Publishers

An open access portal partners with MetaPress and CrossRef to host full texts of nearly 200 scholarly journals that concurrently belong to many societies, universities and research institutes. Versita is also a member of DOAJ and UK Serials Group.
(Added: 13-Jan-2012 / Hits [2013- ]: 6)

World Public Library

Contains 125 selected E-Book and E-Document collections published on the Internet, which covers PDF books and MP3 books in more than 100 languages.
(Added: 28-Jul-2010 / Hits [2013- ]: 14)

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