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netLibrary
Access thousands of academic books online. Create an account on campus then use netLibrary worldwide. Books can be "checked-out" for 24 hours to the hard drive of your computer for off-line reading. 

Early English Books Online: 
A digital library of works from Pollard and Redgrave to the Thomason Tracts - over 96,000 individual titles. Coverage: 1475 A.D. to 1700. Updated: quarterly. 

North American Women's Letters and Diaries includes the immediate experiences of 632 women, as revealed in approximately 82,000 pages of diaries and letters. When complete, the collection will include more than 150,000 pages of primary materials spanning more than 300 years.

Knovel Scientific and Engineering Online Reference: contains of some of the leading engineering reference handbooks, databases, and conference proceedings. Some of the subject areas covered are: chemistry, chemical engineering, environmental engineering, concrete, asphalt, mechanical engineering, semiconductors, electronics, and surface engineering.

 

Wisconsin Electronic Reader
 Stories, essays, letters, poems, biographies, journals and tidbits from Wisconsin history. Many first hand accounts - profusely illustrated.

Project Gutenberg
What can we say, this is the one that started them all! Beginning over 25 years ago, this volunteer project has now digitized over 3000 classic texts. 

Electronic Text Center (University of Virginia) 
Classic British and American fiction, major authors, children's literature, American history, Shakespeare, African-American documents, the Bible, and more. 

EServer (University of Washington)
Art, architecture, drama, fiction, poetry, history, political theory, cultural studies, philosophy, women's studies, and music. This site was formerly knows as the English Server based at Carnegie Mellon.

Online Books Page (University of Pennsylvania)
This large collection is updated daily. Very well organized, check out the banned book section.

Online Texts Collection
This collection from the Internet Public Library of over 13,000 titles is arranged by author, title, or Dewey Classification number. 

Historical Primary Sources (University of Wisconsin)
Three unique historical texts from collections of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Internet Sacred Text Archive 
Archive of electronic texts about religion, mythology, legends and folklore, and occult and esoteric topics.

Online Medieval & Classical Library
A collection of some of the most important literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization from the Berkeley Digital Library.

Philosophy Text Collection
Classic philosophical texts from the University of Tennessee at Martin.

Public Collections
National Academy Press
NAP publishes over 200 books a year on a wide range of topics in science, engineering, and health, capturing the most authoritative views on important issues in science and health policy.

Making of America (University of Michigan)
Primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. 

Internet Classics Archive (MIT)
441 works of classical literature by 59 different authors. Mainly Greco-Roman works (some Chinese and Persian), all in English translation.


Computer Sciences Technical Reports (University of Wisconsin)

An international collection of computer science technical reports from CS departments and industrial and government research laboratories.

 


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