The OAPEN Library contains freely accessible academic books, mainly in the area of humanities and social sciences. OAPEN works with publishers to build a quality controlled collection of open access books, and provides services for publishers, libraries and research funders in the areas of deposit, quality assurance, dissemination, and digital preservation.
ACLS Humanities E-Book (HEB) is an online collection of approximately 4,300 books of high quality in the humanities, accessible through institutional and individual subscription. HEB is available to entire campus communities. Using any web browser, faculty, students, staff and library patrons of subscribing institutions can view and search the HEB collection from campus offices, libraries, dorms and remotely when off-campus. An institutional subscription to HEB includes unlimited, simultaneous multi-user access from any Internet-connected location.
CAPA is an electronic archive designed to make out-of-print volumes of poetry available to readers, scholars, and researchers. The books are stored as individual text-only files..
An innovative series of open access, digital texts exploring key themes in political and social theory, the body, science and technology, art, and critical aesthetics.
project aims to put some Project Gutenberg ebooks into GitHub so people can fix problems in the files. use GitHub to open up the PG corpus to maintenance and use by libraries and librarians. The result will include MARC records, covers, OPDS feeds and ebook files to facilitate library use. Version-controlled fork and merge workflow, combined with a change triggered back-end build environment will allow scaleable, distributed maintenance of the greatest works of our literary heritage. 43,000 books and their metadata have been moved to the git version control software.
Unglue.it is a a place for individuals and institutions to join together to make ebooks free to the world. We work together with authors, publishers, or other rights holders who want their ebooks to be free but also want to be able to earn a living doing so. We use Creative Commons licensing as an enabling tool to "unglue" the ebooks.
The University of Adelaide. The purpose of this site is: to provide access to the “classic” works of civilisation; Selection of titles is loosely based on what are described as “the Great Books”, but includes all manner of things that took the Editor's fancy. all of our eBooks are available in the ePub format.
The RAND Corporation has been advancing human knowledge for over 60 years. Certain RAND books and reports that stand out as classics are now available online in their entirety.
GandhiServe Foundation. The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi. volumes form the revised - erroneous - version of the CWMG as published on the CD-Rom "Mahatma Gandhi - Interactive Multimedia - Electronic Book" in 1999. Page and volume nos. are not identical with the original print version of the 1960's-1990's. The content of this CWMG version is to be credited as "The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi (Electronic Book), New Delhi, Publications Division Government of India, 1999, 98 volumes"
the Distributed Proofreaders Image Source list used by Project Managers when creating a project. lists scanning projects and for each has a link to ebook, full text works in progress and produced from scanned images of public domain works
No Fear Shakespeare puts Shakespeare's language side-by-side with a facing-page translation into modern English—the kind of English people actually speak today.