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ACLS Humanities E-Book Project
A digital collection of over 1,600 full-text titles in Humanities offered by the ACLS in collaboration with twelve learned societies, nearly 95 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan’s Scholarly Publishing Office.
Bartleby.com
Provides unlimited free access to thousands of electronic books, with special emphasis on classic literature and reference sources. Titles can be downloaded in a variety of formats, including PDF and Microsoft Reader.
BookBoon
"Bookboon's free online textbooks for students are focused and to the point. They are all written by highly respected professors from top universities in the world and cover topics such as economics, statistics, IT, engineering and natural science."
Charles Darwin's Library
Digital copies of Darwin's library including his handwritten notes.
National Academies Press
Free download of all PDFs in education, science, medicine, engineering and more.

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The National Academies Press (NAP) was created by the National Academies to publish the reports issued by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council, all operating under a charter granted by the Congress of the United States. The NAP publishes more than 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. The institutions represented by the NAP are unique in that they attract the nation’s leading experts in every field to serve on their award-wining panels and committees. The nation turns to the work of NAP for definitive information on everything from space science to animal nutrition.
Open Textbook Catalog
University of Minnesota has created this catalog of open textbooks. "Open textbooks are complete textbooks released under a Creative Commons, or similar, license.
Instructors can customize open textbooks to fit their course needs by remixing, editing, and adding their own content. Students can access free digital versions or purchase low-cost print copies of open textbooks."
The Online Books Page
Free, unlimited access to more than 20,000 electronic books.
Thesaurus Linguae Graecae
A digital library of Greek literature which has collected and digitized most literary texts written in Greek from Homer to the fall of Byzantium in AD 1453. Its goal is to create a comprehensive digital library of Greek literature from antiquity to the present era.