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Internet Archives

  • Web Pioneers Special collection that highlights a handful of sites that played a role in the early internet.
  • Archive.org 40 billion web pages archived from 1996 to a few months ago.

Books, E-books & Journals Portals/Searches

Books, E-books & Journals Libraries

  • An edaboard post has a very long list of sites with content ranging from the Dead Sea Scrolls to Winnie the Pooh. The start of the list is very programming heavy, but scroll down and you'll find some good literary links. Note that not all of the sites listed here are free (such as the excellent but pricey Octavo collection of rare books).
  • e-book.com.au also has a very long list of recommended sites, including a good list of non-English sites.
  • nakeOil Labs list their favorite 10 ebook sites. Some of them are already mentioned above, but this is a nice summary.
  • Textbook Revolution, of course, also has a great list of sites with free ebooks
  • the Internet Archive
    • You may or may not be able to find audio of Grateful Dead live shows, but they still have a ton of ebooks. Another good site that Jason brought to my attention is the ebook and etextbook list at the e-learning centre.
  • Rapidshared.org lists all the 1000s of ebooks stored on the Rapidshare.de fileservers.
  • Hackemate.co.ar for ebooks in various formats in Spanish.
  • Hermetic Library of Magical and Mystical ebooks

  • American Council of Learned Societies History E-Book Project Long range of titles available with LSE login.
  • Assayer Web's largest catalog of free books, and also collects user-submitted reviews.
  • Antikvariat.net Browse over 991.000 antiquarian books in Scandinavia, with 93 booksellers from Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland.
  • Bartleby.com In addition to novels like Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" and Fitzgerald's "This Side of Paradise," you'll find reference titles like "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations," "The Elements of Style" and "The Fannie Farmer Cookbook."
  • Baen Free Library E-books.
  • Bibliomania
  • Biblioteque Libertaire Has many French classics.
  • British Library Turning the Pages Old Classics online using shockwave
  • Directory of Open Access Journals
  • Highbeam
  • Ingentaconnect Journals from last five years. Athens.
  • Internet Archive Texts
  • The Ira J. Taylor Library houses the largest collection of theological materials in the nine-state Rocky Mountain Region. Online journals.
  • Keepmedia.com
  • Looksmart Findarticles
  • Making of America (MOA), a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. Journals e.g. The Atlantic Monthly (1857 - 1901)
  • ManyBooks has the best combination of selection, design, and features. Easy to get the text onto iPod or pdf onto PDA. (For more info on reading ebook text on your iPod, check out this site).
  • The Million Book Project The Universal Library and in in China, and their Digital Library of India.
  • NetLibrary E-Books Complete books online.
  • Open Content Alliance collaborative efforts of a group of cultural, technology, nonprofit, and governmental organizations from around the world that will help build a permanent archive of multilingual digitized text and multimedia content.
  • Open Library Probably the most beautiful ebook site. Check out the high quality resolutions of all these old prints. If you are interested in lithographics, also check out all of the images over at Bibliodyssey.
  • Oaister/ Project of the University of Michigan Digital Library Production Service. Goal is to create a collection of freely available, previously difficult-to-access, academically-oriented digital resources (what are digital resources?) that are easily searchable by anyone. Has search engine plug in for firefox.

  • PennsylvaniaOn-line library Well-known archive with collection of banned books.
  • Planet Zikri Networking and programming ebooks.
  • programmingebooks.tk
  • Rinet Russian programming books site rapidly increasing in size.
  • O'Reilly's open book project.
  • Planet PDF's
  • Project Runeberg Nordic version of Gutenberg
  • Project Gutenberg Over 17000 free ebooks. Check Top 100.
  • Questia Journals and books. Subscription site.
  • Scientific American (1846 - 1869)
  • Textbookrevolution Excellent site.
  • Virginia eText Library
  • ResourceShelf Gary Price, MLIS, of Gary Price Library & Internet Research Consulting, one of the foremost authorities on invaluable Invisible Web resources, has assembled a massive collection at his Direct Search (http://www.freepint.com/gary/direct.htm) found on his "ResourceShelf" Weblog & Newsletter site for information professionals and online researchers. Other well-known Web research tools, including "Price's List of Lists," are included on the left-hand list of links (below the list of dates).
  • Profusion From Intelliseek, who first gave us The InvisibleWeb.com directory, ProFusion is their updated meta-search engine that lets you select your own subject category of collected search engines and subject directories, allowing you to target your search by drilling into one of their specialized vertical search engine groups.
  • CompletePlanet BrightPlanet Corporation's site contains "70,000+ searchable databases & specialty search engines." Check out their Help/FAQs tab (http://aip.completeplanet.com/aip-engines/help/index.jsp), too.

  • Find Articles Searching 10 million+ articles from "leading academic, industry and general interest publications. We give you free access to information you can trust, from a collection you'll only find here." You can also find magazines and articles by topic, and your can explore all publications by title or limit your search to "free articles only."
  • Magportal.com Site for finding freely available magazine articles on the Web, using keyword searching or category browsing methods. Indexing a little over 200 magazines, their focused content allows them to update with new articles within days of them becoming available. The material is of good quality, and their Hot Neuron Similarity software package allows them to measure the similarity between articles, linking similar articles to each other.
  • Directory of Open Access Journals
    • Launched in May 2003, Sweden's Lund University Libraries Head Office hosts this "one-stop shopping" open access directory, providing no-cost access to the full text of over 2,000 journals, with over 500 journals searchable on the article level (over 83,000 articles available)--in the science and humanities/social sciences--and its directory is continually growing in size.

Books & E-books Stores

Books, E-books & Journals Specific Publishers

  • American Sociological Association
  • Berkeley Electronic Press Articles online with quasi-membership
  • BioMed Central publishes about 100 journals that are free to the public
  • Blackwell-Synergy (Athens Login, many Politics/IR journals) the world's largest publisher of academic society journals, is dipping its toes into open access.
  • Blackwell Publishing is trying to develop a hybrid approach. It's allowing some authors to pay $2,500 fees in return for the posting of their studies online for anyone to read for free; authors who don't pay will be published as usual.
  • Brill Publishers Nl Many scholarly journals, links to online access provided Brill Academic Publishers is an academic publishing house with a strong international focus. The main subject areas of Brill's publication programme are Ancient Near East & Egypt, Asian Studies, Biblical Studies & Religious Studies, Classic Studies, Medieval & Early Modern Studies, Middle East & Islamic Studies, Social Sciences and STM & Biology.
  • Cambridge UP Ebookstore.
  • ejournals
  • Carfax
  • Columbia University Press Good author pages
  • Edinburgh University Press
  • Lulu.com Self-publishing tool
  • National Library of Medicine's PubMed Free online database
  • Public Library of Science
  • Random House Pay-per-view online access to books.
  • Reed Elsevier Viewed as the Microsoft of academic publishing, distributes more than 20,000 science and technical journals, books, reference works and databases, while providing access to 6 million research articles -- many of them at a hefty price tag (sometimes more than $1,000 a year per journal)
  • Kluwer Academic Publishers
  • Oxford University Press
  • Palgrave Macmillan No access to full text)
  • PublicAffairsBooks Book Retailer
  • Sage Publications With many journals e.g. EJIR, athens login
  • wiley.com Has resource pages.
  • World Scientific Net Journal publisher in Science.

Global Searches

  • Internetbrus.se Swedish blog on search engines and searches.
  • Google Search cheat sheet
  • Phil Bradley Internet Search engines
  • Searchengineshowdown.com

  • Brainboost
  • Dogpile
  • Dumbfind Combines traditional keywords with topics or categories.
  • Clusty
  • Google
  • Elgoogl Ode to Google.
  • Guardian Browse & Search
  • Metacrawler
  • Truveo.com Excellent video search.
  • Wikisearch.org
  • Pandecta.com Search Engine List
  • beta.previewseek.com Grouping search results, showing previews
  • del.icio.us/ Search for links stored by others
  • A9.com Amazon's search engine.
  • ZoomInfo index of businesspeople Summaries describing the person's work history, education and accomplishments. Allows registered users to monitor and manage their own summaries.
  • Searchlores.org Underground searches.
  • Gigablast Up-and-coming search engine, also locates Word, Excel, PDF, and other non-HTML files, and like Google and Yahoo!, it provides cached (most recent "archived copy") of these files. It also links you to multiple "older copies" via The Internet Archive Wayback Machine.
  • Yahoo! Search Google's biggest competitor since dropping them as a partner, Yahoo! (selected in spring 2005 by Search Engine Watch as the "2004 Outstanding Search Service Winner") also provides cached copies and locates Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF, and RSS/XML files. Yahoo! also has full Boolean searching capability after purchasing the AlltheWeb and AltaVista search engines, so it looks like Google is going to be keeping an eye on Yahoo!'s continued aggressive progress. Check out their interesting "Search Shortcuts" for fun ways to quickly find everyday information, as well as their new "Yahoo! Search Subscriptions" in beta (http://search.yahoo.com/subscriptions), which enables you to search access-restricted content such as news and reference sites that are normally not accessible to search engines.

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