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Find full text e-books in the collections below.

E-books via Dibner Library

AccessEngineering
Over 280 books, covering all areas of engineering including: bio, chemical, civil, communications, electrical, environmental, industrial, mechanical, and software engineering.

Books24x7
Thousands of full text business, technical and engineering books, book summaries, research reports and best practices.

Cambridge Books Online
Over 3,000 books in science and engineering plus books covering the humanities, social sciences, and medicine.

Knovel
Online science and engineering reference collection that includes material properties, process and design information, best practices, equations, and interactive graphs and tables.

Referex (Engineering Village)
Engineering reference book collection that includes handbooks, "how to" guides, specialized professional information and more.

Safari Books Online
Over 290 technical e-books in computer science and information technology, including programming languages, operating systems, software applications, and much more.

Science Direct (Elsevier) 
Full text access to over two thousand books and reference works in a wide range of disciplines including Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Engineering, Math, Health, Management, Social Sciences and the Humanities.

SpringerLink
A full text online collection of scientific, technological and medical books, journals and reference works.  Select "Books" or "Book Series" under content type to limit your results to books.

Free e-books

Digital Book Index
Search or browse over 130,000 free online books by title keyword, author, or subject.  This index is intended as a "Meta-index" for most major e-book sites, along with thousands of smaller specialized sites.

Online Books Page
A listing of more than 25,000 works hosted by the University of Pennsylvania Libraries. You can browse by subject or call number and search by title or author. New books are added daily.  

Google Book Search
Google's book search engine includes both full and limited-access titles. Use the Advanced Search to specify words in title, author, date or publisher. The complete text of many public domain books (published before 1923) are included, as well as brief excerpts from other books.

Project Gutenberg
Claims to be the “first and largest single collection of free electronic books.”  Books are available in many languages and you can browse and search a variety of ways.

BookYards.com
Several options available to browse this collection of over 15,350 books.

Open Library
Created by the Internet Archive, this site offers access to important book collections from around the world through a visually appealing and easy to use interface.

Oxford Text Archive
Several thousand high-quality, well-documented electronic texts in a variety of languages. Its holdings include electronic editions of works by individual authors and standard reference works such as the Bible and dictionaries.

Text Archive
Part of the Internet Archive, this site includes a variety of sub-collections such as American Libraries and Biodiversity Heritage Library.  The Internet Archive also includes audio, moving images, software and archived web pages.

University of Virginia Electronic Text Center Collections
Access to over 10,000 publicly accessible e-books in twelve languages, with more than 164,000 related images (book illustrations, covers, manuscripts, newspaper pages, museum objects, etc).

World Public Library
A consortia of 65 members offering over 75,000 free books available in the Public Access Section in HTML format.  No advanced search available.

Special Collections:

American Mathematical Society Books Online

Cornell University Library Historical Mathematics Monographs

Digital Mathematics Library

National Academies Press (all titles published by NAP free)

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