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Ebsco Ebooks
Access restricted to St. Mary's and participating Amigos members computers and computing accounts.
A collection of current scholarly texts on a variety of topics purchased by St. Mary's and other Amigos library members. Everyone (on and off-campus) must create an account to check out books.
Google Book Search
Many public domain books are available through Google Book Search, though most books are copyright-protected. Choose "Full view books" for books where full text is freely available. Choose "All books" to search all book titles that Google indexes.
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Hathi Trust Digital Library
A collection of over 10 million volumes from around the world. With a free account you can create your own collection of favorites

National Academies Press
All books published by the National Academies Press downloadable for free in PDF format

Oapen Library
OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) is a collaborative initiative by European publishers.

Open Library
A collection of over 200,000 ebooks available, contributed by over 1,000 libraries. St. Mary's students, faculty and staff may create a free account and begin borrowing online books instantly.

Open Access Text Archive
A collection of fulltext books available under the open access license, sponsored by the Internet Archive. There are also links to audio, moving images, and software collections available via open access.

On-Line Books Page
Access to thousands of free online books

Project Gutenberg
Books in the public domain on all topics

Public Domain Archive and Reprints Service
A collection of fulltext books available under the open access license. You can read the book for free here or have a copy printed in paper format for a fee.

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Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
English literature, American literature and Western philosophy

Bartleby.com
Selected reference, verse, fiction, non-fiction

Bibliomania
Classic fiction, reference, short stories, non-fiction, drama, poetry, ancient classics

Christian Classics Ethereal Library
Bible, early church writings, other religious works

Electronic Text Center (searched via the University of Virginia Library Virgo Catalog)
Humanities and social sciences

Internet Public Library Reading Room
All topics plus some serials and newspapers online

Manybooks.net

NCBI Bookshelf
Medical and biology books linked from PubMed

Oxford Text Archive
Humanities

Universal Library (Million Book Project)

University of Toronto English Library
Literature and criticism


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