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Library and Information Science Associations     Back to Top

American Association of School Librarians
50 E. Huron St.
Chicago, IL 60611

American Library Association
50 E. Huron St.
Chicago, IL 60611

Association of College and Research Libraries/ ALA
50 E. Huron St.
Chicago, IL 60611

Association for Library and Information Science Educators
P.O. Box 7640
Arlington, VA 22207

Association of Rese2arch Libraries (ARL)
21 Dupont Circle, Suite 800
Washington, DC 20036

Commission on Preservation and Access
1400 Sixteenth St., Suite 740
Washington, DC 20036

Medical Library Association
65 East Wacker Place, Suite 1900
Chicago, IL 60601

National Commission on Libraries and Information Science
1110 Vermont Ave., NW, Suite 820
Washington, DC 20005

National Forum on Information Literacy
Dr. Patricia S. Breivik
Dean of University Libraries
Wayne State University
Purdy/Kresge Library
5265 Cass Ave.
Detroit, MI 48202-3939

Young Adult Library Services Association
50 East Huron St.
Chicago, IL 60611

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 Free Full Text LIS Journals

Internet Sites:           Back to Top

* Library Technology Guides
Key resources and content related to Library Automation. The Library Technology Guides website aims to provide comprehensive and objective information related to the field of library automation. This site has no affiliation with any library automation company.
http://www.librarytechnology.org

* How to Start and Run a Basic Library (June 1998)
By Laura Wendell, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Excerpt: "This book is for community leaders, librarians, library committees, volunteers, aid workers and others who are interested in the practical aspect of starting and maintaining a successful library."
http://www.rtpnet.org/wlp/publications/lfa.shtml

* Building & Supporting Library Research: A National Focus (April 1998)
Reports on a meeting of library professionals from government, universities, associations, & foundations to discuss library research needs in light of the library's evolving role as an access point not only for printed material but for the rapidly growing amount of electronic and  digital information.
http://www.ed.gov/offices/OERI/PLLI/libresearch.html

* UNESCO Libraries Portal
"The UNESCO Library Portal is intended to enhance access to information related to library resources available on the World Wide Web as well as to issues affecting librarianship. The site provides links to websites of libraries and information centres around the world and will serve as an interactive point for browsing and searching a range of categories including websites of national libraries, government information services, library associations and on-line resources. It will also provide news about conferences and training opportunities."
http://www.unesco.org/webworld/portal_bib/

* Dewey Decimal System Homepage       Back to Top
"The Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) system is a general knowledge organization tool that is continuously revised to keep pace with knowledge."
http://www.oclc.org/fp/

* Library of Congress Classification Outline
Lists the letters and titles of the main classes of the Library of Congress Classification. Available as pdf document.
http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/lcco.html

* Library of Congress Preservation Resources
Information on caring for library collections and a link to a pamphlet series on preservation. http://lcweb.loc.gov/preserv/preserve.html

* Preservation 101
An Internet course on paper preservation designed by the Northeast Document Conservation Center. This tutorial covers topics including environmental damage, solutions to collections care, housekeeping, emergency preparedness, care of photographs, and preservation planning.
http://www.nedcc.org/p101cs/p101wel.htm

* AcqWeb
"AcqWeb is a World Wide Web site providing links to information and resources of interest to librarians with acquisitions or collection development responsibilities." http://acqweb.library.vanderbilt.edu/

* ILLWeb
"ILLWeb is a gateway to electronic and print resources pertaining to all aspects of interlibrary loan (ILL), document delivery, and resource sharing."
http://www.law.northwestern.edu/lawlibrary/illweb/

* The Internet and Computers in Libraries         Back to Top
Includes information on desktop security, ergonomics, policy & filtering, searching and databases, web development, training, and Z39.50.
http://mel.lib.mi.us/libraries/LIBS-tech.html

* Librarians in the 21st Century
This site created by MLS students includes information on librarian education, career possibilities, future trends and issues, and pathfinders on library topics.
http://istweb.syr.edu/21stcenlib/

* Buildings, Books, and Bytes: Libraries and Communities in the Digital Age (1996)
The report reveals what library leaders and the public have to say about the future of libraries in the digital age.
http://www.benton.org/Library/Kellogg/buildings.html

* Planning and Building Libraries
This site has been created for Architects, Librarians, Design Consultants, and students - those interested in - useful web resources on planning and building libraries. The purpose of this page is to provide an outline of all the resources.
http://www.slais.ubc.ca/resources/architecture/index3.html

* Librarians Connections
Information from Disability Resources to help you make your library more accessible and inviting to patrons with disabilities.
http://www.disabilityresources.org/DRMlibs.html

* The Researching Librarian          Back to Top
Resources for librarians doing research. The sites are organized in five categories: databases, funding, journals, statistics, and tools.
http://www2.msstate.edu/~kerjsmit/trl/index.html

* Library Support Staff
A collection of resources for library paraprofessionals.
http://www.librarysupportstaff.com/

* Bibliographic Instruction Page
Designed to be a resource for practitioners (especially beginning librarians) of bibliographic instruction.
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/BIResources.html

* Cataloging Tools on the Internet
A collection of cataloging resources for public and school librarians.
http://lib.nmsu.edu/staff/lcreider/BRLAURLs.html

* State Libraries
"Developed in cooperation with the American Library Association (ALA) and the Chief Officers of State Library Agencies (COSLA), this page brings together links to state libraries, state library agencies, state library networks, or state library commissions across the United States."
http://www.loc.gov/global/library/statelib.html

* American Libraries Online
"American Libraries is published monthly except bimonthly June/July by the American Library Association."
http://www.ala.org/alonline/index.html

* NewBreed Librarian
"NewBreed Librarian is a bimonthly publication intended to foster a sense of community for those new to librarianship, whether in school or just out."
http://www.newbreedlibrarian.org/

* Ariadne:  Internet Issues for Librarians and Information Specialists                 Back to Top
A magazine (with print and electronic versions) of Internet issues for librarians and information specialists. Contains reports and descriptions of how librarians are using the Internet, site management, descriptions and evaluations of internet resources, more.
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/

* LIBRES: Library and Information Science Research Electronic Journal
"LIBRES is an international refereed electronic journal devoted to new research in Library and Information Science."
http://libres.curtin.edu.au

* The Public-Access Computer Systems Review
An electronic journal about end-user computer systems in libraries. This journal ceased operation in 1998, but articles are still available online. (1990-1998)
http://info.lib.uh.edu/pacsrev.html

* Library Philosophy and Practice
"A peer-reviewed electronic journal that publishes articles exploring the connection between library practice and the philosophy and theory behind it."
http://www.uidaho.edu/~mbolin/lp&p.htm

* Online Library Serials and Journals
A list of online journals provided by the Internet Public Library.
http://www.ipl.org/cgi-bin/reading/serials.out.pl?ty=long&id=hum45.00.00

* Index Morganagus
Full text index of library-related electronic serials.
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/~emorgan/morganagus/

* Current Cites
An annotated monthly bibliography of selected articles, books, and electronic documents on information technology.
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/

* ALiNUS
"ALiNUS is an Internet gateway to more than 600 online academic library newsletters published by US institutions of higher education."
http://rhakotis.snhu.edu/alinus/alinuslist.asp

* Impacts of the Internet on Public Library Use - Basic Fact Sheet
Presents the major findings of a national telephone survey of 3,097 adults conducted during the spring of 2000 by the Urban Libraries Council. There is a link to the research report (in pdf) at the bottom of this page.
http://www.urbanlibraries.org/Internet%20Study%20Fact%20Sheet.html

* Info Connect List of Library Records (1999)          Back to Top
Collection of facts and trivia about all kinds of libraries; largest, oldest, etc.
http://www.geocities.com/infolibrary/Page16.htm

* ALA Fact Sheets
Includes fact sheets on a variety of library issues including number of libraries, expenditures, use, marketing, collections, etc.
http://www.ala.org/library/larcfact.html

* Library History Round Table
"The Library History Round Table of the American Library Association exists to facilitate communication among scholars and students of library history, to support research in library history, and to be active in issues, such as preservation, that concern library historians."
http://www.spertus.edu/library-history/

* LibraryHQ.com: Resources for the Wired Librarian
A web-based portal site for the library profession. Includes a site to help locate speakers in the library profession and a collection of library management resources.
http://www.libraryhq.com

* Librarians and Information Science - Suite101.com
Here you'll find articles, links, and resources pertinent to librarianship and the information professions.
http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/librarians_information_science

* Library Land
Extensive resources covering many aspects of library operations.
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/LibraryLand/

* BUBL LINK: Library and Information Science
A catalogue of Internet resources organized by Dewey class.
http://link.bubl.ac.uk/lis

* LibWeb: Library Information Servers on the Web
Includes links to library web sites from over 100 countries.
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Libweb/

* Librarians Index to the Internet: Library Topics
Excellent annotated searchable and browsable pointers to internet resources with information on libraries and library science.
http://lii.org/search/file/libraries

* Library and Information Science Resources from the Library of Congress
A collection of resources with information on national & state libraries, school libraries, special collections, conferences, journals, organizations, etc.
http://lcweb.loc.gov/global/library/

* Internet Library for Librarians         Back to Top
"A comprehensive Web database designed to provide a one-stop shopping center for librarians to locate Internet resources related to their profession".
http://www.itcompany.com/inforetriever/

* Library Science Jeopardy
Interactive Jeopardy-style game developed and maintained by library school students at the University of Maryland.  Includes the following categories:  Pioneers, Machinery and Technology, Buildings, Systems of Organization, In the Arts, and History.
http://www.wam.umd.edu/~aubrycp/project/jeopardy.html
 

Online Communities:                      Back to Top

* Directory of Library-Oriented Listservs and Electronic Serials
From University of Houston Libraries. Also includes some useful tips/faqs on listservs.
Frames Version:
http://liblists.wrlc.org/home.htm
No Frames Version:
http://liblists.wrlc.org/noframes.htm

* FEDREF-L:  Federal Reference Librarians Discussion List
A moderated list for reference librarians in the federal government, although other subscribers are welcome to join.
To subscribe, address an e-mail message in the following manner:
To: listserv@loc.gov
subscribe FEDREF-L YourFirstName YourLastName

* LIBLICENSE-L
Moderated list for the discussion of issues related to the licensing of digital information by academic and research libraries. To subscribe, address an email message in the following manner:
To: listproc@pantheon.yale.edu
subscribe LIBLICENSE-L YourFirstName YourLastName
Archives: http://www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/ListArchives/

* LIBSOFT
devoted to discussing software of particular interest to librarians To subscribe, address an e-mail message in the following manner:
To: Majordomo@world.std.com
subscribe libsoft-l

* LIS-PERF-MEASURES
Performance Measurement in Libraries and Information Services.
Library and information managers as well as research and teaching staff are encouraged to discuss and exchange information on performance measurement, methodologies, the human dimension, the digital library, measuring electronic services, and more.
To subscribe, address an e-mail message in the following manner:
To:  jiscmail@jiscmail.ac.uk
join lis-perf-measures YourFirstName YourLastName
You can also subscribe at the following URL: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa.exe?SUBED1=lis-perf- measures&A=1
Archives: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/lis-perf-measures.html

* STUMPERS-L
A networking resource for reference questions that have people, in essence, stumped.
To subscribe, address an e-mail message in the following manner:
To: listserv@listserv.dom.edu
Leave the subject line blank. Then, in the message body type:
Subscribe STUMPERS-L
You can also subscribe at the following URL: http://listserv.dom.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?SUBED1=stumpers-l&A=1
Archives: http://listserv.dom.edu/archives/stumpers-l.html

* Librarians Chatboard at Teachers.net
This forum is dedicated to discussions of issues related to library administration and information sciences.
http://teachers.net/mentors/librarians

* Librarians and Information Science discussions
http://www.suite101.com/discussions.cfm/librarians_information_science
 

Organizations:                  Back to Top

* American Library Association (ALA)
550 E. Huron
Chicago, IL 60611
Toll Free: 800/545-2433
TDD: 312/944-7298
Fax: 312/440-9374
http://www.ala.org/

* Association for Library and Information Science (ALISE)
P.O. Box 7640
Arlington, VA 22207
Tel: 703/243-8040
Fax: 703/243-4551
http://www.alise.org/

* Council on Library and Information Resources
1755 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W. Suite 500
Washington, DC 20036
(202) 939-4750
Fax: (202) 939-4765
Email: info@clir.org
http://www.clir.org/

* Association of Records Managers and Administrators International (ARMA International)
4200 Somerset Dr., #215
Prairie Village, KS  66208
Tel:  913/341-3808
Toll Free:  800/422-2762 (U.S. and Canada)
Fax:  913/341-3742
E-mail:  hq@arma.org
http://www.arma.org/

* Association of Research Libraries (ARL)
21 Dupont Circle, Suite 800
Washington, DC 20036
Executive Director: Duane E. Webster
Tel: 202/296-2296
Fax: 202/872-0884
E-mail arlhq@arl.org
http://arl.cni.org

* Center for Research Libraries (CRL)
6050 S. Kenwood Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637-2804
Tel: 800/621-6044 or 773/955-4545
Fax: 773/955-4339
E-mail: green@crlmail.uchicago.edu
http://wwwcrl.uchicago.edu/

* International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)
P.O. Box 95312
2509 CH The Hague
Netherlands
Tel: +31 70 3140884
Fax: +31 70 3834827
E-mail: IFLA@ifla.org
http://www.ifla.org/

* Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC)
6565 Frantz Road
Dublin, OH 43017-3395
Tel: 614/764-6000
Toll Free: 800/848-5878
Fax: 614/764-6096
E-mail: oclc@oclc.org
http://www.oclc.org

* Public Library Association (PLA)
Toll Free:  800-545-2433 ext. 5PLA
E-mail:  pla@ala.org
http://www.pla.org/

* Research Libraries Group (RLG) and Research Librarians Information Network (RLIN)
1200 Villa Street
Mountain View, CA 94041-1100
Fax: 650/964-0943
E-mail: bl.ric@rlg.org
http://www.rlg.org

* The Society of American Archivists (SAA)             Back to Top
527 S. Wells St., 5th Floor
Chicago, IL  60607-3922
Tel:  312/922-0140
Fax:  312/347-1452
E-mail:  info@archivists.org
http://www.archivists.org/

* Special Libraries Association (SLA)
1700 Eighteenth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20009-2514, USA
Tel: 202/234-4700
Fax: 202/265-9317
E-mail: sla@sla.org
http://www.sla.org/

* Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA)
50 East Huron Street
Chicago, IL 60611
Toll Free: 800/545-2433 ext. 4390
Fax: 312/664-7459
E-mail: YALSA@ala.org
http://www.ala.org/yalsa/

* U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science
1110 Vermont Avenue, N.W.
Suite 820
Washington, DC 20005-3552
Telephone: 202-606-9200
Fax: 202-606-9203
http://www.nclis.gov/

Libraray and Information Science Conferences                 Back to Top

Date and Location Organization
January 18-23, 2002
New Orleans, LA
ALA Midwinter Meeting 2002
March 13-15, 2002
Washington, DC
Information Today Annual Computers in Libraries Conference (17th)
April 23-26, 2002
Dallas, TX
Texas Library Association, 89th Annual Conference
May 9-11, 2002
Montreal
Quebec Library Association Conference in Montreal ABQLA 2002 Annual Conference: "Reading, Where Art Thou?"
May 14-16, 2002
New York, NY
Information Today National Online Meeting and Integrated Online Library Systems
June 19-22, 2002
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Canadian Library Association Conference
June 13-19, 2002
Atlanta, GA
American Library Association Annual Conference (ALA)
August 5-9, 2002
Hilton Petaling Jaya, Malaysia
Learning Libraries and Literacies 31th International Association of School Librarianship Conference & 6th International Forum on Research in School Librarianship. (IASL) “School Libraries for a Knowledge Society”
2002
Glasgow, Scotland
The International Federation of Library Associations & Institutions 68th Annual Conference: "Libraries and Librarians: Making a Difference in the Knowledge Age" 68th IFLA General Conference
October 23—26, 2002
Buffalo, NY
NYLA
November 18-21, 2002
Philadelphia, PA
American Society for Information Science and Technology Annual Conference (ASIST)
November 4-6, 2002
Palm Springs, CA
Internet Librarian 2002

Some electronic classification schemes

Library of Congress

Dewey Decimal Classification

UDC (Universal Decimal Classification)

Others

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Here is top 10 universities of ( australia, canada, UK and USA)

Canadian universities: Australian universities: USA universities: British universities:

http://www.mcgill.ca/

http://www.utoronto.ca/

http://www.ubc.ca/

http://www.mcmaster.ca/home.html

http://www.ualberta.ca/

http://www.yorku.ca/yorkweb/index.htm

http://www.carleton.ca/

http://www.sfu.ca/index4.htm

http://www.umanitoba.ca/

 

http://www.anu.edu.au/

http://www.monash.edu.au/

http://www.adelaide.edu.au/

http://www.unimelb.edu.au/

http://www.uq.edu.au/

http://www.usyd.edu.au/

http://www.unsw.edu.au/

http://www.uwa.edu.au/

http://www.gu.edu.au/

http://www.mq.edu.au/

 

www.princeton.edu

www.college.harvard.edu

www.yale.edu/admit

www.caltech.edu

www.duke.edu

www.web.mit.edu/admissions

www.stanford.edu

www.upenn.edu

www.dartmouth.edu

www.uchicago.edu

 

http://www.mq.edu.au/

http://www.cam.ac.uk/

http://www.ic.ac.uk

http://www.bath.ac.uk/

www.lse.ac.uk

www.warwick.ac.uk

http://www.bris.ac.uk/

www.york.ac.uk

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/

http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/

 

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Free E_books

Best free Digital Libraries - Australia

Adelaide University Electronic Texts Collection This growing collection of e-texts - currently more than 170 - includes classic works of Literature, Philosophy, Science, and Medicine. Their own web editions, in HTML. http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au

New Australian e-Humanities Gateway is an initiative of the Australian e-Humanities Network, a group funded by the Australian Research Council.The network includes representatives from the Australian Academy of the Humanities, the University of Sydney and the University of Newcastle. A portal for digital resources in humanities disciplines in Australia.
http://www.ehum.edu.au

OZLIT Electronic Texts
Not a library as such, rather an Australian portal to an array of free e-book resources. Includes a limited number of Australian e-texts. Courtesy of the leading state portal VicNet.
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~ozlit/chapt4.html

Project Gutenberg of Australia produces books in electronic form and makes them freely available to the public in accordance with Australian copyright law. NB: Under Australian copyright law, literary, dramatic, & musical work published, performed, communicated, or recorded and offered for sale in an author's lifetime are protected for the life of the author plus fifty years from the end of the year of the author's death. After this time they enter into the public domain. Some e-books available here may still be under copyright in the United States (where local laws have several times extended copyright to levels not accepted within Australian jurisdiction). Such works are therefore not available from the US site of Project Gutenberg.
http://gutenberg.net.au/

SETIS (The Scholarly Electronic Text and Image Service at the University of Sydney Library) Regarded as the leading University digital collection in Australia. Plans are under way to further enlarge the size & scope of SETIS. NB: While many texts may be accessed from the Web, please note also that a large number are commercially licensed and available only to users at the University of Sydney.
http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/

 Best free Digital Libraries - World                     back 

Project Gutenberg Project Gutenberg is the original free digital library of books no longer in copyright. So you'll find a great many classic literary texts here. The full Gutenberg collection now exceeds 5,000 books. The whole collection represents a monumental effort in unpaid, unselfish, labour since 1971.
The Project Gutenberg Philosophy is to make information, books and other materials available to the general public in forms a vast majority of the computers, programs and people can easily read, use, quote, and search. Their books are usually in plain text (ASCII) format. However to improve the online reading experience you can also use other reader software. Such as the free Gutenberg Reader, another labour of love, this time from a dedicated individual, or Tom's eTextReader. Both can be found on our Software Page (under construction)
http://www.gutenberg.net

 Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts is a collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy. You can search for and display texts from the collection & also search their content, & even create on-the-fly PDFs for offline reading or printing. http://www.infomotions.com/alex

Athena Thousands of mainly French and Swiss-authored e-texts, across a broad range of especially Literature, Science & the Arts. In .html &. rtf versions. Also many links to famous works in German, Dutch & English too. Prepared or linked for the Web by the University of Geneva. Expand your mind & education here.
http://un2sg4.unige.ch/athena/html/athome.html

Bartleby.com The Encyclopedia of World History and The Harvard Classics are among many free texts offered at this award-winning site. Many classic reference works are available here.
http://www.bartleby.com/index.html

Bibliomania Offers more than 2,000 free classic texts, plus research works. In HTML format, readable by your web browser.
http://www.bibliomania.com

Bibliotheca Augustana A Latin e-library. Includes Bibliothecae Latina, Graeca, Germanica, Anglica, Gallica, Italica et Hispanica. "Collectio textuum electronicorum. AppleMac et Netscape his paginis optimum visum dant. Ave Gatem et Exploratorem! " (Optimised for Netscape).
http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~harsch/a_index.html

CELT (Corpus of Electronic Texts). Irish literary, historical & cultural texts, in Irish, Latin, Anglo-Norman French, and English. Presented in HTML, with a searchable online database. An initiative of University College, Cork, Republic of Ireland.
http://www.ucc.ie/celt

Complete Works of William Shakespeare but minus his poetry at present. The plays can be read either as a continuous text or by individual scenes. For reading online, in HTML.
http://the-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/works.html

Elfwood Elfwood is a huge, non-profit home to amateur Fantasy/Sci-Fi literature and art, plus some How -To Guides. The site holds over twenty thousand works of art & literature by over fifteen hundred Science Fiction/Fantasy artists and writers.
http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se

The E Server Bit of a mind flip might be an exaggeration, but there is certainly nothing stodgy about this large & contemporary collection of online intellectual texts & resources. Based at the University of Washington.
http://eserver.org

Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature Links site for literary texts in Western European languages other than English. Languages include Catalan, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Irish, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish & Swedish.
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/wess/etexts.html

Electronic Texts On The Internet A useful links page with over eighty entries
http://www.refdesk.com/factelec.html

EuroDocs Primary historical documents from Western Europe. Selected Transcriptions, Facsimiles and Translations.
http://library.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs

Great Books - Fully Searchable Concordances.
http://www.concordance.com

Internet Classics Archive More than 440 mainly Greco-Roman texts, with some Chinese and Persian. By 59 different authors. In English translation. For online reading, some downloads available.
http://classics.mit.edu

Internet Public Library Over 20,000 free books available online. The Internet Public Library's Mission Statement says: " The Internet Public Library (IPL), is a public service organization and learning/teaching environment at the University of Michigan School of Information. The IPL Online Texts Collection contains over 20,000 titles that can be browsed by author, by title, or by Dewey Decimal Classification". For questions about the online texts collection, or how to search, please see their help page.
http://www.ipl.org/reading/books

MasterWorks of Western Civilisation Access to many seminal works.
http://mason-west.com/MasterWorks/index.shtml

National Academy Press Read over 2,500 National Academy science, engineering, and health texts free online. You can also purchase print copies if you wish. These e-books represent the cream of U.S. research & policy opinion in these fields. Texts are presented in a fully-searchable "Open Book" format, which also allows for page browsing & internal links. Open Book" is HTML, & moreover the format is prepared so that you can send people an individual page reference as an URL. PDFs are also available. The U.S. National Academy of Sciences provides this site.
http://www.nap.edu

Online Books Page This University of Pennsylvania site offers access to more than 16,000 books online. http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books

Online Medieval and Classical Library From The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle to Yvain, or The Knight With the Lion, & including such works as: The Lay of the Cid, The Song of Roland, the Nibelungenlied, Orlando Furioso, the High History of the Holy Graal, many Icelandic sagas, some Chaucer & much else besides. In HTML for reading online, or download in PKZIP v.2.04g compressed format. Thanks to Douglas B. Killings, Sun Systems & the University of California at Berkeley.
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL

Open An Ebook ( An OeB Forum Site) Subjects with titles available are as follows : Biography & Autobiography, Business, Children, Computer Technology, Fiction, History, Juvenile Fiction, Juvenile Non-fiction, Nature, Politics, Reference, Religion & Spirituality, Science, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Transportation, Travel, and Young Adult. Note that these books are currently available in Adobe Acrobat eBook Reader & Microsoft Reader formats only. The relevant software can be downloaded on their front page at http://www.openanebook.org/free_ebooks.asp, or from the Software page on this site (when available).
To browse the OeB free e-books by subject go to:
http://www.openanebook.org/browse.asp

Oxford Text Archive From Oxford University, this archive was founded in 1976. High-quality, well-documented electronic texts for research and teaching. More than 2,500 resources in over 25 different languages. A premium academic resource. Public domain texts are freely available from the on-line catalogue and may be downloaded in a number of different formats. Some texts require the user to obtain the written permission of the original depositor.
http://ota.ahds.ac.uk

Pennsylvania State University Electronic Classics Site: " The Labyrinth" PSU's e-books are presented as .pdf files (Adobe's Portable Document Format). Read them with the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Established in 1997, the site offers many classical works of literature in English, plus original works published by Penn. State Uni.
http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/jimspdf.htm

Perseus Project A great classical digital library site, with Greek & Latin texts, commentaries, an atlas, coin images, art, archaeology and more.