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Interdisciplinary

• Canadian Public Policy Collection: includes over 2,500 monographs and reports from Canadian public policy institutes, government agencies, advocacy groups, university research centres, think-tanks, and other public interest groups.
• Canadian Publishers Collection: a collection of 8,131 English and French e-books from 47 Canadian publishers, including the major Canadian university presses.
• ebrary: a searchable platform for electronic books that provides access to the full contents of books in many disciplines. Search CLUES with the keyword 'ebrary' to view the collection of e-books available to Concordia Libraries.
• Netlibrary: a collection of online books covering many subjects, but mostly in the areas of computer science, business and engineering.
• Myilibrary: a collection of online books covering many subjects, from the social sciences to technology.
• Gale Virtual Reference Library: a searchable collection of reference e-books, mostly subject encyclopedias.
• Safari Books Online: a searchable collection of ebooks in the areas of computer programming and applications, desktop publishing, information technology management and certification (As online access is for 2 simultaneous users, please do not forget to log out so that another user can access the e-book collection after you. A session has a 20 minute time-out).
• Oxford Reference Online Premium: a searchable collection of reference e-books published by Oxford University Press. Mostly language and subject dictionaries, encyclopedias and companions.
• Collins multi-language dictionaries (Lexibase): a collection of online reference language dictionaries (French, English, Spanish, Italian, German & English Thesaurus).
• Electronic Collection of Library and Archives Canada : "Consists of Canadian websites, books and periodicals published online. It includes more than 30,000 titles and more than 75,000 serial issues."
• Google Book Search: search the full text of books from partner libraries and publishers. "Find it in a Library" allows you to locate a book by entering your postal code.
• Project Gutenberg: mostly pre-1923 books. Sections include: light literature (Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, etc.) heavy literature (Bible, Shakespeare, etc), and reference works (almanacs, dictionaries, etc.). Author or title browsing.
• Project Gutenberg Canada: the ebooks on this website are in the Canadian public domain. They offer Canadian fiction (in English and French) and non-fiction books on Canadian history, politics, and culture. They also offer international literature (fiction and non-fiction) in any language.
• Internet Public Library Online Texts: provides a list books and other texts that are freely available over the Internet.
• On-line Books Page (University of Pennsylvania): this list of books includes over 5,000 titles. Check the Archive link for a comprehensive list of links to over 75 collections of foreign languages and literature sources. Author, title, subject browsing or keyword searching.
• Gallica (Bibliotheque Nationale de France): a digital library containing over 50,000 documents covering the Middle Ages through to the First World War. Includes documents from a wide range of disciplines : science and the history of science, economics, law, politics, philosophy, literature and travelogues, history and ethnology. Useful for verifying historical papers, as well as getting access to historic full text articles. Author, title keyword searches, and subject browsing.
• University of California Press Scholarship Editions: only select books from this collection of academic press titles are available to the public.
• Digital Book Index: Contains over 130,000 links to e-books, of which about 90,000 are free to download. Login is required, but it's free.
• ABU: la Bibliothèque Universelle: L'accès libre au texte intégral d'oeuvres du domaine public francophone sur Internet depuis 1993.
• Barteby.com: Great Books Online: Contains reference books, poetry, fiction and non-fiction.

science, engineering & medicine

• IDRC Books Free Online: development literature from Canada's International Development Research Centre.
• National Academies Press (NAP): read over 3000 books online free. Search by keyword or browse by subject category.
• NCBI Bookshelf: search for books in the biomedical literature, from the National Center for Biotechnology Information.
• FreeBooks4Doctors!: ebooks in medicine and related sciences.

humanities

• Les classiques des sciences sociales: 4412 livres des auteurs les plus importants des sciences humaines et sociales, disponibles gratuitement.
• Early English Books Online (EEBO): provides digital access to the full-text and full-images of printed books from 1475-1700.
• Humanities Text Initiative (University of Michigan): This collection of fiction and poetry includes texts from the American Verse Project, Michigan Early Modern English Collection, Middle English Collection, Modern English works (Public Domain). Author, title browsing or keyword searching.
• Internet Classics Archive (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): this site provides access to a collection of almost 400 classical Greek and Roman texts (in English translation) with user-provided commentary. Author browsing.
• Athena (Pierre Perroud - Universite de Geneve): includes links to more than 3,500 e-texts in the fields of philosophy, science, classics, literature, history, economics in English and French. Author browsing.
• EServer at CMU (University of Washington): a cooperative project, the English Server has been publishing humanities texts online since 1990. Subject browsing or keyword searching.
• Scriptorium: Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Online: Based out of the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge."A digital archive of manuscript miscellanies and commonplace books from c. 1450-1720, including research and teaching resources for late medieval and early modern manuscript studies."

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