E-Books in Public Domain

Project Gutenberg is the oldest producer of free electronic books (eBooks or etexts) on the Internet. The collection of more than 15000 eBooks

http://www.gutenberg.org/

Authorama Public Domain Books (Fiction)

http://www.authorama.com/

Bartleby.com provides the best works of fiction from a wide range of classic authors; general reference works like encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, quotations, verses etc

http://www.bartleby.com

Online Book Page by University of Pennsylvania Library has about 20000 e-books on different subjects

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/

The eScholarship Editions collection of University of California includes more than 1,400 books from academic presses on a range of topics, including art, science, history, music, religion, and fiction

http://texts.cdlib.org/ucpress/

1,800 publicly-available ebooks from the University of Virginia Library's Etext Center, including classic fiction, major authors

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ebooks/

MIT OpenCourseWare a site for 500 course materials available on the Internet, for free download

http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html

2,500 National Academy science, engineering, and health of USA texts free online  

http://www.nap.edu

Internet Public Library of University of Michigan has about 20000 e-books on variety of subjects

http://www.ipl.org/div/books/

Read Print site is very useful for historians and lovers of literature, as this site contains mainly the classics

http://www.readprint.com/

Oxford Text Archive from OU 2,500 resources in over 25 different languages

http://ota.ahds.ac.uk

Million Book Project [The Universal Library, China site]

http://www.ulib.org.cn

Million Book Project [Digital Library of India

http://www.dli.ernet.in/aui

Million Book Project [The Universal Library, U.S. site

http://www.ulib.org

Project Madurai Tamil Digital Library under preparation by voluntary effort 160 works in Tamil script

http://www.tamil.net/projectmadurai/

World eBook Library comprehensive collection of public domain texts & references. 60,000 PDF e-books and e-documents, plus 7,000 mp3 audio books. From the World Electronic Text Library Foundation, based in Honolulu, Hawaii

http://netlibrary.net/WorldHome.html

A site which provides comprehensive web links on Best free Digital Libraries – Australia; Best free Digital Libraries – World; Other Free Australian Books; Other Free Book Sites/Pages in English; World - Other Languages, Regional and National; Individual Topics/Miscellaneous; Sacred Texts & Religion

http://www.e-book.com.au/freebooks.htm

E-Journals and Journal Articles in Public Domain

DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. There are 1479 journals in the directory. Currently 378 journals are searchable at article level. As of today 70134 articles are included. Subjects covered are Agriculture and Food Sciences Arts and Architecture Biology and Life Sciences Business and Economics Chemistry Earth and Environmental Sciences General Works Health Sciences History and Archaeology Languages and Literatures Law and Political Science Mathematics and Statistics Philosophy and Religion Physics and Astronomy Science General Social Sciences Technology and Engineering

http://www.doaj.org/

New Jour : An archive for a major list of electronic journals and newsletters available on the Internet.

http://gort.ucsd.edu/newjour/

Free Online Full-text Articles HighWire Press is the largest archive of free full-text science on Earth!   840,417 free full-text articles and 2,181,001 total articles.

http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/freeart.dtl

FindArticles.com.  Provides free access to about 5,00,000 articles from thousands of scholarly journals in the field of Arts & Entertainment; Automotive Business & Finance; Computers & Technology; Health & Fitness; Home & Garden; News & Society; Reference & Education and Sports

http://www.findarticles.com/PI/index.jhtml

A comprehensive Website for World Newspapers organised by region and specific country. It lists 84 newspapers from India.

http://www.newspapers.com/

Scholarly Journals Distributed Via the World Wide Web provides links to established Web-based scholarly journals that offer access to English language article files without requiring user registration or fees. A service provided by University of Houston Libraries, USA

http://info.lib.uh.edu/wj/webjour.html

The Library of Congress provides a comprehensive list of periodicals accessible through public domain

http://www.loc.gov/rr/news/pertitle.html

Online Books Page : Serials (holdings of 40 Pennsylvania libraries) lists freely accessible archives of about 500 serials such as magazines, journals, newspapers, and other periodicals

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/serials.html

ERIL (Electronic Resources in Libraries) has a wide variety of Full-Text Journals which could be accessible in public domain

http://www.joanconger.net/ERIL/resources.html

University of Nevada, Reno Libraries maintains free electronic journal archives on almost 100 subjects covering about 1500 journals

http://www.library.unr.edu/ejournals/free.aspx

The Strategic Guide to Quality Information (Strategian Science Database) in Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Mathematics, Medicine, Physics, and Psychology Free Full Text Journal and Magazine Articles, Books, Preprints, Documents, Patents, and Reports

http://www.strategian.com/free_full_text_articles.html

Ready Reference & Quick Facts

The most up-to-date encyclopedia available contains over 50,000 articles, 40,000 bibliographic citations and 80,000 cross-references.

Columbia Encyclopedia

6th ed. 2001

Renowned historian Peter N. Stearns’s comprehensive chronology of more than 20,000 entries that span the millenia from prehistoric times to the year 2000.

The Encyclopedia of World History

6th ed. 2001.

The 6,900 entries in this major new reference work form the touchstone of what it means to be not only just a literate American but an active citizen in our multicultural democracy.

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy,

 3rd ed. 2002.

With 50,000 entries, this most comprehensive encyclopedia of geographical places and features will prove invaluable to anyone for whom places hold fascination and who require accurate data about them.

The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000.

Containing 35,000 synonyms in an easy-to-use format, this thesaurus features succinct word definitions.

Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, 3rd ed. 1995.

Mawson’s modernization of Roget’s classic structure with over 85,000 hyperlinked cross-references and 2,900 quotations.

Roget’s International Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases. 1922

The 2,100 entries in this eminently researched collection form the constellation of collected wisdom in American political debat

Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

The 65,000 essential quotations by 5,000 authors that constitute this authoritative collection represent the research of 154 experts and are divided into 6,500 subjects.

The Columbia World of Quotations.

1996.

The most notable quotations since 1950 contains over 9,000 quotations from 4,000 sources and is organized into 25 categories and 60 sections.

Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations.

1988.

Including over 11,000 quotations, the first new edition of John Bartlett’s corpus to be published after his death in 1905 keeps most of his original work intact.

Bartlett, John. 1919. Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.