PUBLIC DOMAIN E-RESOURCES
Internet and its most used component WWW has turned into a biggest source of information with widest coverage and the fastest access. It is the most powerful tool for global communication and exchange of information.
Subject Gateways
http://bubl.ac.uk
BUBL is a UK-based interactive information service which provides links to over 12,000 internet resources in a wide range of subject areas. Initially designed as a resource for librarians, it includes a directory of UK organisations and institutions, job postings, user group links, surveys and comprehensive archives. BUBL provides links to current editions of all major UK newspapers, as well as abstracts and selected full text from over 200 journals.
CogPrints,
an electronic archive for
Provides
access to electronic preprints available from diverse sites. It is a
searchable gateway to preprint servers that deal with scientific and
technical disciplines.
Infomine
A Web resource featuring well organized access to important university level research and educational tools on the Internet.
A freely
available Internet service which aims to provide a trusted source of
selected, high quality Internet information for students, academics,
researchers and practitioners in Science & Technology, Arts and
Humanities Social Sciences, Health and Life Sciences.
The MathGuide is an Internet-based subject gateway to scholarly relevant
information in mathematics
Integrated search and browse access to records from individual subject gateway services across Europe. It provides a source of selected, high quality Internet resources for those teaching, learning and researching in higher education in Europe.
Voice
of the Shuttle
Made publicly accessible in 1995, this site began as an introduction to
the Web for humanists. Its mission has been to provide a structured and
briefly annotated guide to online resources in the humanities and
associated disciplines.
WWW Virtual Library
Catalog of Internet resources. Indexes cover a broad range of subject
areas. Each entry within a subject area links to the appropriate Internet
resource and is accompanied by a brief description and a relevancy
ranking.
Yenza means
"do it" is a guide to using the Internet for research and teaching in
the Social Sciences and Humanities.
also
provide links to online resources relating to specific disciplines.
E-Journals
Electronic Journals are the journals published in electronic format, often available on the Internet.
The
Electronic Journals Library
Offers an effective use of both scientific and academic journals publishing full text articles in the internet.
PLoS is a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed
to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely
available public resource.
Electronic Books
Electronic Books are electronic versions of printed books that can be viewed online via any PC connected to the Internet. It includes mostly the classics. Some public domain e-book resources are:
lex
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
Authorama Public Domain Books (Fiction) http://www.authorama.com/
Featuring completely free books from a variety of different authors, collected here for you to read online or offline. This site is regularly updated with new freeware stories.
Provides the best works of fiction from a wide range of classic authors; general reference works like encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, quotations, verses etc .
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
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
The Online Book
Page
The Online Book Page by University of Pennsylvania Library has about 25000 e-books on different subjects.
Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org
Project Gutenberg is the oldest producer of free e-books on the Internet. It is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or e-books. The collection consists of more than 20,000 e-books.
Miscellaneous Electronic Resources
NB: There are mirror sites in Australia, Brazil, China, France, Germany, UK, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Russia, Spain, Taiwan, & USA.
Digital Library of Information Science and Technology: dLIST A
repository of electronic resources in Library and Information Science (LIS)
and Information Technology (IT). Contains published and unpublished
papers, data sets instructional and help materials, pathfinder , reports &
bibliographies. So far in English only. User registration required to
access some areas. In HTML or PDF.
http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/
ERIC provides free access to more than 1.2 million bibliographic records of journal articles and other education-related materials and, if available, includes links to full text. ERIC is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences (IES).
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What's in ERIC - Bibliographic records of education literature plus a growing collection of full text
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Journals Indexed in ERIC - Alphabetical list covering 1966 to the present
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) Links to digital theses/dissertations available in Australia, Canada, many European nations, Hong Kong, Taiwan & the USA. http://www.ndltd.org/