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Digital Book Index
Provides links to more than 148,000 full-text digital books from more than 1800 commercial and non-commercial publishers, universities, and various private sites. More than 120,000 of these books, texts, and documents are available free, while many others are available at very modest cost.

ebrary
Licensed for UHM use only. Provides online access to more than 22,000 books in business & economics; career & general education; computers, engineering & applied sciences; humanities; science, medicine, & allied health; and social & behavioral sciences.

Google Books
Covers millions of books. If a book is out of copyright, or the publisher has given Google permission, you can see a preview of the book, and in some cases the entire text. If the book is in the public domain, you're free to download a PDF copy.

HathiTrust
Provides access to more than 5 million volumes in digital holdings, of which more than 75% is in the public domain. In addition to digitized books, there is journal and (limited) institutional repository content from the holdings of more than two dozen university research libraries.

Hawaii Voyager Library Catalog
Search for books in the combined catalog of the University of Hawaii Systems libraries. Includes books available online.

International Children's Digital Library
Provides access to more than 4,300 books, both old and new, in more than 50 languages.

Internet Archive Text Archive
Provides access to more than 2.4 million items.

The National Academies Press
No charge to search/read.

Online Books Page
Provides access to 40,000 free books.

Perseus Digital Library - Collections (Tufts University)
Provides access to works ranging from primary and secondary sources for the study of ancient Greece and Rome to early modern English literature to sources on the history of the 19th-century United States and more.

Safari Computer Books
Licensed for UHM use only. Provides access a wide range of topics with books from Addison Wesley, O'Rielly, Prentice Hall, Peachpit Press, and Que.

University of Hawaii Press eBook Collection (netLibrary)
Licensed for UH System use only.

WorldCat.org
Contains records of digital resources from open-archive collections worldwide. More than 23 million records representing digital resources from more than 1,100 contributors. After you enter search terms and execute a search, limit the first page of search results to the format, "internet resource" (option on left side of page).

Shakespeare Full Text on the Web

• Internet Shakespeare Editions (University of Victoria, Canada)
• The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (MIT)
• The Oxford Shakespeare (Bartleby.com)
• Shakespeare Bookshelf (The Internet Public Library)
  
  

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[Updated February 2010 by Wil Frost]