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• Acervo MAG Seguros - Historical minutes of the board meetings of Montepio Geral de Economia dos Servants of the State (founded in 1835). These 43 digitised manuscripts chart the development of social security in Brazil from the beginning. They were recognised as a documentary heritage of humanity through the UNESCO Memory of the World Programme in 2017.
• Alex - A full text indexed collection of classic American and English literature as well as Western philosophy, written or translated into English.
• Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature – Fully digitized versions of some 6000 children's literature books and periodicals from the USA and Great Britain from the mid 1600s to the present.
• Bartleby — The full text of many classic literary works, including Shakespeare.
• Bible Gateway – The full text of approximately 100 versions of the Bible in 54 languages.
• Blake Archive – This archive contains electronic copies of William Blake’s illuminated books, as well as a number of his illustrations, drawings, paintings and manuscript works.
• CARRIE – This full-text electronic library hosted by the European University Institute in Italy, contains digitised primary documents as well as ebooks in history.
• Cascadilla Proceedings Project – Linguistics conference proceedings from Cascadilla Press.
• Christian Classics Ethereal Library - A digital library of hundreds of Christian books, including 42 Bibles in various languages.
• CMI - Chr. Michelesen Institute is an independent development research institute in Norway which publishes freely available Reports, Working Papers and Briefs, mainly in the fields of anthropology, economics and political science.
• Fabula / Colloques en ligne - The online proceedings of academic literary conferences, symposia, study days and round tables, focusing especially on issues of literary theory and epistemology.
• Film Studies for Free - A list of open access ebooks on film studies.
• Gaia (University of California) - A collection of 28 open access books on global, international and area studies.
• Gallica – This site from the Bibliothque Nationale de France allows access to thousands of digitised books, mostly in French.
• HSRC Press - South African open access publisher in social science. The Press publishes the research output of the Human Science Research Council and externally authored works. Many titles are free to download.
• Literature Project – Collection of full-text books, poems, plays and speeches.
• Luminos (UC Press) – Luminos is University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program for monographs. OA monographs will be available for online viewing as well as for download and will accommodate color images and interactive media such as maps, audio and visual material.
• Making of America (Cornell University) - A digital library for American social history containing 267 digitised books from the 19th century, but focusing mostly on serials.
• Making of America (Michigan University) - A digital library for American social history containing approximately 1,600 digitised books from 1850-1877.
• ManyBooks – Classic texts can be downloaded to a range of formats including for a variety of ebook readers. New titles are added regularly and an RSS feed is available for new additions.
• Open Arizona - A small collection of open-access University of Arizona Press titles in the Humanities.
• Open Book Publishers - An independent academic publisher in Humanities and Social Sciences. Many of their books are available to read for free online.
• OpenEdition Books - OpenEdition Books is a web platform for predominantly French-language books in the humanities and social sciences. More than half of them are available in Open Access.
• Open SUNY Textbooks - An open access textbook publishing initiative established by State University of New York libraries. The textbooks are fully downloadable and cover subjects in Arts & Humanities, Social Sciences, Sciences and Technology.
• Oxford Text Archive — The archive holds several thousand electronic texts and linguistics corpora, in a variety of languages. Includes online versions of works by individual authors, standard reference works and a range of language corpora.
• Page by Page Books - Offers public domain ebooks to read online, presented as a series of web pages, so that individual pages can be bookmarked.
• Penn State Romance Studies - An open access peer-reviewed monograph series in the languages, literatures, and cultures of the Romance languages.
• Perseus Digital Library – A searchable and browsable collection of ebooks. The largest collections are classics and 19th century American studies, but other collections include Arabic, Germanic and Renaissance materials.
• Refugee Rights Europe reports – Free reports from Refugee Rights Europe: a human rights organisation. Reports are based on research carried out into the experiences of more than 6000 refugees in Europe from 2016 to the present, covering France, the Greek Islands, the Italian-French border, Belgium, the UK, Germany and Spain.
• Society of Antiquities of Scotland – As well as conference proceedings, the site provides access to out-of-print titles in this archaeological monograph series.
• UNESDOC Digital Library - Global Education Monitoring Report – The Global Education Monitoring Report (the GEM Report, formerly known as the Education for All Global Monitoring Report) is an editorially independent, authoritative and evidence-based annual report published by UNESCO. Its mandate is to monitor progress towards the education targets in the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) framework.
• University of London Press - A collection of open access titles in the arts and humanities, including classical studies, Latin American studies, literary criticism, and modern and medieval history.
• University of Virginia Press: Rotunda - The Founders Early Access collection offers free full text to unpublished documents from the founders of the United States. These documents may change as further editorial work is undertaken, and once a document is published, it is removed from this site.
• UVa Text Collection - A collection of digital documents central to teaching and research in the Humanities provided by the University of Virginia (formerly Etext Center). Some documents may only be available to University of Virginia users
• Victorian Prose Archive - A collection of texts of scholarly interest by eight Victorian authors, including Matthew Arnold and Oscar Wilde.
• Women's Voice and Leadership ALIADAS - A feminist production of knowledge comprising books, texts, articles, booklets and manifestos from Mozambique organisation Women's Voice and Leadership ALIADAS. A Portuguese language resource, but includes some English language works.
• World of Spirituality (Світ духовності) - A collection of Ukrainian language prose and poetry on the topic of spirituality from author Sergey Mikolin.

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• Botanicus – A freely accessible portal to historic botanical literature from the Missouri Botanical Garden Library. Currently includes over 1000 titles (books and journals) with an RSS feed available for recent additions. Images are free for non-commercial use.
• FreeBooks4Doctors – This site provides access to 360 free medical books.
• InTech — A multidisciplinary Open Access publisher of books and journals covering the fields of Science, Technology and Medicine with over 2000 ebooks available to date.
• MSRI Books – A series of Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Pulications from Cambridge University Press. The full text of new books is available a few months after publication.
• National Academies Press – Over 4000 titles from the US National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council are available to download. The free pdfs are available exclusively from the NAP site and remain subject to copyright laws.
• NCBI Bookshelf – National Center for Biotechnology Information’s Bookshelf site provides free access to books and documents in life science and healthcare.
• Open Book Project - A computer science textbook and series on electricity and electronics are available, as well as tutorials and courses.
• O'Reilly Open Books Project - A collection of free ebooks in computer science.

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• Anghelescu, Victoria; Gavrilă, Marian; Perovici, Minodora (2021). Istoria culturii universale în date (History of The Universal Culture). A chronology of cultural events from pre-history to the 21st century. This work is the culmination of a seven year project, and it is based on extensive studies of encyclopedias, a vast bibliography and correspondence with experts in the field.
• (2018) Animalhumanité. Expérimentation et fiction : l’animalité au cœur du vivant. Sous la direction de Gisèle Séginger. Laboratoire LISAA.
• Biblioteca de Catalunya (2017) Felip Pedrell a la Biblioteca de Catalunya: textos i entrevistes: Francesc Cortès ; coordinació de l'obra: Núria Altarriba. Generalitat de Catalunya, Departament de Cultura : Biblioteca de Catalunya.. The life and work of Felip Pedrell through the collections of the Biblioteca Nacional de Catalunya. The iTunes and Google Play versions include multimedia (e.g. recordings and images from the library's collections) as well as the narrative text.
• Bibliothèque nationale de France (2014) Mémoires de Chibanis, coordination, Sylvie Dreyfus-Alphandéry. Bibliothèque nationale de France. . These are the memoirs of a group of elderly people who migrated to France in the 1950s-1980s, the product of a creative writing initiative held in Paris and supported by the Fonds Européen d'Intégration in 2014. A picture of the book cover is available.
• (2018) La découverte scientifique dans les arts. Sous la direction d'Azélie Fayolle et Yohann Ringuedé. Laboratoire LISAA.
• Graña-Behrens, D. (ed.) (2016) Places of power and memory in Mesoamerica’s past and present: how sites, toponyms and landscapes shape history and remembrance. Gebr. Mann Verlag. This free volume is one of the 'Estudios Indiana' series presenting the results of research on multiethnic, indigenous, and Afro-American societies and cultures in Latin America, both contemporary and historical.
• Ji, Yogi Anand. Prana Tattva (Koshas, Chakras, Kundalini). Self published. Discusses various ancient Meditation techniques.
• McRae, J. R. and Nattier J. (eds.) (2012) Buddhism across boundaries: the interplay of Indian, Chinese, and Central Asian source materials . Fo Guang Shan Foundation for Buddhist and Culture Education. This volume is the product of a conference held in January 1993 at Hsi Lai Temple in Hacienda Heights, California, under the sponsorship of the Fo Guang Shan Foundation for Buddhist Culture Education and Hsi Lai University.
• Nelozhin, Sergei (2023) Russia Today: does it real to turn to the path of progress? Published on the Munich Personal RePEc Archive.
• OECD (2015) Social impact investment: building the evidence base. OECD Publishing. This free report provides a framework for assessing the social impact investment market and focuses on the need to build the evidence base, in particular for impact assessment compared to existing social service delivery models.
• Ruiz Estrada, M.A. (2012) An introduction to econographicology. Mario Arturo Ruiz Estrada. An academic at the University of Malaya has made this ebook freely available.
• Saunders, P. (2010) Social mobility myths, Civitas. This book is freely available from the Institute of Civil Society's website.
• Segrillo, A. (2020) The decline of the Soviet Union: an analysis of the causes. FFLCH/USP. This is the sixth book published under the auspices of the Center for Asian Studies (Laboratório de Estudos da Ásia-LEA) of the University of São Paulo; the third one in English for an international audience.
• Segrillo, A. (2020) Karl Marx's 'Capital' (Vols. 1,2,3) abridged. FFLCH/USP. An abridged version of volumes 1, 2 and 3 of Capital by Karl Marx. This simplified version aims to provide an introductory alternative for all those who “give up before they begin” or “give up on the way” or read only Volume 1 when confronted with the immensity and complexity of this fundamental work by the German thinker.
• Segrillo, A. (2020) Russia: Europe or Asia? FFLCH/USP. The question of Russia’s identity in the discussions between westernizers, slavophiles and Eurasianists and an analysis of the consequences in present-day Russia.
• Tane Naumovski, A. (2007) Lerin in Mourning. Pollitecon Publications. Translated by Elizabeth Kolupacev Stewart, this title names and commemorates 2,056 Macedonian fighters who died for Macedonian freedom in the Greek Civil War. It is available to read online or to download as a PDF.
• Tmka, R. and Lorencova, R. (2016) Quantum Anthropology: Man, Cultures and Groups in a Quantum Perspective. Charles University, Karolinum Press. A fresh look on man, cultures, and societies built on the current advances in the fields of quantum mechanics, quantum philosophy, and quantum consciousness. This free ebook was supported by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic
• Trnka, R., Balcar, K. and Kuska, M. (eds.) (2011) Re-constructing emotional spaces: from experience to regulation. Prague College of Psychosocial Studies Press. The publication of this book was supported by the Czech Science Foundation, and an electronic copy is freely available to read. It can also be downloaded.
• Zalta, E.N. (continuously updated) Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stanford University. Available at: https://plato.stanford.edu/index.html (Accessed: 23 January 2019). An open access dynamic philosophy reference resource maintained by experts in the field.

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• Aladjev, Victor. (2022) Cellular Automata, Mainframes, Maple, Mathematica and Computer Science in Tallinn Research Group. Kindle Press. The book presents an expanded excursion into the creative activities of the Tallinn Research Group during 1970–2022. The book may be of certain interest as a retrospective standpoint on development of the above areas in the USSR (primarily in the ESSR) and the republics of the former USSR.
• Allwood, J. M. & Cullen, J. M. (2011) Sustainable materials : with both eyes open. Cambridge University Press. This book by academics from the Engineering Department at University of Cambridge examines the options for sustainable materials.
• Altmann, S.L. & Herzig, P. (2011) Point-group theory tables (2nd ed.). S.L. Altmann & P. Herzig. The second edition of this book corrects ten errors made in the first edition that is held by some Cambridge libraries. It has been digitised by the University of Vienna.
• Dinh, A. (2012) Narrative approaches to the international mathematical problems. Authorhouse. This book contains mathematical problems and solutions found in the Mathematical Olympiad competitions.
• Homei, A. & Worboys, M. (2013) Fungal disease in Britain and the United States 1850-2000: mycoses and modernity. Palgrave Macmillan. Palgrave Macmillan's first published open access monograph, funded by The Wellcome Trust.
• Jeyakumaran, S. (2022) Diabetes Mellitus: the intruder: Pinpointing persistently reporting disease by dint of accumulating diversified classification of disease through long-term data analysis. This research book by a twelfth grade student scientist at Puducherry-UT, India, covers the Morbidity status pattern in India along with the international classification of the disease codes together. It also pinpoints a multi-faceted disease named Diabetes mellitus and its types along with different conditions like Hypoglycemic state and Hyperglycemic state and Diabetic ketoacidosis and Hyperosmolar hyperglycemic state and its origin from the beta cells and the Islets of Langerhans including supplemental disease caused because of Diabetes mellitus.
• MacKay, D.J.C. (2009) Sustainable energy : without the hot air. IUT Cambridge Ltd. This book by an academic from the Physics Department at University of Cambridge discusses options for sustainable energy.
• Mieczakowski, A. & Clarkson, J. (2012) Ageing, adaption and accessibility: time for the inclusive revolution!. Engineering Design Centre. The Engineering Design Centre at the University of Cambridge produced a book of thought pieces investigating why we continue to digitally disfranchise older people in the modern era.
• Willimek, D. & Willimek, B. (2013) Music and emotions: research on the theory of musical equilibration (die Strebetendenz-Theorie). A study on the emotional impact of music, designed and conducted by Daniela and Bernd Willimek. Translated into English by Laura Russell.