LibGuides: Public Domain & Creative Commons: Books

Books

Project Gutenberg
"Project Gutenberg offers over 42,000 free eBooks: choose among free EPUB books, free Kindle books, download them or read them online."
Hathi Trust
"HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world."
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare- mit.edu
"the Web's first edition of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare. This site has offered Shakespeare's plays and poetry to the Internet community since 1993."

Bartleby Books This link opens in a new window
Provides free access to classic literature as well as to contemporary reference works.

The Online Books Page
Listing over 1 million free books on the Web
Archive.org - Texts
"Download free books and texts. The Internet Archive Text Archive contains a wide range of fiction, popular books, children's books, historical texts and academic books."

Google Books

To access public domain books from from Google books:

Follow the Advanced Book Search link below
Under the search box, in the Content category select the "Full View Only" button
Enter your search terms above
Choose a book from the returned results
If public domain, a link to download in various formats (Plain test, PDF, EPUB) will appear in the upper right corner
Download book or read in browser

Google Books- Advanced Book Search

License

Be sure to check the license information on all linked content. The linked material has been chosen as examples of Public Domain and Creative Commons Licensed works, however, it is the researcher's obligation to determine any use restrictions when republishing or otherwise distributing materials from the linked sites.

Public Domain Texts

Public domain books from the Internet Archive

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