Electronic Book Collections
- Project GutenbergProject Gutenberg offers over 58,000 free eBooks. You will find the world's great literature here, with focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired. Thousands of volunteers digitized and diligently proofread the eBooks, for enjoyment and education.
There are growing sources for electronic versions of books online. You can browse these sources below.
- Google BooksSearch millions of books and preview content. Many older works are full-text; most current books allow you to see excerpts but not the full-text.
- Historical Monographs Collection at Cornell UniversityDigitized historical e-books - classics and primary source documents. From Cornell University Library.
- Internet Archive TextsE-books in fiction, children's literature, academic texts and historical documents.
- Ohio State University Press Open Access InitiativeFull-text of scholarly, peer reviewed books.
- Perseus Digital LibraryE-book classics from the medieval and renaissance periods. From Tufts University.
Creative Commons E-books
Creative Commons e-books are not in the public domain. They are published with a license that specifies what you can do with them. You are allowed to use them without permission and without any charge, but you must follow other specified restrictions, which are explained here:: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/
Be careful of using any work with ShareAlike license, because often we cannot abide by its requirements. Faculty contracts and SUNY rules stipulate that faculty retain copyright to the courses they create, and that would violate the ShareAlike license. It's ok for things made by students and professional staff as long as you put a CC ShareAlike license on it.
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