Public Domain Resources: eBook Collections in the Public Domain

This guide is intended to share a variety of public domain resources including: images, music and video with students, faculty and staff.

Public Domain eBook Collections to Consider

Audiobooks from Project Gutenberg
Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)
DPLA, Palace Bookshelf
eBooks@Cambridge (List of Free eBook Collections)
Faded Page
Google Books
HathiTrust Digital Library, 1928 Digital Publications
Intech Open Access, Science eBooks Collection (7,200+)
Internet Archive eBooks and Texts Collection (More than 40 million titles)
JSTOR Open Content (12,000+ eBooks)
Library of Congress, Open Access eBooks
MIT Press Open Access, Books
MIT Press Open Architecture and Urban Studies Collection
OAPEN Access eBooks
OER Commons, Open Textbooks Hub
Online Books Page
Online Books Page: Archives and Indexes
Open Library (Internet Archive)
Open Research Library (14,000+ eBooks, Browse by Category)
Open Research Library, Browse eBooks by Category
Open Research Library, Browse eBooks by Publisher
OpenStax, Browse eBooks by Subject
Open Textbook Library, Browse by Subject
Open Textbook Library Collection
Project Gutenberg (70,000+ Free eBooks)
Public Domain Review, Books
Smithsonian Online Books by Topic
Standard eBooks, Browse eBooks
UC Press Free eBooks Collection, (from 1982- 2004)
World Library of Science, eBooks

Locating Public Domain eBooks

To your left you will find links to public domain eBook collections. These public domain eBook collections are free for you to use for educational purposes.

Web Search Tutorials

Basic Computer Skills Tutorials (from GCF Global)
Digital Media Literacy Tutorials (from GCF Global)
Internet Skills Tutorials (from GCF Global)
Northstar Digtial Learning Guide (from the St. Paul Public Library)
Searching the World Wide Web: An Overview Tutorial (Purdue/OWL)

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