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Bloomsbury Research Center
This site provides a free online searchable database of reference books on a wide range of subjects.
Free Medical Journals
This site gives you access to some of the most important medical journals, available online, free and in full-text.
On-Line Books Page
"The On-line Books Page is a directory of books that can be freely read right on the Internet. It includes an index of thousand of on-line books on the Internet, pointers to significant directories and archives of on-line texts, and special exhibits."
Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
"The Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts is a collection of digital documents. The scope of documents in the collection include items from American literature, English literature, and Western philosophy."
Bartleby.Com
"Bartleby.com combines the best of both contemporary and classic reference works, making it the most comprehensive public reference library ever published on the web." This site provides access to such works as Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, the Columbia Encyclopedia, and the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language.
BioMedCentral
BioMedCentral is an independent publishing house committed to providing immediate free online access to peer-reviewed biomedical research. It publishes more than 50 on-line journals covering the whole of biology and medicine.
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg was one of the first Internet sites that provided access to fulltext of public domain materials. At this site, you will "find the classic books from the start of this century and previous centuries, from authors like Shakespeare, Poe, Dante, as well as well-loved favorites like the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the Tarzan and Mars books of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland as told by Lewis Carroll, and thousands of others."
Electronic Text Center - UVA
"The Electronic Text Center's holdings include approximately 45,000 on- and off-line humanities texts in twelve languages, with more than 50,000 related images (book illustrations, covers, manuscripts, newspaper pages, page images of Special Collections books, museum objects, etc.)" Most of the Electronic Center's collection is accessed via the library catalog.
Humanities Text Initiative (HTI)
Supported by the University of Michigan Press, the School of Information, and the University Library, HTI provides access to reference and humanities resources online. This site contains a text and an image collection.

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