Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.
Providing online access to over 5,000 core humanities titles chosen by scholars, the ACLS Humanities E-Book Collection supports remote research and learning worldwide.
Artstor Public Collection brings together media from top museums, archives, scholars, and artists, with a specialized suite of tools for teaching and learning with visual materials — all rights-cleared for education and research.
Authorama featuring completely free books from a variety of different authors, collected here for you to read online or offline.
Book Boon provide students with free textbooks written by professors from the world’s top universities.
The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and indeed the building that holds them, bring to fruition the thought and effort of generations of loyal alumni, scholars, and friends of the University.
This site contains Chinese classics with each character hyperlinked to its definition and etymology. No Chinese software is necessary – characters are displayed as images. Links to English translations are included for most works.
The Complete Literary Works of selected authors.
CORE Discovery is the largest collection of Open Archive papers and it helps users find freely accessible copies of research papers that might be behind a paywall on the publisher’s website. It harvests research papers from data providers from all over the world including institutional and subject repositories, open access and hybrid journal publishers.
Christian Classical Ethereal Library
The Christian Classics Ethereal Library is a digital library of hundreds of classic Christian books selected for edification and education.
Digital Scriptorium is a growing consortium of American libraries and museums committed to free online access to their collections of pre-modern manuscripts.
Digital Public Library of America
Materials from libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions across the country available to all in a one-stop discovery experience.
Directory of Open Access Books
DOAB is a community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books and helps users to find trusted open access book publishers. All DOAB services are free of charge and all data is freely available.
EBSCO Open Dissertations now includes the content from American Doctoral Dissertations. It is a free database with records for more than 1.4 million electronic theses and dissertations from more than 320 universities around the world.
Europeana works with thousands of European archives, libraries and museums to share cultural heritage for enjoyment, education and research.
The Free Library of Philadelphia is to advance literacy, guide learning, and inspire curiosity. Its vision is to build an enlightened community devoted to lifelong learning.
A one-time authentic documentation of Gandhiji’s available writings was carried out meticulously, and conscientiously under the CWMG project of the Government of India in 1956.
Independent Voices : an Open Access of Alternative Press
Independent Voices is an open access digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals, drawn from the special collections of participating libraries.
Indra Gandhi National Centre for the Arts
Free Access to all types of electronic contents.
The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, newspapers, maps and manuscripts in its collections. The Library is the main research arm of the U.S. Congress and the home of the U.S. Copyright Office.
Manuscripts Online enables you to search a diverse body of online primary resources relating to written and early printed culture in Britain during the period 1000 to 1500. The resources include literary manuscripts, historical documents and early printed books which are located on websites owned by libraries, archives, universities and publishers.
Provide access to the Image collections.
Free Access to Artwork, Historical documents and paintings.
National Cultural Audio visual Archive
Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), New Delhi is a premier institute set-up by the Government of India for research, documentation, preservation and dissemination of Indian arts and to provide a holistic understanding of Indian culture. A large volume of India’s cultural wealth, created in the last six decades, is stored in audiovisual form with various governmental and non-governmental institutions and private collections.
National Digital Library of India (NDLI) is a virtual repository of learning resources which is not just a repository with search/browse facilities but provides a host of services for the learner community.
The Open Research Library (ORL) is planned to include all Open Access book content worldwide on one platform for user-friendly discovery, offering a seamless experience navigating more than 14,000 Open Access books.
PDQT Open ( ProQuest Open Access Dissertation )
PQDT Open provides the full text of open access dissertations and theses free of charge. ProQuest quickly and easily locate dissertations and theses relevant to your discipline, and view the complete text in PDF format.
Smt. Hansa Mehta Library provide access to the Open Knowledge Gateway (collection of Books, Journals and Articles) on various field of knowledge.
The University of Chicago is one of the leading centers for the study of Southern Asia.
The Asiatic Society of Mumbai, Granth Sanjeevani
Granth Sanjeevani has over 20,000 books, newspapers, manuscripts, maps, journals, government publications and reports. Though the majority of books are in English, there are books in Sanskrit and other ancient and modern Indian languages and in European languages like Greek, Latin, Italian, German and French.
The Vedas are the source of integral wisdom, science, tradition and culture of a remarkable civilization. They are Oral compilations of distilled wisdom of cosmic knowledge survived from the time immemorial.
The G. Robert Vincent Voice Library is a collection of over 100,000 hours of spoken word recordings, dating back to 1888. The collection includes the voices of over 500,000 persons from all walks of life.
World Digital Library (WDL) was a project of the U.S. Library of Congress, with the support of UNESCO, and contributions from libraries, archives, museums, educational institutions, and international organizations around the world.
UNESCO open access Publications
The UNESCO Digital Library is a key tool for enabling UNESCO’s mission of building peace in the minds of people, in particular by “advancing the mutual knowledge and understanding, and encouraging cooperation among the nations in all branches of intellectual activity.
The United Nations iLibrary is the comprehensive global search, discovery, and viewing source for digital content created by the United Nations. Initially launched in 2015, the UN iLibrary was updated in December 2020 to incorporate new features such as an interface in all six official UN languages and a search feature by Sustainable Development Goals.
The Yale Literary Magazine is a semesterly print & digital magazine that showcases the creative work of Yale undergraduates.