County and City Data Book
http://www.census.gov/statab/www/ccdb.html
This site contains official statistics for U.S. counties and cities with over
25,000 inhabitants. City rankings in terms of population, land area, education,
employment, infant death rate, annual temperature, poverty, etc. can be obtained
at this site. The information is taken from the 1994 County and City Data
Book.
Information Please Almanac
http://www.infoplease.com/
Online version of the popular almanac which you can browse by topic or search.
Also includes the Random House Webster's College Dictionary and the Columbia
Encyclopedia.
Knovel
K-Essentials E-books (SCSU)
Full text reference books in chemistry, physics, and mathematics, including
tables of physical constants which can be manipulated and exported.
DocuTicker http://www.docuticker.com/
Covers recently released reports from government agencies, NGO's, think tanks
and other similar groups. A search box is located in the right column, after
the date listings.
eScholarship Editions
http://texts.cdlib.org/escholarship/
F rom the University of California Press. Some are public, others are for
the UC community only. A Public
Title List is available of only publicly accessible books.
HEARTH: Home Economics Archive:
Research, Tradition, and History http://hearth.library.cornell.edu/
Over 1,000 volumes on Home Economics from 1850-1950. Includes journal articles
as well.
The Internet Classics Archive http://classics.mit.edu/
Greek and Roman (and a few Chinese and Persian) classical texts in English
translation from MIT.
Internet Public Library Online Texts Collection http://www.ipl.org/reading/books
The IPL Online Texts Collection contains 10,000 titles that can be browsed
by author, title or by Dewey Decimal Subject Classification.
Literature for Children
http://palmm.fcla.edu/juv/
A collection of children's books published in the U.S. and Great Britain roughly
between 1850 and 1950.
ManyBooks http://www.manybooks.net/
Ebooks formatted for mobile reading on PDA's and mobile phones. Other collections
of PDA formatted texts are available at Memoware (http://www.memoware.com/)
and other sites specializing in PDA software.
National Academies Press
http://www.nap.edu/
Thousands of books and reports by the various National Academies in Washington
DC. Look for the Read it Online link to the left
of the book descriptions.
O'Reilly Open Books Project
http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/
Computer and technology related books from the publisher of the "animals" computer programming books.
