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While many of the open access texts available on the Internet are also public domain, many authors and publishers have released full or partial versions of current works. For some this is an advertising scheme to create demand for print versions, while others are more interested in presenting their content to the widest possible audience.

• The Online Books Page http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/ - lots and lots of books. The most recent book listed is:
  
• Internet Archive: Text Archive http://www.archive.org/details/texts - includes the Million Book Project and Project Gutenberg. Searchable by keyword. The most recent text added is:
  
• Project Gutenberg
  http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/
  One of the oldest and most famous online book collections. The most recent book added is:
  
• United Nations University Full-Text Publications http://www.unu.edu/unupress/fulltext.html - Books and reports from the UN University programs in agriculture, development, environment, food, & nutrition.
• Questia Public Domain Library http://www.questia.com/publicdomainindex - Over 5000 public domain books from the Questia subscription library company.
• Renascence Editions http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/ren.htm - Works printed in English, 1477 - 1799.
• O'Reilly Open Books Project http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/ - computer and technology related books from the publisher of the "animals" computer programming books.
• 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.
• eScholarship Editions
  http://texts.cdlib.org/escholarship/ - from 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Terrapub e-Library
  http://www.terrapub.co.jp/e-library/ - several books in PDF format from Terra Scientific Publishing in Japan, on environmental and computer modelling topics.
• Books by CalTech Authors--part of CalTech CODA
  http://caltechbook.library.caltech.edu/view/subjects/ - full books by faculty at CalTech, in the sciences and mathematics. Most would be suitable for textbooks; some are older editions.