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Books, E-Books, Bookstores, Publishers and Open Access Journal Websites
NOTE: Links are provided as a starting point and are not an endorsement of any product or business
- AAABookSearch.Com provides you with price comparison from 40+ bookstores in US, UK and Canada
- AddAll Book Searching and Price Comparison Provides comparison pricing for several of the major online book delivery companies.
- Aesop's Fables Online
- ALEX Catalogue of Electronic Texts A collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy.
- Amazon.Com Thousands of book and music titles are reviewed and summarized.
- American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library
- Avalon Project at Yale Law School Documents in law, history and diplomacy
- Barnes&Noble.Com
- Bartleby.Com
- Biblio.Com "Biblio has millions of college and high school textbooks at an average of 40% less than retail textbook prices."
- Bibliomania.Net
- Book Lovers: Fine Books and Literature
- BookPage.Com Book reviews and author interviews.
- BookReporter.Com Author profiles, book reviews, and articles.
- BookSpot "Simplifying the search for top online texts, book reviews, reading lists, author and publisher information, book stores, book news, events and more.
- Book Wire R. R. Bowker's site of the "the book industry's most comprehensive and thorough online information source ... Content includes timely book industry news, features, reviews, original fiction, guides to literary events, author interviews, thousands of annotated links to book-related sites, and more."
- BooksPrice.Com: Multiple Book Price Comparison
- Chegg E-textbooks and more.
- Children's Books Central
- Children's Book Council
- Children's Literature Comprehensive Database
- Children's Literature Web Guide
- Complete Works of William Shakespeare
- DealPilot.Com "Compare prices on the Internet! Find any book, CD, video or DVD. Then let DealPilot.com compare prices from all major online shops to track down the best offer!"
- Directory of Open Access Journals The Directory of Open Access Journals is a service that provides access to quality controlled Open Access Journals. The Directory aims to be comprehensive and cover all open access
scientific and scholarly journals that use an appropriate quality control system, and it will not be limited to particular languages or subject areas. The aim of the Directory is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals thereby promoting their increased usage and impact. - DirectTextbook.Com Compare prices on over 3 million new and used textbooks.
- FetchBook.Info "A quick way to compare prices of new and used books. Whether it's used college books, used textbooks, new fiction books or new poetry books - FetchBook.Info will find the book stores providing the lowest available prices."
- Fiction Connection Search for books by topic; genre; setting; character; location and timeframe.
- GPO Access Access to full-text government publications such as the the Economic Report of the President, Federal Budget, Congressional Record, Federal Register, Government Manual and U.S. Code
- Great Books Index
- Internet History Sourcebooks Project Contains collections of Ancient, Medieval and Modern historical texts that are in the public domain or copy-permitted. They are presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use.
- Internet Public Library Link to Web sites containing the full text of books
- Library of Congress: Research Centers
- LION (Literature Online) FSU Affiliated ONLY
- Malaspina Great Books Page
- NetLibrary FSU Affiliated ONLY
Information: http://www.nclive.org/netLib.shtml - NewPages.Com Alternative publishers in print and media
- On-Line Books Page
- Project Gutenberg Electronic text versions of hundreds of printed books.
- Publisher'sWeekly.Com
- PubMed Central U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
- ReadingGroupGuides.Com
- StudentMarket.Com "Your online college shopping solution." Provides price comparisons.
- Usborne Quicklinks Usborne Internet-linked books contain descriptions of Web sites recommended by Usborne editors to help you find out more about a subject on the Internet. The links in Quicklinks take you straight to the Usborne-recommended sites.
- Wired For Books "Wired for Books brings literature alive with audio, video, and old-fashioned text of modern and classic stories, plays, poems, essays, and author interviews."
- World Digital Library, Library of Congress "The World Digital Library will make available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from cultures around the world, including manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, architectural drawings, and other significant cultural materials. The objectives of the World Digital Library are to promote international and inter-cultural understanding and awareness, provide resources to educators, expand non-English and non-Western content on the Internet, and to contribute to scholarly research."
- Yahoo's Commercial Directory of Publishers