Guides: Great Books: Other Resources

General Web Resources

Center for the Study of the Great Ideas
Founded by Mortimer J. Adler and Max Weismann -
Internet Classics Archive
Project Gutenberg
Free full-text access to thousands of electronic books on a wide variety of topics. Includes books in English as well as many different foreign languages.
Internet Archive
Download free books and texts. The Internet Archive Text Archive contains a wide range of fiction, popular books, children's books, historical texts and academic books.
The Online Books Page
Listing over 1 million free books on the Web

Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) This link opens in a new window
The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB), a service provided by the OAPEN Foundation, is a discovery service that points to open access books. The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of Open Access books. As of Feb. 2014 there were 1806 Academic peer-reviewed books from 57 publishers. DOAB is open to all publishers who publish academic, peer reviewed books in Open Access and should contain as many books as possible, provided that these publications are in Open Access and meet academic standards.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy This link opens in a new window
Access to Stanford University's Encyclopedia of Philosophy, a dynamic reference work written, refereed, and maintained by over 950 professional philosophers.

Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window
Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world, supplemented by the scholarly materials of the Scribner Writers Series and Twayne's World Authors Series (which includes a volume on Aristotle).
ACLS Humanities E-Book This link opens in a new window
Led by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), the HEB project includes the full text of around 5,400 titles. It includes books that remain vital to both scholars and advanced students and are frequently cited in the literature. Approximately 300 books are added annually to the collection.