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|  | 2020ok (2020ok.com)Directory of free on-line books on different topics. |
| | Anthology of samizdat (antology.igrunov.ru/) ► Samizdat, derived from Russian for "self-publishing" (sam-izdat), was a clandestine system of reproducing and distributing banned literature, political writings, and underground materials in the Soviet Union. Operating from the 1950s to the 1990s, it involved retyping, photographing, or mimeographing forbidden works to evade state censorship. |
| | Books published with support of RFBR (rfbr.ru/library/books) ► Books published with support of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research. |
| | Bookshelf (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) An electronic library for books in medicine and biological science supported by National Center of Biotechnological Information (NCBI, USA). |
| | Cambridge University Press. Open-access books and journals (cambridge.org/core/publications/open-access) ►Cambridge University Press is the publishing division of the University of Cambridge, one of the world’s leading research institutions and winner of 81 Nobel Prizes. Cambridge University Press is committed by its charter to disseminate knowledge as widely as possible across the globe. It publishes over 2,500 books a year for distribution in more than 200 countries. Cambridge Journals publishes over 250 peer-reviewed academic journals across a wide range of subject areas, in print and online. |
| | Cornell University Library Historical Mathematics Monographs (collections.library.cornell.edu/math/) ► The Cornell University Library Historical Mathematics Monographs is a collection of selected monographs with expired copyrights chosen from the mathematics field. These were monographs that were brittle and decaying and in need of rescue. The Cornell Historic Math Monograph Collection consists of digital surrogates for materials that were part of a joint study involving Digital Preservation between Cornell University and the Xerox Corporation. |
| | De Gruyter Open (degruyter.com) De Gruyter is the largest independent academic publisher of open access books, with more than 1000 available open access books . |
| | DePaul University Library Digital Collections (digicol.lib.depaul.edu/) ► The DePaul University Library Digital Collections contain digitized books, manuscripts, images, maps and other materials held by the University Library. Dating from 1493 to the mid-20th century, DePaul's map collections contain cartographic creations by early modern mapmakers and printers such as Münster, Ortelius, Mercator, and Jansson and progress through Bonne's new global representations for Diderot's 1788 Encyclopédie to the transit and tourism routes of Chicago's Century of Progress and beyond. |
| | Digital Bodleian (digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/) ► Discover over a million images of rare books, manuscripts, and other treasures from the Bodleian libraries and Oxford College. |
| | DOAB (www.doabooks.org/) DOAB (Directory of open access books). The service enables searching for peer-reviewed books that have been published with open access licence. |
| | E-Books Directory (www.e-booksdirectory.com)E-Books Directory is a daily growing list of links to freely accessible ebooks, documents and lecture notes found all over the internet. You can submit your own ebooks, or add other resources you come across. This website is now completely redesigned to be accessible to mobile devices with small screen sizes. |
| | Economics and Business Literature (aup.ru/library/) ►Most books available in the collection are textbooks and research monographs on economics, industrial management and marketing, as well as mathematical tools for economics and finance. |
| | European Digital Mathematics Library (eudml.org) EuDML (European Digital Mathematics Library) is a library for digital books and journals in mathematics. |
| | Free Economic Society of Russia. Electronic Library (veorus.ru/библиотека-вэо/труды-императорского-вэо/1915/) ► Proceedings of the Free Economic Society of Russia issued in 1765-1915. |
| | Freebookcentre.net (www.freebookcentre.net)Freebookcentre.net contains links to thousands of free online technical books, which include core computer science, networking, programming languages, Systems Programming books, Linux books and many more. |
| | FreeBooks4doctors (freebooks4doctors.com)FreeBooks4doctors promotes free access to medical books on cardiology, dermatology, hematology, neurology etc. There are books on English, German, Russian and other languages. |
| | FreeComputerBooks (freecomputerbooks.com)A huge collection of Free online Computer, Programming, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technical Books, Lecture Notes and Tutorials. It is very well categorized by topics. It has both pattern and keywords search engines for you to find the titles quickly. The keywors search engine is powered by Google. |
| | FreeTechBook (www.freetechbooks.com)This site lists free online computer science, engineering and programming books, textbooks and lecture notes, all of which are legally and freely available over the Internet. |
| | GeoKniga (geokniga.org/) ► A wide array of geologic information for natural resource management, educational and general interests. It includes books, geological maps as well as specific documents on geochemistry, paleontology. |
| | Google books search (books.google.com) Search for full text books. Some materials are available for partial free access. |
| | Gumer (gumer.info/) A collection of Russian full text humanitarian books and articles. |
| | HathiTrust digital library (hathitrust.org/) ► Founded in 2008, HathiTrust is a not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries preserving 17+ million digitized items. HathiTrust offers reading access to the fullest extent allowable by U.S. copyright law, computational access to the entire corpus for scholarly research, and other emerging services based on the combined collection. HathiTrust members steward the collection — the largest set of digitized books managed by academic and research libraries — under the aims of scholarly, not corporate, interests. |
| | The Hispanic Digital Library (bne.es/) ► The Hispanic Digital Library is the digital library of the Biblioteca Nacional de España. It provides access free of charge to thousands of digitised documents, including books printed from the 15th to the 19th century, manuscripts, drawings, engravings, pamphlets, posters, photographs, maps, atlases, music scores, historic newspapers and magazines and audio recordings. |
| | Institute of Europe, books (instituteofeurope.ru/publications/monografii/) ► Book collection of the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences. |
| | In-yaz-book.ru (in-yaz-book.ru) ► The In-Yaz-Book collection supports teaching languages and includes dictionaries, handbooks and phrasebooks. |
| | Ivan Kushnir Institute for Economics and Law. Publications (be5.biz/index.htm) ► The site provides textbooks and research materials in economics. |
| | JSTOR (about.jstor.org/whats-in-jstor/books/) Open access books on JSTOR. The titles are DRM-free; no limits on PDF downloading or printing. No need to register or log in to JSTOR to access the titles. |
| | KnigoGid (BookGuide) (https://knigogid.ru/) A non-commercial Russian site offering users’ book recommendations and exchange of various kinds of texts. |
| | Library 6 (library6.com/) ► The collections features a vast amount of Russia books covering the epoch of Tsar Nicholas II, ranging from academic biographies to intimate accounts of his life and reign (1894–1917). |
| | The Library Genesis (http://libgen.ac/)Library Genesis (Libgen) offers an extensive eBook repository of over 2.4 million non‑fiction books, 80 million scientific articles, plus a trove of fiction and magazines. |
| | Math Education (mathedu.ru/) ► The electronic library includes textbooks, instruction guides, journals, dissertation abstracts on mathematics and math education. |
| | Lib.Ru: Maxim Moshkov’s Digital Library (lib.ru/) ► The most well known Russian digital library was launched in 1994. Its topics include fiction, science fiction, philosophy, esotery, history etc. |
| | Manuscriptorium (www.manuscriptorium.com European Electronic Library «Manuscriptorium». Manuscripts and other historical documents (manuscripts, incunabula, early printed books, maps, charters and other types of documents). The founder of the resource and the content coordinator is the National Library of the Czech Republic. |
| | Manuscript and rare books collections (lib-fond.ru/ ► Manuscript and rare books collections located in the State Russian Library and Moscow State Central Archive, presented by The Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra Church. This website is part of a project of the Russian State Library and The Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra church, one of the most important centers of Russian orthodoxy. The aim of the project is to gather a "universal collection of written and graphic manuscripts in Latin, ancient Church Slavonic and Greek languages as well as modern Slavonic, West European and Eastern languages." The collection includes rare documents and manuscripts from the 12th to the 20th century (liturgical books, annual chronicles, documents related to economic and social history, etc.). The website currently offers access to 2954 digitised manuscripts, unique books and treatises. |
| | Machine Construction Library (lib-bkm.ru/load/) The project has been launched many years ago and then was focused on documents related to metal lathes design and technology. Now the digital collection contains literature on machine engineering, machine design, high pressure metal processing. No registration is required. |
| | Medlib (med-lib.ru/) ► The site features handbooks, encyclopedias, monographs on all branches of medicine in Russian and English. |
| | MIT Press Open Access (mitpress.mit.edu/open-access-at-mit-press/) ►Open access books and journals published by the MIT Press, one of the largest and most distinguished university presses in the world and a leading publisher of books and journals at the intersection of science, technology, art, social science, and design. |
| | ModernLib.Net (modernlib.net/) ► A collection of books in Russian and other languages, textbooks, graduation works, etc. |
| | Moscow Center for Continuing Education in Mathematics. Publications (mccme.ru/free-books/) ► The site contains freely accessible full text academic books, mainly in the area of physics and mathematics. |
| | Moshkov’s Digital Library (lib.ru/) ► A major Russian internet library, started in 1994. Contains modern and classic works of fiction, science fiction, nonfiction, historical literature, poetry, philosophy etc. |
| | National Library of Medicine. Bookshelf (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books) ► The National Center for Biotechnology Information. NCBI Bookshelf provides free online access to books and documents in life science and healthcare. Search, read, and discover. |
| | Nasjonalbiblioteket (/www.nb.no/nbsok/search?mediatype=bøker) Free access to more than 135,000 copyright-protected books published in Norway. |
| | Nonfiction (nehudlit.ru/) ► Catalogue of Russian sites containing free nonfiction books. |
| | OAPEN Library (oapen.org) OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) is a full text data base that is supported by European consortium of university scientific publishers and offers an access to more than 7000 book units in English and other european languages on humanities and social sciences, including society and social sciences, economics, law, history, literary studies, language, and arts. |
| | Old Book Illustrations (oldbookillustrations.com) Old Book Illustrations offers a wide range of public domain, royalty-free images scanned from old books. Not all of the illustrations at Old Book Illustrations date from the Victorian era, though most do. Some of the more striking exceptions come from Arthur Rackham, known primarily as an early 20th century illustrator of fantasies and folk tales. |
| | Old Books (starieknigi.info/) ► The collection features a vast amount of Russian books on archaeology, history, philology, genealogy, philosophy published before 1917. The editions became available thanks to the Google Books Search as well as many other electronic libraries. The main goal of the project is to collect and arrange in a single catalogue link references to electronic books on the above mentioned topics. |
| | One-Stop Window (window.edu.ru/) ► Single window for accessing Russian educational resources. A wealth of resources on various areas of general and professional education. A collection of textbooks and monographs for high school and colleges students and professors. |
