Free Resources

Digital Public Library of America - The DPLA brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world.
Europeana - Explore the digital resources of Europe's museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual collections.
Google Books Search - Google offers nearly 3 million free e-books from the public domain.
Indiana Authors and Their Books - full text books from Indiana authors who lived and published between 1850 and 1949.
Online Books Page - Full text books available for reading free on the Internet from the U of PA Library.
Open Access Theses and Dissertations - open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world.
Open Library - Open Library is an online site of over 1 million books and is part of the Internet Archive. Not all of the titles are available in digital format—some records link to WorldCat where library holdings of physical copies can be viewed.
Project Gutenberg - The original collection of volunteer-keyed online texts which are available for downloading.
Library of Congress - Links to the Library of Congress collection and library catalog.
National Library of Medicine - The National Center for Biotechnology Information advances science and health by providing access to biomedical and genomic information.
Pub Chemistry - PubChem is the world's largest collection of freely accessible chemical information. Search chemicals by name, molecular formula, structure, and other identifiers. Find chemical and physical properties, biological activities, safety and toxicity information, patents, literature citations and more.
PubMed - PubMed Central® (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM)
Popline, Curated Health Sciences Literature - POPLINE contains a comprehensive collection of health and associated literature. An international resource, POPLINE helps anyone gain access to scientific articles and book chapters. POPLINE is a resource providing full-text documents from scans acquired at cost from libraries worldwide.
Physiotherapy Evidence Database - PEDro is a free database of randomized controlled trials, systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy.
Open Textbook Library - Transform Higher Education and Student Learning. Open textbooks are licensed by authors and publishers to be freely used and adapted. Download, edit and distribute them at no cost.
OpenStax - OpenStax is part of Rice University, which is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit charitable corporation. Our mission is to improve educational access and learning for everyone. We do this by publishing openly licensed books, developing and improving research-based courseware, establishing partnerships with educational resource companies, and more.
MetPublications - Publications available from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Getty Publications - More than 300 free books available from the Getty Publications Virtual Library
Getty AATA Online - A free research database containing abstracts of literature related to the preservation and conservation of material cultural heritage. It has been managed and published by the Getty since 1983. AATA Online contains over 170,000 records and adds approximately 4,000 new records each year through regular updates. The database also includes selected subject-specific bibliographies produced as part of the Getty Conservation Institute’s own conservation and scientific research projects or as part of specific collaborative projects in which the Institute is involved.
Digital Transgender Archive - The purpose of the Digital Transgender Archive (DTA) is to increase the accessibility of transgender history by providing an online hub for digitized historical materials, born-digital materials, and information on archival holdings throughout the world.