Guides: HU 3900: Inquiry Seminar on the Literature of WPI’s Project Centers : Accessing Books Beyond WPI

Open Access Collections with Full Text Searching

Visit the sites below for access to some free, or public domain eBooks, and some searchable eBooks that allow users to view snippets.

Europeana Collections
Explore 58,182,697 artworks, artefacts, books, films and music from European museums, galleries, libraries and archives.
Google Books
Some public domain fulltext, some eBook snippets

HathiTrust Digital Library This link opens in a new window
HathiTrust offers a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world. WPI users have access to works in the public domain.

Internet Public Library Online Texts
LibriVox
Free audio books
The Online Books Page
Listing over 3 million free books on the Web.
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg is a library of over 60,000 free eBooks. Choose among free epub and Kindle eBooks, download them or read them online. Project Gutenberg focuses on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired.
Internet Archive: Books
Some books can be freely read and downloaded. Others can be borrowed and read in their online book reader.

WorldCat

Search WorldCat.org to find books in libraries around the world. Find a book you want that WPI doesn't have? Request it via Interlibrary Loan.

WorldCat.org This link opens in a new window
Catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide.
Coverage: 1200-
Full Text: No

ILLiad: Borrowing from other Libraries

Is there something you need that the WPI library doesn't have? Our Interlibrary Loan service allows WPI students and faculty to request items from other libraries free of charge.