Online Books
Many allow searching of the full-text content of books also.Listing over 25,000 free books on the Web; format of full-text will vary; includes listings from many archives.
10,000+ fully readable public domain books, many more copyrighted books partially available via excerpts and snippets after login. Also included in Google Scholar searches. More info full-text searching of some or all titles
Microsoft Live Book Search (beta)
Public domain books in pdf format
Open access text archive from several sources; see also Open Content Alliance
Over 3,000 publicly accessible titles plus any purchased at WU. full-text searching of some or all titles
Access to the combined resources (books, magazines, journals.... - both digital and non-digital) of the 43 national libraries of Europe. It offers free searching and delivers digital objects - some free, some priced.
Some Online Dissertation Sources full-text searching of some or all titles
Cornell University Library Digital Collections, including Making of America Collection, Historical Monographs Collection, and many more. full-text searching of some or all titles
National Academy Press, full-text of many books from early 1990's to present. full-text searching of some or all titles
University of California Press eScholarship Editions - Public Titles
PubMed Books full-text searching of some or all titles
A9.com book search; Amazon Search Inside the Book Note: Not really a source of online books, but does feature full-text searching of some or all titles More info about A9 book search.
Government Publications digitization projects:
Office of Technology Assessment (OTA), 1974-1995
TRAIL: Technical Report Archive and Image Library, a collaborative project to digitize, archive, and provide persistent and unrestricted access to federal technical reports issued prior to 1975.
NASA technical reports server, 1900-present
Many current government publications are issued online; to locate them search the catalog and/or various government web sites.
Full-text Databases includes several online book sources
Free registration is required to search this database; includes more than 72,000 free texts and information about ebooks available for purchase.
Search for commercially available ebooks; fee required.
Search text or titles/authors; minimum $5 account and software download required for viewing text. full-text searching of some or all titles
Freely available software, computing and technology books from O'Reilly Media.
University of Virginia's Ebook Library, publicly available books from University of Virginia Library's Etext Center. Includes versions for Microsoft reader, Palm and web.
bibliomania, more than 2000 classic texts.
Read Print.com, free online library - mostly literature
Library Catalogs
Many of these will include some links for online titlesBecker Medical Library Catalog or Search for EBooks at Becker Library
Some are freely available, some WU access only, some WUSM (medical campus only) access