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Today's Library Hours
Library	Hours
O'Neill Library
Bapst Library
Burns Library
Educational Resource Center
Law Library
Social Work Library
Theology & Ministry Library

(*) The O'Neill Library first floor will remain open for use until 2:00 am.

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25 SOURCES OF FREE PUBLIC DOMAIN BOOKS
A list of sites with free ebooks. Some are duplicated below.

Google Book Search This link opens in a new window
Google Books offers e-books for free and for sale. From this Advanced Search page, choose "Full view only".
HathiTrust This link opens in a new window
Major research institutions have partnered here to preserve the cultural record. You'll find both "full view" and "limited (search only)" content here. Boston College is a HathiTrust partner; which allows BC users to download full text PDFs for the full view materials, but you must log in using the yellow button on the top first.

Internet Archive Ebooks & Texts
Boston College Libraries is one of many research libraries contributing scanned images of works outside of copyright. Read online or download in various formats for various e-book readers. Download options include PDF, EPUB, Kindle, DAISY (ANSI/NISO Z39.86 open format), and others.
Project Gutenberg
Another source of ebooks in the public domain. Individual titles are available for download for reading online, or as PDF, EPUB, Kindle, and more.
Directory of Open Access Books
Focused on providing access to open access academic books. DOAB complements the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).
Online Books Page (University of Pennsylvania)
Access to more than a million freely available (legitimately free), full-text works in European languages.
Gallica
Books, manuscripts, periodicals, images, scores, etc. spanning a wide array of disciplines from Bibliotechque Nationale de France with materials reaching back into the 17th Century. Materials can be downloaded as PDF, JPEG (individual pages) and TXT.
Classicly.com
Free books online from public domain to read on the modern devices including PC, Laptop, Kindle, Tablet, iPad and Mobile phone.

Last Updated: Oct 3, 2024 9:36 AM
Subjects: General, Library Science
Tags: books, e-books, ebooks, electronic books

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Today's Library Hours
Library	Hours
O'Neill Library
Bapst Library
Burns Library
Educational Resource Center
Law Library
Social Work Library
Theology & Ministry Library

(*) The O'Neill Library first floor will remain open for use until 2:00 am.

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