Murdoch University
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Ebooks

  • Ebook Library (Murdoch staff and students only)
    Ebook Library is a collection of books on a range of subjects. Books may be read online or downloaded to your computer, and may be annotated while you are using them.
  • netLibrary (Murdoch staff and students only)
    netLibrary is a set of electronic versions of printed books consisting of more than 2,000 purchased titles and over 3,400 'publicly accessible eBooks' including many classic literary and history/government texts.
  • Oxford Reference Online (Murdoch staff and students only)
    Collection of over 120 dictionaries and reference titles covering all subject areas. Includes key titles from the 'Oxford Companions' series plus the 'Oxford Dictionary of Quotations'.
  • Safari Tech Books Online (Murdoch staff and students only)
    Selected books in the area of information technology.
  • HeinOnline - Legal Classics (Murdoch staff and students only)
    Reproductions of legal commentary, some dating back to 1500s.
  • Google Book Search
    Searches the full text of books scanned by Google. Public domain works and out of copyright material is available in pdf. Portions of other works from a few pages to the whole book are available, depending on the book’s copyright status. More information.
  • eBooks@Adelaide
    Collection includes more than 700 classic works of Literature, Philosophy, Science, and History. Each work has been formatted for maximum readability either on screen or when printed.
  • Bartleby.com
    Online books covering literature, dictionaries, encyclopedias, quotations, biography, verse
  • eScholarship Editions at the California Digital Library
    Nearly 500 scholarly titles that are freely available.
  • Hoover Books Online
    The Hoover Institution publishes books on a wide range of national and international policy issues. These books may read online, where the PDF versions are available, or purchased through the Hoover Press.
  • National Academies Press
    More than 3000 free online reports issued by the United States National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council.
  • Online Books Page
    The Online Books Page is a website that facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet.
  • Project Gutenberg
    Collection of more than 10,000 free eBooks. Most of the Project Gutenberg eBooks are older literary works that are in the public domain in the United States.
  • Project Gutenberg Australia
    eBooks in the 'public domain' in Australia. Includes books which may be still under copyright in the US and are therefore not available from the US site.