Ternyata Banyak Buku Teks Gratis

Buku teks gratis, apakah memang benar ada? Banyak orang tidak dengan mudah dapat mempercayai, bahwa dari Internet dapat diperoleh buku teks gratis. Bukan sembarang buku teks, melainkan benar-benar buku teks berstandar internasional. Bedanya dengan buku-buku teks di perpustakaan, buku-buku teks di Internet tidak mempunyai sampul mewah sehingga tidak bisa dipajang di ruang tamu (oleh orang yang ingin orang tahu bahwa dirinya adalah kalangan intelektual). Selebihnya, dari segi kualitas isinya bahkan lebih bermutu dari sebagian besar buku teks berbentuk tercetak (karena itu, sangat tidak masuk akal bila ada seorang guru besar yang melarang mahasiswanya mengutip sumber dari Internet).

Perpustakaan Terbaik Dunia

Project Gutenberg, untuk buku-buku yang hak ciptanya telah kedaluwarsa, sekarang terdiri atas lebih dari 28.000 judul buku dalam format ASCII.

Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts, koleksi dokumen ranah publik mengenai kesusateraan Amerika dan Inggris serta filsafat Barat, menyediakan fasilitas untuk membuat file PDF.

arXiv e-Prints, menyediakan lebih dari 600.000 e-print "preprints" buku dalam bidang fisika, matematika, biologi, keuangan, statistika, ilmu-ilmu non-linier, dan ilmu komputer dalam format PDF, PostScript, dan DVI.

Athena , menyediakan buku-buku oleh penulis Prancis dan Swis khususnya dalam bidang sastra, sains, dan seni dalam format html & rtf

Bartleby.com The Encyclopedia of World History and The Harvard Classics are among many free texts offered online in HTML at this award-winning site. Many classic reference works are available here.

www.bartleby.com/index.html

Berkeley Digital Library/Sunsite Contains USA history & heritage collections, various sociological and other academic works, a Literature @ SunSITE collection (largely U.S. authors at the moment), & some miscellaneous scientific studies.
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/

Bibliomania Offers more than 2,000 free classic texts, plus reference books, biographies and other research works, some articles and interviews. In HTML format, readable online in your web browser.
www.bibliomania.com

Bibliotheca Augustana A Latin e-library and more. Includes non solum Latina et Graeca, sed etiam bibliothecae Anglica, Bohemica, Gallica, Germanica, Hispanica, Iiddica, Italica, Lusitana, Polonica et Russica.  Collectio textuum electronicorum. Hae paginae proponent Musa adiuvante in lingua Latina - facta et ficta. In HTML, nicely illustrated too.
www.fh-augsburg.de/~harsch/a_index.html

CELT (Corpus of Electronic Texts). Over eleven hundred Irish literary, historical & cultural texts, some contemporary, in Irish, Latin, Anglo-Norman French, and English. Presented in HTML, with a searchable online database. An initiative of University College, Cork, Republic of Ireland.
www.ucc.ie/celt

CogPrints Cognitive Sciences Eprint* Archive - Includes a wide variety of research papers in psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, philosophy, biology, medicine, anthropology and computer science. Material dates back as far as 1950, although most of it is post 1990. As at June 2010, CogPrints contained nearly 3,500 items. Some areas of the archive require registration, to obtain a username and password. *Eprints here are defined as the digital texts of peer-reviewed research articles, before and after refereeing. Before refereeing and publication, the draft is called a "preprint." The refereed, published final draft is called a "postprint." Eprints may include both preprints and postprints, as well as any significant drafts in between, and any post publication updates.
http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk

Complete Works of William Shakespeare, comedy, history, tragedy and poetry. The plays can be read either as a continuous text or by individual scenes. For reading online, in HTML.
http://the-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/works.html

Cornell University Library Historical Monographs   Comprises 441 general monographs made available for online viewing as TIFF images, for personal or research use only. Languages include English, Dutch, French, German, Latin, Portuguese & Spanish. A fascinating mishmash of topics, including some science.
http://dlxs2.library.cornell.edu/c/cdl/

The Digital Library of the Commons (DLC) An archive of international literature on "the commons" (i.e. that which is held in common or by a community).  Many useful features for both readers and contributing authors. Includes a full-text Digital Library of articles, papers, and dissertations, a Working Paper Archive of author-submitted papers, and links to relevant references. Thanks to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the International Association for the Study of Common Property (IASCP) & the Indiana University Graduate School. As Adobe PDF files.
http://dlc.dlib.indiana.edu/dic/

Digital Library for Earth System Education: DLESE Over 5,000 searchable educational resources. Items are also organized into themes or collections, broadly as environmental, geographical, geological, oceanographical and other physical sciences; space science and technology; policy and educational issues and the philosophy of science. Resources are not archived on site but in a variety of collaborating collections. Funded by the National Science Foundation (USA). Whether you're interested in literacy maps or the latest oil spill, earthquakes and volcanos, the weather, climate change, sunspots, the quirks of gravity, how ecosystems evolve or a myriad other scientific and global issues, you'll find topical and relevant information from here.
www.dlese.org/dds/index.jsp

Digital Library of Information Science and Technology: dLIST A repository of over 1,400 electronic resources in many subject areas, especially Library and Information Science (LIS), digital Web disciplines and Information Technology (IT). Contains published and unpublished papers, data sets instructional and help materials, pathfinder , reports & bibliographies. So far in English only. User registration required to access some areas. In HTML or PDF.
http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/

Ebooks Online Library Around thirty-six famous authors ranging from Aesop to Sun Tzu, with huge representation of Arnold Bennett, Anton Chekhov, Charles Dickens, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Jack London, Edgar Allan Poe & Oscar Wilde, plus a goodly measure of Ambrose Bierce, Jules Verne, Jane Austen & Mark Twain. Nearly two hundred titles here all up. In very clear HTML, for online reading, this collection has been sourced from Project Gutenberg and prepared with special attention to the needs of visually impaired and older readers. You can set the font size & colour, or background colour, with just a click in the Settings panel. If you register you can use online bookmarks too.
www.readasily.com/

Elfwood Elfwood is a huge, non-profit home to amateur Fantasy/Sci-Fi literature and art, plus some How -To Guides and fan art. The site holds over half a million works of art & literature by over 35,000 Science Fiction/Fantasy artists and writers. Formerly hosted by a Swedish computer society, Lysator.
http://www.elfwood.com/

The E Server Bit of a mind flip might be an exaggeration, but there is certainly nothing stodgy about this large (over 35,000) & contemporary collection of online intellectual texts & resources. Based at the University of Washington. The illustrated subject links are a nice touch too.
http://eserver.org

Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature  Links site for literary texts in Western European languages other than English. Languages include Catalan, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek (both ancient & modern), Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Latin, Norwegian, Old Norse, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish & Swedish.
www.lib.virginia.edu/wess/etexts.html

Electronic Texts On The Internet  A useful links page with over fifty entries. For some light relief, check out the Shakespearean Insult Generator.
www.refdesk.com/factelec.html

EuroDocs Links to primary historical documents from Europe (including Russia, Belarus and Ukraine). Selected transcriptions, facsimiles and translations. Presented in three classifications: Prehistoric & Ancient Europe; Medieval & Renaissance Europe; Europe as a Supranational Region. Plus, as some forty-seven national jurisdictions ranging from tiny Andorra to the major EC states to Vatican City.
http://eurodocs.lib.byu.edu

 Europeana This recent (Nov.2008) resource represents an ambitious pan-European project co-funded by the European Union. It provides links to over 6 million digital items, in text, picture, sound or video forms, held by contributing European institutions (libraries, archives, museums, galleries & research institutes). The site aims to provide access to Europe's cultural and scientific heritage through a common portal. Digitised text items comprise books, newspapers, letters, diaries and archival papers.
www.europeana.eu/portal/

Great Books Index   From Aeschylus to Virginia Woolf - links to online works, in English translation, by more than 130 classic authors. Please check for any copyright restrictions (which may in a few cases apply for other than reading online). A redoubtable effort from Ken Roberts of Ontario, Canada.
http://books.mirror.org/gb.home.html

Great Books and Classics Provides free HTML online versions of many famous authors from before 200 BC to the 20th Century. Linked with Amazon.com for commercial print offerings of the titles.
www.grtbooks.com

Internet Classics Archive More than 440 mainly Greco-Roman texts, with some Chinese and Persian. By 59 different authors. In English translation. For online reading, some downloads available.
http://classics.mit.edu

Internet Public Library Provides links to over 20,000 free books available online. The Internet Public Library's Mission Statement says: " The Internet Public Library (IPL), is a public service organization and learning/teaching environment at the University of Michigan School of Information. The IPL Online Texts Collection contains over 20,000 titles that can be browsed by author, by title, or by Dewey Decimal Classification". For questions about the online texts collection, or how to search, please see their help page. The IPL merged in mid-2009 with the Librarians' Internet Index & is now called ipl2
www.ipl.org/reading/books

New Journals Free The University of Nevada's Reno Libraries offer links to about 1500 free online academic journals, on almost 100 subjects. Organised alphabetically. A wonderful public resource. www.knowledgecenter.unr.edu/ejournals/free.aspx

 Kurt Stüber's Online Library - historic and modern biology books Over 400 books on biological subjects, many currently out of print and hard to obtain. Mostly German authors, but luminaries such as Charles Darwin are also present. In German, with some English and French (a few works are old enough to be in Latin). Online, in text chapters or as individual scanned pages. Browse the collection by author, title, category or publication date. Site presented in English and German versions.
www.zum.de/stueber/

MIT OpenCourseWare An ambitious & generous plan to make all Massachusetts Institute of Technology course materials available on the Internet, for free download. Materials for 1900 courses are now accessible (the (project began at the end of September 2003). Materials are in English, but a number are also available in Spanish & Portuguese. Presented in HTML. However courses may include Adobe Acrobat PDF files, Java Applets, Shockwave, Real Player, Java, and MATLAB files (software for all of these may be downloaded from the site's Technical Requirements page). This so far unique gift is made possible by MIT with support from the William and Flora Hewlett & Andrew W. Mellon Foundations.
http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html
Course list at http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Global/all-courses.htm

National Academy Press Read over 3,000 National Academy science, engineering, and health texts free online - others are for purchase. You can also buy print copies if you wish, or PDFs in some cases. These e-books represent the cream of U.S. research & policy opinion in these fields. Texts are presented either as PDFs (newer titles), or in a fully-searchable "Open Book" format, which also allows for page browsing & internal links. Open Book" is HTML, & moreover the format is prepared so that you can send people an individual page reference as an URL. Newer titles are in PDF format, downloadable by chapter or the entire text. The U.S. National Academy of Sciences provides this site.
www.nap.edu

Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) Links to digital theses/dissertations available in Australia, Canada, many European nations, Hong Kong, South Africa, Taiwan & the USA.
www.ndltd.org/

Online Books Page This University of Pennsylvania site offers access links to more than 35,000 books online. Plain presentation, but well worth the browse.
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books

Oxford Text Archive From Oxford University, this archive was founded in 1976. High-quality, well-documented electronic texts for research and teaching. More than 2,500 resources in over 25 different languages. A premium academic resource. Public domain texts are freely available from the on-line catalogue and may be downloaded in a number of different formats. Some texts require the user to obtain the written permission of the original depositor.
http://ota.ahds.ac.uk

Pennsylvania State University Electronic Classics Site: " The Labyrinth" PSU's e-books are presented as .pdf files (Portable Document Format). Read them with the Adobe Reader or other PDF readers. Established in 1997, the site offers many classical works of literature in English, plus original works published by Penn. State Uni.
www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/jimspdf.htm

Perseus Project A great classical digital library site, with Greek & Latin texts, commentaries, an atlas, coin images, art, archaeology and more.
www.perseus.tufts.edu

Project Libellus The University of Washington, Seattle, provides this library of Latin texts, readable in your web browser. In HTML & TeX (a subset of ASCII). Thirteen classical Latin authors represented.
www.hhhh.org/perseant/libellus

Project Madurai Tamil Digital Library under preparation by voluntary effort. So far over 240 works in Tamil script are available, in TSCII (Tamil Script Code for Information Interchange) format. Old Tamil classic works predominate so far. Use a Unicode font with Tamil block and select "unicode/utf-8" charset in your browser preferences to read here.
www.tamil.net/projectmadurai/

Project Runeberg  Project Runeberg publishes free electronic editions of old Nordic ((Scandinavian) literature on the Internet. Since 1992. Currently offers more than one thousand titles, mostly in Swedish, Norwegian, Danish & Icelandic. Presented as scanned images, with raw OCR text beneath. Based at Linköping University, southern Sweden.
www.lysator.liu.se/runeberg

Soil And Health Library A free public library offering books on holistic agriculture (around 80 works), holistic health, self-sufficient living, and personal development. Online as HTML, or as PDFs. Thanks to Steve Solomon of Exeter, Tasmania, and, from 2010, Justin Crawford.
www.soilandhealth.org

Universal Library "The principal benefit of the Universal Library will be to supplement the formal education system by making knowledge available to anyone who can read and has access." A project of Carnegie Mellon University & the governments of China & India - much of the scanning is being done in the latter two countries. The "million books project" under way will have considerable content in many Indian and Chinese languages, as well as English. Note that browser plug-ins - obtainable on site - are required to view the books, which are scanned in DjVu or TIFF formats. For more information about this far-reaching initiative, see:
http://www.ulib.org/

University of California eScholarship Editions  This collection generously includes public access to over 500 books on scholarly topics involving art, science, history, music and religion, plus some fiction.. Online in chapters, for your Web browser.
http://texts.cdlib.org/ucpress/

University of Virginia Electronic Text Center has more than 10,000 publicly accessible texts in thirteen languages (& over 164,000 publicly available images). These texts are available as scanned images accessible to web browsers, but in addition there are 2,000+ e-books available (in English) for MS Reader & Palm Reader.
http://lib.virginia.edu/digital/collections/finding_digital.html

Virtual Library "The Virtual Library is the oldest catalog of the web, started by Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of html and the Web itself. Unlike commercial catalogues, it is run by a loose confederation of volunteers, who compile pages of key links for particular areas in which they are expert…" Links are sorted into the following categories: Agriculture, the Arts, Business & Economics, Communications and Media, Computing and Computer Science, Education, Engineering, Humanities and Humanistic Studies, Information and Libraries, International Affairs, Law, Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Recreation, Regional Studies, Social and Behavioural Sciences, and Society. Or, use the search engine.
www.vlib.org/

World Public eBook Library . For a small annual fee, offers access to over 500,000 PDF e-books and e-documents, plus 7,000 mp3 audio books. Or, access texts absolutely free online in HTML. From the World Electronic Text Library Foundation, based in Honolulu, Hawaii.
http://netlibrary.net/WorldHome.html

Perpustakaan Digital Terbaik Australia

Adelaide University Electronic Texts Collection This growing collection of e-texts - currently around 1,500 - includes classic works of literature, philosophy, science, and medicine. Their own web editions, in HTML.
http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au

ANU E-Print Repository From the Australian National University in Canberra, ACT (Australian Capital Territory). Holding over 48,000 items as of June 2010. Material mostly from after 1980 is included. User registration (there is no charge) is required for some parts of the site.
http://dspace.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/39729

Looking for ANU PhD theses? Go to: http://thesis.anu.edu.au

Australian e-Humanities Gateway is an initiative of the Australian e-Humanities Network, a group funded by the Australian Research Council.The network includes representatives from the Australian Academy of the Humanities, the University of Sydney and the University of Newcastle. A portal for digital resources in humanities disciplines in Australia.
www.ehum.edu.au

New  Australasian Digital Theses This portal site provides direct Web access to digital versions of postgraduate theses hosted by its member participants, viz. 42 universities in Australia and New Zealand. The theses are searchable by author, title and subject. Note that only a few theses may be available from the pre-digital era. In PDF format.
http://adt.caul.edu.au/

Cochrane Library Contains helpful, authoritative information on the effectiveness of different health care treatments and interventions. This scientific medical site has limited free access for Australians and New Zealanders through national subscriptions, and may be accessed by anyone surfing the Web from the".au" or ".nz" domains. A good place to start your research.
www.cochrane.org.au/library/

Curtin University of Technology Institutional Repository (espace@Curtin) provides access to research produced by Curtin University of Technology staff and postgraduate students. More than 3,000 items were available as at May 2009 covering material from 1978 onwards.
http://espace.lis.curtin.edu.au/

Deakin Research Online  Deakin University's institutional digital repository is a new starter off the blocks, but already holds more than 20,000 items as at June 2010. Browse it by Author Name, Subject or Community/Collection. www.deakin.edu.au/dro/

epublications@bond is an open access repository of research and scholarly output of Bond University staff and students, and of historical & archival material about the University. In October 2008 it reached the milestone of 2,000 items. Contains a spectrum of academic papers from all faculties; scholarly journals; theses; and a growing collection of historical photographs.
http://epublications.bond.edu.au/

Flinders Digital Archive Scholarly work of Flinders staff, organised by department/school. Search also by title, author, subject or date. Held around 3750 items as of June 2009. As with all such material, please do not violate the conditions of use, which are legally binding. In PDF. http://dspace.flinders.edu.au/dspace/handle/2328/1890

JCU ePrints James Cook University ePrints provides free access to the research output of James Cook University's academic staff and post-graduate students. As many as 15,000 items held as of June 2010. Can be searched by subject, year, author and latest publications added. In PDF.
http://eprints.jcu.edu.au/

La Trobe University Research Repository  Holds a wide range of materials including books, book chapters, articles, research papers/reports, technical reports, and working, discussion & conference papers. Over 24,000 items available as at June 2010.
http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/arrow/

Monash University ePrint Repository  The Monash University ePrint Repository showcases and archives quality research output of Monash University staff. More than 4,000 items held at May 2009. Holdings include two specialised music collections, Gippsland historical images and Business and Economics working papers.
http://eprint.monash.edu.au/

Project Gutenberg of Australia produces books in electronic form and makes them freely available to the public in accordance with Australian copyright law, usually in plain text. Hosts a number of specialised Australian collections, including a Library of Australiana, Australia's Greatest Books, Australian Explorers & Australian History. All up, the site hosts nearly 2,000 titles as of July 2010.
NB: Under Australian copyright law, literary, dramatic, & musical work published, performed, communicated, or recorded and offered for sale in an author's lifetime are protected for the life of the author plus fifty years from the end of the year of the author's death. After this time they enter into the public domain. Some e-books available here may still be under copyright in the United States (where local laws have several times extended copyright to levels not accepted within Australian jurisdictions). Such works are therefore not available from the US site of Project Gutenberg.
http://gutenberg.net.au/

QUT ePrints An institutional archive of research papers produced at Queensland University of Technology by QUT staff and postgraduate students. Items now deposited span from 1970 to date, and this fast-growing new collection already offers nearly 25,000 of them (at July 2010). Since 2004 it has been QUT policy that publicly available research and scholarly output of the University should be deposited here.
http://eprints.qut.edu.au/

New Research Online is an open access digital archive promoting the scholarly output of the University of Wollongong, It houses over 8,500 research papers (as of July 2010). Browse by faculty, author, series or search term.
http://ro.uow.edu.au/

Sydney eScholarship Repository / SETIS   SETIS (The Scholarly Electronic Text and Image Service at the University of Sydney Library) and the Sydney eScholarship Repository holds a variety of collections. These include Australian Literary and Historical Texts (currently over 300 items, which incorporate the Ozlit collection formerly hosted by VicNet). There are also over 900 University of Sydney digital theses (as of June 2010); and a range of scholarly or research oriented works produced or sponsored by University of Sydney faculties, departments, schools or research centres. The last group includes articles, technical reports, working papers, conference papers, Audio/Video, datasets and images. NB: While you may access many SETIS listed texts from the Web, some are commercially licensed and available only to users at the University of Sydney.
http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/  and   http://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/

UMER - University of Melbourne ePrints Repository Goal: to showcase and preserve the research output of University of Melbourne academic staff and students. Held almost 2,700 items at June 2009.The oldest item dates back to 1945. In order to access some areas of the archive, you'll need a user registration (no charge).
http://eprints.unimelb.edu.au

UQ eSpace The University of Queensland's digital repository. Set up in 2002, it covers material created since 1983, although most dates from 1998 onwards.  Includes e-books, e-chapters, online journals, articles, working papers, conference papers and proceedings, technical reports, posters, images, datasets, miscellaneous research output, and pre-publication (draft) material. All up, a huge collection of more than 114,000 items as at July 2010. OAI-compliant, the repository includes research output of UQ academic staff and postgraduate students, both before and after peer-reviewed publication. Formats used include HTML, ASCII text, PDF & Postscript.
http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/

UTasER The University of Tas}ania ePrint Repository. Research materials covering as far back as 1470 AD, have now been deposited here, and the holdings include books, journal articles, conference papers, images and theses. There were more than 7,500 items at June 2010.
http://eprints.utas.edu.au/

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