e-Book Databases
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Project Muse eBooks
With courtesy of the Higher Education Commission, the State Bank of Pakistan has been extended full-text access to 6,727 Project Muse eBooks published during 2010-2012.
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The Internet Archive
The Internet Archive is an American digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge". It provides free public access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, software applications/games, music, movies/videos, moving images, and millions of books.
Access URL: https://archive.org/
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The Online Books Page
Maintained by University of Pennsilvania Library, the Online Books Page provides listing of over 1 million free e-books on the web.
Access URL: http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/
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UNCTAD Digital Library
The digital library of UNCTAD’s publications enables interested readers to access references to the knowledge generated by the organization through its intergovernmental and expert meetings, as well as its analyses and research.
Access URL: http://www.unctad.org/Templates/Page.asp?intItemID=1397&lang=1
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Universal Digital Library
Comprises of over 1.5 million books in 20 languages. Most of the books are in public domain and are 100% free to read.
Access URL: http://ulib.isri.cmu.edu/
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Urdu Dost Library
An online Urdu library, totally FREE to use. Famous Urdu literary books are here in PDF file format. Anybody can download them absolutely FREE.
Acess URL: http://www.urdudost.com/library/index.php
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Urdu Web Digital Library
An online library of copyright-free material which aims to preserve the rare and valuable heritage of Urdu literature and facilitate its access to the general public.
Access URL: http://www.urdulibrary.org
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World Bank e-Library
Covers all current and recent World Bank titles, documents and papers in PDF and other user-friendly formats. It has more than 1,396 World Bank Publications and over 1,938 Policy Research Working Papers.
URL: http://elibrary.worldbank.org
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World Digital Library
The World Digital Library is a cooperative project of the Library of Congress, the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and partner libraries, archives, and educational and cultural institutions from the United States and around the world. The project brings together on single website rare and unique documents – books, journals, manuscripts, maps, prints and photographs, films, and sound recordings – that tell the story of the world’s cultures. The site is intended for general users, students, teachers, and scholars.
The WDL interface operates in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. The actual documents on the site are presented in their original languages.
Access URL: http://www.wdl.org/en/
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eBooks@Adelaide
A large growing collection of free classical ebooks reformatted by University of Adelaid into DRM free files for enhanced onscreen readability.
Access URL: http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au