“A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life” as said by Henry Ward Beecher, an American Congregationalist. CVU library facility is free and accessible everywhere with online accessing facilities through our CVU Mobile apps.
With the advance of digital technology, more and more people are choosing ebooks and audiobooks over printed books.
We have tied up with various online platform which have more digital library , Commonwelath Vocational University providing information to all stakeholders about the open digital library which students and stakeholders can use for academic purposes i.e
- Open Library free history ebooks : Open Library started out as an online project designed to preserve interesting websites, ebooks, and other digital assets.
- Project Gutenberg : Project Gutenberg history books, Established in 1971, Project Gutenberg aims to digitize books and other cultural works. Today, it features over 60,000 free ebooks that you can download or read online.
- Internet Archive : Internet Archive ebooks, Featuring over 32 million ebooks, the Internet Archive is the largest digital library ever created. In addition to free ebooks, its catalog includes 591 billion web pages and millions of videos, concerts, audio files, and software programs.Think of the Internet Archive as a digital time machine. Some items in its collection date back to the ’90s and are not available anywhere else.
- Wiley Online Library free IT ebooks : Whether you’re doing research for an essay, white paper, or science project, it can be difficult to find trustworthy sources. That’s where the Wiley Online Library comes in handy. This digital library offers over 22,000 online books, 1,600 journals, and hundreds of reference works.
- World Digital Library : Download rare books, Launched in 2009, the World Digital Library selection of rare books, manuscripts, and other materials dating back to 8,000 BC. The collection includes more than 19,000 publications from over 190 countries.This project was developed by the U.S. Library of Congress and UNESCO, with the purpose of making culture available to everyone.
- Let’s have a look at the list of free online libraries that together comprise of millions of books available for everyone across the world. , National Digital Library of India, Open Library , Project Gutenberg , The Online Books Page, Read Print, Questia, ScienceOpen, California Digital Library, Internet Archive, World Digital Library, Authorama, The Literature Network, LUMS Library, Public Literature, Universal Digital Library, Wikisource, Scribd, Planet Book, HathiTrust Digital Library, Smithsonian Library, Librivox, Bartleby, Bibliomania, International Children’s Digital Library, ManyBooks.net, Europeana, New York Public Library, Google Books, Amazon Books, Biodiversity Heritage Library, JSTOR, KOBO.com, Electronic Literature Foundation, Oregon Digital Library Consortium, Directory of Open Access Journals, Social Science Research Network, OpenDOAR, JURN, Elsevier, Wiley Online Library, PDF Books World, Libby, Scopus, PubMed, Barnes & Noble Free Nook Books, OverDrive, iBiblio, Classic Reader, MyPustak.com, ERIC
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list of libraries that students, PhD scholars and academicians can use for college research, dissertation writing or publishing journals for peer review i.e
National Digital Library of India , Open Library , Project Gutenberg, Public Domain Books , HathiTrust Digital Library
CORE , Biodiversity Heritage Library , ScienceOpen
JSTOR , Directory of Open Access Journals, Social Science Research Network , OpenDOAR , Elsevier , Wiley Online Library,
PDF Books World , The Online Books Page, Scopus , PubMed
ERIC, Book Depository , Smithsonian Library, Librivox , Bartleby
Bibliomania, International Children’s Digital Library, Google Books, Amazon Books, Project Gutenberg, KOBO.com, Electronic Literature Foundation, Oregon Digital Library Consortium, Barnes & Noble Free Nook Books, OverDrive, Classic Reader, MyPustak.com, Libby