Selections from the World eBook Fair Collection

Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts Collection
“The Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts is a collection of digital documents. The scope of documents in the collection includes items from American literature, English literature, and Western philosophy.”

Author’s Community Collection
“The Author's Community Collection is a collection of contemporary authors. The collection contains a wide variety of genres and interests.” (387 PDF eBooks)

Biodiversity Heritage Library
“Ten major natural history museum libraries, botanical libraries, and research institutions joined together to form the Biodiversity Heritage Library Project. They are developing a strategy and operational plan to digitize the published literature of biodiversity held in their respective collections and make it available through a global ‘biodiversity commons.’ The digitized texts are being archived here.” (33,124 eBooks)

Center on Religion and Democracy, University of Virginia
“The Center on Religion and Democracy is a politically nonpartisan research center at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, committed to addressing the complex relationship between religion and democratic culture. Although the Center’s principal goal will always be the pursuit of knowledge through objective, nonpartisan scholarship, such a quest should hardly be merely academic. It is our commitment to help bridge the gap between theory and practice, to make the critical insights and resources of this center available to everyone concerned with the challenges of the day.” (326 LIT eBooks)

Classic Literature Collection
“The World Public Library’s Classic Literature Collection shelves over 10,000 works of literature, in many languages. In our collection you will find many of the classic works by the greatest authors of history, from the early Greek philosophers and story tellers, such as Plato, Aristotle, and Homer to the great playwrights, such as Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare, as well as British romantic poets, like William Wordsworth, John Keats, Lord Byron, and Percy Shelley, plus American writers up to 1923.”

Educational Resource Collection
“The World Public Library Department of Education Library: Online Educational Resource Collection supports teachers, students, and parents in meeting their educational challenges. The Online Educational Resource Collection contains reports, worksheets, studies, articles, eBooks, and a variety of other publications that support and strengthen the learning experience.” (6,268 PDF eBooks)

Environmental Awareness Library Collection
“Assessment of Global Environmental Changes. An essential e-document collection of reports and research about our environment. This collection contains many of the primary EPA source reports that the scientific community uses to base its findings.”(15,722 PDF eBooks and eDocuments)

Medical Document Collection
“Medical Publications Collection: Department of Health and Human Services and Center for Disease Control and Prevention. The World Public Library Medical Document Collection is an archive to assist all people, and especially those at greater risk of health disparities, will achieve their optimal lifespan with the best possible quality of health in every stage of life.”

Project Gutenberg Consortia Center Collection
“Project Gutenberg is the Internet's oldest producer of classic electronic books containing over 18,000 eBooks. All files are included in the WeL eBook search engine.”

Source: World eBook Fair Collection. Access the full list at: http://worldebookfair.org/Collections