Millions of books digitized by a variety of major research institutions. The Graduate Center is a HathiTrust partner, which provides our community the ability to download full text searchable PDFs of items in the public domain, and the ability to create collections of items in Hathi. To enable these features, please log in on the Hathi site using CUNY Graduate School and University Center. Click more for additional login instructions.

The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form with a mission to provide universal access to all knowledge. The archive contains tens of millions of books and texts, audio recordings, videos, images, and software programs, and 625 billion web pages.

An initiative of the Internet Archive, Open Library is a universal catalog with the goal to create a web page for every book ever published. The catalog provides links to the Internet Archive’s collections with over 1.7 million public domain books available for download, and hundreds of thousands of ebooks that can be borrowed via controlled digital lending. Some digitized books are available only to the print disabled. See information about creating an account and borrowing from the Open Library and FAQs for further details.

Project Gutenberg is a library of over 60,000 eBooks, mostly items in the public domain. Choose among free epub and Kindle eBooks, download them or read them online. An open access crowdsourced project.