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Electronic libraries

Updated: 10/14/2022

Ukrainian libraries
Open Book is a free online library of classical Ukrainian literature. The portal does not contain advertising and places only those literary works that have passed into the public domain. Materials can be downloaded in pdf, fb2, doc, epub formats.
Library of originals and translations of works of world literature - in addition to works of art and fiction, there are also works on philology and philosophy.
Poetics is a poetry library in the Ukrainian language. It was created in the fall of 1998, when, according to its founder Roman Kosarenko, it was almost impossible to find a dozen Ukrainian poems on the World Wide Web.
The portal of the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine is the largest database of scientific literature in Ukraine. Among the services offered are online search of documents and information resources, access to electronic full-text information resources, placed in free Internet access, obtaining reference and consulting information.
Foreign libraries
The largest English-language database of free digital books is the Internet Archive. This portal boasts more than three million texts, more than a million videos and the same number of audio recordings. This online resource also includes the Gutenberg Project, which contains more than 36,000 free e-books. You can find the right work using a search by language or topic of the book.
OpenLibrary - a library of works of classical literature, has more than a million materials in different languages.
The Electronic Library of Ukrainian Literature at the University of Toronto (Canada) is a personal project of University Professor Maksym Tarnavsky. The library was created to provide free and unrestricted access to electronic texts of Ukrainian literature to all interested readers, especially students outside Ukraine, where access to Ukrainian-language texts is limited.
The library of the University of Adelaide contains works on literature, philosophy, religion, history and other topics, as well as works of fiction in the original language.
The University of Pennsylvania Library has more than two million free e-books, from history to law and medicine. Books can be downloaded in zip or txt format.
Bartleby offers access to fiction and nonfiction.
ERIC - The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), funded by the US Department of Education's Institute for Educational Sciences, provides access to 1.5 million bibliographic records - citations, articles, journals and other materials related to teaching and learning , of which about a quarter are available in full text.