1)  National Digital Library (NDL): is a pilot project to develop a framework of virtual repository of learning resources with a single-window search facility. It includes Educational materials ranging from primary to post-graduate level

2) e-PG Pathashala: National Mission on Education through ICT and UGC initiative: A curriculum-based, interactive content in different subjects across all disciplines is being developed under this initiative.

3) CEC digital media library: It is central repository of all educational video programmes produced by EMRC centres

4) NPTEL: provides E-learning through online web and video courses in Engineering, Science and Humanities streams.

5) Swayam: This is a programme initiated by Government of India. The objective of this effort is to take the best teaching learning resources to all. This platform provides all the courses, taught in classrooms from 9th class till post-graduation and it is accessed by anyone, anywhere at any time.

6) DOAJ: Free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, covering all subjects and many languages.

7) NISCAIR Online periodical repository:

8) Journal of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine : The Journal of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine (J-AIM) is an open-access, peer reviewed journal published jointly by The Institute of Trans-disciplinary Health Sciences and Technology (TDU) and The World Ayurveda Foundation (WAF), and published on Elsevier.

9) PLOS :Public Library of Science  is a nonprofit open access scientific publishing project aimed at creating a library of open-access journals of medicine etc. field.

10) OALIB is Open Access Library. More than 263,388 free accessible academic papers are available presently.

11) Google Scholar :Provides a search of scholarly literature. From one place, one can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.

12) OAPEN Library contains freely accessible academic books, mainly in the area of Humanities and Social Sciences.

13) Internet Archive: is a non-profit digital library offering free universal access to books, movies music, as well as archived web.

14) Digital Library India: Access 124508 books online – Digital Library of India, initially hosted by Indian Institute of Science, CDAC, Noida, IIIT-Hyderabad during 2000s working in partnership with the Million Book Project, provides free access to many books in English and Indian languages. DLI website has not been operational for maintenance reasons from 2017. The contents are available from archive.org

15) Project Gutenberg offers over 42,000 free ebooks: choose among free epub books, free kindle books, download them or read them online.

16) TOC:  provides access to tables of contents of over 11,155 scholarly journals

17) Egyankosh : You can also get Study Materials from IGNOU University , here you no need to pay any fees to us and you can download as many time as you want. All study materials available on our section is comes with PDF. Online Books helps students to read books at any time and any place. You no need to keep physical books with you while you are on moving. You can read materials from our portal at anywhere.

18) Free Programming and Computer Science Books : here you may download programming and computer science books for FREE!.

19) Free Tech Books : lists free online computer science and engineering books +lecture notes

20) LibriVox : LibriVox is site designed to facilitate the sharing of audio books. It works like this; users select a chapter of a literary work that is out of copyright and in the public domain and record themselves reading it. Then the audio file is uploaded to the site and available for download. LibriVox supports works in multiple languages from around the world.

21) Just Free Books : This is a custom search engine for finding ebooks and summaries of works in the public domain.

22) Lit2Go : A free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format. Browse by author, title, or search the database by author, title, or reading level. Many selections can be downloaded directly into iTunes or your Mp3 player. You can also read the stories online

23) Nicestories.Com : Features original short stories submitted by non-professional authors on a variety of subjects, including mysteries, science fiction & fantasy, romance, and humor.

24) ibiblio : Home to one of the largest ‘collections of collections’ on the Internet is a conservancy of freely available information, including software, music, literature, art, history, science, politics, and cultural studies.” There’s a little of something for everyone here — a good place to browse.

25) UVa Text Collection : Search the University of Virginia’s collection of thousands of ebooks

26) The Online Books Page : An easily navigable central access point for over 35,000 “free books on the Web.” Search for books and articles by author, title, or subject. Allows readers to suggest new materials to add.

27) eReader Resources – ipl2 Special Collection : A place where you can explore the world of eReaders and eBooks

28) Turning the Pages on the web : The British Library has digitized important historical works, such as Lindisfarne Gospels, Da Vinci’s notebook, Sherborne Missal among others. User can “turn the pages of rare books or manuscripts in a highly realistic way. They can zoom in on the high-quality digitized images and read or listen to notes explaining the significance of each page.”

29) Contemporary Writers in the UK : Get “biographies, bibliographies, critical reviews, prizes and photographs” of some of the UK and Commonwealth’s best living authors. Site can be searched by author, genre, nationality, gender, title, and more!

30) Bibliomania: Free Online Literature and Study Guides : Free e-texts of world’s greatest literature, including fiction, poetry, drama, and limited non-fiction and reference sources. Includes study guides for students and teachers and bulletin board for posting opinions and queries

31) PinkMonkey : Pink Monkey is a study resource targeted for junior high, high school and college students. It offers a library of free online literature summaries with a number of study guides and book notes

32) The Free Library : Compiles an enormous amount of published material – journals, magazines, blog postings, and classic literary texts. Organized by subject, author, or title.

33) Treasures from the Saxon State Library : In English. The Library of Congress hosts this site that includes short narrative histories interspersed with scans of materials such as letters, paintings, and books. The histories begin around medieval times and end around 1875

34) Manybooks : provides access to 10,158 eBooks formatted for reading on your Palm, PocketPC, e-book reader etc.

35) National Academies Press e-books : provides FREE online access to its e-books collection. Right now it holds around 1500 titles. Free PDF versions are available to readers from developing countries

36) Open Book Project : provides access to good number of computer books. These are available for browsing and also saving of chapters in HTML format is possible

37) Page by Page Books Online : contains lot of classic books, which can read online for free.

38) University of Toronto English Library : provides full text access to collection of classic works in English literature. The collection includes prose, poetry and fictions.

39) World e-book Library : is a global coordinated effort to preserve and disseminate classic works of literature, serials, bibliographies, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference works in a number of languages and countries around the world. Provides free access to collection listed under ‘Public’.

40) University of California Press e-books : here excerpts of ebooks are available for free browsing covering different subject areas.

41) Gallica is the digital library of the National Library of France (BnF) and its partners. The app provides free online access to millions of documents: books, newspapers and periodicals, manuscripts, letters and private archives, maps, illustrations, posters, photographs, music scores, video and audio recordings.

42) Shodhganga: a reservoir of Indian theses is a digital repository of theses and dissertations submitted to universities in India.