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eBooks. WorldCat. HathiTrust Digital Library. IA: Text: Advanced Search. This form allows you to perform an advanced search.

IA: Text: Advanced Search

You only need to fill in one field below. This can be any field. If you select "not" as your match criteria, you must select one other field. Here, you will find an explanation on how the syntax to the search engine works. Our site uses a query syntax like the lucene query syntax from the Apache Lucene opensource search engine. Terms: The search engine supports two types of terms, single terms and phrases. Field Specific queries: If you want to restrict your search to a specific part of the metadata, you can append in front the term a Field Shortcut, such as: will look for "Duck and Cover" only in the title of the items. It’s much faster the results are much more relevantBoolean Operators: By default, the operator is AND, which means that the query: is exactly similar to test AND hello, which means that documents containing the term "test" AND the term "hello" will be returned.

Google Books. Library of Congress: Interlibrary Loan. Digital Public Library of America. Biblio.com. JSTOR. Internet Archive. Additional collections of scanned books, articles, and other texts (usually organized by topic) are presented here.

Internet Archive

The American Libraries collection includes material contributed from across the United States. Institutions range from the Library of Congress to many local public libraries. As a whole, this collection of material brings holdings that cover many facets of American life and scholarship into the public domain. Significant portions of this collection have been generously sponsored by Microsoft , Yahoo! , The Sloan Foundation , and others. United States Patent and Trademark Office documents contributed by Think Computer Foundation. This library of books, audio, video, and other materials from and about India is curated and maintained by Public Resource. Uploads from the general users of ARCHIVE.ORG related to Islamic culture, studies and related subjects. Free books for the  people with disabilities that impact reading.

Books contributed by the Internet Archive. Library of Congress: Bibliographies & Guides. Making of America: Books. Libdex Worldwide. WorldCat: OAIster. Index of Revolutionary War Pension Applications in the National Archives (Special Publication - National Genealogical Society ; No. 40): National Genealogical Society: 9780915156009: Amazon.com: Books.

Public Domain Review. In this section of the site we bring you curated collections of images, books, audio and film, shining a light on curiosities and wonders from a wide range of online archives.

Public Domain Review

With a leaning toward the surprising, the strange, and the beautiful, we hope to provide an ever-growing cabinet of curiosities for the digital age, a kind of hyperlinked Wunderkammer – an archive of materials which truly celebrates the breadth and variety of our shared cultural commons and the minds that have made it. Some of our most popular posts include visions of the future from late 19th century France, a dictionary of Victorian slang and a film showing the very talented “hand-farting” farmer of Michigan. With each post including links back to the original source we encourage you to explore these wonderful online sources for yourself. Check out our Sources page to see where we find the content.