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Bodleian Library Digital
Digital.Bodleian makes portions of the Bodleian's library collections available online for learning, teaching and research.
http://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/

British Library Online Gallery
See thousands of items form the British Library's collections online. Use their award-winning 'Turning the Pages' software to leaf through great books and magnify the details.
http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/index.html

Cambridge Digital Library
The Cambridge Digital Library is a home for the discovery of digitised material and research outputs from the University of Cambridge and beyond.
https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/

Europeana Manuscripts
Europeana provides access to millions of books, music, artworks and more, with sophisticated search and filter tools to help you find what you’re looking for. Explore the roots of European written culture through manuscripts from antiquity to the early print era.
https://www.europeana.eu/en/collections/topic/17-manuscripts

Google Books
Full text books and parts of books. Includes recent works by arrangement with publishers as well as out-of-copyright works.
http://books.google.com/

Internet Archive
Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free digitised books.
https://archive.org/details/texts

Library of Congress Digital Collections
Access online collections from the US Library of Congress.
https://www.loc.gov/collections/

Smithsonian Libraries Books Online
Access books from the Smithsonian Libraries collections online.
http://library.si.edu/books-online

Wellcome Library Digital Collections
The Wellcome Library are one of the world's major resources for the study of medical history, and their digital collections cover a wide variety of topics, including asylums, food, sex and sexual health, genetics, public health and war.
http://wellcomelibrary.org/collections/digital-collections/

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