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NATIONAL LIBRARIES AND ARCHIVES
A list of local, state, federal, and national libraries and archives is available at USA.gov.
ACADEMIC RESOURCES
“OER Commons is a public digital library of open educational resources. Explore, create, and collaborate with educators around the world to improve curriculum.”
JSTOR offers more than 6,500 Open Access ebooks from 90 publishers, including Brill, Cornell University Press, De Gruyter, and University of California Press, at no cost to libraries or users.
Open and free content on JSTOR and Artstor. “JSTOR provides access to more than 12 million academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines.”
“Artstor is a not-for-profit organization committed to enhancing scholarship and teaching through the use of digital images and media. The Artstor Digital Library includes millions of high-quality images for education and research across disciplines from a wide variety of contributors around the world.”
DISABILITY SUPPORT RESOURCES
Bookshare provides EBooks for People with Reading Barriers, which are free for qualified U.S. students and schools, and low-cost for adults. Determine Eligibility Guidelines.
National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled. Determine Eligibility Guidelines and apply for service.
LGBTQi+ Resources
Libraries Respond: Services to LGBTQIA+ People | Advocacy, Legislation & Issues (ala.org)
Primary Sources – History : LGBTQ – Library Guides at University of Washington Libraries (uw.edu)
USF Libraries – LGBTQ+ Collections
FREE DIGITAL LIBRARIES
The Online Book’s Page is an online library owned by the University of Pennsylvania, which contains over 3 million free books.
Project Gutenberg is a library of over 60,000 free epub and Kindle eBooks.
Open Library: “The ultimate goal of the Open Library is to make all the published works of humankind available to everyone in the world.”
Library of Congress “contains 18 million catalog records for books, serials, manuscripts, maps, music, recordings, images, and electronic resources in the Library of Congress collections.”