Full text of patents issued by the European Patent Organisation (EPO), France, Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States, and The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO). The available patent data go back, in some cases, as far as the

Online public library features directories of online texts, newspapers, magazines, reference materials with special sections for youth.

Contains a database of multilingual novels, technical literature, and translated texts.

Educational resource dedicated to researching poetry. Includes an online archive of poetry by numerous recognized poets.

A very large selection of electronic online texts by a wide variety of authors from a wide range of literature; many works can also be downloaded in .zip file-format.

Etexts, focusing on classics and general reference works.

Personal collection of favourite works by poets including Leonard Cohen, T.S. Eliot and Allen Ginsberg.

Searchable and browsable digital archive of theses and dissertations.

Collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy.

Houses an extensive online collection of texts ranging from fiction and poetry to general non-fiction and reference works.

Directory-structured database of famous poetry, both written in English and translated.

Full-text research and development reports in physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental sciences, energy technologies, engineering, computer and information science, renewable energy, and other topics.

Archive of the mailing list offering works by numerous poets. Includes personal commentary, critical analysis and biographical information.

Classic poetry from around the world. Mostly British and American.

Hundreds of books in the public domain, divided into HTML pages.

An Open Archives Initiative (OAI) compliant archive of electronic preprints in physics, mathematics, computer science, and non-linear sciences. Created by Paul Ginsparg in 1991, it is one of the oldest archives of free online scholarship.

A compilation of classic authors and their works, along with biographies, background, study guides. Linked to other sites related to the study of literature.

Books in the public domain, available in HTML. Also offers online access to books in PDF, by subscription, for individuals and institutions.

A collection of classic fiction and non-fiction, poetry, and children`s stories.

Eprints service provider hosting digital archives of the University of Southampton.

A sizeable online archive of literary texts, sorted by genre.

A poem a day provided by the Library of Congress, one for each of the 180 days of a typical American high school year.