Online Books Page

The Online Books Page is an index of e-text books available on the Internet.^[1] It is edited by John Mark Ockerbloom and is hosted by the library of the University of Pennsylvania.^[2] The Online Books Page lists over 2 million books^[3] and has several features, such as A Celebration of Women Writers and Banned Books Online.

The Online Books Page

Producer	University of Pennsylvania (United States)
History	1993–present
Languages	English
Access
Cost	Free
Coverage
Record depth	Index
Format coverage	Books
No. of records	Over 2 million
Links
Website	onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu
Title list(s)	onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu

The Online Books Page was the second substantial effort to catalog online texts, but the first to do so with the rigors required by library science. It first appeared on the Web in the summer of 1993. The Internet Public Library came shortly thereafter.

The web site was named one of the best free reference web sites in 2003 by the Machine-Assisted Reference Section of the American Library Association.^[2]

See also

• Digital library
• List of digital library projects
• Project Gutenberg
• Internet Archive

References

1. Nicholas G. Tomaiuolo, Barbara Quint. The Web library: building a world class personal library with free Web resources, Information Today, Inc., 2004. pg. 234–35 Archived 2023-09-17 at the Wayback Machine
2. "ALA MARS 2003 awards (includes a review of the site)". Archived from the original on 2008-06-15. Retrieved 2008-04-26.
3. "The Online Books Page". onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu. Archived from the original on 2021-04-13. Retrieved 2005-04-30.

External links

• Official website