E Books --Free and Chained

Online Books

Bartleby: Geart Books Online
http://www.bartleby.com/

Digital Book Index
http://www.digitalbookindex.org/search001a.htm

Free Tech Books
http://www.freetechbooks.com/

Google Book Search
http://books.google.com/

Medical Books
http://www.freebooks4doctors.com/

Free PDF eBooks Archive
http://www.planetpdf.com/free_pdf_ebooks.asp?CurrentPage=1

Project Gutenberg
http://promo.net/pg/

Read Print
http://www.readprint.com/

WikiBooks
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page

DLIST
[http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/]

Ebook4free.net
[http://www.ebooks4free.net]

Free-Books.org
[http://www.free-books.org]

Free-ebooks.net
[http://www.free-ebooks.net/]

Project Gutenberg
[http://www.gutenberg.org/]

1. E-Books in Public Domain

Project Gutenberg is the oldest producer of free electronic books (eBooks or etexts) on the Internet. The collection of more than 15000 eBooks
http://www.gutenberg.org/

Authorama Public Domain Books (Fiction)
http://www.authorama.com/

Bartleby.com provides the best works of fiction from a wide range of classic authors; general reference works like encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, quotations, verses etc
http://www.bartleby.com

Online Book Page by University of Pennsylvania Library has about 20000 e-books on different subjects
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/


The eScholarship Editions collection of University of California includes more than 1,400 books from academic presses on a range of topics, including art, science, history, music, religion, and fiction
http://texts.cdlib.org/ucpress/

1,800 publicly-available ebooks from the University of Virginia Library's Etext Center, including classic fiction, major authors
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ebooks/

MIT OpenCourseWare a site fr 500 course materials available on the Internet, for free download
http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html


2,500 National Academy science, engineering, and health of USA texts free online
http://www.nap.edu

Internet Public Library of University of Michigan has about 20000 e-books on variety of subjects
http://ww.ipl.org/div/books/

Read Print site is very useful for historians and lovers of literature, as this site contains mainly the classics
http://www.readprint.com/

Oxford Text Archive from OU 2,500 resources in over 25 different languages
http://ota.ahds.ac.uk

Million Book Project [The Universal Library, China site]
http://www.ulib.org.cn

Million Book Project [Digital Library of India
http://www.dli.ernet.in/aui

Million Book Project [The Universal Library, U.S. site
http://www.ulib.org

Project Madurai Tamil Digital Library under preparation by voluntary effort 160 works in Tamil script
http://www.tamil.net/projectmadurai/

World eBook Library comprehensive collection of public domain texts & references. 60,000 PDF e-books and e-documents, plus 7,000 mp3 audio books. From the World Electronic Text Library Foundation, based in Honolulu, Hawaii
http://netlibrary.net/WorldHome.html


A site which provides comprehensive web links on Best free Digital Libraries – Australia; Best free Digital Libraries – World; Other Free Australian Books; Other Free Book Sites/Pages in English; World - Other Languages, Regional and National; Individual Topics/Miscellaneous; Sacred Texts & Religion
http://www.e-book.com.au/freebooks.htm

http://goidirectory.nic.in/
http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/meta/titles.html
http://www.digitalbookindex.org/search001a.htm

100 libraries across the globe

with the help of following link one can visit the top 100 libraries with the blink of finger---
http://www.100toplibrarysites.com/

Univerisities Alert

To get the list of UGC recognized and fake Universities, please open the follow link---------

http://www.skuniversity.org/Other/List%20of%20UGC%20Recognised%20Universities.asp
http://www.ugc.ac.in/inside/fakealerts.html

Wolfram Alpha

A new Search Engine is going to launch , somewhere in May 2009 , introduced on March 5, 2009. It is based on mathmatical algorithm s and heuristics. This search engine will give you the right answer for a qustion not a amount of pages which contains single words or combinaitons of words.

Before this itwas realised that Google is failed to respond the factual questions and to solve the problem, developer of "Mathmatica" and "NKS" Ed Tech's Scientist Stephen Wolfram stands up on March 5, 2009 with new search engine "Wolfram Alpha" and going to be launched in May 2009.

In order to provide the answers of factual qustions they tried to implement methods and models. algorithms and explicity curate all data to make it computable, e.g. if any user want to know the number of neutrons in helium atom , he will get the exact answer in natural language.

As per the version of its creators, this is a system that computes the answers to the questions by using the buil in models of field of knowledge, compelte with data and algorithm , which represents real knowledge.

In simpler term we can say that this could be a global store of information that understand and responds to ordinary language in the same way a person does.

"With Mathematica, I had a symbolic language to represent anything, as well as the algorithmic power to do any kind of computation. And with NKS, I had a paradigm for understanding how all sorts of complexity could arise from simple rules," Stephen wrote in a blog posting.
Wolfram explained that, with a mixture of Mathematica and NKS automation, and expert human help, he has been able to create a system that "knows a lot, and can figure a lot out".
He added that thanks to "algorithms and heuristics, lots of linguistic discovery and linguistic curation, and some serious theoretical breakthroughs", the system also understands natural human language when used to ask it questions.
Wolfram Alpha is due for launch in May, and will be a simple web site with a single input field.

For more references--

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6keS_4TbaWo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYhLsQPHNas

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6211533256004887264

http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/wolfram-alpha-googles-replacement-for-factual-questions/

http://www.twine.com/item/122mz8lz9-4c/wolfram-alpha-is-coming-and-it-could-be-as-important-as-google

http://www.techtree.com/India/Future_Watch/Wolfram_AlphaGives_Answers_Directly_Unlike_Google/551-101638-505.html

http://www.webvoyager.net/tag/wolfarm-alpha/

Google Squared

May12, 2009 was the historical moment in Google history, when at searchology event, launched a new searching tool named Google Squared. This is the best effort in web 3.0 and semantic seacrh.
It is the effort of structuring the unstructred data on web pages and in process they extract data from the web pages and presents the search results as squares in an online spreadsheet format.
The San Francisco Chronicle described the feature in a bit more detai that it compiles details from several Web pages and organizes them into a table on a single page, with multiple columns like a spread sheet.
One of the features announced today is called Search Options, which is a collection of tools designed to let users better "slice and dice" their search results so they can manipulate the information they're getting. Mayer said the tools should help people who struggle with what exactly what query they should pose.
"Let's say you are looking for forum discussions about a specific product, but are most interested in ones that have taken place more recently," she wrote. "That's not an easy query to formulate, but with Search Options you can search for the product's name, apply the option to filter out anything but forum sites, and then apply an option to only see results from the past week."
One Search Options tool is geared toward giving users more information when they do a search. For instance, instead of just getting results in text form, they could have the search engine return images as well.
Google acknowledged that this was still very much a “labs” feature that was imperfect at best. However, between Wolfram Alpha, Google’s efforts in semantic search, and a host of competitors that will be popping up in this field, we may very well be on the edge of Search 3.0. This is good news for our students, teachers, and library scientists struggling to help our students get the information they want from the billions of pages of junk (and millions of pages of interest) floating around the web.

In that same layer Google also is adding more information to its results snippets -- those little pieces of text that tell you about the site that's been pulled up. If you're searching for a hotel, for example, the snippet won't just tell you the name of the hotel and where it is -- now it could tell you its price range, number of stars in customer reviews and the number of reviews listed.
Google Squared still needs a lot of improvement, which is why it's being released to Labs. It collects the information by looking for structures that seem to imply facts. The squares are built out based on high probability of facts.
There will be concerns over Google providing this data on its own by grabbing data and serving it up without sending searchers to the sites that provided the info.

For more reading following links may be helpful ------

Screenshots of Google Squared

http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2009-05-12-n39.html

YouTube-Google Squared

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2onuEXThPs

Will Google Squared make GOOG a better research tool
http://education.zdnet.com/?p=2543

More Search Options and other updates from our searchology event

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/more-search-options-and-other-updates.html