Britannica Library Children's
kids.britannica.comA free children's reference library with thousands of educational resources. Presents knowledge in an accessible way for primary school students through images, video, and short articles.
A curated list of the world's best free libraries, academic research resources, research databases, and national libraries. Students and teachers are welcome to use them freely for reading, research, and practicing foreign languages.
A free children's reference library with thousands of educational resources. Presents knowledge in an accessible way for primary school students through images, video, and short articles.
A free international digital library with over 200 children's books available in Mongolian. A wonderful opportunity to read and practice in one's native language.
A library offering thousands of free English-language stories, ebooks, and textbooks for middle school students and above.
๐ Link coming soonThe world's oldest and largest digital library, with over 75,000 books whose copyright has expired. Downloadable in EPUB, Kindle, HTML, and plain text formats.
A library that re-reads and re-proofs public-domain classics, producing beautifully formatted, high-quality EPUB editions. Its design and formatting are noticeably cleaner than other free libraries.
A digital archive where you can borrow and read over a million scanned books, plus view thousands of films, recordings, and articles. Covers literature, textbooks, and historical source material.
๐ Registration required to borrowWikimedia's free library of source texts. Contains original documents, translations, and legal texts across language-specific subsites.
A free audiobook library read by volunteers. Listen to public-domain works and develop foreign-language listening and pronunciation skills together.
A growing collection distributing public-domain books with beautiful cover designs, in EPUB, Kindle, and Kobo formats.
A platform where you can download over 10,000 free books without registering, or read them directly online. Combines contemporary and classic works.
An open database about books and periodicals โ freely searchable information such as author, edition, and ISBN. Better suited for bibliographic research than for reading.
A platform that indexes and searches academic papers, books, and dissertations. Some sources are paywalled, so look for a free PDF version before paying.
A platform of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that indexes over a million academic papers in medicine and biology.
A freely searchable database of the properties and structures of hundreds of millions of chemical substances. Well suited for chemistry and biology coursework.
Over 8,500 books published by the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, free to download as PDFs.
๐ Email registration requiredA directory indexing open-access academic books and monographs. Peer-reviewed works aimed at universities and researchers.
A platform offering free STEM textbooks, exercises, simulations, and flashcards for grades 1-12. Well suited for deepening study in math, physics, chemistry, and biology.
A free, expert-reviewed library of college- and high-school-level textbooks, published under the auspices of Rice University. Includes courses in math, physics, chemistry, economics, and history.
An education platform offering free lesson plans, interactive material, and image resources on nature, geography, and science.
A curated list of the Smithsonian Libraries' free-to-use databases and collections. Sources in art, history, and science.
An archive preserving the Smithsonian's historical documents, photographs, and recordings. Includes digital collections for historical research.
A volunteer project preserving Scandinavian (Northern European) classic literature digitally and offering it free to read.
The official website of the National Library of Mongolia. Features information on history, bibliography, and cultural heritage, along with a digital catalog.
The official site of the National Library of Russia (Russian Book Fund) โ contains information on holdings, history, and collections.
The official site of the National Library of China โ offers multiple platforms including ancient texts, digital literature, and the Silk Road Digital Library.
๐ Registration requiredThe official site of the National Library of Korea. Rare documents and digital editions can be viewed in their original language.
๐ Registration requiredThe digital platform of the National Library of Spain (Biblioteca Nacional de Espaรฑa). Contains over 35 million pages of historical books, manuscripts, images, and maps.
A library distributing Italian public-domain literature, audiobooks, and music under free licenses.
A digital library of Japanese public-domain literature (้็ฉบๆๅบซ). One of the few resources where students studying Japanese can read classic works in the original language.
These libraries are not affiliated with Imperial Italian School โ they are free third-party platforms listed here for reference. Please note that some sites require an account to use, and some academic sites may mix in paid sources.