The Biodiversity Heritage Library contains many books and archives on global biodiversity. Full text of rare and early publications relating to Western Australia is available.
Historical Records of Australian Science published by the CSIRO records the history of science, pure and applied, in Australia, New Zealand and the southwest Pacific.
Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts (LISTA) indexes more than 500 core journals, most with available full text and books, research reports and proceedings for librarianship, classification, cataloguing, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management.
Open Library collects details of published books. It also holds loanable copies of ebooks including some about or from Australia. It makes audiobooks available to print for disabled people.
Project Gutenberg is an online library of free eBooks. It largely contains books that are in the public domain. These have been digitised by volunteers.