Biblioboard offers access to free ebooks throughout Illinois. Indie and self published authors in Illinois and across the country. Books are reviewed by Biblioboard and Library Journal.

Manybooks provides 29,000 free ebooks.

Free-ebooks.net includes access to downloadable ebooks, from published and nonpublished authors. You will need to register for this site.

The Digital Collections page provides free access to historical collections.

DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals. DOAJ is independent. All funding is via donations, 40% of which comes from sponsors and 60% from members and publisher members. All DOAJ services are free of charge including being indexed in DOAJ. All data is freely available.

The Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library offering free universal access to books, movies & music, as well as 327 billion archived web pages. The site provides free access to researchers, historians, scholars, the print disabled, and the general public. Our mission is to provide Universal Access to All Knowledge.

The Illinois State Archives serves by law as the depository of public records of Illinois state and local governmental agencies which possess permanent administrative, legal, or historical research values. Its collections do not include manuscript, newspaper, or other nonofficial sources.

The Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections contains 118 newspaper titles, 140,474 issues comprising 1,488,968 pages and 6,887,660 articles.