Whether or not your online college offers a digital library, you'll probably want to check out the massive collection of books now offered from the Universal Digital Library.

A recent article from Physorg.com examines the differences between the Universital Digital Library and other book scanning projects:

"The Million Book Project, an international venture led by Carnegie Mellon University in the United States, Zhejiang University in China, the Indian Institute of Science in India and the Library at Alexandria in Egypt, has completed the digitization of more than 1.5 million books, which are now available online...

Though Google, Microsoft and the Internet Archive all have launched major book digitization projects, the Million Book Project represents the world's largest, university-based digital library of freely accessible books. At least half of its books are out of copyright, or were digitized with the permission of the copyright holders, so the complete texts are or eventually will be available free."

The organization's website allows browsers to search for books by keyword or browse through their collections.