Open Educational Resources: Books

Open access books devoted to archaeology.

Internet publisher of literature, reference and verse providing free access to books in public domain.

Full texts of Spanish books in the public domain.

Open access e-books, including some textbooks.

Nearly 200 open access books primarily focusing on Asian Studies.

Over 60 open access titles covering a variety of topics.

Biographies of important Canadians who died between the years 1000 and 1930. Work in progress.

Thousands of digital books available from commercial, noncommercial, universities and various private sites. Most of them are available at no charge.

A growing open portal that brings together various digitized collections to create “an open network of online resources that draw on the nation’s living heritage from libraries, universities, archives, and museums." Includes thousands of items from the Government Printing Office's Catalog of Publications and the Medical Heritage Library research collection.

Thousands of academic, peer-reviewed books from over 90 publishers. Note: Some books have partial content only.

A Collection of Free Computer Books

Historical monographs published by Columbia University Press in collaboration with the American Historical Association

A collection of online texts where most but not all are available for free viewing

Open access collection of outstanding out-of-print books in the humanities available as free e-books courtesy of The Humanities Open Book project. Once in a title you can download in EPUB or Mobi format.

Full texts of thousands of prose and poetic works. Created by the University of Michigan.

English Language Versions of Ancient Greek and Latin Authors provided by MIT

Over 2000 monographs across the Humanities and Social Sciences. Publishers include Fordham University Press, NYU Press, Cornell University Press, University of California Press, Princeton University Press, and Yale University Press. Growing collection.

A collection of Iberian resources provided by the University of Central Arkansas

Digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.

Manifold is an innovative platform from the University of Minnesota to publish and read open-access books online.

Online content from Merck

Numerous free texts provided by The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine

A resource from the National Center for Biotechnology Information

A quality controlled collection of Open Access books, mainly in the area of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Project Gutenberg is a library of over 60,000 free eBooks. Choose among free epub and Kindle eBooks, download them or read them online. You will find the world's great literature here, with focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired. Thousands of volunteers digitized and diligently proofread the eBooks, for enjoyment and education.

Open Access Books and Journals on the Project Muse platform.

Full text of rare books, manuscripts, and images 9th-20th cent. at PENN Library's collections.

Offering of books in a wide range of areas within science, technology and medicine (STM).

A project for collaboratively writing open-content textbooks.

Online Texts of 3000 volumes provided by Indiana University