Henry Luce III Library LibGuides: Open Access Resources: Open Access Books

General

Project Gutenberg
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.
Standard eBooks
Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover.
Open Book Publishers
The leading independent Open Access publisher in the Humanities and Social Sciences in the UK: a not-for-profit Social Enterprise run by scholars who are committed to making high-quality research freely available to readers around the world.
Chest of Books
This site presents free online books on various topics, like Art and Photography books, Business books, Health and Healing books, Craft and Hobby books, etc.
METPublications
Online portal to The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) comprehensive art publishing program

Academic eBooks resources

The National Academies Press
NAP publishes the reports of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. The NAP publishes more than 200 books a year on a wide range of topics in science, engineering, and medicine.
Hathi Trust Digital Library
HathiTrust is a not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries preserving 17+ million digitized items.
Directory of Open Access Books
The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of Open Access books.
InTech Open
One of the largest open access collection of books in the fields of Science, Technology and Medicine.
Directory of Open Access Books
The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of Open Access books.
Open Book Publishers
The leading independent Open Access publisher in the Humanities and Social Sciences in the UK: a not-for-profit Social Enterprise run by scholars who are committed to making high-quality research freely available to readers around the world.
Open Textbook Library
Open textbooks are licensed by authors and publishers to be freely used and adapted. Download, edit, and distribute them at no cost.
OAPEN: Open Access Publishing in European Networks
OAPEN promotes and supports the transition to open access for academic books by providing open infrastructure services to stakeholders in scholarly communication.
Ubiquity Press
An open access publisher of peer-reviewed academic journals, books and data. We operate a highly cost-efficient model that makes quality open access publishing affordable for everyone.
UCL Press Open Access
Open Access Books by University College London
Open Research Library
The Open Research Library (ORL) is planned to include all Open Access book content worldwide on one platform for user-friendly discovery, offering a seamless experience navigating more than 20,000 Open Access books.
JSTOR Open Access Books
Thousands of Open Access ebooks are available from top scholarly publishers, including Brill, Cornell University Press, De Gruyter, and University of California Press.
WikiBooks
Wikibooks is a wiki-based Wikimedia project hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation for the creation of free content digital textbooks and annotated texts that anyone can edit. Initially, the project was created solely in English in July 2003; a later expansion to include additional languages was started in July 2004.
LibreTexts
LibreTexts is a 501 nonprofit online educational resource project. The project provides open access to its content on its website, and the site is built on the Mindtouch platform.
OER Commons
OER commons is a public digital library of open educational resources. Teachers can explore, create and collaborate with other educators around the world to improve curriculum.
OpenStax
OpenStax is a nonprofit educational technology initiative based at Rice University. Since 2012, OpenStax has created peer-reviewed, openly-licensed textbooks, which are available in free digital formats and for a low cost in print. Most books are also available in Kindle versions on Amazon.com and in the iBooks Store.
GALILEO Open Learning Materials
Brings together open educational resources throughout the University System of Georgia, including open textbooks and ancillary materials.
BC Campus: OpenEd
The B.C. Open Textbook Collection is home to a growing selection of open textbooks for a variety of subjects and specialties. Discover open textbooks that have been reviewed by faculty, meet our accessibility requirements, and/or include ancillary materials (quizzes, test banks, slides, videos, etc.).
OASIS
Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) is a search tool that aims to make the discovery of open content easier. OASIS currently searches open content from 117 different sources and contains 388,707 records.

Children's and Young Adult Books resources

Globe eLibrary
A web platform and mobile application that provides students and educators with free and quick access to digital storybooks and eLearning videos. It features age-appropriate and engaging educational resources.
Let's Read Asia
Asia’s free digital library for children
International Childrens Digital Library
A free online library of digitized children's books in 59 languages from many countries. It is housed by the International Children's Digital Library Foundation.