Books: Open Access 

B. 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.

• 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.