Evangel University Libraries: Open Access: OA: eBooks & Textbooks

Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)

Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) - "a community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books and helps users to find trusted open access book publishers. All DOAB services are free of charge and all data is freely available."

OA: Academic eBooks

NEW: IntechOpen - Books & Book Chapters
IntechOpen - where academia and industry create content with global impact. IntechOpen has grown to become the world’s leading publisher of Open Access books (6000+), specialising in technology, science and medicine.
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"IntechOpen books aim at increasing awareness and promoting scientific research in support of the global United Nations Sustainable Development Goals programme. IntechOpen is a member of the UN SDG Publishers Compact."
OAPEN Library & Publication Platform
Peer-reviewed academic eBooks in humanities and social sciences.
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How to publish on OAPEN - https://oapen.org/researchers/14727343-deposit-your-publication;jsessionid=8390429D39C83D78F7C8D9970ED808FD
Open Book Publishers
Open access eBooks in the humanities, social sciences and mathematics.
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.
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering & Medicine
The National Academies Press (NAP) publishes more than 200 books a year on a wide range of topics in social science, science, engineering, and medicine. Free PDFs by chapters or entire books can be downloaded. Use "Browse by Topic" for more specific results.
HathiTrust
"HathiTrust is a partnership of academic and research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world."
Google Books

OA: Nonfiction, Fiction, Literary Classics

NEW: Perlego
Online library of books, academic texts and tools, trusted by students worldwide. A 7-day FREE TRIAL, after which an inexpensive subscription is required.
SCRIBD
An unlimited number of full length e-books, audiobooks, and other content. This is a subscription website, $11.99 per month after a FREE TRIAL of 30 days.
EPDF - nonfiction & fiction eBooks from all genres
No account is required to be able to download the ebooks as PDFs from this site. If you cannot find a book from the library ebook collection, check this site; it provides books in theology and biblical studies too.
Computer & Data Science eBooks
FreeComputerBooks site is a directory of Hyperlinks to free ebooks, tutorials, and lecture notes, etc, all over the world. It is a free services to the communities with the focus on Information Technologies, Computer & Data Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and more.
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In other words, this site DOES NOT contain any actual content of the books or tutorials listed in this site. Again, it contains only Hyperlinks to the actual content.
Gutenberg Project
A library of over 60,000 free eBooks in all genres and various subject categories. Several search and browse functions are available,
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such as "most popular books", "latest releases", "frequently downloaded," and more.
Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) - Open Bookshelf
Thousands of free e-Books, including fiction, nonfiction, literary classics, children's books, Spanish, French and other languages titles.
Open Library
Open Library is a catalogue run by the non-profit Internet Archive. Open Library's goal is to list every book -- whether in-print or out-of-print, available at a bookstore or a library, scanned or typed in as text. You can borrow or read books after creating a free account.
Open Library: Overview
VIDEO TUTORIAL (4:07 min)

Internet Archive

Internet Archive / Wayback Machine
Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.
How to borrow books from the Internet Archive
VIDEO TUTORIAL (2:40 min)

OA Collections of Academic Publishers & Vendors

NEW: National Academies Press
Find books in sciences, engineering, medicine.
NEW: Taylor & Francis Group and its imprints
A collection of open access eBooks (2000+) and chapters (21,400+) in the humanities, social sciences, area studies, and other subject areas.
NEW: CORNELL OPEN
A global open access portal for eBooks published by Cornell University Press.
NEW: UC Press Luminos
University of California Press - Liminos Open Access collection of monographs.
NEW: Lever Press
Lever Press is an OA monograph project with no author fees of any kind.
MIT - OA eBooks
A catalog direct link to the growing MIT OA collection of scholarly monographs. The catalogue results comprise books and chapters.
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"Beginning in 2022, all new MIT Press scholarly monographs and edited collections will be openly available on the MIT Press Direct e-book platform."
"First-of-its-kind sustainable framework for open-access monographs moves professional and scholarly books to a library-supported open-access model." (MIT News -https://news.mit.edu/2021/mit-press-launches-direct-open-open-access-monographs-0310)
JSTOR - Open Access eBooks
More than 9000 Open Access eBooks from 90 publishers, including Brill, Cornell University Press, De Gruyter, and University of California Press, are now available at no cost to libraries or users.
BRILL - Open Access Content
Full OA Journals, OA Books, OA Articles & Chapters
BRILL - Overview of Open Access Titles
20,000+ items (mostly eBooks) in a wide range of subject areas.
SPRINGER NATURE - Open Access eBooks
1000+ open access eBooks published between 2015-2020 primarily in social sciences, education, computer science, economics, engineering.
Edinburgh University Press - OA Books/Articles
Browse open access books (academic, reference, textbook, monograph) and articles. Materials can be freely downloaded. Note, there is a check-out process for free of charge ebooks.
University of Michigan Press - Open Access
Digital open access books in various subject areas.
Bloomsbury Open Access Collection
The titles in this ever-growing collection are free to view and download and cover subjects such as Anthropology, Film and Media Studies, Politics and International Relations, History, Education, Theology and Biblical Studies.
Project MUSE
Open access e-books and journals. "Project MUSE promotes the creation and dissemination of essential humanities and social science resources through collaboration with libraries, publishers, and scholars worldwide."
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A browsable A-Z list of all the books is available.

Textbooks

RedShelf
This cloud-based platform is not an open access one, but it offers eBooks and textbooks at affordable prices. Various price options for renting and/or "life-time" digital purchase depend on the book. Various eBook features and study tools are also available.
RedShelf Video Tutorials
Features overview, navigating your eBooks, eReader and customer support.
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Navigating Your eBook - visual slides: https://solve.redshelf.com/hc/en-us/articles/360006183113-Navigating-Your-eBook
Open Book Publishers: Classics Textbooks
"Ideal for school-level and University students of Latin, and for anybody studying the language for the first time, these Open Access textbooks present extracts from major works including Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Virgil’s Aeneid and Tacitus’s Annals."