Open Access: OA: eBooks & Textbooks

Peer-reviewed academic eBooks in humanities and social sciences.

Open access eBooks in the humanities, social sciences and mathematics.

The world's leading publisher of OA books built by scientists, for scientists. 5000+ peer-reviewed open access books.

This site is a directory of Hyperlinks to free ebooks, tutorials, and lecture notes, etc, all over the world. It is basically a free services to the communities with the focus on Information Technologies, Computer Science, Mathematics, etc.

Browse books by types (academic, reference, textbook, monograph) and subject areas. Books can be freely downloaded in various formats -

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.

Digital open access books (240+) in various subject areas.

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."

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.

"HathiTrust is a partnership of academic and research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world."

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.

Features overview, navigating your eBooks, eReader and customer support.

"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."

A growing collection of 2,700 open access books from the world’s most trusted university presses and scholarly publishers.

Full OA Journals, OA Books, OA Articles & Chapters

20,000+ items (mostly eBooks) in a wide range of subject areas.

More than 6,500 Open Access eBooks from 85+ publishers, including Brill, Cornell University Press, De Gruyter, and University of California Press, are now available at no cost to libraries or users.

1000+ open access eBooks published between 2015-2020 primarily in social sciences, education, computer science, economics, engineering.

The titles in this ever-growing collection (200+) 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.

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.

A library of over 60,000 free eBooks in all genres and various subject categories. Several search and browse functions are available,

Thousands of free e-Books, including fiction, nonfiction, literary classics, children's books, Spanish, French and other languages titles.

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.

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An unlimited number of full length e-books, audiobooks, and other content. This is a subscription website, $9.99 per month. Reed free for 30 days.