Directory of Open Access Books
DOAB is 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.
Free Tech Books lists free online computer science, engineering and programming books, textbooks and lecture notes, all of which are legally and freely available over the Internet.
Did you know that Google Books has more than 10 million free books available for users to read and download?
HathiTrust is a not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries preserving 17+ million digitized items.
The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. They provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, people with print disabilities, and the general public.
JSTOR offers more than 8,000 Open Access books from 100 + publishers including Brill, Cornell University Press, De Gruyter, and University of California Press, these are now available at no cost to libraries or users.
The LibriVox state their objective as
" To make all books in the public domain available, narrated by real people and distributed for free, in audio format on the internet." Great for Performing Arts.
OpenStax is part of Rice University, which is a nonprofit charitable corporation. Their mission is to improve educational access and learning for everyone. This is done by publishing openly licensed books, developing and improving research-based courseware, establishing partnerships with educational resource companies, and more.
Project Gutenberg provides access to free epub and Kindle eBooks, you can 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 you to enjoy. Great for Performing Arts and Creative Writing.
An open access PDF version of each title is also available to download from the product page from our website. This version is free to read and share according to the terms of the applicable Creative Commons licence.
EPUB is better than PDF for eBooks and are designed to be reflowable, resizable, and reader-friendly. PDF is the most common ebook format in electronic scholarly publishing. While PDF does not allow for the greater functionality offered by ebook readers and other mobile devices, most readers and devices can accommodate it.
E-book Formats for Popular E-readers and Apps by Amanda Tarbet is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attributed-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License
