| Resources Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Directory of open access books | The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of Open Access books. Academic publishers are invited to provide metadata of their Open Access books to DOAB |
| JSTOR open access books | More than 5,000 Open Access ebooks from 75+ publishers are now available at no cost to libraries or users |
| SpringerOpen open access books | Provides open access books |
| Intechopen | Open Access books Built by scientists, for scientists |
| Charles Sturt University open access books | CSU Library provides an international scheme making scholarly books freely available online |
| The Open Access Directory (OAD) | This is a list of publishers of OA books. |
| Authorama | Completely provides free books from a variety of different authors, collected here for you to read online or offline |
| Project Gutenberg | Project Gutenberg is a library of over 60,000 free eBooks |
| Internet Archive | The Internet Archive offers over 20,000,000 freely downloadable books and texts. There is also a collection of 1 million modern eBooks that may be borrowed by anyone with a free archive.org account. |
| MIT OpenCourseWare | OCW makes the materials used in the teaching of MIT subjects available on the Web. |
| The National Academies Press | It offers more than 8,500 titles in PDF format. Almost all of these PDFs can be downloaded for free by the chapter or the entire book |
| The Online Books Page | Listing over 3 million free books on the Web |
| The Universal Digital Library | Provides free e-books |
| World Public Library | Provides free e-books |