The Mason OER Metafinder helps you find Open Educational Resources in 22 different sources of open educational materials, such as MIT OpenCourseware, Open Textbook Library, Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) and others.
Mason OER Metafinder (MOM)
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.
Written by the industry's top authors, our textbooks are helping improve teaching and learning at more than 2,500 leading colleges and universities worldwide.
Open Access books on JSTOR
More than 6,500 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.
The OAPEN Library contains freely accessible academic books, mainly in the area of Humanities and Social Sciences. OAPEN works with publishers to build a quality controlled collection of Open Access books, and provides services for publishers, libraries and research funders in the areas of dissemination, quality assurance and digital preservation.
OpenStax College offers students free textbooks that meet scope and sequence requirements for most courses. These are peer-reviewed texts written by professional content developers
Open textbooks are textbooks that have been funded, published, and licensed to be freely used, adapted, and distributed. These books have been reviewed by faculty from a variety of colleges and universities to assess their quality. These books can be downloaded for no cost, or printed at low cost. All textbooks are either used at multiple higher education institutions; or affiliated with an institution, scholarly society, or professional organization. The library currently includes 714 textbooks, with more being added all the time.
Browse Springer's Open Access eBooks here
Taylor & Francis eBooks is a single destination platform with eBooks in science, technology, engineering, medical, humanities and social science.
Free Public Domain Audiobooks & eBooks
Download books for iPhone, Android, Kindle & mp3 players
"Books Should Be Free" makes the world's public-domain audio books available for browsing in a visual and entertaining way. Books are browsable by their cover and include fiction, nonfiction, children's books, classics, and more.
Project Gutenberg makes audio e-books available in two different categories: human-read and computer-generated. These files can be very large, so are not good for modems or other low-speed connections.
Open Research Library aims to be a central hosting platform for Open Access books that is easy to use and completely free. In addition to the 2700 books that have become open access via Knowledge Unlatched, more than 11 000 titles, from a variety of publishers and disciplines are hosted totaling more than 14 000 titles.
Pressbooks is a WordPress-based online platform for self-publishing books in multiple formats: e-books, webbooks, and print-ready PDFs.
Pressbooks Directory provides an index of 2245 books published across 95 Pressbooks networks.
The OAPEN Open Access Books Toolkit aims to help book authors to better understand open access book publishing and to increase trust in open access books. You will be able to find relevant articles on open access book publishing following the research lifecycle, by browsing frequently asked questions or by searching with keywords.
More than 100,000 volumes published in Great Britain and the United States from the early 1700s through the current year. Its holdings of more than 800 early American imprints is the second largest such collection in the United States.
Bartleby.com: Great Books Online -- Quotes, Poems, Novels, Classics and hundreds more
Free Online Literature with more than 2000 Classic Texts
Bookboon.com originates from Denmark, out of Ventus Publishing, established in 1988. Ever since it was founded, the company has focused on publishing education related books for business professionals and students.
In 2005 the company made a strategic leap and became the first book publishing company in the world to focus 100% on free eBooks. Ever since, the company has been aiming to set new standards in the world of modern publishing based on the readers’ needs.
Searchable online textbase consisting of over 12.5 million words, in over 1000 contemporary and historical documents from many areas, including literature and the other arts
This index is intended as a "Meta-index" for most major eBook sites, along with thousands of smaller specialized sites. In some subject categories, the resources you find here are more comprehensive than those of all but the largest of research libraries,
Selected texts from the first half of the Early American Fiction Collection (1789-1850) are available in e-book format for Microsoft Reader and Palm Pilot. All texts are available in web format.
Includes almost 2000 books from academic presses on a range of topics, including art, science, history, music, religion, and fiction. Access to the entire collection of electronic books is open to all University of Botswana faculty, staff, and students
Over 5 million online articles and books
Collection of thousands of free fiction books
A collection of free fiction books that can be read online. Books are split into pages for easier reading and bookmarking
FreeScience.info provides more than 1500 free scientific books.
The Global Text Project , an initiative of the University of Georgia and the University of Denver, is working to provide free electronic textbooks to university students in developing economies.
The goal of the Global Text Project is to create a library of 1,000 electronic books covering a range of subjects typically taught at the undergraduate level in a comprehensive university. All books are released under a Creative Commons License and can be downloaded for free
Leisure reading. Read online. Download
Use the advanced search to limit to free full-view books
HathiTrust is a partnership of major research institutions and libraries. The Digital Library is a repository providing access services for public domain and in copyright content from a variety of sources, including Google, the Internet Archive, Microsoft, and in-house partner institution initiatives.
Free academic books to download
The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library. Its purposes include offering permanent access to historical collections that exist in digital format
Download free books and texts. The Internet Archive Text Archive contains a wide range of fiction, popular books, children's books, historical texts and academic books.
A public library for the world wide web
LibriVox provides free audiobooks from the public domain.
Collection of the treasures of children's literature published largely in the United States and Great Britain from before 1850 to beyond 1950. At the core of this Collection are books from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, housed in
Many titles in electronic Adobe PDF format. All of these books can be downloaded for free
A website that facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet. It also aims to encourage the development of such online books, for the benefit and edification of all.
Over 300 Free eBooks (including textbooks): Download to Kindle, iPad/iPhone & Nook
Develops, collects, catalogues and preserves electronic literary and linguistic resources. Preserves high-quality digital resources for research and teaching.
Literature, verse, reference
Volunteer-run e-book site
An Online Repository of Works Printed in English Between the Years 1477 and 1799
The objective of the SciELO Books project is to contribute to the dissemination of scientific information and knowledge published in scientific and technical books as well as to strengthen and develop national capacities and infrastructure in electronic editing, publishing and commercialization of electronic books online in the countries that participate in the SciELO network.
SimplyE is The New York Public Library's free e-reader app. It is a mobile app (not for desktop computers) available on the App Store or Google Play. It also contains Public Domain and Creative Commons-licensed books that are free to keep with no expiration date.
Textbook Revolution is a student-run site dedicated to increasing the use of free educational materials by teachers and professors. We want to get these materials into classrooms. On this site you'll find links and reviews of textbooks and select educational resources. Some of the books are PDF files, others are viewable online as e-books, or some are simply web sites containing course or multimedia content.