Open Access

Openly accessible (and many but not all openly licensed) electronic books. Nearly 50,000 books as of March 2022. Includes search and browse finding features. Many times from international publishers and strong focus on humanities and social sciences.

DOAJ is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community.

Free resources.

Agriculture, Anthropology, Astronomy, Bibliography, Biology, Chemistry, Commerce, Economy, Education, Finance, Fine Arts, Geography, Government, History, Language, Law, Literature, Management, Math, Medicine, Military Science, Music, Navel Science, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Recreation, Reference Collection, Religion, Sociology, Statistics, and Technology.

PubMed Central (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).

PLOS is a nonprofit, Open Access publisher empowering researchers to accelerate progress in science and medicine by leading a transformation in research communication. Peer reviewed journals in Medical and Life Sciences.

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. This vital infrastructure is slated to comprise the most comprehensive collection of peer-reviewed Open Access books accessible for everyone.

A leading independent Open Access publisher in the Humanities and Social Sciences in the UK: All books are available to read online and download for free, including monographs and textbooks in all areas.

The OAPEN Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation based in the Netherlands, with its registered office at the National Library in The Hague. OAPEN is dedicated to open access, peer-reviewed books.

Growing collection of open access journals, books, images, and media offering broad coverage in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.

Cogent OA is a multidisciplinary series of broad-scope open access journals, helping researchers share their ideas and discoveries as widely and effectively as possible.

The Digital Commons Network brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. Curated by university librarians and their supporting institutions, the Network includes a growing collection of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work.

Open Humanities Press is an international, scholar-led open access publishing collective whose mission is to make leading works of contemporary critical thought available worldwide.

Open access journals from the scholarly publisher, Springer.

Free eBooks that are out of copyright.

HathiTrust Digital Library is a digital preservation repository and highly functional access platform. It provides long-term preservation and 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.

Discover 37,080,103 images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States. Many items are public domain or available for re-use, and there is information in a "rights" field for each item.

A joint initiative focused on the Humanities and Social Sciences.

The Internet Archive offers over 12,000,000 freely downloadable books and texts. There is also a collection of 550,000 modern eBooks that may be borrowed by anyone with a free archive.org account.

The Online Books Page is 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.

Computer or technology ebooks.

Indexs over 250M scholarly works from 250k sources, with extra coverage of humanities, non-English languages, and the Global South.