Public Research Resources

Offers increased discoverability of Open Access books; open to all publishers who publish academic, peer reviewed books in Open Access and meet academic standards.

Find an item of interest and then locate a library near you that owns it.

Bringing together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and making them freely available online.

A partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.

The Internet Archive offers over 20,000,000 freely downloadable books and texts. There is also a collection of 1.3 million modern eBooks that may be borrowed by anyone with a free archive.org account.

Over 50,000 free ebooks: choose among free epub books, free Kindle books; read online or download. Mostly titles in the public domain. Some copyrighted titles are included, for which permission for unlimited non-commercial worldwide use has been given.

Links to free, peer-reviewed, and openly-licensed textbooks.