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.
HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitised from libraries around the world.
MIT Press Direct offers a growing collection of eBooks covering a wide range of subjects including architecture, business, humanities, social science, bio-medical, education, data science, environment and game studies.
Contains freely accessible academic books, mainly in 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 deposit, quality assurance, dissemination, and digital preservation.
A leading independent OA publisher in the humanities and social sciences: a not-for-profit Social Enterprise run by scholars. All books are available to read online and download for free with no Book Processing Charges (BPCs).
Hundreds of classic books available, all absolutely free. It is an ideal way to expand horizons, catch up on reading lists, or read books that it seems like everyone else has already read.
Choose among free epub books, and free kindle books, download them or read them online. Carries high-quality ebooks: most Project Gutenberg ebooks were previously published by bona fide publishers. Books are digitized and diligently proofread with the help of thousands of volunteers.
Selected books on Project Muse are available open access, from several distinguished university presses, scholarly societies, and independent not-for-profit academic publishers.
Standard Ebooks is a volunteer-driven, not-for-profit project that produces new editions of public domain ebooks that are lovingly formatted, open source, and free.
