The content listed here is always open access. The benefit of these resources is that they are not only free to use, they are also free of most copyright restrictions and can be openly used, edited, stored, and distributed. Additionally, many of these resources can be downloaded then accessed offline by students, even long after the end of a course. Find out more about Open Educational Resources.
Berghahn Books offers open access titles in Anthropology, Archaeology, Cultural Studies, Film & Media Studies, Geography, History, and Mobility Studies.
The Music Library Association Open Edition and first open educational score anthology is a permanent open access resource published by the University of Virginia Aperio Press.
Part of Springer/Nature, BMC publishes open access journals in science and medicine.
DPLA connects people to the riches held within America’s libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions. All of the materials found through DPLA—photographs, books, maps, news footage, oral histories, personal letters, museum objects, artwork, government documents, and so much more—are free and immediately available in digital format.
DOAB (Directory of Open Access Books) provides open access to over 854 Academic peer-reviewed books from 25 publishers.
DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) is a collection of peer-reviewed open access e-journals.
Find the perfect book for your purposes and discover new ones that interest you.
A repository providing access to public domain and in-copyright content from a variety of sources, including Google, the Internet Archive, Microsoft, and in-house partner institution initiatives.
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.
More than 6,000 Open Access ebooks from 75+ publishers, including Brill, Cornell University Press, De Gruyter, and University of California Press, are now available at no cost to libraries or users.
Free online access to ebooks and documents in life sciences and healthcare.
Project MUSE offers open access (OA) books and journals from several distinguished university presses and scholarly societies. Through our open access hosting programs, we are able to offer publishers a platform for their OA content which ensures visibility, discoverability, and wide dissemination. These books and journals are freely available to libraries and users around the world.
Open access e-journals in science and medicine.
Project Gutenberg is a library of over 60,000 free eBooks. Choose among free epub and Kindle eBooks, download them or read them online. You will find the world's great literature here, with focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired. Thousands of volunteers digitized and diligently proofread the eBooks, for enjoyment and education.
Open access ejournals and ebooks from university presses and scholarly societies.
Contains pure gold open access journals published by SAGE. All articles published in the journals provide worldwide, barrier-free access to the full-text of articles online, immediately on publication under a creative commons license. All articles are rigorously peer-reviewed retaining the quality hallmarks of the academic publishing process that authors would experience in publishing in any traditional SAGE journal.
The Standard Ebooks project is a volunteer driven, not-for-profit effort to produce a collection of high quality, carefully formatted, accessible, open source, and free public domain ebooks that meet or exceed the quality of commercially produced ebooks. The text and cover art in our ebooks is already believed to be in the public domain, and Standard Ebook dedicates its own work to the public domain, thus releasing whole ebooks files themselves into the public domain.
University of Michigan Press publishes over 100 Open Access ebooks which are free to access at any time.
In January 2020, 14 museums in Paris made over 100,000 images openly accessible in their online collections. The open content images are available via their online collections, or their API.
