LibGuides: Ebooks: Online Open Access Books

Open Access

Free ebooks can also be found online as "Open Access." These books may be copyrighted or licensed under creative commons or in the public domain. "OER" or Open Educational Resources can also include freely available textbooks with a creative commons license.

Here are some websites that have open access or OER books available:

Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)
"DOAB is 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."
OpenStax
"OpenStax is part of Rice University, which is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit charitable corporation. Our mission is to improve educational access and learning for everyone. We do this by publishing openly licensed books, developing and improving research-based courseware, establishing partnerships with educational resource companies, and more."