Open Access: Books

This guide brings together key resources to help you to discover open access academic publications that can be read online and used for learning, teaching and research.

Your collection management librarian updates this list periodically. If you have any suggestions, please contact your librarian.

Open Access Books

Directory of Open Access Books This link opens in a new window
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Search for Open Access books on a wide variety of topics.
JSTOR: Open Content This link opens in a new window
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Search for Open Access book and journals.
OAPEN Library This link opens in a new window
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Search or browse for Open Access books on topics including art, business, education, engineering, law, literature, media studies and the social sciences.

HathiTrust Digital Library
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HathiTrust is a partnership of academic and research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.
MIT Press Direct Open Access eBooks
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Open access eBooks from the MIT Press Direct platform
UCL Press Open Access eBooks
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Open access eBooks from the UCL Press platform

IntechOpen Books This link opens in a new window
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Search or browse for Open Access books on topics including computing, engineering, health sciences, the humanities, life sciences and the social sciences.
mediastudies.press This link opens in a new window
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Search the mediastudies.press collection of Open Access ebooks and ejournals for the media, communication, and film studies fields.
OpenStax This link opens in a new window
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Browse for Open Access books on topics including business, science and the social sciences.
Open Textbook Library This link opens in a new window
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Search or browse for Open Access books on topics including art, business, computer science, education, engineering, health, law, media studies and the social sciences.
Open Textbooks This link opens in a new window
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Search or browse for Open Access books on topics including art, business, education, law, life sciences, science and the social sciences.
punctum books This link opens in a new window
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Search punctum books range of Open Access ebooks by academic and para-academic authors working in any field in the humanities, social sciences, fine arts, and architecture & design.