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.

Listed below are links to open access books.

Open Access Books

Directory of Open Access Books
Search for over 90,0000 Open Access books on a wide variety of topics.
JSTOR: Open Content
Search for Open Access book and journals.
OAPEN Library
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
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
Open access eBooks from the MIT Press Direct platform
UCL Press Open Access eBooks
Open access eBooks from the UCL Press platform

IntechOpen Books
Search or browse for Open Access books on topics including computing, engineering, health sciences, the humanities, life sciences and the social sciences.
mediastudies.press
Search the mediastudies.press collection of Open Access ebooks and ejournals for the media, communication, and film studies fields.
OpenStax
Browse for Open Access books, published by Rice University in the United States, on topics including business, science and the social sciences.
Open Textbook Library
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
Search or browse for Open Access books on topics including art, business, education, law, life sciences, science and the social sciences.
punctum books
Search or browse for Open Access eBooks on humanities topics, including social sciences, fine arts, architecture and design.