Open Access / Open Educational Resources Links

Free and legal access to a large, mostly historical collection of comic books, comic strips, and other related items.

Led by the University of Michigan Press, this organization publishes works in new media studies and digital humanities that can be read online without charge.

Nearly 6 million digitized historic books, from over 100 different partner libraries, in addition to other source types like images.

Nearly 200 publishers have offered 7,600+ peer-reviewed books for research purposes

Large collection of public domain books from the last 400 years of literature, all in epub format

Digitized collection of Shakespeare's plays

Partnering with over 120 research institutions and libraries, Hathi Trust provides a robust library of public domain (and legally available copyrighted) texts

Collection of over 11 million ebooks, including contents of the Open Library project, that are able to be downloaded or read online

More than 8,500 published reports and books from the National Academy of Sciences are available in PDF form here.

A directory to over 2 million free ebooks online, as well as some listings for open access journals

Freely accessible academic texts, mainly concerning the humanities and social sciences.

Attempting to electronically catalog every book ever published, Open Library works as a catalog to over 20 million records with nearly 2 million scanned versions of books.

Over 53,000 free ebooks in a variety of formats that are all copyright-free in the United States

A library of over 5,000 classic and rare public domain books

While not every book in the UC Press collection is freely accessible, over 700 of their published texts are available electronically for academic needs.

35 books published by scholars at the University of Adelaide that are distributed freely electronically.