Search: Start by searching the Primo discovery system. Limit filter results list with facets 1) Show Only: "Available Online" and 2) Resource Type: "Books".
Identify: From the search results list by clicking on the book title for items listed as "Available Online".
Access: Scroll to the View Online section of the full record to view the full-text option(s) of the eBook.
Below is a list of open access ebook libraries and portals.
DOAB: Directory of Open Access BooksDOAB provides access to 27,975 academic peer-reviewed books from 380 publishers. The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of Open Access books.
DPLA: Digital Public Library of AmericaDiscover 37,107,457 images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States. DPLA is a digital library that aggregates metadata or information describing an item - and thumbnails for millions of photographs, manuscripts, books, sounds, moving images, and more from libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world.
eBooks and Texts (Internet Archive Text Archive)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.
Google BooksSearch for public domain full-text mostly in classical literature genre. Not all books are available in full-text online. Some titles have previews or snippets available. Use Google Scholar to find public domain works. Click advanced search. Enter 1923 in the Date/Return articles published between field.
HathiTrust Digital Library<HathiTrust catalog offers full-text search across all items in the repository (including public domain and in copyright works). HathiTrust provides bibliographic searching (title, author, subject, ISBN, pubhisher, and year of publication) and faceted browsing of all items in the digital library. HathiTrust provides a baseline of access tools for content in the repository and works with participating libraries.
7,000+ open access ebooks freely available with no DRM restrictions or limits on chapter PDF downloads or printing.
O'Reilly Open Books ProjectThe O'Reilly Open Books Project contains books focusing on programming and computer operating systems, including historical relevance and general education.
Online Books Page (University of Pennsylvania)The Online Books Page is a website that facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet. It also aims to encourage the development of such online books, for the benefit and edification of all. Listing over 3 million free books on the Web (as of April 2020).
Open Book PublishersAn open access publisher in the Humanities and Social Sciences has published over 170 free online editions in PDF, HTML, and XML formats that can be read, downloaded, reused, or embedded anywhere.
Open Library (Internet Archive)The Open Library is a free, digital lending library with millions of eBooks that can be read in a browser or downloaded for reading offline. Contains a listing over 3 million free books on the Web.
Project GutenbergProject Gutenberg is one of the oldest sources for public domain books online. It is a library of over 60,000 ebooks availabe in many different formats (PC, Kindle, Sony Reader, etc.) It has one of the widest selections available on the web. There is a handy top 100 page if you are not sure where to start.
Public Domain by FeedbooksThousands of public domain and "original" eBooks available for free and are downloadable to your smartphones, tablets or dedicated eReaders.
Springer Nature publishes open access books and chapters freely available for the science, technology, medicine (STM), and humanities and social sciences (HSS) under its Springer, Palgrave Macmillan, and Apress imprints.
Taylor & Francis Open Access eBooksThis collection contains over 1,000 Open Access ebooks, mostly in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Some of the titles have only previews or select chapters available.
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