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Ebooks @ NJIT: Open Access / Free Ebooks
This guide provides information about ebooks and ebook collections @ NJIT
Search for public domain full text of more than 40 million books (as of Oct 2019). Enter title, or author, or ISBN, or keyword of a book you want to locate.
DOAB 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. Access: Open Access
Discover 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. Access: Open Access
Search for public domain or not copyrighted full text of more than 40 million books through Google Books (as of April 2019). Not all books are available in full-text online. Some titles have previews or snippets available. Access: Open Access
HathiTrust catalog offers full-text search across all items in the respository (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.
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. Access: Open Access
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). Access: Open Access
An 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. Access: Open Access
Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. Open Library is a free, digital lending library with millions of eBooks that can be read in a browser or downloaded for reading offline. Currently, it contains over 20 million online records from a variety of large catalogs with access to 1.7 million scanned versions of books and links to external sources like WorldCat and Amazon.
Project Gutenberg is a library of over 60,000 free eBooks of the world's great literature with a focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired. Choose among free epub and Kindle eBooks, download them, or read them online. Access: Open Access
Thousands of public domain and "original" eBooks available for free and are downloadable to your smartphones, tablets or dedicated eReaders. Access: Open Access
Open access allows unrestricted online access to ebook with no reading or subscription fees across a wide range of areas in science, technology, medicine (STM), and humanities and social sciences (HSS). The authors retain copyright and comply with funders' open access mandates. Browse the open access books and download them free of charge from SpringerLink (HTML, PDF, ePub) or Amazon (MOBI). Access: Open Access