UC Library Guides: Open Educational Resources: Open access textbooks

Directories of OER Textbooks

Open Textbook Library
Search for textbooks that have been funded, published, and licensed to be freely used, adapted, and distributed.
Pressbooks Directory
Search across over 2000 OER textbooks with links to the repositories that hold them
Open Educational Resources Collective
A catalogue of Australian open textbooks produced as part of the Council of Australian University Librarian's OER initiative

ANU Press
Books can be downloaded for free. Conditions of use vary between titles
La Trobe eBureau
Publishes a range of open-access ebooks
Sydney Open Library
Academic monographs and textbooks published by Sydney University Press in open access, covering subjects across the humanities and social sciences
UTS ePress
The open access publishing arm of the University of Technology Sydney (UTS)
University of Adelaide Press
Peer-reviewed monographs and edited volumes from Adelaide-led research and collaborations across the world.
InTech Open Access Books
Open access books, mainly in health, science, and technology.
B.C. Open Collection
OER teaching materials and course packs.

Most titles in these ebook collections are also included in the Library catalogue (Library Search).

Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)
A searchable index of peer-reviewed books published under Open Access with links to the full-text at publisher websites or repositories.
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg offers over 42,000 free ebooks: choose among free epub books, free kindle books, download them or read them online.
JSTOR open access eBooks
Freely available eBooks for anyone to use under the terms of a Creative Commons license.
Public Domain Review - Books
A collection of books in the public domain. Search by century, genre, content and more
NCBI Bookshelf
Online access to books and documents in life science and healthcare
Open Research Library
Offers access to more than 20,000 Open Access books
LibriVox
Free public domain audiobooks
Public Domain Core Collection
Public domain literary works made available in online, epub, pdf and editable formats.