These suggested resources for Open Access Books highlighted here are primarily focused on scholarly monographs. For more information about finding textbooks please visit our online guide to Open Education Resources where there are helpful resources for finding and adapting Open textbooks.
Digital library containing over 8 million books (as well as other digitized materials) from research libraries and cultural institutions around the world, mainly digitized via the Google Books project and Internet Archive digitization initiative. Full text searching of all materials is available. The collection is largely older titles in the public domain.
Directory of Open Access Books
Searchable directory of over 15,000 academic, peer-reviewed books covering all major subject areas.
Open Access Publishing in European Networks (OAPEN) has a digital repository containing over 1500 academic, peer-reviewed books across all disciplines.
Directory of Open Access Books
A discovery service for open access books operated by the OAPEN foundation. This online directory contains over 15,000 academic, peer-reviewed books and chapters covering all disciplines.
Founded in 2008, Open Book Publishers are one of the biggest open access academic publishers in the world with a huge catalog of titles across all disciplines. It is run by academics as a not-for-profit social enterprise.
Open Access arm of MIT Press. Publishes a range of Open Access books including monographs, textbooks, and trade books dating back to 1995.
Publisher of new and classic out-of-print titles from Cornell University Press. Titles from the areas of anthropology, classics, literary criticism and theory, political science, German studies, and Slavic studies.
University of California Press
Luminos is the Open Access arm of University of California Press. Dozens of peer-reviewed Open Access monographs across a range of subjects are available online.
Founded by academics at the University of Cambridge, they publish open-access monographs and textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences
The first fully open access publisher in the UK, UCL Press publishes scholarly monographs, textbooks, edited collections and journals across all disciplines.
University of Westminster Press
Founded in 2015, this university press publishes peer-reviewed academic books and journals across a range of disciplines.