Open Access books are free-of-charge eBooks that are free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. Not all eBooks are Open Access. Please refer to the eBooks LibGuide for further information on finding and accessing all types of eBooks. Open Access books cans include monographs and multi-authored edited books.
The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) is a community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books and helps users to find trusted open access book publishers. All DOAB services are free of charge and all data is freely available.
The HathiTrust Digital Library is a partnership of academic and research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.
You can also find and access Open Access books by visiting the websites of small Open Access publishers. Some suggestions of where to look include:
You can search for Open Access books via SUPrimo library search. You can use the filters located on the menu on the left-hand-side of side of the page to filter your search results to show Open Access books. Under the heading ‘Availability’ select ‘Open Access’ and under the heading ‘Resource Type’ select ‘Books’ or ‘Book chapters’ (Step 1). Your rersults will then be retrieved (Step 2). You can use the filters on the left-hand-side of the results page to further refine your results. For example, you can select which collection to use.