Ebooks: Finding Open Access Collections

The American Council of Learned Societies Humanities Ebook Collection is a collection of scholarly books. ACLS HEB is a collection curated by scholars for scholars; members of ACLS learned societies nominate books for inclusion, and Michigan Publishing licenses them and pays royalties to contributing publishers. It includes open access titles also.

Since 2009 Bloomsbury Academic has committed itself to Open Access publishing. The titles in this ever-growing collection are free to view on Bloomsbury Collections and cover subjects such as Anthropology, Film and Media Studies, Politics and International Relations, History, and Education.

Open Access ebooks are available on JSTOR at no cost to libraries or users. 8,000+ titles are now available from respected presses, such as University of California Press, University of Michigan Press, and the RAND Corporation, and the collection continues to grow.

Brill is one of the largest Open Access publishers in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Brill’s Open Access content is made available on Brill.com, free of charge to the user and without registration required.

Directory of academic peer-reviewed ebooks.

Provide end users with choice and access to a large selection of discoverable OA content curated by the EBSCO collection development team. All e-books in the collection are DRM-free and available at no cost on the EBSCOhost® platform.

Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.

Project MUSE offers open access (OA) books, journals, and digital humanities works from several distinguished university presses, scholarly societies, and independent not-for-profit academic publishers. These materials are freely available to libraries and users around the world.

Open access makes published academic research freely and permanently available online. Anyone, anywhere can read and build upon this research. At Taylor & Francis we publish books and chapters across all subjects covered by Routledge, CRC Press and our other imprints in the humanities, social sciences and behavioural sciences. The open access titles and chapters are made available in digital format to read and download freely under a Creative Commons license.