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Open Access eBooks

This list provides a number of resources that offer FREE or Open Access to electronic books.

Please contact the library or your librarian with any questions, to schedule a research consultation, or for personalized assistance!

Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) is a searchable database of peer reviewed scientific electronic books that have been made accessible by academic publishers in open access. 
epubBooks is a collection of free electronic books in the public domain.
Free-Ebooks.net membership allows for five free books downloaded every month.
HathiTrust Digital Library has digitized collections of some of the nation's great research libraries.
Open Library is an open catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published.
Project Gutenberg is a library of over 60,000 free eBooks.
World Digital Library is a project of the US Library of Congress and UNESCO.