Open Access (OA) Resources

DOAB is a discovery service for peer reviewed open access books and book publishers that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed books.

The EEBO collection traces the history of English thought from the first book printed in English in 1475 through to 1700. The books in these collections include works of literature, philosophy, politics, religion, geography, history, politics, mathematics, music, the practical arts, natural science, and all other areas of human endeavor.

Find books out of copyright (in the public domain) in Google.

HathiTrust preserves and provides lawful access to the 17+ million digitized items. It offers reading access to the fullest extent allowable by U.S. copyright law, computational access to the entire corpus for scholarly research, and other emerging services based on the combined collection.

The Internet Archive offers over 20,000,000 freely downloadable books and texts. There is also a collection of 2.3 million modern ebooks that may be borrowed by anyone with a free archive.org account.

The oldest digital library on the web, it creates and disseminates public domain electronic text. A work enters the public domain when it is published before 1923 the copyright has expired no more than 75 years later.

punctum books is an independent queer- and scholar-led, community-formed, and peer-reviewed open-access (OA) publisher devoted to academic and para-academic authors working in any field in the humanities, social sciences, fine arts, and architecture & design who want to publish books that are genre-queer and genre-bending and which take experimental risks with the forms and styles of intellectual writing.