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Open Access e-Books & Journals

A curated directory of free, open-access e-book collections, journal repositories, and research paper archives spanning the sciences, economics, humanities, and social sciences — useful for coursework, research, and general reading.

Academic Journals

Provides access to full-text articles in the Social Sciences, Biological Sciences, Engineering, Arts & Education, and Legal Studies.

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Archive of African Journals

Expands free, online access to the full text of articles from eleven social science and humanities journals published in Africa.

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ArXiv.org

Provides 1,106,143 e-prints in Computer Science, Quantitative Finance, and Statistics.

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California Digital Library e-books

eScholarship Editions includes over 500 freely accessible ebooks from academic presses on topics including art, humanities, social sciences, science, and literature. E-books are in HTML.

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DOAB

The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) is a discovery service for peer-reviewed books published under an Open Access license.

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DOAJ

The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is a comprehensive and authoritative list of academic open access repositories for end-users.

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E-Books Directory

A daily growing list of freely downloadable ebooks (9,425 free e-books in 666 categories), documents, and lecture notes.

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EconBiz

Supports research in and teaching of economics with a central entry point for all subject-specific information and direct access to full texts.

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EconPapers

The world's most extensive collection of online Economics working papers, journal articles, and software.

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ERIC

The Education Resources Information Centre is an online digital education research and information library.

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Google Books

A collection of books and magazine issues.

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Highwirepress

A free online source of full-text articles.

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IDEAS

A database of more than 300,000 economics books, articles, and working papers, many with downloadable full text.

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InTech Open Books

The largest open access collection of books, having published 2,582 books and 5 journals in collaboration with 91,375 international scientists.

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OAPEN

The OAPEN Library contains freely accessible academic books, mainly in the area of Humanities and Social Science.

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Open Access Publications

Provides immediately free online access to all users worldwide.

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Open-Jgate

A comprehensive portal to open access full-text journals from around the world.

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PQDT Open

Provides the full text of open access dissertations and theses free of charge.

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Project Gutenberg

Provides over 45,000 free ebooks.

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RePEc

Research Papers in Economics — over 1,800 archives from 86 countries have contributed about 2 million research pieces from 2,300 journals and 4,300 working paper series.

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SpringerOpen

Includes over 155 peer-reviewed open-access journals across all areas of science.

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