LibGuides: Open Access Resources: Books and monographs

Books and mongraphs

Access to Research
Public Libraries Initiative providing free access to over 10 million academic articles free of charge from any Derby City Council library.

Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) This link opens in a new window
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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.
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The OAPEN Library contains freely accessible academic books, mainly in the area of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Bloomsbury Collections
A collection of open access books from Bloomsbury Publishers with a focus on Humanities titles.
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
A network listing the electronic postgraduate theses of hundreds of universities worldwide.
Open Book Publishers
Open Book Publishers is a non-profit, Open Access publisher run by scholars in Cambridge who are committed to making high-quality research freely available to all interested parties. A range of monographs and textbooks are available across all disciplines.
Open Textbook LIbrary
Textbooks that have been funded, published, and licensed to be freely used, adapted, and distributed. These books have been reviewed by faculty from a variety of US colleges and universities to assess their quality. All are either used at multiple higher education institutions; or affiliated with an institution, scholarly society, or professional organization.
Palgrave Pivot
Palgrave Pivot is a digital-first, peer-reviewed mid-length research format, that is longer than a journal article but shorter than a monograph. They publish across the Humanities, the Social Sciences and Business, including Open Access titles.
Project Gutenberg
60,000 free eBooks. An American project which cannot publish any texts still in copyright. This generally means that the texts are taken from books published pre-1923. You will not find the latest titles but you will find the old classics such as Shakespeare
UCL Press
Launched in 2015, UCL Press has quickly established itself as a high-quality open access university press. UCL have published more than 190 open access books, and also publish 14 open access journals.