OPEN ACCESS E-BOOKS
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Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)
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The Directory of Open Access Books is a
service of OAPEN Foundation. The OAPEN Foundation is an international
initiative dedicated to Open Access monograph publishing, based at the
National Library in The Hague. DOAB is being developed in close cooperation with
Lars Bjørnshauge and Salam Baker Shanawa (director of SemperTool),
who were also responsible for the development of the Directory of Open Access
Journals (DOAJ). SemperTool develops and maintains
DOAB system. The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of Open
Access books. Academic publishers are invited to provide metadata of their
Open Access books to DOAB. Metadata will be harvestable in order to maximize
dissemination, visibility and impact. Aggregators can integrate the records
in their commercial services and libraries can integrate the directory into
their online catalogues, helping scholars and students to discover the books.
The directory will be open to all publishers who publish academic, peer
reviewed books in Open Access and should contain as many books as possible,
provided that these publications are in Open Access and meet academic
standards.
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InTech
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InTech is a pioneer and world's
largest multidisciplinary open access publisher of books covering the fields
of Science, Technology and Medicine. Since 2004, InTech
has collaborated with more than 81568 authors and published 2114 books and 7
journals with the aim of providing free online access to high-quality
research and helping leading academics to make their work visible and
accessible to diverse new audiences around the world. |
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Digital Book Index
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Provides
links to more than 142,000 title records from more than 1800 commercial and
non-commercial publishers, universities, and various private sites. About
100,000 of these books, texts, and documents are available free, while many
others are available at very modest cost. Subject: History; Language and
Literature; Social Sciences; Health Sciences |
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SpringerOpen Books
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The growing demand for open access publishing
across all disciplines has led Springer to expand our open access program to
fully open access books. As a further addition to our already established SpringerOpen journal portfolio we now offer authors in a
wide range of areas within science, technology and medicine (STM) the option
to publish open access books. |
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Project Gutenberg
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Project Gutenberg (PG) is a volunteer effort
to digitize and archive cultural works, to
"encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks". The project tries to make these as free as
possible, in long-lasting, open formats that can be used on almost
any computer. |
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The Online Books Page
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Listing over 1 million free books on the Web |
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Freetech Books
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This site lists free online computer science,
engineering and programming books, textbooks and lecture notes, all of which
are legally and freely available over the Internet. |
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BookBoon
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BookBoon is currently the world's
largest online publishing company of eBooks. In 2015 over 50 million
eBooks were downloaded fromt he site. is focused on publishing student literature for
engineering, IT and business students as well as short and practical business
books. |