LibGuides: Open Access Materials: eBooks

eBooks

Below are free online books. Some will allow you to view the entirety of the book, while others may only give you a preview or a brief selection of the book.

If you are looking for something specific within the book, you may be able to do a Control F search and find the necessary page.

Digital Public Library of America
Discover 37,080,103 images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States

Gutenberg Project This link opens in a new window
Project Gutenberg offers over 54,000 free eBooks: Choose among free epub books, free kindle books, download them or read them online. You will find the world's great literature here, especially older works for which copyright has expired. We digitized and diligently proofread them with the help of thousands of volunteers.
Google Books This link opens in a new window
If the book is out of copyright, or the publisher has given us permission, you'll be able to see a preview of the book, and in some cases the entire text. If it's in the public domain, you're free to download a PDF copy.

HathiTrust Digital Library
HathiTrust Digital Library is a digital preservation repository and highly functional access platform. It provides long-term preservation and access services for public domain and in copyright content from a variety of sources, including Google, the Internet Archive, Microsoft, and in-house partner institution initiatives.
Online Books Page
The Online Books Page is a website that facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet. It also aims to encourage the development of such online books, for the benefit and edification of all. The Online Books Page was founded, and is edited, by John Mark Ockerbloom, He is a digital library planner and researcher at the University of Pennsylvania. He is responsible for the content of the site. Alison Miner is Associate Editor. The site is hosted by the University of Pennsylvania Libraries, who provide the server, disk space, and network bandwidth for the site. They also employ the editor, and support him in his various digital library activities (of which this is but one).
Smithsonian Libraries Digital Collection eBooks
Free resource.
The Archive: eBooks and Texts
The Internet Archive offers over 12,000,000 freely downloadable books and texts. There is also a collection of 550,000 modern eBooks that may be borrowed by anyone with a free archive.org account.
World Library: Academic Research Collection
Agriculture, Anthropology, Astronomy, Bibliography, Biology, Chemistry, Commerce, Economy, Education, Finance, Fine Arts, Geography, Government, History, Language, Law, Literature, Management, Math, Medicine, Military Science, Music, Navel Science, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Recreation, Reference Collection, Religion, Sociology, Statistics, and Technology.

For Education Majors (or Children)

Gizmo's Freeware: Best Free Children's Books Online
his is a listing of 234 sites that legally offer free ebooks for children to read. There is a separate listing of audio books for children.