Open Access Databases: eBooks, eJournals, and More
This guide provides information on a variety of open access resources.
Open Education
- Academic EarthAcademic Earth is an organization founded with the goal of giving everyone the access to a world-class education. Here you can find entire courses worth of lectures on a huge array of subjects from some of the world’s top Universities and professors, including Yale, Harvard, Princeton, and MIT.
- Free Online CoursesGet 1,500 free online courses from the world’s leading universities — Stanford, Yale, MIT, Harvard, Berkeley, Oxford and more. You can download these audio & video courses (often from iTunes, YouTube, or university web sites) straight to your computer or mp3 player. Over 45,000 hours of free audio & video lectures, await you now..Note: This page includes a lot of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). If you want to enroll in a free version of a MOOC, please select the “Full Course, No Certificate” (edX) or “Audit” (Coursera) option. If you opt to take the course for a certificate/credential, you will be charged.
- UC BerkeleyFree online courses from UC Berkeley.
- Yale Open CoursesOpen Yale Courses provides free and open access to a selection of introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale University. The aim of the project is to expand access to educational materials for all who wish to learn.
Open Textbooks
- MERLOTCurated online learning and support resources developed by an online community of educators, learners, and researchers.
- OER CommonsOpen access digital education materials.
Movies
- Free MoviesWatch 1,150 movies free online. Includes classics, indies, film noir, documentaries and other films, created by some of our greatest actors, actresses and directors.
eBook Sites
20 Best Websites To Download Free eBooks
Article providing a list of freely accessible eBooks.391 Places for Free Books Online
Lists 391 sites that legally offer free eBooks.- “The preeminent Internet publisher of literature, reference and verse providing students, researchers and the intellectually curious with unlimited access to books and information on the web, free of charge.”
- “Digital Book Index provides links to more than 155,000 full-text digital books from more than 1,800 commercial and non-commercial publishers, universities, and various private sites. More than 135,000 of these books, texts, and documents are available free, while many others are available at very modest cost.”
- “E-Books Directory is a free web resource which contains links to free downloadable e-books, technical papers, documents, as well as user contributed content, articles, reviews and comments. E-Books Directory is a service to students, researchers and e-book lovers.”
- Access books that have been scanned and converted to digital format.
- “Download free books and texts. The Internet Archive Text Archive contains a wide range of fiction, popular books, children’s books, historical texts and academic books.”
- The goal of LibriVox is to “make all public domain books available as free audio books.”
- Contains over 28,000 free eBooks available for download.
- “Over 20,000 rare and hard to find titles in 10 formats”
- Open Library is a project of the Internet Archive. It provides free access to over 1 million eBook titles.
- Contains over 33,000 downloadable eBooks.
- “Scribd is the largest social publishing and reading site in the world. We’ve made it incredibly simple for anyone to share and discover informative, entertaining and original written content on the web and mobile devices.”