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Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)

The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) is a discovery service for open access books. DOAB provides a searchable index to peer-reviewed monographs and edited collections published under an open access licence, with links to the full texts of the publications at the publisher’s website or repository.

Google Books Search
Find full text and/or bibliographic information using the world's best known search engine to search though one of the largest collaborative digitization projects ever.  To find "Full Text Books," select that option before doing a search.

Internet Archive: eBooks & Texts

The Internet Archive is an American nonprofit digital library founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle. It provides free access to collections of digitized materials including ebooks.  Also, OpenLibrary is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published.

Project Gutenberg 

Project Gutenberg is a library of over 70,000 free eBooks.  The world’s great literature is here, with focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired.

Project Muse Open Access eBooks

Project MUSE promotes the creation and dissemination of essential humanities and social science resources through collaboration with libraries, publishers, and scholars worldwide. Forged from a partnership between a university press and a library, Project MUSE is a trusted part of the academic and scholarly community it serves.