Electronic Books

De Gruyter publishes over 1,300 new book titles each year and more than 900 Journals in the humanities, social sciences, medicine, mathematics, engineering, computer sciences, natural sciences, and law, and also offer a wide range of digital media, including open access journals and books.

Welcome to the Directory of Open Access Books whose primary aim is to increase the discoverability of Open Access books. This directory has more than 750 books, all of which are in Open Access and meet academic standards. The Directory of Open Access Books is a service of the OAPEN Foundation (Open Access Publishing in European Networks). The OAPEN Foundation is an international initiative dedicated to Open Access monograph publishing, based at the National Library in The Hague.

E-kitabu is a platform which is used to deliver core text books. Currently, it contains selected core text for Social sciences, Economics, Sociology, Law, Architecture, Medicine, Agriculture and Engineering

Edward Elgar Publishing is one of the largest independent academic book publishers in the Social Sciences and Law. They have agreed to make 5 journals and a collection of 169 ebooks in Development Studies available to select EIFL member countries.

This series currently offers online access to a growing collection of more than 550 volumes from more than 70 book series titles. The series features relevant, international and trusted content in many fields including strategy, economics, accounting and finance, and human resource management.

FreeBooks4Doctors was created to promote the free availability of medical books on the Internet.

Subject Strength: Biomedicine, Life Sciences, Marketing, and Management collection.

IntechOpen is the world's leading publisher of Open Access books Built by scientists, for scientists

MedicalStudent.com is a digital library of authoritative medical information for all students of medicine. It contains over 250 medical textbooks arranged alphabetically in topics from Anatomy to Urology. Each textbook included is free to use, in part or in whole.

Bookshelf provides free online access to books and documents in life science and healthcare. Search, read, and discover.

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 site is hosted by the University of Pennsylvania Libraries. The online books listed on this page have been authored, placed online, and hosted, by a wide variety of individuals and groups throughout the world.

Open Book Publishers was founded in 2008 by a small group of academics at the University of Cambridge. It offers online digital editions free of charge so that students, researchers and members of the public who cannot afford a printed edition can still have access to quality research.

Project Gutenberg is a library of over 60,000 free eBooks. Choose among free epub and Kindle eBooks, download them or read them online. You will find the world's great literature here, with focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired. Thousands of volunteers digitized and diligently proofread the eBooks, for enjoyment and education.

Project MUSE provides online access to almost 500 full-text journals from 140 non-profit publishers in the humanities and social sciences.

ProQuest ebook central provides authoritative academic materials and offers access to more than fifty thousand electronic books in all subject areas.

This is a research methods tool created to help researchers, faculty, and students with their research projects. SRMO links researchers to content from books, book chapters, journals, reference books, videos, etc. 

Researchers can explore methods and concepts to help them design research projects, understand particular methods or identify a new method, conduct their research, and write up their findings. Since SRMO focuses on methodology rather than disciplines, it can be used across the social sciences, health sciences, and more.  Visit the website for more information.

This resource offers 2,002 full-text electronic books across the Physical and Engineering Sciences, Life Sciences, Health Sciences as well as Social Sciences and Humanities.

Science Direct also offers Open Access Journals in Humanities, Social Sciences and Sciences

SpringerLink is an integrated full-text database for journals, books, protocols, eReferences, and book series published by Springer. 

NB: you can access only up to 4,095 titles of the Springer collection of e-books (FULL TEXT) through this site. The accessible ones are marked by green boxes.

Get access to Taylor and Francis bestselling ebook titles from twelve key subject areas.