Open Educational Resources (OER): Instructor Guide

The Directory of Open Access Books is a collection of over 3,000 academic and peer-reviewed Open Access titles. Books can be searched by title, subject, or publisher.

These 25,000 Early English texts are freely available to anyone wishing to use them. They are licenced under the Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication (CC0 1.0 Universal).

HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.

The Internet Archive is a non-profit library of free books, movies, music, and more. The material is organized into various thematic or institutional collections.

Open Access Publishing in European Networks is a non-profit foundation dedicated to publishing Open Access academic books. The platform specializes in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Collaborators include Oxford University Press and Routledge.

Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) is a search tool that aims to make the discovery of open content easier. OASIS currently searches open content from 88 different sources and contains 352,345 records. OASIS is being developed at SUNY Geneseo's Milne Library.

Open Library is an open library project aiming toward the ambitious goal of “a web page for every book ever published” (Homepage). Over 1,000,000 free books are available, along with another eBook lending library of over 250,000 books.

An online collection of primarily Classical texts, including Ancient Greek and Roman materials, but also Arabic, Germanic, 19th century American, and Renaissance material.

Project Gutenberg is a collection of over 49,000 free ebooks, including many classics. All books on Project Gutenberg were previously published by reputable publishers. Books are available in HTML, plain text, or common ebook formats.

A collection of literary and linguistic resources for use in higher education, research, teaching, and learning. Resources available in XML, HTML, ePub, mobi, and plain text. Many resources provide links to automatically analyze the texts using Voyant.