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Open Books & Textbooks

Free and open access educational resources for the academic community

Open Educational Resources

We provide access to a wide range of open access books, textbooks, and digital collections to support teaching, learning, and research at no cost to our users.

Cornell University Press / Project MUSE

Seven books on History & Literature published by Cornell University Press, now offered as Open Access books. Topics include the history of Russia, Poland and Germany as well as cultural criticism.

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Global Text Project (GTP)

An open educational resource that creates and translates open content textbooks and makes them freely available online. Over 100 textbooks available for free, many translated into various languages. Founded in 2006, GTP focuses on reaching university-age students in the developing world.

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Open Research Library (ORL)

Includes all Open Access book content worldwide on one platform for user-friendly discovery, offering a seamless experience navigating more than 14,000 Open Access books across multiple disciplines.

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IntechOpen

A multidisciplinary Open Access publisher of books and journals covering the fields of Science, Technology and Medicine. InTech has published more than 850 Open Access books, and provides support services for faculty who wish to publish.

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Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)

DPLA eBook Collections: An effort by the Digital Public Library of America to increase access to eBooks. Contains both open and "closed" ebooks from libraries across the United States.

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IEEE Xplore

A collection of course materials and technical literature. Lumen Learning was co-founded by open education visionary Dr. David Wiley and education technology strategist Kim Thanos, dedicated to facilitating broad, successful adoption of OER.

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JSTOR Open Access

A collection of over 6,000 Open Access DRM-free ebooks from a variety of academic publishers with coverage in many disciplines including Business, Anthropology, Education, Environmental Science, Health Sciences, History, Law, Political Science, Religion, Psychology, Technology and more.

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Wayback Machine

The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine provides access to archived web pages and digital collections. Access historical snapshots of the BTU Library website and other academic resources preserved over time.

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