E-books
Please find here details of additional on-line sites that may be of interest to you
- IEEExplore – https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/home.jsp – A range of books, across a variety of subjects many freely accessible
- IntechOpen – https://www.intechopen.com/ – Providing freely available, accessible dynamic academic content.
- Library of Congress digital collection – https://www.loc.gov/collections/open-access-books/ -An ever-growing collection of contemporary open access e-books covering a wide range of subjects, including history, music, poetry, technology, and works of fiction. Items in this collection were published under open access licenses and may be read online or downloaded as a PDF or as an EPUB.
- Librivox – https://librivox.org/ – Described as an acoustical liberation of books in the public domain this site provides audio books both fiction and non-fiction read chapter by chapter.
- Many Books – https://manybooks.net/ – A wide range of titles both fiction and non-fiction across a variety of formats, Registration is requested
- Nothing in the rule book – https://nothingintherulebook.com/2017/01/10/55-places-you-can-download-tens-of-thousands-books-plays-and-other-literary-texts-completely-legally-for-free/?fbclid=IwAR3O0ZOko5hF7vWlnUVxZSSXxyiXqxF6v4t7UeBHC4rhXZK-oa4VwOnzuYw A creative collective and a community dedicated to enabling people to think for themselves, to focus on the things we want to do; the things we want to create. By making available materials that help in findings new ways the are endeavouring to illuminate this path for you.
- Obooko – https://www.obooko.com/ – a legal free e-book site, files are principally in PDF or ePub formats.
- Online Books (University of Pennsylvania) – http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/lists.html – This local index includes more than 3 million works in various formats. All of which should be free at least for personal, non-commercial use and many are also more broadly reusable or redistributable.
- OpenStax – https://openstax.org/subjects – A publisher’s collection of open access textbooks mainly in the areas of business, science and technology with supporting teacher’s resource
- Oxford Academic (Books) – https://academic.oup.com/books – Over 20,000 books, including some of our latest publishing and prestigious series, are available for institutional access.
- Planet e-book – https://www.planetebook.com/ – Home of classical literature in the form of mobile friendly and multi-format e-books
- Project Gutenberg – https://www.gutenberg.org/ – Access to over 70,000 free e-books to either view on-line or download. The oldest digitised library in the world