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Freely Available Electronic Books
Provides free online textbooks covering topics such as economics, statistics, IT, engineering and natural science
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Directory of Open Access Books
The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of Open Access books. Provides peer reviewed books published under an open access license.
ESRI e-booksESRI provide useful information in Geographic Information Systems.
Free Book CenterFree book centre contains links to thousands of free online technical books, which Include core computer science, networking, programming languages, Systems Programming books, Linux books and many more.
National Academies Press The National Academies Press (NAP) publishes reports of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. It publishes more than 200 books a year on a wide range of topics in science, engineering, and medicine.
National Center for Biotechnology Information
NCBI provides bookshelf provides free online access to books and documents in life science and healthcare.
The Online Books PageThe 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.
Open Book PublishersOpen 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.
Open Text BookOpen textbooks are textbooks that have been funded, published, and licensed to be freely used, adapted, and distributed. These books have been reviewed by faculty from a variety of colleges and universities to assess their quality.
Project GutenbergProject Gutenberg offers over 50,000 free ebooks to download to your PC, Kindle, iPad, iPhone, Android or other portable device. They provide high quality ebooks published by bonafide publishers.
Textbook revolutionOn this site you'll find links and reviews of textbooks and select educational resources. Some of the books are PDF files, others are viewable online as e-books, or some are simply web sites containing course or multimedia content.
The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (OKR)
The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (OKR) which was launched in April 2012 is the official World Bank open access repository for its research outputs and knowledge products. It contains research from thousands of works including World Bank published books from 2009-2012; all World Development Reports (WDRs) since 1978; Policy Research Working Papers (PRWP) from 2009-2012; Economic and Sector Work (ESW) studies from 2009-2012; Journal articles from 2007-2010 published in World Bank Economic Review (WBER) and World Bank Research Observer (WBRO).