Open access week. Here are some of our favourite recommended ebooks for free

Here are some recommended free books collections. remember you local library may have many more subscription services.

Online ebooks Collection
Excellent index to free ebooks maintained by Penn University. Highlights individual titles and largeebook. directories. Over 1 million titles currently listed. Covers all subject areas

DOAB Directory of Open access books great site allowing  searching and downloading of recent free boks from major academic publishers such as ANU, Manchester university

Project Gutenberg
World famous project with thousands of titles .Most are  e-books published before the 20th century and are free because their copyrights have expired.

National Academies Press
 was created by the National Academy of Sciences to publish the reports of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. High quality academic and scientific

Smithsonian books online- art, architecture, cultural studies

Celebrating open access week

This week celebrate open access week. Here are some of our favourite recommended resources.

For a definition of open access see this page by champion supporter Peter Suber.
and these online videos from the SPARC organisation
Open Education Group has some webinars coming up this week on how to be an open Academic. their website also has other useful webinars.

But here is our first recommended favourite open access   resource.

OpenDoar
Open the doar to thousands of institutional repositories worldwide.
This is a great resource which quickly cross searches the institutional repositories of major universities across the globe. You might need to alow time to sort through the google like results but it is worth it.

• You can use it to quickly locate papers, theses, some full text and some abstracts written by academic staff and researchers. Some of these are very recent and include examples of grey literature not yet indexed elsewhere.
• It often includes materials published in developing nations.