Why do teachers/educators insist on making students buy books they don’t really use? unless the book is highly specialized, brand new, or significant in some way, and more importantly not available online for free, why bother? Here are some great resources I give my students every semester and add to it all the time:
Links to reputable open books and open academic journals:
- E-Scholarship: complete books online
- The National Academies Press. Online books
- Digital Book Index. complete online books
- Project Muse: online journals and academic articles
- The Avalon Project: documents in history and law
- Archive.org’s Project Gutenberg complete online books
- Google Books: complete online books [now more ebooks and the rest are for sale]
- Google ebookstore
- Open Textbook: online books
- Open Library
- Dspace from MIT: journals
- Open Michigan
- Harvard University’s Scholarly Repository. journals
- LibriVox
- Wiki Books
- FlatWorld : online books for free. If you want downloads of them you pay. To use it, just click on Students and you will have access to the books.
- Public Literature: full online text books especially classic ones
- Intute: Education and Reserach Methods: helping you find resources. Includes training and tutorials
- OER Commons: open educational resources. Includes free online text books
- Bartleby: online books, journals
- Google Scholar: offering academic journals and articles
- Project Gutenberg
- DAR: Digital Assets Repository from Alexandria Library [which includes manuscripts and dual language books]
- Alexandria Library Arabic books
- Many Books.net
Links to online repositories of media [images, audio, video]
- Archive.org: audio, video and others
- Wiki Commons and wiki sister projects
- Sofia: sharing of intellectual assets
- WorldImages Database: a collection of images you can use in your projects