UQ Library Guides: Open educational resources (OER): eBooks and eTextbooks

eTextbooks collections

Search for a particular topic or browse for eTextbooks in your subject area. You may be required to register to access or download the books.

OpenStax CNX Library
OpenStax allows you to share and freely adapt educational materials such as courses, books, and reports.
Bookboon
Over 1000 free textbooks on a range of subjects.
Open Textbook Library
Find free, peer-reviewed, and openly-licensed textbooks.
Wikibooks
Over 2000 open content textbooks that anyone can edit.
The Global Text Project
Promotes the use of open educational resources for regions in the developing world.

University of Adelaide Press
Peer-reviewed monographs and edited volumes from Adelaide-led research and collaborations across the world.

JSTOR open access eBooks
JSTOR has more than 500 freely available eBooks for anyone to use under the terms of a Creative Commons license.
Project Gutenberg
Offers over 53,000 free ebooks to download or read online.
Directory of Open Access Books
Search for your subject or browse through over 7000 academic peer-reviewed books and chapters.
InTech Open Access Books
Science, Technology & Medicine Open Access book publisher.
NCBI Bookshelf
Online access to books and documents in life science and healthcare

World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (OKR)
Open access repository for the World Bank's research outputs and knowledge products.