Open Educational Resources: Open Access / Free Access

A selection of published works from the Digital Schomburg collection, New York Public Library.

Scroll down to the bottom of the page to find links to free ebooks.

Reference and classics, including all 70 volumes of the Harvard Classics

Digital Book Index provides links to more than 165,000 full-text digital books from more than 1800 commercial and non-commercial publishers, universities, and various private sites. More than 140,000 of these books, texts, and documents are available free.

HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world. Search over 5 million digitized titles.

"Select from a list of 441 works of classical literature by 59 different authors, including user-driven commentary and "reader's choice" Web sites. Mainly Greco-Roman works (some Chinese and Persian), all in English translation."

Not just ebooks! Pathfinders, research guides, library directories, exhibits, and more.

Volunteers with a purpose: recording all books in the public domain one chapter at a time.

The American social history collection contains approximately 10,000 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.

Tales of the American South.

Indexes over 30,000 ebooks available for personal use.

Over 1,000,000 books

Thousands of free ebooks from the original ebook project.

A few Texas and Southwestern classics.

Books, maps, exhibits, and more

Free textbook library.

"The Directory aims to be comprehensive and cover all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use a quality control system to guarantee the content."

From major universities. Free online classes.

Free streaming video series' on most subjects for use by individuals or instructors.

"This library contains thousands of digital movies uploaded by Archive users which range from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to cartoons and concerts."

12,000+ videos!

"For those of us looking to discover something different, SnagFilms has over 5,000 movies, TV show episodes, eye-opening documentaries and exclusive original comedy shorts. There is something to watch for everyone!"

"Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world"

Video from major universities.