Open Access: Books

While still in the initial phases, Amherst College hopes to publish titles as open access. They are currently working on a couple of series and welcoming submissions.

Though available for purchase, there is indeed an open access version. This link goes to the HTML version of the title.

From a wiki about open access, this is a comprehensive list of almost a hundred open access publishers.

A central site for accessing open books

"InTech is a pioneer and world's largest multidisciplinary open access publisher of books covering the fields of Science, Technology and Medicine." -About

"The OAPEN Library contains freely accessible academic books, mainly in the area of Humanities and Social Sciences. OAPEN works with publishers to build a quality controlled collection of Open Access books, and provides services for publishers, libraries and research funders in the areas of dissemination, quality assurance and digital preservation." -Homepage

"pen Humanities Press is an international, scholar-led open access publishing collective whose mission is to make leading works of contemporary critical thought available worldwide. OHP is a network of interlacing thematic scholarly communities whose various, predominantly autonomous, editorial activities make up the OHP collective." -About

Though not technically "open access," these titles are in the public domain and are thus available for free.

Focusing on books pertaining to philosophy but also with books of poetry and fiction, re.press makes all its titles completely open.

List of the current Pilot Collection of ebooks available from Knowledge Unlatched. Click on "Link to OA Version" to view the title.

What is Knowledge Unlatched? Want to know more?

Resources from a consortium of 29 educational organizations and institutions. (This link will direct you to the list of textbooks by subject.)

Hundreds of complete, open college-level textbooks. Many include peer-reviews.

An initiative of Rice University, this site provides access to peer-reviewed titles in a variety of fields.

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