Awesome Open Access Books

A collection of awesome open access book producers online

Contributing

The resource should be a direct URL to a listing of at least 10 open access books. It should not be a landing page, but rather OpenStax is a great example. Please submit a pull request to suggest a new portal of open access books.

Open Access Textbooks

• OpenStax
  • List of all books: curl -s https://openstax.org/sitemap.xml | grep -o 'https://openstax.org/details/books/[^<]*'
• UMN Open Textbook Library
• BCcampus Open Textbooks
• MIT Press Open Access Books
• LibreTexts
• Milne Open Textbooks (SUNY)
• OER Commons – Open Textbooks Hub
• CORE Econ Textbooks
• MERLOT Free Online Textbooks
• Cambridge Core
• Wikibooks -- structured as web pages
• National Academies -- has multiple collections, not a single portal

Open Access Children's Books

• BookDash.org beautiful open access children's books for all
  • List all books: curl -s https://bookdash.org/books-sitemap.xml | grep -o 'https://bookdash.org/books/[^<]*'
  • Not yet in Open Library

Other Open Access Web Books

• https://github.com/learn-anything/books also has a subset of presumably open access books that can be extracted via:
  • curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/learn-anything/books/refs/heads/master/readme.md | grep -Ei '\.pdf|\.html|\.epub'