Library Collection of Open Access Resources (OAR)

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The Library’s Open Access eBooks Collection provides free, full-text access to scholarly and peer-reviewed digital books across various disciplines. These resources support academic programs by offering high-quality materials in business, public administration, education, science, and the humanities—accessible anytime without cost or login. Ideal for both students and faculty, the collection promotes inclusive, flexible, and lifelong learning. Students and faculty can easily access and reference these resources through specific links.

1. E-Books

Undergraduate

The Open Textbook Library, maintained by the University of Minnesota’s Center for Open Education, offers a curated collection of fully open licensed textbooks that can be downloaded, edited, distributed, and adapted at no cost. With over 1,600 titles across a wide array of academic subjects—sciences, humanities, engineering, social sciences, and more—it supports flexible, affordable teaching and learning. All textbooks meet rigorous inclusion criteria: openly licensed (preferably CC BY), available in portable formats (PDF/EPUB), and suitable for course use.

• Open Textbook Library
• Free-ebooks
• Obooko
• Project Gutenberg
• Scribd
• Manybooks

Basic Education

An extensive online collection offering free access to millions of eBooks—including classic and contemporary fiction, biographies, history, science, and more. Ideal for high school readers. Titles are available in multiple formats and can be borrowed digitally.
Link: https://openlibrary.org

International Children’s Digital Library A digital library of high-quality children’s books from around the world, available in many languages. Ideal for early and elementary learners. Link: https://www.childrenslibrary.org

Unite for Literacy Free picture books with audio narration in multiple languages. Perfect for early readers and language learners.
Link: https://www.uniteforliteracy.com

Storyberries A free online collection of illustrated short stories for kids, grouped by age and theme.
Link: https://www.storyberries.com

CK-12 Foundation Free digital textbooks and learning resources in Math, Science, and English for Grades 4-12.
Link: https://www.ck12.org/student/ 

OpenStax Peer-reviewed, college-level textbooks in Science and Math. Useful for Senior High School students.
Link: https://openstax.org  

Worldreader A mobile-friendly digital library offering storybooks in English, Filipino, and other languages.
Link: https://read.worldreader.org/   

MagicBlox An online library of colorful eBooks for kids. Free account allows access to one book at a time.
Link: https://magicblox.com  

Global Digital Library Free, leveled books in different languages to support reading development in young learners. Link: https://digitallibrary.io/

Bloom Library
A free online library offering a wide variety of open-access books in multiple languages, including storybooks, early readers, and educational materials—ideal for children, educators, and literacy programs.
Link: https://bloomlibrary.org/

2. Open Access E-Journals

3. Multidisciplinary Open Access Databases

• DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals. Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
• All articles in open access journals which are published by Elsevier have undergone peer review and upon acceptance are immediately and permanently free for everyone to read and download. Elsevier Open Access Journals
• The Open Library of the Humanities journal publishes internationally-leading, rigorous and peer-reviewed scholarship across the humanities disciplines: from classics, theology and philosophy, to modern languages and literatures, film and media studies, anthropology, political theory and sociology.  Open Library of the Humanities
• Royal Society Open Science is a new open journal publishing high-quality original research across the entire range of science on the basis of objective peer-review. The journal covers the entire range of science and mathematics and allows the Society to publish all the high-quality work it receives without the usual restrictions on scope, length or impact. Royal Society Open Science
• SpringerOpen, launched in June 2010, includes Springer’s portfolio of 200+ peer-reviewed fully open access journals across all areas of science. SpringerOpen
• Open access journals available from Taylor & Francis Online.Taylor & Francis Online: Open journals
• Wiley Open Access publishes authoritative peer reviewed open access journals across many research disciplines. Wiley Open Access
• Wiley’s fully gold open access (OA) portfolio provides immediate, free access to peer-reviewed research across a wide range of disciplines. About Our Fully Gold Open Access Journals | Wiley
• Sage Open is a peer-reviewed, "Gold" open access journal that publishes original research and review articles in an open access format. SAGE Open: Sage Journals

4. Theses & Dissertations

• OpenDissertations.org is a collaboration between EBSCO and BiblioLabs that brings an innovative approach to increasing traffic and discoverability of ETD research. EBSCO Open Dissertations
• OATD.org aims to be the best possible resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world. Metadata (information about the theses) comes from over 1100 colleges, universities, and research institutions. OATD currently indexes theses and dissertations. Open Access Theses and Dissertations (OATD)
• PQDT Open provides the full text of open access dissertations and theses free of charge. You can quickly and easily locate dissertations and theses relevant to your discipline, and view the complete text in PDF format. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses