Free Textbooks & Academic eBooks

Free Textbooks & Academic eBooks are available on these websites. Links direct you straight to the chosen category if there are other categories on the site. There is a general description of these websites as well.

Please note that in many cases websites with academic eBooks can be accesssed only through academic institutions if registration is needed.

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REG* - Registration ASC - websites that do not need registration are at the beginning of the list for easy access to free content.

Listing of sites that offer Free Textbooks and Academic eBooks

NAME	GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE WEBSITE	REG*
The National Academic Press (NAP)	The National Academic Press (NAP) publishes the reports of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. The NAP publishes more than 200 books a year on a wide range of topics in science, engineering, and medicine, providing authoritative, independently-researched information on important matters in science and health policy. On this page you can find Free Textbooks & Academic Text.	No
National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Bookshelf	National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Bookshelf Information advances science and health by providing access to biomedical and genomic information. Bookshelf provides free online access to books and documents in life science and healthcare. Providing access to biomedical and genomic information.Under this URL they offer Free Textbooks & Academic Text.	No
The Linux Documentation Project	The Linux Documentation Project is working on developing good, reliable documentation for the Linux operating system. The overall goal of the LDP is to collaborate in taking care of all of the issues of Linux documentation, ranging from online documentation to printed manuals covering topics such as installing, using, and running Linux. From here you can access Free Textbooks & Academic Text.	No
sagadb.org	sagadb.org is an online resource dedicated to publishing the Sagas of the Icelanders — a large body of medieval Icelandic literature. The sagas are prose histories describing events that took place amongst the Norse and Celtic inhabitants of Iceland during the period of the Icelandic Commonwealth in the 10th and 11th centuries CE. It links to Free Textbooks & Academic Text.	No
Open Textbook Library	Open Textbook Library - textbooks that have been funded, published, and licensed to be freely used, adapted and distributed. These books have been reviewed by faculty from a variety of colleges and universities to assess their quality. (Open Textbook Library is supported by the Open Education Network, which is based in the Center for Open Education in the University of Minnesota’s College of Education and Human Development)Here you can browse Free Textbooks & Academic Text.	No
OER Commons Open Educational Resources	OER Commons Open Educational Resources has more than 1200 items listed in its Textbooks section.There are additional educational materials throughout the site. This link is to a page with Free Textbooks & Academic Text.	No
Online Mathematics Textbooks	Online Mathematics Textbooks from Georgia Tech School of Mathematics. On this page you can find Free Textbooks & Academic Text.	No
Researchgate	Researchgate started ResearchGate in 2008 to address the problems we saw in the way science is created and shared. Our mission is to connect the world of science and make research open to all. The 20 million researchers in our community come from diverse sectors in over 190 countries, and use ResearchGate to connect, collaborate, and share their work.Under this URL they offer Free Textbooks & Academic Text.	No
Mathebook.net	Mathebook.net Free online math exercise, online math practice, math homework, math e-workbooks, math dictionary, math worksheets, math video tutorials, math printable worksheets for kindergarten, elementary, middle school and high school from basic math to algebra, geometry and much more. This link goes to Free Textbooks & Academic Text.	No
Google Books	Google Books has many free texts of books and magazines that Google has scanned and stored in its digital database. Books are provided either by publishers and authors, through the Partner Program, or by Google's library partners, through the Library Project. Additionally, Google has partnered with a number of magazine publishers to digitize their archives.Under this URL they offer Free Textbooks & Academic Text.	No
Google Scholar	Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. This is a nice collection of Free Textbooks & Academic Text.	No
Schoenberg Center	Schoenberg Center In 2000, the Penn Library and the Taylor-Schechtor Genizah Research Unit of the Cambridge University Library began planning for a collaborative effort to reunite virtually the dispersed fragments from the Cairo Genizah. This page listed Free Textbooks & Academic Text.	No
The Philosopher	The Philosopher unrivalled in its efforts to provide a forum for short, original, brilliant and accessible articles and was founded in 1923, is the oldest 'general philosophy' journal in the world. This link is to the Free Textbooks & Academic Text.	No
MATH is FUN	MATH is FUN offers mathematics in an enjoyable and easy-to-learn manner, because we believe that mathematics is fun. It has a physics section too. The site aims to cover the full Kindergarten to Year 12. This is a URL to Free Textbooks & Academic Text.	No
Open Library	Open Library is a project of the Internet Archive and it has over 1000000 eBooks. Not all book are free to read. For some books you need to register to borrow. While other titles link through to WorldCat wherever possible to help you find a book you can actually borrow from a library near you.This link is to the Free Textbooks & Academic Text.	No
Smashwords	Smashwords Smashwords is the world's largest distributor of indie ebooks. We make it fast, free and easy for any author or publisher, anywhere in the world, to publish and distribute ebooks to the major retailers and thousands of libraries. This link directs you to Free Textbooks & Academic Text.	No
The Temple of Earth	The Temple of Earth Enjoy our selection of free, downloadable books. All have been selected from a variety of public domain sources and designed to be easy to read and print out. There are more on the way. Read books from this nice collection of Free Textbooks & Academic Text.	No
Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)	Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) DOAB is an open infrastructure committed to open science. It runs on the open source DSpace 6 platform. Metadata will be harvestable in order to maximize dissemination, visibility and impact. Aggregators can integrate the records in their commercial services and libraries can integrate the directory into their online catalogues, helping scholars and students to discover the books. The directory is open to all publishers who publish academic, peer reviewed books in open access and should contain as many books as possible, provided that these publications are in open access and meet academic standards.Under this link you can access Free Textbooks & Academic Text.	No
BookRix	BookRix offers thousands of eBooks to read online and download free. There is a mix of classic and new eBooks in several general categories. The reading online is in a popup window that reads as an ordinary book. There are some classics that can be found elsewhere, but there are also many unique entries here. The adult oriented books require registration to read or download. Links to Free Textbooks & Academic Text.	No
Bookyards	Bookyards Free pdf books from Bookyards, one of the world's first online libraries to offer ebooks to be downloaded for free.Read books from this nice collection of Free Textbooks & Academic Text.	No
Linear Algebra	Linear Algebra is a text for a first US undergraduate Linear Algebra course. You can use it as a main text, as a supplement, or for independent study. It is Free. The book, the complete answers to all exercises, classroom presentation slides, and a lab manual using Sage, are all available for download. You can also buy a paper copy of the book for not much money. This URL opens the listing of Free Textbooks & Academic Text.	No
LIL' FINGERS	LIL' FINGERS Continually developed since 1998, Lil' Fingers is a computer storybook, game, activity and coloring site. Lil' Fingers was developed to offer the littlest consumers a free website without the needing to own the latest and greatest computers. Read books from this nice collection of Free Textbooks & Academic Text.	No
Wolfram Math World	Wolfram Math World the web's most extensive mathematical resource, provided as a free service to the world's mathematics and internet communities as part of a commitment to education and educational outreach by Wolfram Research, makers of Mathematica. This is a URL to Free Textbooks & Academic Text.	No
Math Open Reference	Math Open Reference A free interactive math textbook on the web. Initially covering high-school geometry. Over the past few years, enormous strides have been made in providing computers in educational settings to aid the learning process. Read books from this nice collection of Free Textbooks & Academic Text.	No
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare	The Complete Works of William Shakespeare the Web's first edition of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare. This site has offered Shakespeare's plays and poetry to the Internet community since 1993. Here you can browse Free Textbooks & Academic Text.	No

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