Open Access Books

Open access (OA) refers to digital content that is available free of charge for everyone. Originally associated only with scholarly journals that published free online, the concept has been extended to other types of content such as eBooks and media. In some cases OA content may also be free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. (Source)

• Project Gutenberg
  A library of over 60,000 free eBooks. Choose among free epub and Kindle eBooks, download them or read them online. You will find the world’s great literature here, with focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired. Thousands of volunteers digitized and diligently proofread the eBooks, for enjoyment and education.
• Standard Ebooks
  Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover.
• Open Book Publishers
  The leading independent Open Access publisher in the Humanities and Social Sciences in the UK: a not-for-profit Social Enterprise run by scholars who are committed to making high-quality research freely available to readers around the world.
• Chest of Books
  This site presents free online books on various topics, like Art and Photography books, Business books, Health and Healing books, Craft and Hobby books, etc. 

• The National Academies 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.
• Hathi Trust Digital Library
  HathiTrust is a not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries preserving 17+ million digitized items.
• Directory of Open Access Books
  The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of Open Access books. 
• InTech Open
  One of the largest open access collection of books in the fields of Science, Technology and Medicine.
• Directory of Open Access Books
  The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of Open Access books. 
• Open Book Publishers
  The leading independent Open Access publisher in the Humanities and Social Sciences in the UK: a not-for-profit Social Enterprise run by scholars who are committed to making high-quality research freely available to readers around the world.
• Open Textbook Library
  Open textbooks are licensed by authors and publishers to be freely used and adapted. Download, edit, and distribute them at no cost.
• OAPEN: Open Access Publishing in European Networks
  OAPEN promotes and supports the transition to open access for academic books by providing open infrastructure services to stakeholders in scholarly communication.
• ?Ubiquity Press
  An open access publisher of peer-reviewed academic journals, books and data. We operate a highly cost-efficient model that makes quality open access publishing affordable for everyone.
• UCL Press Open Access
  Open Access Books by University College London
• Open Research Library
  The Open Research Library (ORL) is planned to include all Open Access book content worldwide on one platform for user-friendly discovery, offering a seamless experience navigating more than 20,000 Open Access books.
• JSTOR Open Access Books
  Thousands of Open Access ebooks are available from top scholarly publishers, including Brill, Cornell University Press, De Gruyter, and University of California Press.
• Wikibooks
  Wikibooks is a wiki-based Wikimedia project hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation for the creation of free content digital textbooks and annotated texts that anyone can edit. Initially, the project was created solely in English in July 2003; a later expansion to include additional languages was started in July 2004.
• LibreTexts
  LibreTexts is a 501 nonprofit online educational resource project. The project provides open access to its content on its website, and the site is built on the Mindtouch platform.
• OER Commons
  OER commons is a public digital library of open educational resources. Teachers can explore, create and collaborate with other educators around the world to improve curriculum.
• OPENSTAX
  OpenStax is a nonprofit educational technology initiative based at Rice University. Since 2012, OpenStax has created peer-reviewed, openly-licensed textbooks, which are available in free digital formats and for a low cost in print. Most books are also available in Kindle versions on Amazon.com and in the iBooks Store.
• GALILEO Open Learning Materials
  Brings together open educational resources throughout the University System of Georgia, including open textbooks and ancillary materials.
• BC Campus: OpenEd
  The B.C. Open Textbook Collection is home to a growing selection of open textbooks for a variety of subjects and specialties. Discover open textbooks that have been reviewed by faculty, meet our accessibility requirements, and/or include ancillary materials (quizzes, test banks, slides, videos, etc.).
• OASIS
  Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) is a search tool that aims to make the discovery of open content easier. OASIS currently searches open content from 117 different sources and contains 388,707 records.

• Globe eLibrary
  A web platform and mobile application that provides students and educators with free and quick access to digital storybooks and eLearning videos. It features age-appropriate and engaging educational resources.
• Let?s Read Asia
  Asia’s free digital library for children
• International Childrens Digital Library
  A free online library of digitized children's books in 59 languages from many countries. It is housed by the International Children's Digital Library Foundation.

This guide features links to open access Filipiniana sources such as online repositories, websites, and libraries with open Philippine-related books.

Filipiniana refers to Philippine-related books (and non-book materials). The materials may be produced inside or outside the Philippines by Filipino or non-Filipino authors. The product could be literature written in any of the languages and dialects in the Philippines or a foreign language (Goodreads).

• Free Filipino children's books
  Free downloads of Filipino children's books from various publishers.
• Aklatang Bayan Online
  Aklatang Bayan Online, a free online repository of 16 Filipino books and 2 refereed journals by The Sentro ng Wikang Filipino (SWF) of the University of the Philippines Diliman
• Freefilipiniana
  Freelipiniana Online Library seeks to bring Filipiniana literature to every Filipino in a time when information and education are limited.
• Filipinas Heritage Library Online Collections
  Online Filipiniana collections available from Filipinas Heritage Library, a private cultural library
• Philippine eBook Hub
  Philippine E-Book Hub, your largest online library of Filipiniana e-books. This website is designed for your easy access to Filipiniana works—those that are: printed in the Philippines; about the Philippines; written by Filipinos. We search for and compile the available Filipiniana materials for them to be accessible to you—learners, teachers, and writers—from one single source, in high-quality versions, at no cost.

• BAHANDIAN Institutional Repository of Central Philippine University
  BAHANDIAN is the official Institutional Repository of CPU for the management, dissemination, and preservation of digital materials that represent the scholarly work of the academic community and its affiliates and their faculty members and students.
• DOST PCAARRD eLibrary
  Department of Science and Technology – Philippine Council for Agriculture, Aquatic, and Natural Resources Research and Development (DOST-PCAARRD) has launched its online library. Their researches, publications, technical reports, and other resources are available. Users are encouraged to create an account to access.
• DOST-Science and Technology Information (STII) Library
  This contains the union catalog of the DOST ScINET-PHIL, a consortium of all the 21 libraries and information centers under the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) including its 15 regional offices. Library resources are available upon request. E-mail: library@stii.dost.gov.ph. Link to request form to access resources
• LEGIS: Legislative Information System
  A search-based system that allows access, retrieve, or save structured bills information and status as well as download full texts of Bills, and Resolutions, its Authorship, Committee Referrals, and the Nature of Bills from the 8th Congress to the present. Managed by the Legislative Library, Archives, and Museum, House of Representatives of the Philippine Congress. 
• the National Library of the Philippines e-Resources Portal
  Licensed electronic resources (eResources) made available by the NLP through the Reference Division (RD) and Filipiniana Division (FD) are databases of online journals, ebooks, audiobooks, and other eResources.
• SAIR: SEAFDEC/AQD Institutional Repository
  Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, Aquaculture Department Institutional Repository (SAIR) is the official digital repository of scholarly and research information of the department. This is to enable the effective dissemination of AQD researchers' in-house and external publications for free and online.
• the Supreme Court of the Philippines eLibrary
  The “primary research tool in the speedy delivery of justice.” It serves the entire Judiciary: the Supreme Court, Court of Appeals, Sandiganbayan, Court of Tax Appeals, Regional Trial Courts, Metropolitan Trial Courts, Municipal Trial Courts and Shari’a Courts. It has supported legal education by providing information to law schools upon request.
• UST Heritage Collections
  The library converts its heritage collections to digital format and makes them available to a wider public. A digital repository is created not only for preservation but to provide its users with a trusted digital library that helps support information discovery.
• archium.ATENEO
  archium.ATENEO is the institutional repository of the Ateneo de Manila University for the management, dissemination, and preservation of digital materials that represent the scholarly work production of the Ateneo de Manila University and its affiliates and their faculty members, staff, and students in higher education.

• Philippine Epics and Ballads Archive
  A multi-media archive of Philippine literature such as epics and ballads, maintained by the Ateneo de Manila University.