Directory of Open Access Books
Discovery · DOAB Foundation, run jointly by OAPEN and OpenEdition
- Details checked
- Access confirmed
Index of peer-reviewed open access books that links straight to the publisher's own copy, never a re-upload.
Before you rely on itA discovery index rather than a library: it holds metadata and sends you to the publisher, and teaching textbooks are sparse.
Use it to check whether an academic book exists legally for free before you pay for it or hunt elsewhere.Community pick
Details
- How you get in
- Free to readOpen to anyone, no account needed.
- Rights
- Openly licensedThe rights holder published it free, usually under Creative Commons.
- Subjects
- General · History · Philosophy · Literature · Social sciences · Law · Medicine · Economics
- Formats
- Web · PDF · EPUB
- Languages
- Multilingual
- Size
- over 100,000 peer-reviewed open access books indexed
- Run by
- DOAB Foundation, run jointly by OAPEN and OpenEdition
- Address
- doabooks.org
What we checked
- Details checked
The name, address and search page were opened and checked against each other. Last run .
- Access confirmed
How you get a book here, and on what terms, was read from the library’s own statement. Last run .
- Used and reviewed
Not checked yet. That is not a failure; it only means nobody has done this one.
Every library here is authorised; shadow libraries are not listed. What the marks cover
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