OAPEN Library
Open textbooks · OAPEN Foundation, based at the National Library of the Netherlands
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Open access scholarly books from university presses, free to download in full when you need a monograph rather than a textbook.
Before you rely on itResearch monographs rather than teaching texts, and coverage of maths and the physical sciences is thin.
The right stop for a cited academic book in the humanities or social sciences that your library does not hold.Telebem editors
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
- History · Philosophy · Literature · Social sciences · Law · Economics · Education
- Formats
- PDF · EPUB · Web
- Languages
- Multilingual, mostly English and German
- Size
- roughly 44,000 books and book chapters
- Run by
- OAPEN Foundation, based at the National Library of the Netherlands
- Address
- library.oapen.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 .
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Every library here is authorised; shadow libraries are not listed. What the marks cover
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