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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

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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

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