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PUBLIC DOMAIN RESOURCES

PROJECT GUTENBERG E-BOOKS

Project Gutenberg is an online library of free eBooks. Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or
eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the
creation of eBooks and related content today. Currently Project Gutenberg, provides access of more than 70000+ eBooks.
THE ONLINE BOOK PAGE
The Online Books Page is a website that facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet. It also
aims to encourage the development of such online books, for the benefit and edification of all through
https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/. Currently, the database provides access of over 3 million ebooks in verity of
formats.

DIRECTORY OF OPEN ACCESS BOOKS

DOAB is a community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access
books and helps users to find trusted open access book publishers. All DOAB services are free of charge and all data is
freely available. It provides a collection of 66000+ eBooks through https://www.doabooks.org/
INTERNET ARCHIVE LIBRARY
The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in
digital form. Like a paper library, it provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, people with print disabilities,
and the general public. Under it huge collection, provides access of billion webpages, million books and text; 14.7
million audio recordings; 8.4 million videos; 4.4 million images and 890,000 software programmes, which may be
accessed through https://archive.org/

DIRECTORY OF OPEN ACCESS BOOKS

The National Academies Press (NAP) publishes the publications of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and
Medicine. NAP publishes more than 200 publications per 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.
With more than 40000+ publicaitons, the database is accessible through https://www.nationalacademies.org/home
INTERNET ARCHIVE LIBRARY OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING EUROPEAN COMMUNITY
OAPEN promotes and supports the transition to open access for academic books by providing open infrastructure
services to stakeholders in scholarly communication. The platform works with publishers to build a quality-controlled
collection of open access books and provide services for publishers, libraries, and research funders in the areas of
hosting, deposit, quality assurance, dissemination, and digital preservation. With a sound collection of 6000+ quality
publications, it is accessible in open through https://oapen.org/

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