Open - free to use and repurpose
Free - free to use
Affordable - available at low cost
Free North Shore - available to NSCC students and faculty
Do you have a comment or question about the Open Educational Resources guide? Contact us at library@northshore.edu.
Project Gutenberg houses over 42,000 free eBooks whose copyright has expired and are now in the public domain. The majority of the eBooks are classics that can be used in humanties and social sciences courses. To locate an eBook, you can search the entire catalog or browse by book categories such as:
The eBooks can be read online or downloaded to be read on various devices (Kindle, Android, iPad, Nook, etc.)
The Internet Archive is an online archive of millions of books and texts in the public domain.
Digitized content is submitted from archives, museums, libraries and individuals.
Openculture provides links to free audio ebooks, ebooks for kindle/iPad and other devices as well. There is a large advertisement at the top of the page, but scroll down to see the list of free resources.
ManyBooks.net includes ebooks from Project Gutenberg, public domain titles and titles with creative commons licenses.
An advantage to ManyBooks.net is the abundance of file format types the user can select to download their ebook or audiobook.
OpenLibrary is a free, digital lending library with millions of eBooks that can be read in a browser or downloaded for reading offline. Originally developed to support the Print Disabled community, OpenLibrary now contains public domain and contemporary eBooks.
Look for the open book icon 
for books that can be read online or downloaded in various formats.
Use Google Books' Advanced Book Search and select the limiter Full View Only to see free and open ebooks available through Google's massive digitization project.
Depending on the title, you will see options for linking to, embedding, or downloading PDF or EPUB formats.
