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Open Access literature is scholarly literature made freely available to the public through the Internet. Users are allowed to copy, download, distribute, search and print open access literature for free. However, users must acknowledge and cite open access literature in the same manner as traditional literature. Click here for citation help.

Books

eScholarship Editions - Academic books published digitally by the University of California. Choose to browse public subjects or titles to view the publicly available titles.
Google Books - Google Books allows you to search and view the full text of books in the public domain, as well as snippets of some books still under copyright protection.
National Academy Press - The National Academies Press publishes reports issued by the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council. Over 3,000 of these books are available to read for free online.
Online Books - The project of a researcher at Penn State University, this site offers a collection of links to open access books.
Project Gutenberg - Project Gutenberg provides access to over 18,000 free books online.

Course Materials

MIT OpenCourseWare - Provides free access to MIT course materials.
SOFIA Project: Sharing of Free Intellectual Assets - An initiative of the Foothill-de Anza Community College District in California, the SOFIA project provides open access to community college courses.

Journals

BioMed Central - Open-access, peer-reviewed medical and biology journals. Many journals included are indexed in the PubMed database.
Directory of Open Access Journals - Find open access journals in all academic disciplines.
FreeMedicalJournals.com - Collection of links to open access medical literature.
Open Access Journals from WSIS - This site includes a collection of links to open access sources.
Open Access Journals in Education - Links to these scholarly, peer-reviewed journals in the field of education are provided by the American Educational Research Association.
PhilSci Archive - Contains pre-prints of articles about the philosophy of science. An initiative of the University of Pittsburgh.
PLOS -- Public Library of Science - The Public Library of Science (PLoS) publishes open access, peer-reviewed journals in science and medical fields.

Other

OAIster - A project of the University of Michigan Digital Library Production Service, OAIster collects a variety of different types of scholarly digital resources.