Open Access Resources: Books, Journals, and Media

OpenStax is an educational initiative from Rice University Their mission is to give every student the tools they need to be successful in the classroom by publishing peer-reviewed open access college textbooks.

DOAB uses publisher-supplied information to create bibliographic records for open access books in a variety of disciplines.

JSTOR Open Access provides access to e-books and articles in a variety of subject areas.

Project Gutenberg is a repository of open-access e-books. Most of the items in its collection are the full texts of books in the public domain. Books from Project Gutenberg can be read in a web browser or downloaded in formats compatible with most e-readers.

Designed and maintained by the NCBI, in conjunction with the National Library of Medicine, this repository provides free access to books and other documents relating to healthcare and life science.

DOAJ provides access to peer-reviewed open access journals in a variety of disciplines.

Springer Open offers open access journal content in the areas of science, technology, medicine, social science, and the humanities.

Paperity is an aggregator of open source journals across a variety of disciplines.

EconBiz is an academic search portal for journals, working papers, and conferences in business studies and economics.

AJOL is the preeminent platform from African-Published scholarly literatures. This South African non-profit organization is dedicated to improving the online visibility of and access to the published scholarly research of African-based academics.

AAPB is committed to digitizing, preserving, and providing access to the most significant public radio and television programs of the last 60+ years.

National Jukebox is a project created by the Library of Congress to make historical sound recording from a variety of institutions and repositories available to the public for free.

Contains over 5,000 public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, etc. in such categories as speeches by President Obama, movie speeches, and the top 100 American political speeches of the 20th century. Most are available in audio and/or video plus their transcripts.

TED is a repository of short video lectures on "ideas worth spreading." Originally dedicated to providing talks on technology, education, and design, TED now offers talks on variety of subjects.

CC Search is a tool that allows the user to search for openly licensed and public domain images from a variety of sources ranging from museums to individuals.

LibriVox is a repository of open access audiobooks. The mission of this project is to make public domain texts accessible as audiobooks.

The Sociological Cinema is a repository of film clips, images, and other media that can be used to teach concepts in sociology.