Access Medicine

Access Medicine provides access to a wide range of e-Books covering a wide range of medical topics such as Pathology, Haematology, Internal Medicine, Medical Microbiology and Medical Physiology. The Access Medicine database also contains videos, calculators, cases and self-assessments for students and practitioners.

Bioline International

Subjects covered: public health, international development, tropical medicine, food and nutritional security and biodiversity.

Bloomsbury Open Access

Access to selected books in the humanities and social sciences which are published on under Creative Commons and Bloomsbury Open licenses. Subject areas include: anthropology, politics & international relations, sociology, film & media, law, and research methods & study skills.

DOAB (Directory of Open Access Books)

It is a global registry of research data repositories that covers research data repositories from different academic disciplines.

EBSCOhost

EBSCOhost has the following databases: General/News; Arts/Architecture; Business/Economics; Computer Science/Engineering; Earth/Environment; Education; Health Sciences; History; Law/Political Science; Life Sciences;Literature; Philosophy/Religion and Psychology/Sociology

Ebook Central

Ebook Central is an online digital library of full texts of over 17,000 scholarly e-books. It is an online database collection that combines scholarly books from over 435 academic, trade and professional publishers. It also includes government documents. Additionally, Ebook Central offers a wide variety of content across many subject areas, especially in business and social science. Ebook Central continues to add quality eBooks and other authoritative titles to their selection from the world’s leading academic and professional publishers

Free Book Centre

This portal focuses primarily on academic material. Free Book Centre contains links to thousands of free online technical books and other subject areas, which include: Computer Science, Arts, Religion, Church Administration, Languages, Fiction and Cooking.

Gale Research Complete

Gale Research Complete offers high quality, authoritative content from over 28,000 periodicals, 1.5 million items of literary criticism and full text literary works, 4000 Gale eBook volumes, and more than 13 million pages of rare primary sources from the world’s great libraries to enhance student learning and improve research outputs.

Google Books

This search tool contains an extensive list of material from the Google Library Project and Partner Programmes covering Arts, Religion, Church Administration and Languages. Google books has a keyword search key plus several search tools (limit) options. Search results will include full-text e-books and also chapters/sections of a book on that topic. Links (citations) can be stored in a personal Google Account.

Google Scholar

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. Search across a wide variety of disciplines and sources: articles, theses & dissertations and scholarly books.

International Development Research Centre

Access to 1200-plus free e-books covering the following subjects: Development, Economics, Environment, Evaluation, Food and Agriculture, Gender, Governance, Health, Information and Communication, Natural resources, Science and Technology, Social Policy.

IWA Publishing Journals and Books

Access to full-text e-journals and e-books on water, wastewater and environment from 17 leading journals and a range of books.

MEDBOX

MEDBOX is an innovative online library aimed at improving the quality of healthcare in humanitarian action, worldwide. MEDBOX provides access to professional guidelines, textbooks and practical documents on health action available online and brings these into the hands of humanitarian aid workers and medical practitioners

National Academies Press

Access hundreds of books which can be downloaded as pdf for free by the chapter or the entire book. Topics include: Agriculture, Behavioural and Social Sciences, Conflict and Security Issues, Education, Energy, Environmental Studies, Food & Nutrition, Industry and Labour.

NCBI Bookshelf

Bookshelf provides free online access to books and documents in Life Science and Healthcare. Access is via keyword search or Browse Titles or New Releases. In the keyword search tool, other access options (limits) include Subjects, Types and Publishers. Search results contain the PDFs of books, collections, databases, documentations and reports.

Open Access Publishing in European Networks (OAPEN)

Access hundreds of academic books in humanities and social sciences.

Open Research Library

A multidisciplinary database covering more than 14,000 Open Access academic books in Law, History, Computer Science, Medicine, Music, Political Science, Philosophy, Languages and Arts, Social Sciences, Technology and Engineering

Oxford Scholarship Online

A multidisciplinary database which provides access to more than 17000 online books in 26 subject modules that includes; Economics and Finance, Philosophy, Political Science, Religion, Biology, Business and Management, Classical Studies, History, Linguistics, Literature, Mathematics, Physics, Psychology, Law, Neuroscience, Physics, Social Work, Music, Public Health and Epidemiology, Sociology, Clinical Medicine and Allied Health, Chemistry, Archaeology, Public Health and Epidemiology.

Oxford Handbooks Online (OHO)

OHO is an outstanding collection of the best Handbooks across 17 subject areas that includes; Philosophy, Political Science, Religion, Classical Studies, History, Linguistics, Literature, Psychology, Law, Business Management, Social Work, Music,  Sociology, Archaeology, Criminology and Criminal Justice.

Oxford Research Encyclopedias (ORE)

ORE provides collections of in-depth, trustworthy summaries on an ever-growing range of topics which includes; African History, Economics and Finance, Literature, American History, Education, Natural Hazard Science, Asian History, Encyclopaedia of Social Work, Neuroscience, Business and Management, Environmental Science, Oxford Classical Dictionary, Climate Science, International Studies, Politics, Communication, Latin American History, Psychology, Criminology and Criminal Justice, Linguistics and Religio

WHO Medicines

This database from World Health Organization contains free and open access books covering the medical sciences field.