You may wish to use open access books for your teaching, particularly if you are teaching students who may have challenges accessing content behind paywalls that require logging in with QMU usernames and passwords.
Open access books are free-of-charge eBooks that are free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. Open access books cans include monographs and multi-authored edited books.
Discover includes records for some open access books, but there are many places you can find collections of titles. Below are some useful sources.
Bloomsbury Collections is A collection of Open Access books from Bloomsbury Publishers with a focus on Humanities titles.
Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)
The 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.
Open Book Publishers is a non-profit, Open Access publisher run by scholars in Cambridge who are committed to making high-quality research freely available to all interested parties. A range of monographs and textbooks are available across all disciplines.
The HathiTrust Digital Library is a partnership of academic and research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.
Open Research Library (ORL) is an aggregation of peer-reviewed, Open Access scholarly monographs which is hosted on the BiblioBoard platform. ORL offers access to more than 14,000 Open Access books.
The OAPEN Library contains a quality-controlled collection of hundreds of Open Access books
ScholarLed is a consortium of five academic-led, not-for-profit, Open Access book publishers: Mattering Press, meson press, Open Book Publishers, African Minds, mediastudies.press, and punctum books.
The National Academies Press (NAP) publishes the reports of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. NAP currently offers more than 8,500 titles in pdf format. The majority of these pdf files can be downloaded for free by the chapter or by the entire book.
Open textbooks are free to use and distribute and are licensed by authors and publishers to be freely adapted or changed with proper attribution. The Open Textbook Library currently contains over 880 Open textbooks.
Open Stax provides access to peer-reviewed, openly licensed free textbooks across a wide range of disciplines including mathematics, humanities, business and social sciences.
Open Research Library
OAPEN Library
National Academies Press
Open Textbook Library
Open Stax