Elbow Room Weekly is an online newsletter that collects blog posts, articles, research projects and cool resources for keeping up in the spheres of intellectual property, open access, open educational resources and MOOCs.

The Open Access Directory (OAD) is a compendium of simple factual lists about open access (OA) to science and scholarship, maintained by the OA community at large.

SPARC is an international alliance of academic and research libraries working to create a more open system of scholarly communication.

Jorum is the place where you will find OERs shared and created under CC licenses by those who teach in or create content for the further and higher education communities in the UK.

DOAJ is an online directory that indexes and provides access to quality open access, peer-reviewed journals.

SCIRP is an academic publisher of open access journals. It also publishes academic books and conference proceedings. SCIRP currently has more than 200 open access journals in the areas of science, technology and medicine.

Some books are in the public domain.

HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.

The Internet Archive and Open Library offers over 6,000,000 fully accessible public domain eBooks.

The World's classic literature at your fingertips. Over 1,000,000 free ebook titles available.

Project Gutenberg offers over 46,000 free ebooks: choose among free epub books, free kindle books, download them or read them online.

Many results from a Google Scholar search link to freely available full text articles.

The Register & Read program offers free, read-only access to more than 1,300 journals on JSTOR. Users are permitted to read up to three articles for free on JSTOR every 14 days. In addition, Early Journal Content is available for free reading and downloading. Early Journal Content covers all articles published in the United States before 1923 and articles published in other countries before 1870.

Read and download over 5000 books for free.

MERLOT is a curated collection of free and open online teaching, learning, and faculty development services contributed and used by an international education community.

Jorum is the place where you will find OERs shared and created under CC licenses by those who teach in or create content for the further and higher education communities in the UK.

From roadmaps to training to tools, OER Commons is a dynamic digital content hub, offering a suite of free OER implementation supports from diverse content providers from around the world.

by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Library