Electronic Resources
Students of The American Campus have access to electronic resources through computers located in the library. Students will also have access to their partner institution's electronic resources. Assistance is also available to help our students to find the best sources.
Open Access Resources
Google Scholar
Only scholarly publications are indexed in this search engine. A search for a broad term can provide more than 4 million results, so it is necessary to conduct a specific, targeted search.
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD)
Search the 4,546,143 electronic theses and dissertations contained in the NDLTD open access archive for your subject of interest.
The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository
Browse 22,181 publications in 11 collections, 513 sub-collections or search within 6476 publications with agricultural content.
Directory of Open Access Journals
DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals. The total contents are 9,349 Journals, and 2,345,547 Articles
Directory of Open Access Repositories OpenDOAR
This service, lets you search the contents of the repositories listed in OpenDOAR for freely available academic research information. This quality assured approach leads more directly to useful and relevant information. Full texts are available for most results.
Directory of Open Access scholarly Resources (ROAD)
This database indexes journals, conference proceedings and academic repositories.
University of Utah Digital Library
USpace's Theses and Dissertations collection includes dissertations, theses and masters projects from University of Utah graduates.
Open Stax at Rice University
Peer-reviewed. Openly licensed. 100% free. Backed by additional learning resources. Review our OpenStax textbooks and decide if they are right for your course. Simple to adopt, free to use. This website makes it easy to improve student access to higher education.
Book Boon from Great Britain
Download free eBooks and Textbooks.
Open Textbook Library from the University of Minnesota
Open textbooks are textbooks that have been funded, published, and licensed to be freely used, adapted, and distributed. These books have been reviewed by faculty from a variety of colleges and universities to assess their quality.
Open Textbooks at Saylor Academy
This website has almost 100 free, full-length certificate courses ready for you to take right now. Many of thier courses can connect to zero-tuition college credit through our dozens of partner colleges and universities.
Lyryx Learning from University of Calgary
Open Textbook and Online Homework for Higher Education.
Open Textbooks at BC Campus
Search for quality open textbooks offered in a variety of digital formats; the first step in adopting open educational resources.
InTech Open for Science Texts
World's leading publisher of Open Access books. Built by scientists, for scientists.
Textbook Revolution
Textbook Revolution is a student-run site dedicated to increasing the use of free educational materials by teachers and professors.
Online Mathematics Textbooks from Georgia Tech
Most college mathematics textbooks attempt to be all things to all people and, as a result, are much too big and expensive. This perhaps made some sense when these books were rather expensive to produce and distribute, but this time has passed with Online Mathematics Textbooks.
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg offers over 59,000 free eBooks. Choose among free epub and Kindle eBooks, download them or read them online. You will find the world's great literature here, with focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired. Thousands of volunteers digitized and diligently proofread the eBooks, for enjoyment and education.
Textbook Go
TextBookGo is building the largest online resource for free etextbooks for college. All of the online textbooks they provide are 100% free for you to use. All of the textbooks they provide are open source and have been approved by the publishers license and terms for free use.
Online Books at University of Pennsylvania
This website will allow you to search for any online book. Listing over 3 million free books on the Web.
More from Reading Resources You Can Trust
College textbooks don’t come cheap. Students have to pay a huge sum to get quality textbooks. However some good universities and websites allow access to free college textbooks online. Here are 10 of the best places to find free college textbooks.
English and Writing
Purdue OWL—The Purdue Online Writing Lab
This is an excellent and very well-known resource for those learning English as a Second Language and those who want to improve their writing.
Grammarly
Grammarly is an online software that can help with spelling, grammar, punctuation, and writing overall. They also have an app and plugins for your browser or other software.