Open Access: Open Scholarly Monographs

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.

The Big Ten Open Books collection comprises two subcollections, one on Gender and Sexuality Studies, the other on Indigenous North Americans.

As a press aligned with the ethos and mission of liberal arts colleges, we seek out, identify, evaluate, and advocate for transformative scholarship that spurs creative dialogue within and between traditional fields of inquiry, emphasizes disciplinary innovation, draws upon new models of collaborative research, and strives to reach the broadest audience possible.

The University of Michigan Press Ebook Collection contains award-winning humanities and social sciences monographs, many free to read.

Amherst College Press produces pathbreaking, peer-reviewed scholarship and makes it available to readers everywhere as digital, open-access work and affordable paperback books.

OAPEN works with publishers to build a quality controlled collection of open access books. Browse thousands of books from publishers like Knowledge Unlatched

Part of BiblioVault and the University of Chicago Press, BibliOpen hosts a variety of open access materials from university presses and academic publishers.

D2O enables the diamond open access publication of digital monographs from the MIT Press, and, beginning in 2026, from Duke University Press and Goldsmiths Press as well.

This Toolkit is aimed at promoting and supporting open access (OA) to academic books. It consists of short articles covering a wide range of topics relating to OA books, each including a list of sources referenced, further reading and links to definitions of key terms.