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Open Access Resources: Books

Open Access resources are resources that are freely available on the internet--there are not copyright restrictions on their use. These pages provide information on how to find these resources.

Open Access eBook Information

Open Access eBooks provide quick access to millions of titles that are freely available on the Internet.  They can be a great resource depending on what you are researching. Older works, because their copyright has expired, are readily available. So, finding obscure 18th century and 19th century books is now a rather easy task.  

Use the search box above to search on the open access titles that Bethel provides access to.

The links to the right provide comprehensive searching abilities at some of the major repositories of open access eBooks.For example, you can search within the text of a book using the search features of many of these repositories. Our catalog only search's on the information about the book, not within the book.

Open Access Book Collections