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Free Art eBooks

There are a number of museums and galleries who offer free online access to books they have published. These include:

Free eBooks databases

Cahiers d'Art Institute (CDAI) This link opens in a new window
CDAI focuses its efforts on the publication of catalogues raisonnés of leading 20th and 21st-century artists and architects, both digitally and in book form.
DOAB: Directory of Open Access Books (Open Access Resource) This link opens in a new window
Open Access: This online resource is freely available to everyone. The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of Open Access books. The directory is open to all publishers who publish academic, peer reviewed books in Open Access and should contain as many books as possible, provided that these publications are in Open Access and meet academic standards.
Google Books This link opens in a new window
Google Books is a service from Google that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition, and stored in its digital database.
Internet Archive This link opens in a new window
Millions of e-Books available to view in full text. The ‘Texts’ collection of the Internet Archive includes millions of digitized books from various libraries around the world as well as many special collections. Register using your email address, login and click Borrow.
OAPEN This link opens in a new window OAPEN promotes and supports the transition to open access for academic books by providing open infrastructure services to stakeholders in scholarly communication. They work with publishers to build a quality-controlled collection of open-access books and provide services for publishers, libraries, and research funders in the areas of hosting, deposit, quality assurance, dissemination, and digital preservation.
Project Gutenberg (Open Access Resource) This link opens in a new window
Project Gutenberg is a library of over 60,000 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. Project Gutenberg eBooks are mostly older literary works. Most were published before 1924, with some published in the decades after.