Open Access Books

The University of Michigan Library is pleased to announce that records from

our MBooks collection are available for OAI harvesting. The MBooks

collection consists of materials digitized by Google in partnership with the

University of Michigan.

Only records for MBooks available in the public domain are exposed. We have

split these into sets containing public domain items according to U.S.

copyright law, and public domain items worldwide. There are currently over

100,000 records available for harvesting. We anticipate having 1 million

records available when the entire U-M collection has been digitized by

Google.

In conjunction, we have released our open-source OAI toolkit on SourceForge.

This toolkit contains both harvester and data provider, both written in

Perl.

For questions about the project, please contact dlps-help@umich.edu.

Haven't checked these out yet. Hence no annotation.

http://print.google.com

http://www.diesel-ebooks.com/cgi-bin/category.cgi?category=free_download

FHSST (Free High School Science Texts) is a project that aims to provide free science and mathematics textbooks for Grades 10 to 12 science learners in South Africa.

http://www.fhsst.org/

The goal is to create a free library of 1,000 electronic textbooks for students in the developing world

The library will cover the range of topics typically encountered in the first two years of a university's undergraduate programs

The global academic community and global corporations will be engaged in creating and sponsoring this library

http://globaltext.org/

HSRC Press is South Africa's open access publisher committed to the dissemination of high quality social science research based publications, in print and electronic form. The Press publishes the research output of the Human Science Research Council and externally authored works. A formal peer-review process guarantees the highest academic quality and the Press has a very active local and international marketing programme, in addition to collaborating with foreign publishers on specific titles

http://www.hsrcpress.ac.za/