April 23rd is World Book and Copyright Day
To celebrate this special day, take a bit of time to visit some free e-book collections!
Directory of Open Access Books
• http://www.doabooks.org/
• Includes 4,000+ academic peer reviewed books from over 151 publishers. Hint, Advanced Search works best http://www.doabooks.org/doab?func=advancedSearch&uiLanguage=en
NCBI Bookshelf
• http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books
• Browse or search this collection of full text documents and books provided by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), part of the National Library of Medicine(US)
• Content includes textbooks, monographs, health reports on health care, health policy, health care evidence reports, clinical guidelines and health care policy analysis
SpringerOpen
• http://www.springeropen.com/books
• Books are accessible to anyone worldwide and includes multidisciplinary content
World Health Organization on the Internet Archive
• https://archive.org/details/worldhealthorganization
• See books from the WHO on the Internet Archive
• To view even more publications from the WHO, go to http://www.who.int/publications/en/
For more about World Book and Copyright Day, visit the United Nations Organization for Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO) at http://www.unesco.org/new/en/wbcd