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Open Access Apps

Organizations that promote open access

African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
African American Women Writers of the 19th Century guide includes a digital collection of published works by 19th-century black women writers, biographies for each author, citations and much more
HathiTrust
Founded in 2008, HathiTrust is a not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries preserving 17+ million digitized items. HathiTrust offers reading access to the fullest extent allowable by U.S. copyright law, computational access to the entire corpus for scholarly research, and other emerging services based on the combined collection. HathiTrust members steward the collection — the largest set of digitized books managed by academic and research libraries — under the aims of scholarly, not corporate, interests.

Open Source Textbooks

Check the Reference Works tab above for more.

Mason OER Metafinder
- Why search here?
  This resources helps you find Open Educational Resources (OER). The OER Metafinder launches a real-time, simultaneous search across 22 different sources of open educational materials as you hit the Search button.
- What's included?
  It searches well-known OER repositories like OpenStax, OER Commons, and MERLOT, but also sites like HathiTrust, DPLA, Internet Archive, and NYPL Digital Collections. Because it is a real-time, federated search, it can take a bit longer than searches of pre-indexed, curated content. Additional results will continue to trickle in as the search continues running and you begin examining your results.

Online Text Search

Legal Sites to Read and Download Literature

Efforts to archive the web

Project Gutenberg

American Archive of Public Broadcasting

Digital Tools

Privacy

A Very Short Introduction

Writers and Collections

Audiobooks

Podcasts/Videos

Open Source Images

Articles of Interest

WorldCat

No cost videos

You can find many documentary films through a video search using your library account.

There are also movies at no cost from many web services including YouTube. I am not listing them since many ask you to sign up for an account.

Internet Classics Archive

History of eBooks

No Cost Online Courses

Children's Literature

Banned Books Available OnLine

Access to library resources from off-campus

You can watch videos, access articles and eBooks from off-campus but students may be asked for their A number and library password. Faculty and staff will be asked for their user name and library password.