ONLINE BOOK BORROWING: check your options

To address the immediate need for access to online reading and research material, students, educators, and researchers can use the following libraries and borrow out of million titles.

Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.

Sign up and get your virtual library card and access 65+ million free and borrowable books, that you can read online.

Once you login - TYPE your subject or a specific title in the “Search” box.

Additionally, check out the books that are currently available for loan in the OPEN lending library of Internet Archive.

Just Sign up and explore the extensive collection of books, including literature, textbooks, psychology books, and much more.

See all Subject Categories here

Need HELP?

• Browse the FAQs and the Help & Support webpages
• Find tips to read books online at the help center
• If you have questions or need further clarifications about Online Book Borrowing, contact us at library@york.citycollege.eu

eBOOK Downloading: check your options

Below is a list of Open Access reasouces that have been funded, published, and licensed to be freely used, adapted, and distributed. 

The Open Textbook Library provides a growing catalogue of free, peer-reviewed, and openly-licensed textbooks.

Explore the library's books to see if an open textbook fits your course's, and students', needs.

Browse Textbooks by Subject

Additional resources include

• Project Gutenberg: This famous site has over 27,000 free books online.
• Textbook Revolution: Find biology, business, engineering, mathematics and world history textbooks here.
• Free Business Textbooks: Find free books to go along with accounting, economics and other business classes.
• FreeScience.info: Find over 1800 math, engineering and science books here.
• Free Tech Books: Computer programmers and computer science enthusiasts can find helpful books here.