The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of Open Access books. The books included in DOAB are from academic publishers and have been subjected to independent and external peer review prior to publication.
Google Books is a free search engine that allows you to search the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned. Users can rate and review books on Google Books and these ratings and reviews could be used as impact metrics. In addition, you can use Google Books to search for citations to other publications within the full text of digitised books. Research suggests that Google Book citations correlate significantly and positively with Web of Science citations.
The HathiTrust Digital Library provides access to public domain content from a variety of sources, including Google, the Internet Archive, Microsoft, and in-house partner institution initiatives.
The ICDL is committed to creating a digital library of outstanding children's books from all over the world. The collection includes 4469 books in 54 languages.
Open Library is a project of the Internet Archive, which aims to provide a page on the web for every book ever published. It currently has over 20 million edition records online and provides access to 1.7 million scanned versions of books.
