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Originally Posted by LJJohnson
Sure. The page I searched for was "open access" ==> https://www.oapen.org/search?keyword=open+access. There are 157 books, and I didn't find one I couldn't download this time till the 12th page, where you cannot "download chapter", but just "view chapter". There are books like this also, like
The Cultural Politics of the New American Studies
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I didn't make myself clear. When I said, "Can you give us an URL for the webpage where we can find these books or, at least, for a webpage from which to start looking? I take it that they are located outside of the OA area?" I had in mind
at MUP. I thought that that was what you meant when you said, "Then [there] are at least 25 books that are downloadable as PDF (that I got). In fact, I only ran across 3 or 4 that you could read but not download. Naturally, 2 of those looked really interesting. There are more, but I got tired of scrolling thru the pages."
I appreciate the search that you did, and the 157 hits, from various organizations, that you came up with. A few of those were from MUP, or at least from some department of Manchester University.
You may not be aware of it, but there are so many OA books (alone) out there that you start scrolling through the titles (please, not at the same time that you're driving! ha), visit every federal and state campground in your RV, you would still be scrolling when you get through your trip (maybe there's a little hyperbole there. Maybe).
For example, at
http://www.opendoar.org/countrylist.php, you can search by continent, then country, then organization. The
http://www.opendoar.org/ homepage, has even more ways to search for OA books, including by topic, key word, etc (basically a Google for OA books). I don't know if the website strives for exhaustiveness; I think that they do, but it is inevitable that they've missed some. Digital Commons Network (
http://network.bepress.com/) also seems to strive for exhaustiveness in listing OA works, and has an extremely interesting (and, if I might say so, fun) interface.
Of course, there are unknown numbers of titles that are free, but not published as OA. Unfortunately, I know of no website or search engine that claims to find all or even part of these ebooks. Sometimes I use a PDF search engine, but the results have been less than spectacular and, of course, they may not search for anything but PDF's. That would exclude such books as those published in the new, soon-to-be-standard I think, html5 format.
Have fun in your travels, and when you get to west Texas, please look up the MobileReader going by the screen name Cinisajoy, and annoy her for me--I owe her.