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T1 OARE Module 6B: E-journal, E-books and Internet Resources: Free E-book Access
A1 United Nations Environment Programme, 
A1 Online Access to Research in the Environment, 
K1 training
K1 research
YR 2018
FD 2018
LK https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/17736
UL https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/17736
NO This document outlines practical ways to locate and download free scholarly e-books, focusing on four sources: Booksee.org, National Academies Press, IntechOpen, and the Open Textbook Library. It demonstrates keyword searching on Booksee.org, notes a per-search cap of 100 titles, and warns that large PDFs may download slowly. It explains browsing and searching on the National Academies Press site, where users can read online or download PDFs after free registration or as guests, with examples from Environment and Life Sciences categories. It shows that IntechOpen returns thousands of results for environmental queries and lists items by paper, author, and book type. It highlights the Open Textbook Library’s peer-reviewed, openly licensed textbooks and subject browsing, illustrated by a forestry textbook example.
DS UN Environment Document Repository
RD Sep 16, 2026