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OAPEN offers open access, peer-reviewed books. The link above specifically narrows their offerings to Art titles, but they offer more disciplines and subjects if desired.
Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) is a search tool that makes discovery of open content easier. OASIS currently searches open content from 57 different sources, from SUNY.
The OpenCourseWare Consortium is a collaboration of higher education institutions and associated organizations from around the world creating a broad and deep body of open educational content using a shared model.
The Getty Foundation's Online Scholarly Catalogue Initiative (OSCI) offers digital museum catalogues from various institutions (including the Art Institute of Chicago).
Selected art books and books about artists: practical methods & specialties, general art and art history works, plus visitor guides to art expos, galleries, and museums.
The Public Books Database catalogs academic presses who have made material freely available as a result of COVID-19, promising routine updates as new items are available.
Chicago’s International Journal of Contemporary & Modern Art, features in-depth writing on exhibitions, as well as highlight essays, artist profiles, and reviews.
TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem) seeks to address this problem by moving us toward a new, more sustainable system in which monograph publishing costs are met by institutionally funded faculty book subsidies. These publication grants make it possible for presses to publish monographs in open access editions, which increases the presence of humanities and social science scholarship on the web and opens up knowledge to a truly global readership.
Articles and books of interest to the writing-across-the-curriculum community, providing a wide range of Web-based resources for instructors who wish to use writing in their courses.
Materials provided to us by Professor David J. Getsy
A selection of hard-to-find and out-of-print catalogues, books, and texts by other authors.
