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  1. Audible Stories https://stories.audible.com/start-listenAudiobooks that are free to stream on your devices.
  2. Barnes and Noble https://www.barnesandnoble.com/b/free-ebooks/nook-books/_/N-ry0Z8qa
  3. BCCampus https://bccampus.ca/provides open educational resources including online free textbooks to educators and learners alike.
  4. Bible Getway https://www.biblegateway.com Bible Gateway is a searchable online Bible in more than 200 versions and 70 languages that you  can freely read, research, and reference anywhere. With a library of audio Bibles, a mobile app, devotionals, email newsletters, and other free resources, Bible Gateway equips you not only to read the Bible, but to understand it.
  5. Bible.com https://www.bible.com/
  6. BIBLIOMANIA http://www.bibliomania.com/
  1. Bloomsbury https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/ Bloomsbury Collections contains over 6.000 titles that delivers instant access to quality research and provides libraries with a flexible way to build eBook collections across the humanities and social sciences.
  2. Cambridge English https://www.cambridge.org/ph/cambridgeenglish Find information on print and digital English language resources – for everyone from primary students to business professionals.
  3. DOAB: Directory of Open Access Books https://www.doabooks.org/The Directory of Open Access Books is a service of OAPEN Foundation. The OAPEN Foundation is an international initiative dedicated to Open Access monograph publishing, based at the National Library in The Hague. DOAB is being developed in close cooperation with Lars Bjørnshauge and Salam Baker Shanawa (director of SemperTool), who were also responsible for the development of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of Open Access books. Academic publishers are invited to provide metadata of their Open Access books to DOAB. Metadata will be harvestable in order to maximize dissemination, visibility and impact. Aggregators can integrate the records in their commercial services and libraries can integrate the directory into their online catalogues, helping scholars and students to discover the books. The directory will be open to all publishers who publish academic, peer reviewed books in Open Access and should contain as many books as possible, provided that these publications are in Open Access and meet academic standards.
  4. DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals https://doaj.org/Free full-text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, covering all subjects and many languages
  5. E-books Directory http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/ – A daily growing list of freely downloadable ebooks, documents and lecture notes found all over the internet. You can submit and promote your own ebooks, add comments on already posted books or just browse through the directory below and download anything you need.
  6. IntechOpen https://www.intechopen.com/books – Collection covers SCIENCE and TECHNOLOGY; books are downloadable per chapter only
  7. Internet Archive https://archive.org/ – A non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more. It is a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form.
  8. JSTOR https://www.jstor.org/ – JSTOR is a highly selective digital library of academic content in many formats and disciplines. The collections include top peer-reviewed scholarly journals as well as respected literary journals, academic monographs, research reports from trusted institutes, and primary sources.
  9. National Academic Press https://www.nap.edu/ – read more than 3,000 books online for free. Covers subjects on Engineering & Technology, Health & Medicine, Earth Sciences, Environmental Studies, Energy conservation, Food & Nutrition etc.
  10. Macmillan Dictionary https://www.macmillandictionary.com/us – Find meanings, pronunciations, synonyms, collocations, idioms as well as images, videos and sound effects.
  11. Macmillan – Macmillan publishers is a global trade book publishing company with prominent imprints around the world. Macmillan publishes a broad range of award-winning books for children and adults in all categories and formats.

https://macmillan.com/

https://us.macmillan.com/

  1. OASIS https://oasis.geneseo.edu/index.phpOpenly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) is a search tool that aims to make the discovery of open content easier. OASIS currently searches open content from 117 different sources and contains 388,707 records. OASIS is being developed at SUNY Geneseo’s Milne Library.
  2. OER Commons https://www.oercommons.org/ – Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching and learning materials that you may freely use and reuse at no cost, and without needing to ask permission. From a single point of access in OER Commons, you can search, browse, and evaluate resources in OER Commons’ growing collection of over 50,000 high-quality OER. Here are some curated collections to start exploring: Full university courses; Interactive mini-lessons and simulations; Adaptations of existing open work; Open Textbooks.
  3. Open Culture http://www.openculture.com/ – Open Culture brings together high-quality cultural & educational media for the worldwide lifelong learning community.
  4. OPENSTAX https://openstax.org/ – Free, open-source, and peer-reviewed textbooks that are available in web view, PDF, and low-cost print. The web view also supports online highlighting and note taking.
  5. OPEN TEXTBOOK LIBRARY https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooksOpen textbooks are textbooks that have been funded, published, and licensed to be freely used, adapted, and distributed. These books have been reviewed by faculty from a variety of colleges and universities to assess their quality. These books can be downloaded for no cost, or printed at low cost. All textbooks are either used at multiple higher education institutions; or affiliated with an institution, scholarly society, or professional organization. The library currently includes 783 textbooks, with more being added all the time.
  6. Planet Publish http://www.planetpublish.com/ –  provides 60+ free e-books in PDF format, mostly literature/classics.
  7. Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org The first and largest single collection of free electronic books.
  8. Project MUSE https://about.muse.jhu.edu/muse/
  9. SAGE Knowledge https://sk.sagepub.com/ – SAGE Knowledge is home to an expansive range of SAGE eBook and eReference content alongside SAGE Video, containing over 4,600 titles. Content includes reference works, academic books, professional development titles and more. This cross-media platform allows users to search and browse over 10,000 items, video, book and reference titles within the Social Sciences.
  10. Scholastic Learn at Home https://classroommagazines.scholastic.com/support/learnathome.html – Explore the extensive collection of reading programs, digital products and learning resources according to your reading interest, age group and reading level. Scholastic produces educational materials to assist and inspire students to cultivate their minds to utmost capacity, to strive for excellence in creative expression in all fields of learning, literature, and art and to enlarge students’ concern for and understanding of today’s world.
  11. Social Science Research Network http://www.ssrn.com/en/ – Consist of two parts: an Abstract Database containing abstracts on over 40,000 working papers and an E-Paper collection currently containing over 15,000 downloadable full text documents.
  12. Springer http://bit.ly/SpringerCS – Provides an online collection of scientific, technological and medical journals, books and reference works.
  13. Taylor and Francis https://www.taylorfrancis.com/
https://bit.ly/2V9YkHY

Taylor and Francis journals is a multidisciplinary collection covering subject areas including social sciences and humanities, science, technology and medicine.

  1. United Nations iLibrary https://www.un-ilibrary.org/The United Nations iLibrary is the comprehensive global search, discovery, and viewing source for digital content created by the United Nations.

                     Philippines – https://www.un-ilibrary.org/philippines

  1. Wiley Open Access https://authorservices.wiley.com/open-research/open-access/index.html A program of fully open access journals. All research articles published in Wiley Open Access journals are immediately freely available to read, download and share. The fully open access journals are published in collaboration with authoritative journals and societies as well as supported by internationally renowned editorial board members.
  2. World Bank Open Knowledge Repository https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/ – The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (OKR) is the World Bank’s official open access repository for its research outputs and knowledge products. Through the OKR, the World Bank collects, disseminates, and permanently preserves its intellectual output in digital form. The OKR is interoperable with other repositories and supports optimal discoverability and re-usability of the content by complying with Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) standards and the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). By extending and improving access to World Bank knowledge, the Bank aims to encourage innovation and allow anyone in the world to turn Bank knowledge into solutions to development problems that will help improve the lives of poor people around the world.
  1. Filipinas Heritage Library https://www.filipinaslibrary.org.ph/online-library/

The Filipinas Heritage Library is a growing educational resources directory of photographs, songs, exhibitions, videos, books, and other pieces of printed or published digital material from the FHL collection that can be of aid to parents, teachers, and students for learning.

  1. NLP http://web.nlp.gov.ph/nlp/

NLP: Tekno-Aklatan http://nlpdl.nlp.gov.ph/TechnoAklatan.htm

The National Library of the Philippines (NLP) is the repository of the printed and recorded cultural heritage of the country and other intellectual, literary and information sources.

Panitikan.ph http://panitikan.ph/

The website is a project of the UP Institute of Creative Writing. Its primary aim is to make publicly accessible materials developed from the UP ICW’s Literature for Social Development program and disseminate Philippine literature online by providing a database of authors’ profiles, literary features, and news from literary organizations and agencies.

  1. Philippine E-Journals https://ejournals.ph/

An expanding collection of academic journals that are made accessible globally through a single Web-based platform.

  1. UP Vargas ART HISTORY Series Module https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tkNOUorToUeV0PSQGS2S7FtppSgd91Hv/view

This educational module is designed for university level Art Studies majors with the goal of

serving as a preliminary learning tool on art history through the five Art History Series exhibitions

presented by the UP Vargas Museum since 2013. The module includes additional information

regarding each exhibition, guide questions and activities, and suggested readings.

Research Guides

  1. Guide to APA Citations and Format https://www.citationmachine.net/apa/cite-a-book

This page provides you with an overview of APA format, 7th edition. Included is information about referencing, various citation formats with examples for each source type, and other helpful information.

  1. Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/purdue_owl.html

The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University houses writing resources and instructional material to users worldwide.

  1. Globe eLibrary https://globeelibrary.ph/

The Globe eLibrary is both a web platform and mobile application that provides students and educators with free and quick access to digital story books and eLearning videos. It features age-appropriate and engaging educational resources tailored to children and young adults in the Philippines.

  1. Macmillan Publishing https://us.macmillan.com/

Macmillan publishes a broad range of award-winning books for children and adults in all categories and formats.

  1. Open Library https://openlibrary.org/ Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published.

       https://archive.org/details/inlibrary Books in this collection may be borrowed by logged in patrons for a period of two weeks.  You may read the books online in your browser, or download them into Adobe Digital Editions, a free piece of software used for managing loans.

Digital Newspaper Library

  1. BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news
  2. CNN Philippines https://cnnphilippines.com/
  3. The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/international
  1. A to Z Teacher Stuff http://atozteacherstuff.com/ A teacher-created site designed to help teachers find online resources more quickly and easily. Find lesson plans, thematic units, teacher tips, discussion forums for teachers, downloadable teaching materials & eBooks, printable worksheets and blacklines, emergent reader books, themes, and more.Subject: Education
  2. Cambridge English https://www.cambridge.org/ph/cambridgeenglish

Find information on print and digital English language resources – for everyone from primary students to business professionals.

  1. Class Central https://www.classcentral.com/

Class Central is a search engine and reviews site for free online courses popularly known as MOOCs or Massive Open Online Courses.

  1. Rapid E-Learning Blog https://blogs.articulate.com/rapid-elearning/

The Rapid E-Learning Blog shares practical tips & tricks to help you become a rapid elearning pro. It is hosted by Tom Kuhlmann who has over 20 years of hands-on experience in the training industry and currently runs the community at Articulate.

  1. Mobile Technology for Teachers https://www.seameo-innotech.org/mt4t/

MT4T is a teacher resource kit that promotes the use of mobile technology in Southeast Asian educational settings. The kit provides a basic guide in using mobile devices, such as smart phones and tablets and their accompanying applications, as tools for teaching and learning in the classroom and for teacher’s personal and professional development.

  1. MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching) https://www.merlot.org/merlot/

The MERLOT system provides access to curated online learning and support materials and content creation tools, led by an international community of educators, learners and researchers. It is a free and open resource designed primarily for faculty and students of higher education. Subjects include arts, business, education, humanities, mathematics and statistics, science and technology and social sciences. Here you can find peer reviewed online teaching and learning materials.