OVERVIEW

EIFL has negotiated free membership of the Open Book Publishers (OBP) Library Membership Programme for libraries that are members of library consortia in EIFL partner countries.  Through this agreement, libraries in EIFL partner countries can get unlimited free downloads of all 370+ OBP titles in all formats. The collection of e-books includes monographs, edited books and textbooks. The collection is constantly expanding.

SUBJECT COVERAGE 

African Studies; American and Latin American Studies; Anthropology; Archaeology and Religion; Asian Studies; Biography; Business Management; Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures; Classics; Classics: Greek Textbooks; Classics: Latin Textbooks; Digital Humanities; Economics, Politics and Sociology; Education; Environmental Studies; European Studies (inc. Eastern European Studies; English and Irish Studies; French Studies; German Studies; Italian Studies); Folklore and Ethnology; Health; History; History of the Book; History; International Relation; Information Technology and Computer Science; Law; Law: Intellectual Property; Linguistics; Literature; Literature: Comparative Literature; Material Culture; Mathematics; Media Studies and Journalism; Other languages; Performing Arts; Philosophy; Science; Science: Applied Science; Science: History of Science; Visual Arts; Women and Gender Studies. 

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KEY FEATURES

Benefits of the OPB Membership Programme include:

• Unlimited free downloads of all published digital editions of OBP titles in PDF, ePub, Mobi or HML formats when accessing content through the openbookpublishers.com website;
• 20% discount on printed editions of OPB titles purchased by libraries, university staff and students;
• 20% discounts on set-up costs for the creation of course packs and other types of customised editions created by mixing and matching content from OBP publications;​​
• Permission for libraries to upload any digital edition of an OBP title to the library’s repository or ebook collection, and to keep it permanently;
• Access to downloadable MARC (machine readable cataloguing) records to integrate e-books into the library catalogue and make them more accessible.​

How to download paid versions of e-book free of charge

• You must access the openbookpublishers.com website from your library or through your university's network, as the system will identify your library's membership by its IP address;
• Choose the title, and all Download options should be free (if you access openbookpublishers.com from any other location, you will see some of e-book formats with prices).