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Where the books come fromClassic and children's titles link to Project Gutenberg, which hosts free copies of works in the U.S. public domain. Each link opens that book’s page there. Editions and translations vary, so check the one you are assigning.
Historical documentsLinked to the U.S. National Archives, which shows the original document, a transcript and background for each one.
Open textbooksFrom OpenStax at Rice University. Most carry a non-commercial licence: anyone may read and link to them, but they cannot be copied into a paid product.
Read hereTitles marked Read here open inside this page. That now covers most classic and children’s titles and most historical documents. Chapter breaks were found automatically, so a few books divide oddly. Textbooks open at OpenStax.

Type a topic above and press Search. Results are studies and reports that are free to read.

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How this differs from JSTOR and EBSCOThose services pay publishers for access to journals that sit behind paywalls, and sell that access to schools. This desk searches what is already free: open-access studies, government research and public archives.
Where live results come fromOpenAlex, an open index of scholarly work, filtered to studies that are free to read, and ERIC, the U.S. Department of Education's index of education research.
Not everything is hereMany recent journal articles are not open access. A school or public library card often unlocks them for free.

APA titles use sentence case: capitalize only the first word and proper nouns. This tool keeps your capitalization as you typed it.

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Check before you hand it inThese follow MLA 9, APA 7 and Chicago notes-bibliography style for the five most common source types. Teachers sometimes ask for small variations, so compare with the guide your class uses.
Citing a book you read onlineAdd the link in the last box. For a classic, cite the edition you actually read, not the year it was first published, if your teacher asks for that.
Your list stays on this deviceIt is saved in this browser. Copy it into your document to keep it.