Resources for Students

Study Guides

  • Studocu: Find top-rated study notes from students taking the same courses as you. Founded by four students, to exchange study documents with each other and together strive for better grades. Millions of study documents have been shared by students and are accessible to everyone in the world.

  • Academic Help Learning Hub: An all-in-one learning hub for homework and research founded in 2011 as an educational and review website to provide guidance and unbiased information to students. AI-powered tools transformed the traditional EdTech landscape and allowed students to accomplish more with less time and effort. 

Writing

  • Textero.ai: Supports students streamline their learning process. with a suite of tools provides reference finders, citation organizers, and an advanced essay writer. Note: Most services are free for up to 550  words per day,.

  • OneLook: A free tool for looking up words, alternative phrases and getting detailed information about different words.

Mathematics

  • Wolfram MathWorld: A comprehensive encyclopedia of mathematics with 13000 detailed entries. Continually updated, extensively illustrated, and with interactive examples.

  • Paul's Online Math Notes: A complete set of free online (and downloadable) notes and/or tutorials for Algebra (Math 1314), Calculus I (Math 2413), Calculus II (Math 2414), Calculus III (Math 2415) and Differential Equations (Math 3301).

Free Ways to Read

  • Open Library

    Open Library is a universal catalog for book metadata. Their goal is to create a web page for every book ever published, calling it an “Open Library” because it is a collaborative open source initiative, which means that anyone can use and contribute to the Open Library catalog. In this way, Open Library opens the doors to the places where you can find the book you’re looking for.

  • Project Gutenberg

    Project Gutenberg is a library of over 70,000 free eBooks. Choose among free epub and Kindle eBooks, download them or read them online. You will find the world’s great literature here, with focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired. Thousands of volunteers digitized and diligently proofread the eBooks, for you to enjoy.

  • Folger Shakespeare Library

    Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Access full-text plays by William Shakespeare.

  • Bookshare Audiobooks

    Bookshare is an online library of audiobooks for people with learning disabilities. Listen to words read aloud, read on a wide variety of devices such as computers, tablets, smartphones, MP3 players, and assistive technology devices Get unlimited access to school books, popular books, children’s books, and more

College Textbooks on a Budget

  • Open textbooks are licensed by authors and publishers to be freely used and adapted. Download, edit and distribute them at no cost.

  • Library Genesis (LibGen) offers access to scholarly journal articles, academic and general-interest books, images, comics, audiobooks, and magazines. The site enables free access to content that is otherwise paywalled or not digitized elsewhere.

  • Bookboon Learning is a digital learning service provider for corporate learning & development, providing eBooks, audio learning, online courses & learning. There is an entire section dedicated to free textbooks for university students.

Free Continued Learning Courses

  • Stanford University offers free online courses allowing flexible way to learn new skills and study new and emerging topics. Learn from Stanford instructors and industry experts at no cost.

  • Princeton Online is the home of massive, open, online courses (MOOCs) offered through Princeton University's initiative in online education. 

  • MIT OpenCourseWare is an online publication of materials from over 2,500 MIT courses, freely sharing knowledge with learners and educators around the world.