University of California Press makes 700 eBooks available for free

Open Culture reports that the University of California Press has made 700 of its eBooks freely available to the public. The UC Press eBook collection contains almost 2,000 academic publications on a wide range of subjects; 700 of these are now on open access. The available titles can be browsed here by subject area. Unfortunately, they can’t be downloaded but they can be saved using the ‘Bookbag’ tool, so you can return to your title of choice. The University of Melbourne Library already has electronic access to many of these titles but the move to open access is very welcome. Personally, I’m dipping in to Edwin Hall’s The Arnolfini Betrothal: Medieval Marriage and the Enigma of Van Eyck’s Double Portrait.