<div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>The present study examines the current trends of the open access e-books in the field of social sciences </span><span>available through Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB). The data was collected online regarding the social science e-books in August 2016 from DOAB web site for analysis. In the study the e-books are divided author wise, license wise, language wise, year wise, and pagination wise for better understanding of the results. The results </span><span>revealed that there is a significant growth of e-books on DOAB on social sciences over the years. </span></p></div></div></div>
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