Research Guides: Open Educational Resources (OERs): Additional Textbook & Book Repositories

Additional Large Open Textbook Repositories

Lumen Candela Catalog
Browseable by subject but not searchable. Textbooks are only available online in HTML format (not PDF, ePub, etc.)
OpenEd - BC Campus
The goal of the project is to make higher education more accessible by reducing student cost through the use of openly licensed textbooks. Specifically, BCcampus was asked to create a collection of open textbooks aligned with the top 40 highest-enrolled subject areas in the province. A second phase was announced in the spring of 2014 to add 20 textbooks targeting trades and skills training.
Saylor Academy Open Textbooks
Open Textbooks developed or adapted by Saylor Academy for use in their open online courses.
Bookboon
Bookboon has both free and "premium" (not free) textbooks, primarily on STEM and business topics. The free books are traditionally copyrighted, so you can use them as is and have your students download them, but you can't modify them or post them elsewhere. You must create a free log-in to download the books. The books have some (generally inoffensive) ads in them.
MIT OCW Textbooks
Many people are aware that MIT posts its course materials (e.g. syllabi, lecture slides) online, but they also have a page specifically for open textbooks used in courses at MIT.

Additional Small Open Textbook Repositories

College Open Textbooks
An index of open textbooks on other sites, organized by subject.
Flexbook
Mostly K-12, but some textbooks are appropriate for community college use.
Global Text Project
A directory of open textbooks for business, computing, education, health, science, and social science
Open Culture
Open Music Theory
Open Music Theory is an open-source, interactive, online “text”book for college-level music theory courses. OMT was built on resources authored by Kris Shaffer, Bryn Hughes, and Brian Moseley. It is edited by Kris Shaffer and Robin Wharton, and is published by Hybrid Pedagogy Publishing.
Milne Open Textbooks
A few open textbooks authored by faculty at SUNY
Wikibooks
Textbooks and modules
Writing Spaces Open Textbook Chapters
An open textbook on the academic writing process
Bay College Library
A smaller source
Green Tea Press
A small collection of open textbooks on computer science.
Introductory Financial Accounting
A lone accounting textbook.
Noba
Free, customizable open textbooks and chapters on psychology.
Scotsdale Community College Math Department
Open math textbooks
PDXOpen
A repository of open textbooks from Portland State University. Includes several textbooks for less studied languages.
ScholarWorks
A small collection of open textbooks created at Grand Valley State University.
American Institute of Mathematics
A list of open textbooks that have been judged to meet the evaluation criteria set by the AIM editorial board.
CALI eLangdell Bookstore
The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) offers open legal textbooks.
Project Management for Instructional Designers
A lone open textbook.
Teaching Commons
"The Teaching Commons brings together high-quality open educational resources from leading colleges and universities. Curated by librarians and their institutions, the Teaching Commons includes open access textbooks, course materials, lesson plans, multimedia, and more."

Open Book Catalogs

Directory of Open Access Books
The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of Open Access books. The directory is open to all publishers who publish academic, peer reviewed books in Open Access and should contain as many books as possible, provided that these publications are in Open Access and meet academic standards.
Ebooks for All
Free fiction and nonfiction books, including children's books, international literature, and poetry, among other genres.
Hathi Trust
HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.
InTech - Technology Open Access Journals and Books
InTech is the publisher of one of the largest multidisciplinary open access collection of books covering the fields of Science, Technology and Medicine. Since 2004, InTech has collaborated with 88012 authors and published 2468 books and 6 journals with the aim of providing free online access to research.
Oapen - online library and publication platform
The OAPEN Library contains freely accessible academic books, mainly in the area of Humanities and Social Sciences. OAPEN works with publishers to build a quality controlled collection of Open Access books, and provides services for publishers, libraries and research funders in the areas of dissemination, quality assurance and digital preservation.
Orange Grove Texts
Orange Grove Text Plus (OGT+) is a joint initiative of the University Press of Florida and The Orange Grove, Florida’s Digital Repository. The goal of this partnership is to reduce the cost of books to students by offering texts that are affordable, accessible, and adaptable to reader preferences.
Project Gutenburg
Thousands of digitized classics and other primary sources appropriate for class materials.
WorldBank Open Knowledge Repository
Nonfiction books and reports on international topics
Open Book Publishers
Free academic non-fiction
Open Humanities Press
Free scholarly books and journals focusing on the humanities from an international open publishing collective.
Ubiquity Press
Open access publisher of peer-reviewed academic journals, books and data.
Bloomsbury Publishing Open Content
We’re committed to publishing the best scholarship in the social sciences and humanities AND for our content to be as widely accessible as possible. Selected research publications are published on open content licenses, meaning that the full text is available online for free in html format. These titles are also available to buy as pbooks and ebooks.

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