Open Educational Resources

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Peer-reviewed open textbooks collected by both non-profit and for-profit corporations. Includes a range of formats and copyright licenses, although all are free for use.

OpenStax College offers free textbooks that meet scope and sequence requirements for most courses. These are peer-reviewed texts written by professional content developers.

A catalog of open access textbooks to be reviewed by faculty members, made available by the University of Minnesota's College of Education and Human Development. All textbooks in this catalog are openly licenses, complete, and available in print at very little cost.

This catalog contains hundreds of college-level open textbooks from higher education institutions around the world.

Funded by British Columbia’s Ministry of Advanced Education, BCCampus OpenEd has published over 40 open textbooks designed for use in first and second year undergraduate courses.

Open textbooks, mostly in the sciences.

"Mix and match text, images and rich media content from 240+ publishers in over 90 disciplines, upload your own materials and add any third party content with 100% copyright compliance."

"The open-content textbooks collection that anyone can edit."

"Since 2004, we've offered college students either inexpensive or premium options for their assigned textbook. Our publications are select, quality textbooks developed by professionals, and assigned by instructors."

"Textbook Revolution is a student-run site dedicated to increasing the use of free educational materials by teachers and professors. On this site you'll find links and reviews of textbooks and select educational resources."

A free library of thousands of texts for students in a range of topics covered in a university undergraduate program. This project is a joint venture between the Terry College of Business of the University of Georgia and the Daniels College of Business of the University of Denver.

"Open SUNY Textbooks is an open access textbook publishing initiative established by State University of New York libraries and supported by SUNY Innovative Instruction Technology Grants. This pilot initiative publishes high-quality, cost-effective course resources by engaging faculty as authors and peer-reviewers, and libraries as publishing service and infrastructure."

"Assign off-the-shelf content in 20+ subjects or easily customize your own title."