LibGuides: Open Educational Resources: Open Textbook Collections

Open Textbook Collections

The Open Textbook movement focuses on the creation of books that are built specifically for use as free or low-cost options for education. Many of the collections will have links to the same books, but each repository has a particular focus, and items you can't find in other collections. This is not a complete list, and this list will be periodically updated.

BC Campus OpenEd
This site includes texts written specifically for the BC OpenTextbook initiative, as well as books from other sources.
Directory of Open Access Books
This site is a clearinghouse of links to books hosted in various locations, and includes a large selection of international textbooks.
GALILEO Open Learning Materials
GALILEO Open Learning Materials brings together open educational resources throughout the University System of Georgia, including open textbooks and ancillary material. Each document is classified by its Creative Commons license. You are allowed to reuse, redistribute, revise, remix, and retain these documents with particular restrictions.
HathiTrust
HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.
Lumen Learning
Lumen provides open courses in a variety of high-demand subjects and disciplines. These courses are collections of high-quality OER, not necessarily as a traditional textbook. You can use them as-is or modify them to fit your instructional style and students’ needs.
National Academies Press
Unlike some of the open textbook initiatives these books are publicly available but not openly licensed. You can link to the content, and even link directly to specific pages. However, you cannot remix and redistribute the content.
OAPEN
The Open Access Publishing in European Networks Library contains freely accessible academic books, mainly in the area of Humanities and Social Sciences. OAPEN has books in multiple languages and covering a large variety of topics. There is a range of licensing for the books, but each book is clearly marked with the license.
OpenIntro
Our mission is to make educational products that are free, transparent, and lower barriers to education. We also feature supporting resources, such as slides, videos, and more.
Open Oregon
Open Oregon provides textbooks across the sciences, english, business, as well as an introduction to Excel. Books are all CCBY license and available for download in multiple formats.
OpenStax
These books were developed following traditional textbook publishing methods, including peer review, editorial support, and creation of ancillary content. Books are available in multiple formats (PDF, print on demand, on the Web) and are licensed to be revised and remixed by faculty who want to create a custom solution for a course.
Open Textbook Library
OTL, with over 350 books, is a clearinghouse of links to books in various locations, including OpenStax, Saylor and others. Books in the OTL have been peer reviewed for quality, and the Open Textbook Library has multiple criteria for inclusion in the Library.
Project Gutenberg
A volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works. Most items in this collection are digitized works from the public domain, making it a rich source for those in the Humanities.
Saylor Academy Open Textbooks
This collection includes books written specifically for Saylor.org,
SUNY Open Textbooks
Openly licensed textbooks and courses written and curated by SUNY Faculty. Also provides links to other OER initiatives across the state of New York.
Teaching Commons
The Teaching Commons showcases high-quality open educational resources from leading colleges and universities and makes them available to educators and students around the world.