Finding Open Textbooks
There are a number of catalogs to help you find OERs. Some focus on K-12 education, some on College and University texts and others on texts for specific subjects. Suggested meta-catalogs for University courses include:
Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) is a search tool that aims to make the discovery of open content easier. OASIS currently searches open content from 57 different sources and contains 159,459 records.
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Hosted by Rice University. Contains a wide spectrum of topics including the sciences and social sciences.
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This directory provides an index of 1712 books published across 78 Pressbooks networks. Search and filter books by keyword, subject matter, license, and more.
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Affordable Learning Georgia: Open Textbooks
With iterative texts, powerful annotation tools, rich media support, and robust community dialogue, Affordable Learning Georgia’s OpenALG transforms static open textbooks into living digital works. -
CUNY Academic Works: Open Educational Resources
The Open Educational Resources series collects instructional materials — from textbooks to syllabi — by the faculty of the City University of New York. -
Directory of Open Access Books
Contains a variety of open access books in diverse fields, including the sciences, social science, and the humanities. -
The LibreTexts mission is to unite students, faculty and scholars in a cooperative effort to develop an easy-to-use online platform for the construction, customization, and dissemination of open educational resources (OER) to reduce the burdens of unreasonable textbook costs to our students and society.
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Co-founded by open-education visionary Dr. David Wiley and education-technology strategist Kim Thanos, Lumen Learning is dedicated to facilitating broad, successful adoption of OER.
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Online open textbooks organized by topic. Mainly science and engineering based, but also has some management and language texts.
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OER Commons is a public digital library of open educational resources. Explore, create, and collaborate with educators around the world to improve curriculum.
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The World Bank’s collection of open access resources, primarily in international economics but also including selections from related topics.
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A collection of open educational resources (OER) from University of Michigan. Access a range of course materials, videos, lectures, student work and more. Nearly all of the content here is openly licensed for reuse under Creative Commons (link is external).
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A directory of openly published textbooks produced by members of Open Oregon
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University of Michigan Press-Open Access
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A platform that allows members of the Rebus Community to create Open Textbooks. The site provides hosting.
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