Open Educational Resources (OER):
Textbooks

Created by higher education institutions in British Columbia, the B.C. Open Collection contains course materials and textbooks from other institutions.

EdTech Books publishes open textbooks and journals. While all materials are open, they may be licensed under different terms for reuse/remixing.

GALILEO Open Learning Materials brings together open educational resources throughout the University System of Georgia, including open textbooks and ancillary materials.

GoOpen Connecticut is the OER portal for works created by CT educators.

Kwantlen Polytechnic University, a zero-cost textbook institution, has written numerous open textbooks in many disciplines, including using APA/MLA style.

Provided by UC Davis, LibreTexts are free textbooks spanning numerous disciplines. Instructors can create accounts to remix content and embed in Brightspace.

The Maryland Open Source Textbook (M.O.S.T.) Commons aggregates open textbooks from Maryland.

MERLOT is a large repository of open textbook and course materials. This search is scoped to open textbooks.

Provided by SUNY, this collection contains textbooks authored and peer-reviewed by SUNY faculty and staff.

NOBA is a collection of OER course materials for psychology. An account is required to adapt content.

Discover, create, and host your own OER textbooks.

OERTX collects the OER materials created by Texas educators.

The leading independent non-profit Open Access publisher in the Humanities and Social Sciences in the UK. Publishes both academic eBooks and textbooks.

The OER Collective publishes books authored by participating members of the Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) based in Australia and New Zealand.

Open Massachusetts aggregates textbooks authored from MA public colleges and universities.

Oregon is a leader in publishing high quality OER. Its collection will continue to grow over the next 2 years.

OpenStax provides adaptable OER textbooks suitable for introductory college courses. Print copies can be purchased via their partners.

Open Textbook Library contains over 1000 open textbooks licensed by authors and publishers to be freely used and adapted.

OpenTextBookStore curates lists of open textbooks in mathematics and related fields.

Oregon State University has a collection of 43 textbooks related to business, communication, health care, and more.

Pressbooks Directory provides an index of 5,062 books published across 143 Pressbooks networks.

This is a new curated collection from the Massachusetts public institutions of higher education- this collection will grow over the next 2 years. Its collection focuses on diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Big Ten Open Books is a collaboration between the university presses and libraries of the Big Ten Academic Alliance. The first collection is on the subject of Gender and Sexuality studies.

DOAB is an index of peer-reviewed OA books. While they are not all textbooks, materials are freely available for classroom use.

The Library of Congress has curated a growing collection of contemporary open access e-books. It covers a wide range of subjects, including history, music, poetry, technology, and works of fiction. All of the books in this collection were published under open access licenses and may be read online or downloaded as a PDF or as an EPUB.

OAPEN is a repository of peer-reviewed open-access eBooks provided by multiple publishers worldwide. Authors are encouraged to deposit their work for distribution and preservation.

The leading independent non-profit Open Access publisher in the Humanities and Social Sciences in the UK. Publishes both academic eBooks and textbooks.

Open Access eBooks from various publishers and providers are available via the Open Research Library.

Project Gutenberg is a library of over 70,000 free eBooks.