Open Educational Resources (OER): Finding OER Textbooks

Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) is a search tool that aims to make the discovery of open content easier.

The Open Textbook Library at the University of Minnesota offers a catalog of open, peer-reviewed textbooks that can be downloaded for free.

A collection of open education resources from the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME).

BCcampus has curated a collection of open textbooks that align with the top 40 highest enrolled first and second year post-secondary subject areas in British Columbia. Many books have been reviewed by faculty and include ancillary resources. Particular strengths include

OpenStax from Rice University offers free, online educational materials and textbooks, some of which can be printed at an affordable price.

A pilot open textbook publishing initiative established by State University of New York that engages faculty as authors and peer-reviewers and libraries as publishing service and infrastructure.

MERLOT is a curated collection of free and open online teaching, learning, and faculty development services contributed and used by an international education community.

An index of online textbooks in MIT OpenCourseWare, including open-licensed electronic versions of print books, self-published online books, or course notes which are so thorough that they serve as an alternative to a conventional textbook.

Lumen Learning supports OER adoption at K12 and higher education institutions in order to remove cost as a barrier to education. Lumen contributions to online open courses are licensed under CC BY.

In addition to other open educational content, Saylor Academy offers over 100 open textbooks under a variety of Creative Commons licenses.

Open textbooks that have been approved by the American Institute of Mathematics.

InTech is the publisher of one of the largest open access collection of books in the fields of Science, Technology and Medicine.