Open Educational Resources (OER) for Faculty

Subjects Included: Agriculture & Food Sciences; Arts & Architecture; Biology & Life Sciences; Business & Economics; Chemistry; Earth & Environmental Sciences; General Works; Health Sciences; History & Archaeology; Languages & Literature; Law & Political Science; Mathematics & Statistics; Philosophy & Religion; Physics & Astronomy; Science General; Social Sciences; & Technology & Engineering
To Download: Select subject, select finer subjects, and click "Free Access" of a title. You may also search for books.
Licensing: To be found in this resource, "Academic books in DOAB shall be available under an Open Access license (such as a Creative Commons license)" - DOAB. Most seem to have some form of a CC license.

Subjects Included: Agricultural & Biological Sciences; Biochemistry, Genetics, & Molecular Biology; Business, Management & Economics; Chemistry; Computer & Information Science; Earth & Planetary Science; Engineering; Environmental Sciences; Immunology & Microbiology; Materials Science; Mathematics; Medicine; Nanotechnology & Nanomaterials; Neuroscience; Pharmacology, Toxicology, & Pharmaceutical Science; Physics; Psychology; Robotics; Social Science; Technology; and Veterinary Medicine & Science
To Download: Select a broad subject at the top or a finer subject category near the bottom of the page, select a narrower subject, select title, select a chapter, and click the download link icon or the Chapter download link below the PDF.
Licensing: Various Creative Commons licenses including CC BY-NC-SA 3.0, CC BY 3.0, and CC BY-NC 4.O. Check individual titles to see which Creative Commons License applies. Chapter licenses may be found at the bottom of a chapter page. For more information on their Copyright Policy (publication and use), see their Copyright Policy page.

Subjects Included: Agriculture; Behavioral & Social Sciences; Biography & Autobiography; Biology & Life Sciences; Computers & Information Technology; Conflict & Security Issues; Earth Sciences; Education; Energy & Energy Conservation; Engineering & Technology; Environment & Environmental Studies; Explore Science; Food & Nutrition; Health & Medicine; Industry & Labor; Math, Chemistry, & Physics; Policy for Science & Technology; Space & Aeronautics; Surveys & Statistics; and Transportation & Infrastructure.
To Download: Select book from list and find download or view links.
Licensing: The National Academies press stipulates that "For most Academic and Educational (emphasis added) uses no royalties will be charged although you are required to obtain a license and comply with the license terms and conditions". You can find further information at their Request Rights and Permissions page.

Subjects Included: Anthropology & Religion; Art, Cinema, Music, & Theater; Classics Textbooks; Digital Humanities Series; Economics, Politics, & Sociology; Environmental Studies; History & Biography; History of Science; Law; Literature & Language; Mathematics; Open Book Classics; Philosophy; and Women & Gender.
To Download: Browse by subject on the left-hand side, select title, click the "Download" button next to the PDF version, and then click "Here" at the bottom of the next page.
Licensing: CC BY 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Each title has a "Copyright" tab within its record with further details.

This resource collects and links to open books and textbooks on other pages.
Subjects Included: Computer Science and Mathematics.
To Download: Select a Sub-Category, choose a title, and click "View/Download this Textbook".
Licensing: "Each author and publisher has their own terms and conditions in the forms of free / open licenses, public domain or other specific ones." - FreeTechBooks

Subjects Included: Various.
To Download: Search for a book, select "Tools," click on "Any books," change it to "Free Google eBooks," select a title, click the gear icon , and download your prefered format.
Licensing: Comprised of Public Domain books.

Subjects Included: Agricultural & Biological Sciences; Biochemistry, Genetics, & Molecular Biology; Business, Management & Economics; Chemistry; Computer & Information Science; Earth & Planetary Science; Engineering; Environmental Sciences; Immunology & Microbiology; Materials Science; Mathematics; Medicine; Nanotechnology & Nanomaterials; Neuroscience; Pharmacology, Toxicology, & Pharmaceutical Science; Physics; Psychology; Robotics; Social Science; Technology; and Veterinary Medicine & Science
To Download: Select a broad subject at the top or a finer subject category near the bottom of the page, select a narrower subject, select title, select a chapter, and click the download link icon or the Chapter download link below the PDF.
Licensing: Various Creative Commons licenses including CC BY-NC-SA 3.0, CC BY 3.0, and CC BY-NC 4.O. Check individual titles to see which Creative Commons License applies. Chapter licenses may be found at the bottom of a chapter page. For more information on their Copyright Policy (publication and use), see their Copyright Policy page.

Books contained within this resource will be either full-text and/or through searching.
Subjects Included: Anatomy; Biochemistry; Bioethics; Cancer; Carcinogens; Cell Biology; Chemicals & Drugs; Clinical Protocols; Comparative Effectiveness; Computational Biology; Developmental Biology; Diagnostic Imaging; Diseases; Evidence-based Medicine; Genetics; Health Care; Health Education; Health Policy; History; Immunology; Information Science; Life Sciences; Medicine; Microbiology; Molecular Biology; Neurosciences; Nursing; Pharmacology; Physiology; Public Health; Small Molecule Libraries; Statistics; and Viruses;
To Download/Use: On the left-hand side select subject (click "More" to see more subjects) and "Book" as "Type," and a) for full-text books, you may read the book using the "PubReader" or download individual chapters, and/or b) search within the book using the "Search this Book" feature. You may also search all books at the top of the page.
Licensing: Within individual titles, click the "Copyright and Permissions" link below the citation.

Subjects Included: Animals; Children's; Classics; Countries; Crime; Education; Fiction; Fine Arts; General Works; Geography; History; Language & Literature; Law; Music; Psychology & Philosophy; Religion; Science; Social Sciences; Technology; and Wars.
To Download: Select subject (may have to select subject again), select title, and choose download format. You may also search for books using the search box on the left-hand side.
Licensing: Most items are within the public domain. Copyright status can be found under the "Bibrec" tab, in the "Copyright Status" field.