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Best Bets: OER Textbook Resources
- OERTX Texas Repository Textbooks
Subjects Included: Allied Health; Business; Career and Technical Education; Communication and English Language Arts; Creative and Applied Arts; Education; Engineering; Government/Political Science and Law; History; Information Technology; Language, Philosophy, and Culture; Life Science; Mathematics; Physical Science; Social and Behavioral Sciences
To Download: Choose subject, select title, and chose download format.
Licensing: Check each resource for licensing information. - British Columbia (BC) Campus OpenED Textbooks
Subjects Included: Arts; Business; Health; Recreation/Tourism; Sciences; Social Sciences; and Trades.
To Download: Choose subject, select title, and chose download format.
Licensing: CC BY 4.0 unless otherwise noted. - MERLOT: Textbooks
Subjects Included: Academic Support Services; Arts; Business; Education; Humanities; Mathematics and Statistics; Science and Technology; Social Sciences; and Workforce Development.
To Download: Choose discipline, select title, click "Go to Material," and use the resource (some may have a download link).
Licensing: Check each resource for licensing information. - MIT Open Courseware: Textbooks
Textbooks listed are components of courses.
Subjects Included: Aeronautics and Astronautics, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Engineering Systems Division, Global Studies and Languages, Health Sciences and Technology, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, Materials Science and Engineering, Mathematics, Mechanical Engineering, Media Arts and Sciences, Nuclear Science and Engineering, Physics, Sloan School of Management, and Supplemental Resources.
To Download: Choose subject under the heading "Online Textbooks by Department," choose title, and either download each chapter needed or download all course materials by navigating to "Download Course Materials" and clicking the "Start Download" button.
Licensing: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 unless otherwise noted. - OER Commons: Textbooks
Subjects Included: Applied Science, Arts and Humanities, Business and Communication, Career and Technical Education, Education, English, History, Law, Life Sciences, Mathematics, Physical Science, and Social Science.
To View: Refine list by "Subject Area," select title, and click "View Resource"
Licensing: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 unless otherwise noted. - OpenStax College: Textbooks
Subjects Included: Math; Science; Social Sciences; and Humanities.
To Download: Choose subject from top navigation, select title, and click "Download a PDF."
Licensing: CC BY 4.0 unless otherwise noted. - Open Textbook Library
Subjects Included: Accounting & Finance; Business, Management, & Marketing; Computer Science & Information Systems; Economics; General Education; Humanities & Languages; Law; Mathematics & Statistics; Natural & Physical Sciences; and Social Sciences.
To Download: Choose a Subject, click "Read More" and choose to "Read this Book" by PDF or Online.
Licensing: CC BY 4.0 unless otherwise noted.
More OER Textbooks
- FreeTechBooksThis 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 - Green Tea PressSubjects Included: Computer Science.
To Download: Select a title and click the "Download ..." or "Read ..." links.
Licensing: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 unless otherwise noted. - InTechOpenSubjects 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. - LibreTextsSubjects Included: Chemistry, biology, geosciences, mathematics, statistics, physics, social sciences, engineering, medicine, agriculture, photosciences, and humanities.
To View: Choose a subject from the top navigation (default page will be Chemistry), choose "Textbook Maps" as this will provide the most textbook like experience, and chose your topics.
Licensing: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 unless otherwise noted. - NobaSubjects Included: Psychology.
To Download: Choose topic from right hand navigation, choose and use title.
Licensing: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 unless otherwise noted. - Online Mathematics TextbooksSimple list of freely available math books compiled by George Cain at Georgia Institute of Technology.
Subjects Included: Mathematics.
To View: Select book from list.
Licensing: Observe licensing details after navigating to resources. - OpenBookPublishersSubjects 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. - OpenStax CNX: BooksSubjects Included: Arts; Business; Humanities; Mathematics and Statistics; Science and Technology; and Social Sciences.
To Download: Choose subject from side navigation, select title, and click "Get This Book," .
Licensing: CC BY 4.0 unless otherwise noted. - Open Textbook Initiative, American Institute of MathematicsSubjects Included: Mathematics.
To Download: Choose subject, select title, and click from "For more information and to download," and find the download link.
Licensing: Observe Copyright Notice on individual textbooks. Most are Creative Common licenses that are not too restrictive. - ScholarWorks@GVSUSubjects Included: Art and Humanities; Business, Education; Engineering; Law; Life Sciences; Medicine & Health; Physical Sciences & Mathematics; and Social & Behavioral Sciences.
To Download: Choose a title from the list and click "Download Full Text" or choose individual chapters.
Licensing: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 unless otherwise noted. - WAC Clearinghouse RepositorySubjects Included: Writing
To Download: Choose a title and click ""View this textbook".
Licensing: "Copyright on the materials on this site is held by the authors and editors who have contributed content to it (© 1997-2024)." - WAC Clearinghouse Other Open-Access Book Series in Writing SeriesThis resource links to other publishers of scholarly open-access textbooks within the field of writing studies.
