Open Textbook Mega Sites
Open Textbook Mega Sites
The links below are OER mega sites that offer books as well as other teaching tools.
Assayer – Largest catalogue of open sources textbooks. Also is a good place to find free books about math, science and computers.
AU Press – Athabasca University Press – free pdf and low cost print version of mainly Canadian books.
BC Campus OER – BC Campus open movement including textbooks and their OER by Discipline Guide
Boundless – high quality content and resources built by a community of educators and experts. It provides ready-to-use content, tools, and test materials
College Open Textbooks – Lists open textbooks by subjects, many of which are peer reviewed.
Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources – Advocacy, training, and links to college level open textbooks and other courseware.
Connexions – Content Commons of free, open-licensed educational materials in fields such as music, electrical engineering and psychology.
eCampusOntario – Provides educators and learners with access OER, tools and practices that can be used, shared and adapted in the digital environment
Merlot – Free and open resource designed primarily for higher education.
National Science Digital Library – Access to teaching and learning materials in the STEM disciplines (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). Search by level, resource type, and subject.
OER Commons – Worldwide learning network of shared teaching and learning materials.
OpenStax College – an initiative of Rice College, OpenStax offers free textbooks that are developed and peer-reviewed by educators to ensure they are readable and accurate.
Open SUNY Textbooks – “Open SUNY Textbooks is an open access textbook publishing initiative established by State University of New York libraries and supported by SUNY Innovative Instruction Technology Grants”.
Open Textbook Library – One of the larger repositories of open textbooks. Includes selections from BCcampus, Calpoly and many more.
Wikibooks – Wikimedia’s community for creating and sharing educational textbooks.
UVic OER by Discipline Directory
From the book’s about section:
“This support guide lists a broad range of open educational resources (OER) organized by discipline. OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that, through permissions granted by the copyright holder, allow others to use, distribute, keep, or make changes to them. This directory was developed to highlight as many OER as possible — case studies, courses, games, repositories, simulations, textbooks, videos, and more — and organize them so faculty can easily locate resources in their subject area.”
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