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Open Textbook Mega Sites<\/h2>\n

The links below are OER mega sites that offer books as well as other teaching tools.<\/p>\n

Assayer<\/u><\/a>\u00a0\u2013 Largest catalogue of open sources textbooks. Also is a good place to find free books about math, science and computers.<\/p>\n

AU Press<\/u><\/a>\u00a0\u2013 Athabasca University Press \u2013 free pdf and low cost print version of mainly Canadian books.<\/p>\n

BC Campus OER<\/u><\/a> \u2013 BC Campus open movement including textbooks and their OER by Discipline Guide<\/a><\/p>\n

Boundless<\/u><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>\u2013 high quality content and resources built by a community of educators and experts. It provides ready-to-use content, tools, and test materials<\/p>\n

College Open Textbooks<\/u><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>\u2013 Lists open textbooks by subjects, many of which are peer reviewed.<\/p>\n

Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources<\/u><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>\u2013 Advocacy, training, and links to college level open textbooks and other courseware.<\/p>\n

Connexions<\/u><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>\u2013 Content Commons of free, open-licensed educational materials in fields such as music, electrical engineering and psychology.<\/p>\n

eCampusOntario<\/a> – Provides educators and learners with access OER, tools and practices that can be used, shared and adapted in the digital environment<\/p>\n

Merlot<\/u><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>\u2013 Free and open resource designed primarily for higher education.<\/p>\n

National Science Digital Library<\/u><\/a>\u00a0\u2013 Access to teaching and learning materials in the STEM disciplines (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). Search by level, resource type, and subject.<\/p>\n

OER Commons<\/u><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>\u2013 Worldwide learning network of shared teaching and learning materials.<\/p>\n

OpenStax College<\/u><\/a>\u00a0\u2013 an initiative of Rice College, OpenStax offers free textbooks that are developed and peer-reviewed by educators to ensure they are readable and accurate.<\/p>\n

Open SUNY Textbooks<\/u><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>\u2013 \u201cOpen 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\u201d.<\/p>\n

Open Textbook Library<\/u><\/a>\u00a0\u2013 One of the larger repositories of open textbooks. Includes selections from BCcampus, Calpoly and many more.<\/p>\n

Wikibooks<\/u><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>\u2013 Wikimedia\u2019s community for creating and sharing educational textbooks.<\/p>\n

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From the book’s about section<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“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 \u2014 case studies, courses, games, repositories, simulations, textbooks, videos, and more \u2014 and organize them so faculty can easily locate resources in their subject area.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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