LibGuides: Open Educational Resources: Textbooks & OA

Open Textbooks

OpenStax
OER Publisher. Includes openly licensed books and ancillary materials (including courseware, test banks, answer guides, and slides) for a wide range of subjects.
Open Textbook Library
Collection of over a thousand open textbooks, supported by the Open Education Network. Includes a wide range of subjects.
BCcampus OpenEd
Collection of open textbooks and other OER. Also provides resources for creating new open textbooks.
Pressbooks Directory
Directory of over 3,300 books published through Pressbooks, an open publisher.
GALILEO Open Learning Materials
OER (including open textbooks and ancillary materials) from the University System of Georgia.
CUNY Academic Works: Open Educational Resources
OER including textbooks, syllabi, and other instructional materials created by CUNY (City University of New York).
Milne Open Textbooks
Catalog of open textbooks authored and peer-reviewed by SUNY (State University of New York System) faculty and staff.

Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) This link opens in a new window
Index and free access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed books.

WAC Clearing House Book Series
Free academic books, focusing mostly on rhetoric, composition, and related fields.

OER Subject Guides (Tacoma Community College)
OER lists by subject.
IntechOpen
Open access academic publisher. Book subject areas include: Physical Sciences, Engineering and Technology (2,600+) ; Health Sciences (1,800+); Life Sciences (1,000+); and Social Sciences and Humanities (280+).
OER Commons Hub: OpenStax Textbooks
Working groups for sharing, organizing, and collaborating on resources to accompany textbooks published by OpenStax.

Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning (COERLL)
Hosted by the University of Texas at Austin. Produces OER for teaching and learning foreign languages.
MedEdPORTAL
MEDLINE-indexed, open-access journal of teaching and learning resources in the health professions.
NanoHUB
Open and free platform for computational research, education, and collaboration in nanotechnology, materials science, and related fields. Includes a variety of teaching materials.

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) This link opens in a new window
Multidisciplinary index of over 17,000 peer-reviewed open access journals, covering subjects in humanities, social sciences, STEM, and medicine. (FREE)
Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR) This link opens in a new window
Collection of Open Access repositories providing free access to academic outputs and resources.

Open Culture
Collection of free online courses, eBooks, audiobooks, movies, podcasts, and other ancillary materials.