LibGuides: Open Education: Open Textbooks

Open Textbooks

BC Open Collection: BCcampus Open Textbook Collection plus supplementary learning materials

BCcampus Adoption Finder: Open textbooks used in BC post-secondary courses

Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) is a search tool that aims to make the discovery of open content easier. OASIS currently searches open content from 113 different sources and contains 440,331 records.

The links below are OER sites that offer openly licensed textbooks, free books, and other learning and teaching materials.

Assayer
Large 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.
Merlot
Free and open resource designed primarily for higher education.
Milne Open Textbooks (previously SUNY)
"...a catalog of open textbooks authored and peer-reviewed by SUNY faculty and staff."
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
Peer reviewed post secondary textbooks
Open Textbook Library
"The Open Textbook Library provides a growing catalog of free, peer-reviewed, and openly-licensed textbooks"
PressBooks Directory
Pressbooks Directory provides an index of books published across 135 Pressbooks networks..
University of Minnesota Open Textbook Library
"A source of openly licensed textbooks available for anyone to download and use for free"
Wikibooks
Wikimedia's community for creating and sharing educational textbooks.