Book Collections & Textbooks
- Pressbooks Directory: This directory provides an index of 2,964 books published across 109 Pressbooks networks.
- Higher Education Open Textbooks: ISKME’s digital librarian-curated collections of Open Textbooks organized by discipline.
- OpenStax: A nonprofit educational technology initiative based at Rice University. “Since 2012, OpenStax has created peer-reviewed, openly-licensed textbooks, which are available in free digital formats and for a low cost in print.”
- Open Textbook Library: “Textbooks in the Open Textbook Library are considered open because they are free to use and distribute, and are licensed to be freely adapted or changed with proper attribution.” OTL textbooks must be a complete textbook available as a complete portable file (e.g. PDF, EPUB) and be in use at multiple higher education institutions, or affiliated with a higher education institution, scholarly society, or professional organization.
- BC Campus Open Ed: Peer-reviewed accessible textbooks and ancillary materials in all subjects.
- Milne Open Textbooks by SUNY: Milne Library Publishing at SUNY Geneseo manages and maintains Milne Open Textbooks, a catalog of open textbooks authored and peer-reviewed by SUNY faculty and staff. The work highlighted in this series have a variety of publishers, but are all: authored by a SUNY faculty member, full courses or texts to be used in a college-level course, original work, or a significant remix or adaptation of another open work, and licensed with a Creative Commons license, with no ND designation.
- MIT Online Textbooks: An index to the online textbooks in MIT OpenCourseWare. Each link below goes to a course or resource page that contains the textbook files. Some of these online textbooks are open-licensed electronic versions of print books. Others are self-published online books, or course notes to serve as an alternative to a conventional textbook.