This guide offers an overview of OER, open licensing, and will help you to locate and evaluate open resources to use in your courses or as supplementary material.
OpenStax is a nonprofit organization founded by Rice University. It has published an extensive collection of free, openly licensed, peer-reviewed textbooks available for adoption in a number of general education courses.
Pressbooks is a publishing platform for many openly licensed books. This directory contains all of their publications, use the license filter to find openly licensed books.
BCcampus OpenEd is an open initiative first announced by the British Columbia Minister of Advanced Education in 2012. Since then, the project has created a large collection of open textbooks to meet the needs of the region's 40 highest enrolled subject areas.
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.
ALG's open textbooks are made to cover the scope and sequence of a University System of Georgia course. Ancillary materials for these are included on the textbook's front page.
ACLS Humanities E-Book (HEB) participates in Humanities Open Book (HOB), a program intended to give a second life to outstanding out-of-print books in the humanities by turning them into free e-books.
National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Mathematics together have created the National Academies Press, which to date has more than 8500 open-access health, science, and medicine books. Books are free to read online or download as PDFs.
Open Humanities Press is an international, scholar-led open access publishing collective whose mission is to make leading works of contemporary critical thought available worldwide.
