A key component of OER is textbooks. Open textbooks are licensed by authors and publishers to be freely used and adapted. Download, edit and distribute them at no cost.
- Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)
DOAB is a community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books
- Open Textbooks | OER Commons
This resource seeks to collect and distribute a variety of OER at a variety of levels and subjects.
- OpenStax College
Rice Connexions is providing peer reviewed, quality open textbooks with interactive components. There are some amazing textbooks available here, with more in production.
- Open Textbook Library
Hundreds of complete, open college-level textbooks collected by the University of Minnesota.
- BC OpenEd
A curated collection of open textbooks, many reviewed by British Columbia faculty.
- WikiBooks
A project of the Wikimedia Foundation, this collection of group written textbooks in a variety of sources follows rules similar to Wikipedia.
- Project Gutenberg
Find the full text of classics and public domain works from the first massive ebook creating organization in existence. Nothing fancy here, just files with the full text.
- Google Books
Millions of books scanned by Google including some that are available as full-text books.
- Bloomsbury Academic
Bloomsbury is a well-respected and long time UK publisher who has released some of their academic titles for open access/open education.
