LibGuides: OER: Adopt, Adapt, Create: OER Textbooks/Repositories

Open Textbooks

Open textbooks are textbooks that have been funded, published, and licensed to be freely used, adapted, and distributed. Many of these books have been reviewed by faculty from a variety of colleges and universities to assess their quality. These books can be downloaded for no cost, or printed at low cost.

Open Textbook Library The Open Textbook Library provides a growing catalog of free, peer-reviewed, and openly-licensed textbooks. All textbooks are either used at multiple higher education institutions; or affiliated with an institution, scholarly society, or professional organization. Explore the library's books to see if an open textbook fits your course's, and students', needs.
LibreTexts The LibreTexts mission is to unite students, faculty and scholars in a cooperative effort to develop an easy-to-use online platform for the construction, customization, and dissemination of open educational resources (OER) to reduce the burdens of unreasonable textbook costs to our students and society.
Open SUNY Textbooks In response to the growing impact of Open Educational Resources (OER) adoption across SUNY, the Open SUNY Textbook (OST) project, which originally launched from a SUNY a competitive grants program, is offering services to support wide faculty adoption of OER
BCcampus The textbooks are created (or, where possible, re-created from existing open educational resources) by BC post-secondary faculty, reviewed by B.C. faculty and made available under a Creative Commons license.
Affordable Learning Georgia This repository is administrated by Affordable Learning Georgia, an initiative of GALILEO and the University System of Georgia which aims to reduce the cost of textbooks to students and contribute to their retention, progression, and graduation.
California Open Online Library for Education (COOL4Ed) The three State of California Higher Education Systems are working together to provide you easy access to quality FREE and OPEN eTextbooks that everyone and anyone can use for teaching and learning.
Saylor Academy Open Textbooks The open textbooks on this page include several titles published through Saylor Academy’s Open Textbook Challenge and a collection of titles re-published by Saylor Academy in 2012. Heavily business oriented.
Open RN The Open RN™ project is funded by a $2.5 million dollar grant from the Department of Education to create 5 OER Nursing Textbooks with 25 associated Virtual Reality scenarios.
Wikibooks the open-content textbooks collection that anyone can edit. 3,432 books with 95,229 pages.
OpenStax Free textbooks. Low-cost technology. Support every step of the way. OpenStax is part of Rice University, which is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit charitable corporation.
EdTechBooks OER Repository developed and managed by Brigham Young University.

General Repositories

The general repositories include textbooks as well as learning objects, practice exercises, instructional videos, modules, free interactive math and science simulations, course materials, lesson plans, multimedia, lectures, and more.

Achieving the Dream Catalog: Lumen Learning This catalog contains openly-licensed course materials developed for the Open Educational Resources (OER) Degree Initiative, led by Achieving the Dream. Lumen maintains this content in the same condition it was provided to us by participating faculty and institutions. Except where otherwise noted, all material is licensed under a CC BY license.
Wisc-Online Since 1999, we have been building learning objects designed to condense information into small segments that are easy to understand. Our users choose to learn what they want, at their own pace, from anywhere in the world.
LibreTexts The LibreTexts mission is to unite students, faculty, and scholars in a cooperative effort to develop an easy-to-use online platform for the construction, customization, and dissemination of open educational resources (OER) to reduce the burdens of unreasonable textbook costs to our students and society.
MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching) "MERLOT is a free and open online community of resources designed primarily for faculty, staff and students of higher education from around the world to share their learning materials and pedagogy." This repository has a wide variety of resources for most discipline subjects.
OER Commons "OER Commons helps educators, students, and lifelong learners find Open Educational Resources through a single point of access from which they can search, browse, and evaluate resources in our growing collection of over 42,000 high-quality OER."
NOBA Psychology The Noba catalog covers the traditional scope of introductory psychology and then some. With 103 modules (and counting) we're confident you'll find what you're looking for.
PhET Math and Science Founded in 2002 by Nobel Laureate Carl Wieman, the PhET Interactive Simulations project at the University of Colorado Boulder creates free interactive math and science simulations. PhET sims are based on extensive education research and engage students through an intuitive, game-like environment where students learn through exploration and discovery.
Skills Commons Description Your FREE and OPEN digital library of Workforce Training Materials Preparing the Workforce for 21st Century Employment.

OER Search Engines

Using an OER search engine allows searching of multiple OER sources at once.

Mason OER Metafinder (MOM) The Mason OER Metafinder searches sixteen targets in real-time, instantly returning the top several hundred or so relevant hits from each site.
OASIS from SUNY OASIS (Openly Available Sources Integrated Search), is a search tool that can access 52 different OER sources that contain more than 150,000 items. Was co-developed by Ben Rawlins, director of Milne Library, and Bill Jones ’09, '11, digital resources and systems librarian at SUNY Geneseo.
OER Commons "OER Commons helps educators, students, and lifelong learners find Open Educational Resources through a single point of access from which they can search, browse, and evaluate resources in our growing collection of over 42,000 high-quality OER."