Open Educational Resources

This tool allows you to browse open textbooks being actively used at colleges and universities in B.C.

Open textbook project started with initiative from British Columbia Advanced Education and the BC campus. BC Campus OpenED offers 70 openly licensed textbooks

From a collaboration between the academic libraries and university presses in the Big Ten Academic Alliance.

Bookboon is a Danish ebook and print book publisher. They offer over 900 free textbooks.

Academic peer-reviewed books and chapters from 269 publishers (Open Source Titles).

GALILEO Open Learning Materials brings together open educational resources throughout the University System of Georgia, including open textbooks and ancillary materials.

Lumen Learning’s mission is to make great learning opportunities available to all students, regardless of socioeconomic background.

Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching brought to you by California State University. MERLOT II provides free textbooks and other materials for education.

is a multi-year initiative funded as part of the Technology Readiness Infrastructure Grant (TRIG) from the Michigan Department of Education. It is designed to empower groups of master K-12 teachers to come together, collaborate and develop an open education resource for use in Michigan classrooms.

An easy-to-use OER search tool developed by Milne Library at SUNY Geneseo. Search results by license, type, subject, source, and reviews.

ISKME created OER Commons in 2007. OER Commons has partnered with over 500 organizations to provide resources for educators.

From Niagara College in Canada.

Browse OER textbooks being used in Oregon community colleges by school type and discipline.

Provided by Rice University and supported by many education foundations. OpenStax provides quality free textbooks to meet your course needs.

Created by the University of Minnesota and now part of a large network of universities. Provides free high quality textbooks.

Browse OER textbooks in development to see what is coming soon!

A collection of open source and free e-Textbooks curated and reviewed by educators.
Provides book descriptions, table of contents, and a list of available supplemental materials.
Lists license, file format, and printing information.

Open SUNY Textbooks is an open access textbook publishing initiative established by State University of New York libraries and supported by SUNY Initiative Technology Grant.

The Teaching Commons brings together high-quality open educational resources from leading colleges and universities. Curated by librarians and their institutions, the Teaching Commons includes open access textbooks, course materials, lesson plans, multimedia, and more.

Textbook Equity, based in Los Gatos, California, USA, is a creator, publisher, distributor, and seller of “open*” textbooks and other materials to college-level students. They provide free, complete PDF’s of textbooks.

The OERN's portal is open and free for everyone around the world to use.

Mission: We are a global network of educational institutions, individuals and organizations that support an approach to education based on openness, including collaboration, innovation and collective development and use of open educational materials.

Open Yale Courses (OYC) provides lectures and other materials from selected Yale College courses to the public free of charge via the Internet. The courses span the full range of liberal arts disciplines, including humanities, social sciences, and physical and biological sciences.

Saylor offer nearly 100 full-length courses at the college and professional levels, each of which is available right now — at your pace, on your schedule, and free of cost.

Tufts University is committed to offering the world's learners free access to its many academic resources. Tufts OpenCourseWare (OCW) seeks to capitalize on the potential of the internet to eliminate borders and geographic distance as obstacles to the instantaneous exchange of knowledge and new ideas.