Open Textbooks

Athabasca University Pree - free pdf and low cost print version of mainly Canadian books.

BC Campus open movement including textbooks.

KPU is Canada’s leading institutional adopter of open educational resources and home to the country’s first Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) programs.

Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) is a search tool that aims to make the discovery of open content easier. OASIS currently searches open content from 64 different sources and contains 160,546 records. Developed at SUNY

The home of Open Educational Resources (OER) in Ontario

Peer reviewed post secondary textbooks

A comprehensive collection of open textbooks created by the University of Minnesota.

We are a global community working together to create and share Open Educational Resources (OER). Here you’ll find people, processes, and tools to support your publishing efforts.

Largest catalogue of open sources textbooks. Also is a good place to find free books about math, science and computers.

Advocacy, training, and links to college level open textbooks and other courseware.

Content Commons of free, open-licensed educational materials in fields such as music, electrical engineering and psychology.

Thousands of academic peer-reviewed books and chapters from over 270 publishers.

Free textbooks, online courses, and more.

HathiTrust is a partnership of major research institutions and libraries and their "aim to build a comprehensive archive of published literature from around the world . It provides long-term preservation and access services for public domain and in copyright content from a variety of sources, including Google, the Internet Archive, Microsoft, and in-house partner institution initiatives."

Peer-reviewed open access books in science and technology.

"Expert-created content and resources for every subject and level."

"The Knowledge Unlatched model depends on many libraries from around the world sharing the payment of a single Title Fee to a publisher, in return for a book being made available on a Creative Commons licence via OAPEN and HathiTrust as a fully downloadable PDF."

MERLOT is a resource for building and sharing open access educational resources. Through MERLOT you can find textbooks, lectures, notes, syllabi, and other course materials.

Formerly known as "Open SUNY Textbooks. An open access textbook publishing initiative established by State University of New York libraries and supported by SUNY Innovative Instruction Technology Grants".

Access to teaching and learning materials in the STEM disciplines (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). Search by level, resource type, and subject.

A major collection of OER content can be found by searching OER Commons. You can search by subject area and/or instructional level. In addition to textbooks you will find a wide variety of lesson plans, PowerPoint slides, syllabi, notes, quizzes, activities, and other material that you can (freely) integrate into your course.

Collaboration of higher education institutions to share and expand their open course offerings.

Free to read versions of the texts at Flat World Knowledge

Wikimedia's community for creating and sharing educational textbooks.