LibGuides: Open Educational Resources: Open Textbooks

Openstax College

Openstax College
OpenStax is a nonprofit educational initiative based at Rice University. OpenStax textbook projects are developed and peer-reviewed by educators to ensure they are readable and accurate, meet the scope and sequence requirements of each course, are supported by instructor ancillaries, and are available with the latest technology-based learning tools.

Below are the textbooks available:

Algebra & Trigonometry	American Government	Anatomy and Physiology	Astronomy
Biology	Business Ethics	Calculus Volume 1, 2, & 3	Chemistry
Chemistry Atoms First	College Algebra	College Physics	Concepts of Biology
Elementary Algebra	Intermediate Algebra	Introduction to Business	Introductory Business Statistics
Introductory Statistics	Microbiology	Prealgebra	Precalculus
Principles of Economics 2e	Principles of Macroeconomics 2e	Principles of Microeconomics 2e	Psychology
Sociology 2e	University Physics Volume 1, 2, & 3	U.S. History

Open Textbook Library
Open textbooks are textbooks that have been funded, published, and licensed to be freely used, adapted, and distributed. 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. All textbooks are either used at multiple higher education institutions; or affiliated with an institution, scholarly society, or professional organization. The Open Textbook Library is supported by the Center for Open Education and the Open Textbook Network.

Below listed the subject areas:

Accounting & Finance	Business: Human Resources, Management, and Marketing
Computer Science & Information Systems	Economics
Education	Engineering
Humanities: Arts, History, Languages, Linguistics, Literature, and Philosophy	Journalism, Media Studies & Communications
Law	Mathematics: Applied and Pure
Medicine	Natural Sciences: Biology, Chemistry, and Physics
Social Sciences: Psychology and Sociology	Student Services

BCcampus: OpenEd
Contains a collection of open textbooks aligned with the top 40 highest-enrolled subject areas in British Columbia. This resource also contains additional textbooks targeting trades, technology, and skills training.

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Open SUNY Textbooks
On this site you’ll find openly licensed textbooks and courses written and curated by SUNY Faculty. In addition to textbooks, you will find ready-to-adopt courses using OER resources.

Open SUNY Textbooks include:

Microbiology: A Laboratory Experience	Naming the Unnameable: An Approach to Poetry for New Generations	The History of Our Tribe: Hominini	Exploring Movie Construction & Production: What's so exciting about Movies
A Concise Introduction to Logic	Music and the Child	Teaching Autoethnography: Personal Writing in the Classroom	Good Corporation, Bad Corporation: Corporate Social Responsibility in the Global Economy
Steps to Success: Crossing the Bridge Between Literacy Research and Practice	Writing in College: From Competence to Excellence	Nursing Care and the End of Life: What Every Clinician Should Know	A Spiral Workbook for Discrete Matematics
Foundations of Academic Success: Words of Wisdom	Introduction to the Modeling and Analysis of Complex Systems	Guidelines for Improving the Effectiveness of Boards of Directors of Nonprofit Organizations	Sound of Physics
The Missing Link: An Introduction to Web Development and Programming	Literature, the Humanities, and Humanity	Instruction in Functional Assessment	The Information Literacy User's Guide: An Open, Online Textbook
How We Got from There to Here: A Story of Real Analysis	Natural Resources Biometrics	Native Peoples of North America