Open Educational Resources: Open Textbook Collections

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 library currently includes 711 textbooks, with more being added all the time.

MERLOT contains links to freely available online textbooks from a variety of sources. MERLOT is a project of the California State University System. Search instructions: (Filter "material type" by "open textbook").

The B.C. Open Textbook project is a publisher of open textbooks coordinated by BC Campus launched in October 2012. Titles are published under Creative Commons licenses, available in multiple digital formats including e-book and print-on-demand.

OpenStax specializes in creating materials for general education courses like Business, Humanities, Science, etc. All textbooks have been peer-reviewed and vetted by the higher education community

College textbooks for many subjects. Students can purchase books in multiple formats for less than traditional texts.
Subject areas include: Business, Humanities, Mathematics, Sciences, and Social Sciences.

DOAB is a searchable database of peer reviewed scientific monographs that have been made accessible by academic publishers in open access. DOAB contains the metadata of 'free to share' e-books and provides direct links to the full text of the publications on the websites of the publishers

A growing collection of openly licensed textbooks in a wide variety of topics.

Some of these online textbooks are open-licensed electronic versions of print books. Others are self-published online books, or course notes which are so thorough that they serve as an alternative to a conventional textbook.

More than 4,800 peer-reviewed Open Access books in Physical Sciences, Engineering and Technology, Life Sciences, Health Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities.

A multi-institutional collaboration to develop open-access texts for higher education funded by the National Science Foundation. Covers a variety of subjects including chemistry, biology, geosciences, mathematics, statistics, physics, social sciences, engineering, medicine, agriculture, photosciences, and the humanities.

Creator, publisher, distributor, and seller of open textbooks and ancillary materials to college-level students.

More than 6,000 Open Access ebooks from 75+ publishers, including Brill, Cornell University Press, De Gruyter, and University of California Press, are now available at no cost to libraries or users.

Springer offer authors the option to publish their books and chapters open access – making your research freely available to anyone with internet access.

Taylor & Francis Open Access Books are published across all subject areas, our strengths are in Society & Social Sciences and Humanities.We have also built collections in subject specific areas and collections for universities and funders who have a large amount of book content to open access.

A free PDF version of each title is available to download from OUP website. This version is free to read and share according to the terms of the Creative Commons publication license, provided that the author is properly cited

Open Access eBooks provides a common platform for publishing the latest scientific work and acquiring knowledge on latest scientific happenings in different areas of science, technology and medicine.

Project Gutenberg is a library of over 60,000 free eBooks. Choose among free epub and Kindle eBooks, download them or read them online. You will find the world's great literature here, with focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired.

The site is a project of the Internet Archive and is intended to create “one web page for every book ever published”. There are over 1,000,000 free eBook titles available. Most of the titles are public domain, but you can also find here a growing lending library of over 200,000 contemporary eBooks.

European eBook publisher with 1000+ textbooks freely available to download. E-books are primarily in business/economics, engineering/natural sciences and IT.

This is a popular catalog of public domain eBooks, sourced from Project Gutenberg and Internet Archive. The books are available in a vast number of different file formats, so if you are looking for less popular ones, like Plucker or FictionBook2, Manybooks is a good destination to explore. Currently, there are almost 30,000 titles in Manybooks.

Open Access Publishing in European Networks builds a quality controlled collection of open access books, and provides services for publishers, libraries and research funders. A freely accessible peer reviewed academic books in the fields of humanities and social sciences. The collection contains books that are ‘free to read’ and books that are ‘free to share’ that depends on which open access licenses authors applied.

OpenEdition Books is a web platform for books in the humanities and social sciences. More than half of them are available in Open Access.

Offers open access books from several distinguished university presses and scholarly societies in social and humanities.

Open access book portfolio across a total of 30 subject areas.

Offering about 400 Open Access books mostly in humanities and social sciences.

Collection of open access books across the disciplines.