Open Education Resources (OER)

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

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

College Open Textbooks started with a collaboration of educational non-profit and for profit organizations. Their goal is to provide high quality free textbooks for community and two-year colleges.

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.

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

From Niagara College in Canada.

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, Open Textbook College provides free high quality textbooks.

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.