All guides: Open Educational Resources (OERs): OER Textbooks

MetaFinders

These Metafinders are search engines that submits your query to several other search engines and returns a summary of the results.

Mason OER Metafinder
Mason OER Metafinder conducts a real-time, simultaneous search across 21 different sources of open educational materials.
Merlot
Search Merlot's collection of free and open online teaching, learning, and faculty development services designed primarily for faculty, staff and students of higher education.
OASIS
Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) is a tool that searches open content from 98 different sources and aims to make the discovery of open content easier.
Open Research Library
The Open Research Library (ORL) is planned to include all Open Access book content worldwide on one platform for user-friendly discovery, offering a seamless experience navigating more than 20,000 Open Access books.

Open Textbook Collections

BCampus OpenEd
Search for quality open textbooks offered in a variety of digital formats. Search by subject and download them to your computer.
CCCOnline
CCCOnline, on behalf of the Colorado Community College System, is a collection of OER Curation Guides that are discipline expert-reviewed and librarian-curated.
DOAB
Directory of Open Access Books provides 27482 Academic peer-reviewed books from 374 publishers on a large range of subjects.
La Trobe eBureau
The La Trobe eBureau publishes engaging, high quality, open-access ebooks. The mission of the eBureau is to invest in the development of quality open access resources to support online and blended learning.
MIT OpenCourseWare
MIT OpenCourseWare makes the materials used in the teaching of almost all of MIT's subjects available online. With more than 2,200 courses available, including business, engineering, health, medicine, mathematics and science.
OER Commons
A repository of open educational resources representing a variety of disciplines.
Open Book Publishers
A not-for-profit Open Access publisher in the Humanities and Social Sciences in the UK.
OpenStax
Breaks down barriers to knowledge and education with its free, high-quality, openly licensed textbooks integrated with personalized learning technology.
Open SUNY Textbooks
Is an open access textbook publishing initiative established by State University of New York libraries.
Open Textbook Collection
These books have been reviewed by faculty from a variety of colleges and universities to assess their quality. These books can be downloaded at no cost, or printed at low cost.
Pressbooks Directory
Index of 2091 open books published in North America and UK. Some Australian content.
RMIT Digital Collections / Open Educational Resources
This collection includes RMIT-created resources, Open Textbooks and other Open Educational resources not created by RMIT.
Sacred Heart University
A broad range of resources, sorted by subject and provided with URL links to source.

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