Copyright free and Creative Commons resources: Open Textbooks

For a useful guide to Tertiary level open textbooks by subject see OER by Discipline guide. (Search under 'Contents' on the top left hand side for discipline areas)

• American Institute of Mathematics open Maths textbooks
• BC Campus find open textbooks
• Centre for computer assisted legal instruction textbooks
• College Open Textbooks (US college open textbooks)
• Cool4Ed (California Open Online Library for education)
• Curriki (US aimed at secondary students)
• Free books for Doctors
• K12 Flexbook (US repository)
• Libre Texts (open textbook platform)
• Merlot OER Literature catalogue (includes Classics, Shakespeare, and an alphabetical list of other works of fiction)
• Milne Open Textbooks (also known as SUNY)
• Open access atlas of otolaryngology, head & neck operative surgery
• Open book project (US based IT resources)
• OER by Discipline guide (McMaster University, Canada)
• Open Educational Resources (US repository)
• Open Stax Textbooks (Rice University US)
• Open Textbook Library (University of Minnesota US)
• ORELN Textbook Initiative (Open textbooks & extra materials for Australian Universities)
• Pressbooks Directory (Free, searchable catalog that includes 6,030 open access books published by 166 organizations. Nearly all books are highly accessible, and many include interactive H5P learning activities to engage learners.)
• Runestone Academy (Open maths and IT textbooks available for use under the MIT License. Use of the content or materials associated with the Service shall be licensed to you pursuant to this license: Creative Commons CC-BY (these two licenses shall be collectively referred to as the”License”).
• Smarthistory (Open art history textbook)
• The Global Text Project
• Wikibooks

• Unpaywall and Core Discovery are browser extensions for Firefox and Chrome, which add a green tab beside research articles that you can read for free.

• The Open Access Button will search across the web for a freely accessible full-text version of an article and if not found will send an email to the author asking them to provide a copy

• OASIS Open access search will search across 113 different sources. Search widget code at https://oasis.geneseo.edu/about.php

• Mason OER metafinder searches 23 sources, including HathiTrust, Internet Archive, Project Gutenberg, and the Digital Public Library of America.)

• DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.

• For a list of Open Access Journals with an Australian publisher view here 

• The OAPEN Library is a central repository for hosting and disseminating OA books, and the Directory of Open Access Books is a discovery service for OA books. 

• OpenDOAR is an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories.