Faculty Resources: Open Educational Resources (OERs)

All textbooks on this site are openly licensed, available as a PDF/EPUB, are in use at or created by a higher education institution, and contain original content.

Based in British Columbia, this organization hosts and maintains OERs on a variety of subjects.

OpenStax is part of Rice University. Their textbooks include exercises and practice tests, chapter reviews, and are available free to read in browser (but may be purchased on Amazon if preferred).

"Milne Library Publishing at SUNY Geneseo manages and maintains Milne Open Textbooks, a catalog of open textbooks authored and peer-reviewed by SUNY faculty and staff."

"DOAB is a discovery service for peer reviewed open access books and book publishers that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed books."

"DOAJ's mission is to increase the visibility, accessibility, reputation, usage and impact of quality, peer-reviewed, open access scholarly research journals globally, regardless of discipline, geography or language."

"More than 8,000 Open Access books from 100+ publishers, including Brill, Cornell University Press, De Gruyter, and University of California Press, are now available at no cost to libraries or users."

"MERLOT is a free and open online library designed for the educational community and learners around the world. As a member, you can contribute to the library of resources, build your own personal collections, contribute your comments, learning assignments, and evaluations, and participate more extensively in the MERLOT Community."