Open Textbooks

American Institute of Mathematics: Open Textbook Initiative

URL- https://aimath.org/textbooks/

The American Institute of Mathematics (AIM) seeks to encourage the adoption of open source and open access mathematics textbooks. The AIM Editorial Board has developed evaluation criteria to identify the books that are suitable for use in traditional university courses.

Applied Math & Science Educational Repository

URL- https://amser.org/

AMSER (the Applied Math and Science Education Repository) is a portal of educational resources and services built specifically for use by those in Community and Technical Colleges but free for anyone to use. AMSER is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) as part of the National Science Digital Library and is being created by a team of project partners led by Internet Scout.

BCcampus Open textbooks

URL- https://open.bccampus.ca/

B.C. Open Textbooks Collection (British Columbia) are original creations or major adaptations of existing works, funded by and published by BC Campus.

Bookboon

URL- https://bookboon.com/

Bookboon is a digital learning service provider for corporate learning & development, providing eBooks, audio learning, online courses & learning. Bookboon was originally founded in Denmark in 1988 under the name Ventus. Bookboon offers free university textbooks to students and content, focus lies on soft skills and personal development for bite-sized learning for professionals.

COOL4Ed

URL- https://www.cool4ed.org/

The COOL4Ed website is the first library service of the CDOSL (California Digital Open-Source Library). It has a collection of Course Materials Showcases where faculty, staff, and students can find free and open educational resources aligned with 52 CID courses. Easy discovery of almost 5,000 free and open eTextbooks within a collection of over 70,000 free and open educational resources.

Directory of Open access books

URL- https://bookboon.com/

DOAB is a community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books and helps users to find trusted open access book publishers. All DOAB services are free of charge and all data is freely available. Directory of Open Access Books is a joint service of OAPEN, OpenEdition, CNRS and Aix-Marseille Université, provided by DOAB Foundation.

eCampusOntario Open Library

URL- https://openlibrary.ecampusontario.ca/

Open Educational Resources (OER) in Ontario refer to freely accessible and openly licensed educational materials that can be used for teaching, learning, and research. It covers 1,558 Resources in the Open Library.

EDSITEment

URL- https://edsitement.neh.gov/

EDSITEment is a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Trust for the Humanities. EDSITEment offers free resources for teachers, students, and parents searching for high-quality K-12 humanities education materials in the subject areas of history and social studies, literature and language arts, foreign languages, arts, and culture.

EdTech Books

URL- https://edtechbooks.org/

EdTech books offersFree Textbooks and Journals by Industry-Leading Professors and Other Experts.

GALILEO Open Learning Materials

URL- https://oer.galileo.usg.edu/

GALILEO Open Learning Materials brings together open educational resources throughout the University System of Georgia, including open textbooks and ancillary materials.

Hathi Trust

URL- https://www.hathitrust.org/

Founded in 2008, Hathi Trust is a not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries preserving 17+ million digitized items. Hathi Trust offers reading access to the fullest extent allowable by U.S. copyright law, computational access to the entire corpus for scholarly research, and other emerging services based on the combined collection. Hathi Trust members steward the collection — the largest set of digitized books managed by academic and research libraries — under the aims of scholarly, not corporate, interests.

IGNOU: eGyanKosh

URL- https://egyankosh.ac.in/

eGyanKosh - a National Digital Repository to store, index, preserve, distribute, and share the digital learning resources developed by the Open and Distance Learning Institutions in the country. Items in eGyanKosh are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved by IGNOU, unless otherwise indicated.

Inflibnet: e-PG Pathshala

URL- https://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/

e-PG Pathshala is an initiative of the MHRD under its National Mission on Education through ICT (NME-ICT) being executed by the UGC. The content and its quality being the key component of education system, high quality, curriculum-based, interactive e-content in 70 subjects across all disciplines of social sciences, arts, fine arts and humanities, natural & mathematical sciences, linguistics and languages have been developed by the subject experts working in Indian universities and other R & D institutes across the country.

LibreTexts

URL- https://libretexts.org/

The LibreTexts mission is to unite students, faculty and scholars in a cooperative effort to develop an easy-to-use online platform for the construction, customization, and dissemination of open educational resources (OER) to reduce the burdens of unreasonable textbook costs to our students and society.

MERLOT

URL- https://www.merlot.org/merlot/

The MERLOT system created by California State University provides access to curated online learning and support materials and content creation tools, led by an international community of educators, researchers, and learners.

Milne Open Textbooks

URL- https://milneopentextbooks.org/

A collection of free online textbooks developed and peer-reviewed by faculty of the State University of New York (SUNY) system.

NCERT: epathshala

URL- https://epathshala.nic.in/

ePathshala is a portal/app developed by CIET, and NCERT. It was initiated jointly by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, CIET, and NCERT, and launched in November 2015. It hosts educational resources for teachers, students, parents, researchers, and educators, that can be accessed on the Web, and is available on Google Play, App Store and Windows. The content is available in English, Hindi, and Urdu. The platform offers a slew of educational resources, including NCERT textbooks for classes 1-12, audio-visual resources by NCERT, periodicals, supplements, teacher training modules and a variety of other print and non-print materials. These materials can be downloaded by the user for offline use with no limits on downloads.

Noba

URL- https://nobaproject.com/

Noba is a free online platform that provides high-quality, flexibly structured textbooks and educational materials. These textbooks and materials are licensed under the Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 International License. Users may reuse, redistribute, and remix the content to suit their needs.

OER Commons

URL- https://www.oercommons.org/oer

OER commons is containing the rich open educational resources for teachers and learners. OER commons provides over 50,000 high-quality open education resources such as university courses, videos of lectures, assignments, and lecture notes etc. on arts, humanities, social science, mathematics, science, and technology.

Open Book Publishers

URL- https://www.openbookpublishers.com

Open Book Publishers (OBP), founded in 2008, is a leading independent open access academic press that publishes peer-reviewed, award-winning monographs, edited collections, textbooks, critical translations and more.

Open Oregon State Open Textbooks

URL- https://open.oregonstate.edu/textbooks/

Browse Oregon State’s University complete collection of open textbooks on OER Commons.

OpenStax

URL- https://openstax.org/

OpenStax is a non-profit educational initiative based at Rice University. Its mission is to give every student the tools they need to be successful in the classroom. They publish high-quality, peer-reviewed, openly licensed college textbooks that are free online and low cost in print.

Open Textbook Library

URL- https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks

Hundreds of complete, open college-level textbooks collected by the University of Minnesota.

PBS LearningMedia

URL- https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/

PBS LearningMedia offers FREE educational resources for Pre K–12 educators and students. Available to teachers and students at no cost for educational use. Responsive to needs, trends, and current events. Designed to promote and support effective practices in teaching and learning with digital media.

RMIT Open Press

URL- https://rmit.pressbooks.pub/

RMIT Open Press offers additional author support for scholarly publishing, including open textbooks.

ShareMyLesson

URL- https://sharemylesson.com/

The American Federation of Teachers’ Share My Lesson is a free, award-winning community-based site that brings together educators, parents and caregivers, paraprofessionals and school-related personnel, specialized instructional support personnel, union and nonunion members, educational partners, and higher education professionals who have the common goal of finding and sharing the best educational resources available. Share My Lesson was created by the AFT and TES Global in 2012. From the beginning, we have been committed to providing our community of members high-quality and effective lesson plans and professional development resources—all for free.

TED-Ed

URL- https://ed.ted.com/

TED-Ed is TED’s youth and education initiative. TED-Ed’s mission is to spark and celebrate the ideas of teachers and students around the world. Everything we do supports learning — from producing a growing library of original animated videos, to providing an international platform for teachers to create their own interactive lessons, to helping curious students around the globe bring TED to their schools and gain presentation literacy skills, to celebrating innovative leadership within TED-Ed’s global network of over 650,000 teachers. TED-Ed has grown from an idea worth spreading into an award-winning education platform that serves millions of teachers and students around the world every week.

UC Press Luminos

URL- https://www.luminosoa.org/

Luminos is University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program for monographs.

Writing Spaces

URL- http://writingspaces.org/

WRITING SPACES: READINGS ON WRITING is a book series containing peer-reviewed collections of essays—all composed by teachers for students—with each volume freely available for download under a Creative Commons license. WRITING SPACES aims to build a library of quality open access textbooks for the writing classroom as an alternative to costly textbooks.