Open Educational Resources (OER): Free the Textbook

High quality open access textbooks from Rice University, the HP Foundation, and the Gates Foundation. A large collection of textbooks covering a wide range of topics; strengths are the high quality, ease of dissemination to students, ease of printing, supplementary materials like powerpoints, tests banks, answer guides, and easy Canvas integration

About 60% of the titles have reviews, good place to publish a review because Ferris is an institutional member, wider range of subjects than OpenStax, supplementary materials rarer, and a “coming soon” section is available.

Many textbooks have embedded multimedia, 3D images, an OER remixer, easy print on demand for students, integration into Canvas, and integration with Hypothesis – a group annotation tool.

Includes open texts funded by British Columbia government and open texts reviewed by faculty on many topics. Easy to scan by topic area.

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.

Use OER Commons for textbooks, units, test banks, assignments,and other supplemental content for almost every academic subject.

Offers free educational courses; Users must create a login and password. This site has changed from University of Georgia to University of Denver, but is now a publisher's website.

Subjects are varied and more unusual than some other sources.

Complete text of numerous titles available in PDF--mostly literary and other humanities topics.

Open access texts from AU Press, a Canadian university press.

Faculty at Grand Valley State University have published some open access texts on their library's Digital Commons repository. Includes texts on Calculus, Simulation in Manufacturing, Human Osteology, Mathematical Reasoning, and Writing.

Lists by subject of college level open access texts for Mathematics and Physics.

ESL, Japanese, Arabic, Spanish literature, special education, mathematical analysis, GIS, developmental systems, gender and sexualities.

Free textbooks that can be downloaded as PDFs.

Faculty at USF have published some open access texts on their library's Digital Commons repository.

Includes: Contribute a Verse: A Guide to First Year Composition, Compact Anthology of World Literature, Principles of Macroeconomic Literacy, The Basics of American Government, and History in the Making: A History of the People of the United States of America to 1877.

This model won't work for everybody--but it's easy to browse by subject to see if there is a wikibook that does meet your standards.
Not included in custom search.

Discipline specific guide to open textbooks, open access books, syllabi, and data sets.

Written by Sociology prof Ron J. Hammond and revised in cooperation with Sociology profs at other institutions. Available in both html and PDF. Test bank available to instructiors.
Introduction to Sociology
Sociology of the Family

These "open-access textbooks have been judged to meet the evaluation criteria set by the AIM editorial board." Covers many mathematical disciplines, including statistics.

Download books for the study of ancient Near Eastern civilizations, including Anatolian studies, archaeology, Egypt, epigraphic survey, Hittite civilization, Islamic studies, language and text studies, Mesopotamian civilization, Nubian civilization, Iranian civilization, prehistoric Near East, Syro/Palestine.

Computer science texts written by Allen B. Downey, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering.

The Cupola: Scholarship at Gettysburg College is proud to host open textbooks, lab manuals, and other learning materials created by Gettysburg College faculty and employees.

Links to open mathematics texts in PDF format.

Includes quality medical textbooks underwritten by foundations and societies.

This "build-your-own" open access psychology textbooks project allows instructors to choose chapters.

"A free, comprehensive, peer-reviewed, award-winning Open Text for students and faculty in college-level courses that require writing and research." Uses an interesting model that allows for collaborative authorship and an editorial board.

Open access writing texts vetted by an editorial board of professors from multiple colleges. Site hosted at Colorado State University.

Collaborative online American History text. List of authors includes faculty at many reputable colleges.

A Palomar College professor offers two award-winning "tutorials" which can substitute for a textbook to teach cultural anthropology or biological anthropology.

Pieters RS, Bishop-Jodoin M, Liebmann J. Introduction to Cancer Concepts: A Guidebook for the Non-Oncologist. In: Pieters RS, Liebmann J, eds. Cancer Concepts: A Guidebook for the Non-Oncologist. Worcester, MA: University of Massachusetts Medical School; 2014.

Interactive psychology textbook by by Mississippi State University professor, Gary L. Bradshaw.

Great reviews from profs at multiple universities. Free to read online or download as PDF. Stable - this book (and some updates) have been up for years.

3rd Edition: May 2021:
A comprehensive introduction to the latest forecasting methods using the fable package for R. Examples use R with many data sets taken from the authors' own consulting experience. In this third edition, all chapters have been updated to cover the latest research, and a new chapter has been added on time series features.
2nd Edition; May 2018:
A comprehensive introduction to the latest forecasting methods. Examples use R with many data sets taken from the authors’ own consulting experience. In this second edition, all chapters have been updated to cover the latest research, and three new chapters have been added on dynamic regression forecasting, hierarchical forecasting and practical forecasting issues.

Trinity University. On Digital Commons. Simple to download.

Book shared by Professor via Google Drive.

Physics texts offered in free PDF by a physics professor (PhD Yale). Very inexpensive print versions also available. Supplementary materials for verified faculty.

Interactive online textbook from The University of Texas Medical School at Houston.

Introductory accounting text by a professor at Utah State.

"A comprehensive web-based textbook that addresses all of the topics in a typical introductory undergraduate or graduate course in social research methods. "

"These workbooks, designed for use in an active learning environment, arrange topics such that students receive repeated exposure to concepts over an extended time interval each time with
an incremental increase in complexity."

"An introduction to the nature of the universe. Use it to research or review our solar system, stars, galaxies, and the history of the universe. Each chapter has a set of corresponding homework questions."

Dumas, B.A. & McCarthy, J.E. (2014). Transition to higher mathematics: Structure and proof (2nd ed.) [PDF]. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7936/K7Z899HJ

Most books listed are not suitable for use as texts, but this may change as this project expands. (Not included in the Google Custom Search).