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BC Campus https://open.bccampus.ca/browse-our-collection/find-open-textbooks/?subject=found on the webpage Search for quality open textbooks offered in a variety of digital formats; the first step in adopting open educational resources. Search by subject and download them to your computer.
CosmoLearning https://cosmolearning.org/ Courses, videos, images, books, and documentaries in many disciplines.
California Open Online Library for Education (COOL4Ed) https://www.cool4ed.org/findetextbooks Open textbooks are typically authored by faculty and published on the web with the support of universities or new commercial companies. Open textbooks are frequently governed by Creative Commons licenses that enable users to download, customize or print the textbook without expressed written consent of the author.
Galileo https://oer.galileo.usg.edu/all-textbooks/ GALILEO Open Learning Materials brings together open educational resources throughout the University System of Georgia, including open textbooks and ancillary materials.
IOER (Illinois Open Educational Resources) https://ioer.ilsharedlearning.org/search Open access textbooks and other resources in many disciplines and levels. Choose from column labeled “Filters”.
LibreTexts 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.
MIT OPENCOURSEWARE https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/online-textbooks/ Online textbooks in MIT OpenCourseWare. Each link goes to a course or resource page that contains the textbook files.
Merlot https://www.merlot.org/merlot/materials.htm?sort.property=overallRating Can filter (on the left) to find by discipline, textbooks, courses, animations, assessment tools, and others.
Oasis https://oasis.geneseo.edu/subject.php Can find by discipline, textbooks, courses, animations, assessment tools, and others.
OER Commons https://www.oercommons.org/ Open Educational Resources (OER) offer opportunities for systemic change in teaching and learning content through engaging educators in new participatory processes and effective technologies for engaging with learning.
Open Research Library https://openresearchlibrary.org/home Open access textbooks in many disciplines.
OpenStax https://openstax.org/subjects/view-all Open access textbooks in many disciplines.
Open Textbook Library https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/subjects Open access textbooks in many disciplines.
Open Washington https://start.me/p/QRDO7R/find-oer Links to sites that offer open access textbooks and other resources in many disciplines and levels.

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