Resource Guides: Open Educational Resources (OER): Open Textbooks

The USM Libraries have developed a guide to Open Educational Resources by Subject - use the guide for links to Open Educational Resources (OERs) in a specific discipline. If you’re having trouble locating OERs, you can reach out to UMA Librarians for assistance in finding OERs for your course.

Open Textbook Collections

American Institute of Mathematics: Open Textbooks
Open textbooks that meet the evaluation criteria of AIM.
BCcampus Open Ed
A project of British Columbia to actively promote and facilitate opportunities to advance open education in the post-secondary institutions.
JSTOR Open Access books
More than 6,500 Open Access ebooks from 90 publishers, including Brill, Cornell University Press, De Gruyter, and University of California Press.
Libre Texts Project
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.
LYRYX
Lyryx publishes open textbooks and supplements with Creative Commons open licenses, available with free access to everyone, and enabling a variety of permissions to adapt the material. These materials are developed and vetted by experts. Subjects focus on Math & Stats, Economics and Business.
Milne Open Textbooks
Milne Open Textbooks is a catalog of open textbooks authored and peer-reviewed by State University of New York (SUNY) faculty and staff. Formerly known as Open SUNY Textbooks.
OASIS
Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) is a search tool that aims to make the discovery of open content easier. OASIS currently searches open content from 117 different sources and contains 388,707 records.
Open Library
Open Library Publishing Platform. Pressbooks for Ontario's Postsecondary Educators.
OpenStax
OpenStax, developed by Rice University, publishes high-quality, peer-reviewed, openly licensed college textbooks that are free online.
Open Textbook Library
Founded by the University of Minnesota in 2012, this collection of textbooks are licensed by authors and publishers to be freely used and adapted.
Saylor Academy Open Textbooks
Saylor Academy provides curated OER textbooks that are openly-licensed for reuse to adopt and adapt to meet educational needs.
Taylor & Francis Open Books
Access over 800 pieces of Open Access book content through our Taylor and Francis eBooks platform: Rigorous peer review, Creative Commons licensing options, DRM Free.
Textbook Equity
Textbook Equity's mission is to advance educational opportunities for all students by providing academically reviewed textbooks and exams for free or low-cost print.