Here is a list of publishers for you to peruse for OER titles and if you are interested in creating an OER title.
Open Access to Journals – https://doaj.org/
Open Educational Books – http://www.doabooks.org/
https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/
http://guides.library.bloomu.edu/c.php?g=571664&p=4031104
- Directory of Open Access Books
“The directory is open to all publishers who publish academic, peer reviewed books in Open Access and should contain as many books as possible, provided that these publications are in Open Access and meet academic standards. ”
“The OAPEN Library contains freely accessible academic books, mainly in the area of Humanities and Social Sciences. OAPEN works with publishers to build a quality controlled collection of Open Access books, and provides services for publishers, libraries and research funders in the areas of dissemination, quality assurance and digital preservation. ”
“SpringerOpen journals and books are made freely and permanently available online immediately upon publication. They are subject to high-level peer review, author and production services ensuring quality and reliability of the work.”
“InTech is a pioneer and world’s largest multidisciplinary open access publisher of books covering the fields of Science, Technology and Medicine. Since 2004, InTech has collaborated with 87235 authors and published 2420 books and 6 journals with the aim of providing free online access to high-quality research and helping leading academics to make their work visible and accessible to diverse new audiences around the world. ”
Provides an extensive list of open access book publishers.
British Columbia Campus Open Campus Textbook List
Openly licensed textbooks created by BCCampus, a consortium of post-secondary educational institutions in British Columbia.
Saylor Academy Bookshelf
Each of the books in the Saylor Academy bookshelf is freely available for download, online reading, and sharing under one of various open licenses.
Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning
Foreign language teaching materials from the University of Texas.
Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources
Access to over 500 open textbooks, as well as a useful guide to creating and implementing your own open access textbook.
OER Commons: Open Textbooks
This catalog contains hundreds of college-level open textbooks from higher education institutions around the world.
American Institute of Mathematics Open Textbook Initiative
Basic and advanced textbooks approved by AIM.
National Academies Press
Created by the National Academy of Sciences, a collection of over 5000 freely available texts.
Green Tea Press
A collection of freely available texts on computer science and statistics.
The Global Text Project
A free library of thousands of texts for students in a range of topics covered in a university undergraduate program. Particularly strong in Business school topics.
InTech
A multidisciplinary Open Access publisher of books and journals covering the fields of Science, Technology and Medicine.
SmARThistory
A free and open, online, not-for-profit art history textbook with complete multimedia content, from Khan Academy.
Textbook Media
Offers a number of e-Textbooks sorted by author and topic with a variety of low cost access options. Many of them can be purchased in print form, but are not free.
This initiative of Rice University aims to develop high quality free texts for college students in basic subjects. This project is supported by several philanthropic foundations, including the Hewlett Foundation and the Gates Foundation. Free textbooks available so far cover Physics, Sociology, Biology, Concepts Biology, and Anatomy and Physiology. Other subjects such as Economics, Statistics, Psychology and Chemistry are coming soon.
Developed by the University of Minnesota, this library is a tool to help instructors find affordable, quality textbook solutions. All textbooks in this library are complete and openly licensed.
The College Open Textbooks Collaborative, a collection of twenty-nine educational non-profit and for-profit organizations, affiliated with more than 200 colleges, is focused on driving awareness and adoptions of open textbooks to more than 2000 community and other two-year colleges. This includes providing training for instructors adopting open resources, peer reviews of open textbooks, and mentoring online professional networks that support for authors opening their resources, and other services.
A tool to search for open educational materials, including textbooks.
The B.C. Open Textbook Project is funded by the BC Ministry of Advanced Education, and BCcampus is tasked with managing it. A goal of the Project is to provide flexible and affordable access to higher education resources in B.C. by making available openly-licensed textbooks in the highest-enrolled academic subject areas.
An online community where people share OER for reuse.
An educational initiative from the American Library Association (ALA) & SPARC that examines new opportunities in scholarly communication, advocates changes that recognize the potential of the networked digital environment, and encourages active participation by scholars and researchers to guide the course of change
A nonprofit organization that enables the sharing and use of creativity and knowledge through free legal tools.
A portal dedicated to different topics about OER.
A nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology.
The Global Open Access Portal (GOAP) funded by the Governments of Colombia, Denmark, Norway, and the United States Department of State, presents a current snapshot of the status of Open Access (OA) to scientific information in 158 countries worldwide
Collection of peer-reviewed teaching and learning materials available online
A hub for finding and sharing OER.
Covers the concepts, principles, advantages, approaches, and means to achieving open access. It offers textual and multimedia materials to inform researchers, librarians, publishers, administrators, public, and students of relevant issues.
Represents the interests of Open Access (OA) journal publishers globally in all scientific, technical, and scholarly disciplines.
A place where people can find course materials made freely available by participating institutions of the consortium.
A wiki database of OER projects and organizations involved in providing free online educational content.
Directory of Open Access Repositories
Promotes free use, reuse, and redistribution of any content, information, and data.
OER come in a wide variety of types. Many educators are simply looking for individual media elements to use within their courses, such as photos, graphics, videos, and audio, that are openly licensed in a way that freely permits education use. This page will help you find openly licensed media elements to use within your courses.
A catalog of open textbooks to be reviewed by faculty members.
A research and development initiative directed toward improving the scholarly and public quality of academic research through the development of innovative online publishing and knowledge-sharing environments.
A nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world’s scientific and medical literature a public resource.
Saylor Academy’s mission is sustained by the continued evolution of an open educational ecosystem, and we are dedicated partners in this movement. Saylor’s commitment to the open education ecosystem is founded not just on open educational resources and open source learning technologies, but also on open access to credentials, and ongoing open learning opportunities.
An international alliance of academic and research libraries working to create a more open system of scholarly communication
Bookboon.com originates from Denmark, out of Ventus Publishing, established in 1988. Ever since it was founded, the company has focused on publishing education related books for business professionals and students. In 2005 the company made a strategic leap and became the first book publishing company in the world to focus 100% on free eBooks. Ever since, the company has been aiming to set new standards in the world of modern publishing based on the readers’ needs.
The College Open Textbooks Collaborative, a collection of twenty-nine educational non-profit and for-profit organizations, affiliated with more than 200 colleges, is focused on driving awareness and adoptions of open textbooks to more than 2000 community and other two-year colleges. This includes providing training for instructors adopting open resources, peer reviews of open textbooks, and mentoring online professional networks that support for authors opening their resources, and other services.
The mission of CCCOER is to expand access to education by promoting awareness and adoption of Open Educational Resources. Access to over 500 open texbooks, as well as a useful guide to creating and implementing your own open access textbook
Connexions is a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc. Contains 21,684 reusable modules woven into 1,307 collections.
The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of Open Access books. Academic publishers are invited to provide metadata of their Open Access books to DOAB. Metadata will be harvestable in order to maximize dissemination, visibility and impact. Aggregators can integrate the records in their commercial services and libraries can integrate the directory into their online catalogues, helping scholars and students to discover the books. The directory will be open to all publishers who publish academic, peer reviewed books in Open Access and should contain as many books as possible, provided that these publications are in Open Access and meet academic standards.
Offers over 100 rigorously reviewed textbooks at a low cost, starting at $19.95.
A library of thousands of free textbooks for higher education.
InTech is a pioneer and world’s largest multidisciplinary open access publisher of books covering the fields of Science, Technology and Medicine. Since 2004, InTech has collaborated with more than 83436 authors and published 2211 books and 7 journals with the aim of providing free online access to high-quality research and helping leading academics to make their work visible and accessible to diverse new audiences around the world.
MERLOT is a free and open online community of resources designed primarily for faculty, staff and students of higher education from around the world to share their learning materials and pedagogy. MERLOT is a leading edge, user-centered, collection of peer reviewed higher education, online learning materials, catalogued by registered members and a set of faculty development support services.
nanoHUB.org is the place for computational nanotechnology research, education, and collaboration. nanoHUB hosts a rapidly growing collection of Simulation Programs for nanoscale phenomena that run in the cloud and are accessed through your web browser. In addition there are Online Presentations, Courses, Learning Modules, Podcasts, Animations, Teaching Materials, and more to help you learn about the simulation programs and about nanotechnology. nanoHUB supports collaboration via Workspaces and User groups.
Contains catalog of hundreds of open textbooks from higher education institutions around the world.
The Open Course Library is a collection of expertly developed educational materials – including textbooks, syllabi, course activities, readings, and assessments – in 81 high-enrollment college courses. The courses provide faculty with a high-quality, affordable option that will cost students no more than $30 for textbooks. Unless otherwise noted, all materials are shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY) license.
Contains listings of several hundred open textbooks suitable for use in higher education settings.
Smarthistory at Khan Academy is the leading open educational resource for art history. We make high-quality introductory art history content freely available to anyone, anywhere. Smarthistory is a platform for the discipline where art historians contribute in their areas of expertise and learners come from across the globe. Offer nearly 500 videos and these are being translated into dozens of languages.
Offers about 25 textbooks at relatively low prices. Sorted by discipline.
Textbook Revolution is a student-run site dedicated to increasing the use of free educational materials by teachers and professors. We want to get these materials into classrooms. On this site you’ll find links and reviews of textbooks and select educational resources. Some of the books are PDF files, others are viewable online as e-books, or some are simply web sites containing course or multimedia content.
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