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Open Education Resources
ASP Open - Academic Studies Press
Peer-reviewed books available for free in digital format.
edX
Thousands of free online courses from leading institutions worldwide. Topics include architecture, business and management, communication, computer science, health and safety, law, math, medicine, and the sciences.
Free Book Centre
Thousands of free books on many subjects, including math, physics, chemistry, and biology.
Lumen Learning
OER courses covering 50+ college subjects.
MERLOT
MERLOT provides discipline-specific learning materials including learning exercises, projects, papers, and class activities.
OASIS
A search tool that aims to make the discovery of open content easier. Currently searches open content from 75 different sources and contains over 175,000 records.
OER Commons
OER Commons is a freely accessible online library that allows teachers and others to search and discover open educational resources and other freely available instructional materials.
Open Book Publishers
Independent Open Access publisher in the Humanities and Social Sciences. All books are available to read online and download for free.
Open Learning Initiative at Carnegie Mellon University
Completed course shells (some cost). Subjects include the humanities, business, computer science, sciences, math, social sciences, and technology and design.
Open Michigan
Modular course components on architecture/urban planning, sciences, education, global health, humanities, law, math, medical, nursing, pharmacy, public health, public policy, statistics, and computer science.
OpenStax
A nonprofit educational initiative based at Rice University. Includes textbooks on math, science, social sciences, humanities, and business.
Open SUNY Textbooks (Milne Open Textbooks)
Open SUNY Textbooks is an open textbook publishing initiative. (Milne Library Publishing at SUNY Geneseo)
Open Textbook Library
Provides a growing catalog of free, peer-reviewed, and openly-licensed textbooks.
Penn Museum Digital Collections
Offers video content covering the study of human history, culture, and diversity.
Saylor Academy Open Books
Provides free, online, non-degree courses in a variety of subjects as well as textbooks. Mainly focuses on business and management.
Taylor & Francis Open Access Ebooks
Open access books across more than 50 subject areas.
UK Open University Learning Space
Courses in business, education, health, history, math, science, technology, law, and computer science.
University Press of Kentucky (UPK)
UPK has a dual mission: the publication of books of high scholarly merit in a variety of fields for a largely academic audience and the publication of books about the history and culture of Kentucky, the Ohio Valley region, the Upper South, and Appalachia. The Press is the statewide mandated nonprofit scholarly publisher for the Commonwealth of Kentucky, operated as an agency of the University of Kentucky and serving all state institutions of higher learning, plus five private colleges and Kentucky's two major historical societies.
Wikibooks
Wikibooks is a wiki-based Wikimedia project hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation for the creation of free content e-book textbooks and annotated texts that anyone can edit.
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