DeWitt Library Research Guides: Open Educational Resources (OER): Finding OER

Open Textbook Repositories

These link to various repositories of open textbooks. Because they are repositories, you may encounter the same title in multiple places.

Open Textbook Library
Over 800 openly licensed textbooks. Peer reviewed. Arranged by subject.
OpenStax
Approximately 60 openly licensed textbooks. Peer reviewed. Arranged by subject. Sponsored by Rice University.
BCCampus OpenEd
Almost 400 openly licensed textbooks. Sponsored by British Columbia Ministry of Advanced Education.
Milne Open Textbooks
Approximately 40 textbooks. Sponsored by State University of New York.
Wikibooks
Over 3,000 openly licensed books. All levels (elementary to higher education).
Open Access Books on JSTOR
7,000+ open access ebooks from 90 publishers, including Brill, Cornell University Press, De Gruyter, and University of California Press,

OERs encompass more than just textbooks; they also can be notes, test banks, activities, presentations, and more.

OER Commons
A large repository that includes some textbooks and many related items, including activities, labs, lesson plans, lecture notes, and more.
MERLOT
A repository of over 90,000 learning materials.

eBook Collection (EBSCO)
Includes more than 200,000 full-text ebooks from leading academic publishers. Watch a video on how to use this database.

Ebook Central
Currently only displaying books in the education discipline. Others available; check with the library.
Articles from Databases
DeWitt's list of databases.