Open Education

OpenStax out of Rice University publishes high-quality peer-reviewed OER textbooks and other supplementary course materials. Sign up for an instructor account to access instructor-only content.

Search over 900 open textbooks from authors and publishers around the world. View public peer-reviews for many texts on the site.

LibreTexts offers texts and other OER created by faculty and students for many subject areas. This links directly to the KBOR OER Commons on Libretext.

Free OER textbooks and monographs out of the Open Oregon system.

Access the catalog of Cambridge University Press materials. You can set the results to show you Open Access materials.

Open textbook publisher run through SUNY. Explore the catalog of SUNY's open textbooks.

"the University Press of Kansas, in collaboration with the University of Kansas Libraries, has digitized outstanding books in history and American political thought and made them freely available online."

"OAPEN promotes and supports the transition to open access for academic books by providing open infrastructure services to stakeholders in scholarly communication. We work with publishers to build a quality-controlled collection of open access books and provide services for publishers, libraries, and research funders in the areas of hosting, deposit, quality assurance, dissemination, and digital preservation." (OAPEN)

Part of the University of Michigan Press provides a platform for open scholarly works.

"Project MUSE promotes the creation and dissemination of essential humanities and social science resources through collaboration with libraries, publishers, and scholars worldwide. Forged from a partnership between a university press and a library, Project MUSE is a trusted part of the academic and scholarly community it serves" (Project MUSE).

Free to read online.

Free to read online, in some cases text PDFs are available to download.

Many books from this press are licensed with a Creative Commons 4.0 International License and are available for download or reading online. Most are also available for print purchase.

Open access eBooks available from Cornell's press.

Open monographs in the humanities.

Open Access publisher for books and journals.

Project Gutenberg was established in the 1970s to provide free public domain eBooks and has grown since to include over 60,000 digital books in its collection.

Standard eBooks produces high-quality public domain eBooks.