Open Stax College is an initiative of Rice University to provide free, open source, peer reviewed textbooks written by professional content developers. All textbooks can be adopted or adapted by interested faculty. Supplemental resources for faculty and students are also available for each textbook.
Web, PDF and ePUB versions of the textbooks are available to students free of charge while printed copies are available for the cost of printing.
The Open Textbook Library is a partnership of the University of Minnesota and BC Campus to provide openly licensed textbooks that can be freely used, adapted and distributed. The textbooks can be downloaded at no cost or printed inexpensively. To locate a textbook, you can search the library or browse by subjects. Some of the textbooks have reviews by faculty.
The Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) Find open and free textbooks that may be suitable for use in community college courses; contains over 500 books in a variety of topics.
Green Tea Press is a small collection of open computer science textbooks.
The Wilkens Library subscribes to eBooks in several different platforms. eBook Central is most likely to have a textbook while CREDO is better for reference sources. Want to know if we can provide a textbook you use or are considering? Contact us-if we can provide it through one of our vendors we are happy to do so!
ManyBooks.net includes eBooks from Project Gutenberg, public domain titles and titles with creative commons licenses.
An advantage to ManyBooks.net is the abundance of file format types the user can select to download their eBook or audiobook.
The Internet Archive is an online archive of millions of books and texts in the public domain.
Digitized content is submitted from archives, museums, libraries and individuals.