Explore Free (Open Access) Books and Textbooks
Open access textbooks are openly-licensed digital textbooks that are offered for free online. Traditional textbooks use cumbersome copyright license restrictions, while open access textbook allow anyone to read, copy, distribute, or modify the content at no cost. Many universities around the United States have already developed initiatives to produce peer-reviewed open access textbooks for their students and the positive response has lead open access textbooks to be acknowledged as an affordable alternative to traditional learning materials.
- Collaboration between University Press of Florida and Orange Grove Digital Repository
- Titles from University Press of Florida
- Textbooks are open access with a Creative Commons copyright license (www.creativecommons.org »)
- Digital textbooks – free!
- Self-printed textbooks – free!
- “Print on demand” textbooks 40-60% of the cost compared to traditional textbooks
- Free downloads of books in the public domain (published before 1923).
- You can obtain books by James Joyce, Mark Twain, Jane Austen, Charles Darwin and other 18th and 19th century authors.
- These books can be downloaded to a computer or other electronic devices.
Other Open Access Textbooks
|Name of Repository||Description||Additional Info|
|MERLOT- Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning & Online Teaching||Peer reviewed learning materials|
|OER Commons||Learning materials by level & subject|
|Textbook Revolution||Student ran site of free educational materials|
|D-Space||Content sharing across organizations and continents|
|ALT Open Access Repository||Brings together information for learning about technology|
|Resource Repository||Collection intended for educators and students||Global Health & Education|
|Open Doar-Open Access||Listing of University-specific repositories|
|iBerry||Information and resources for students & educators|
|Connexions||View & share educational materials|
|Internet Archive||Internet library with websites, papers and books|
|Wikiversity||Online portal of resources for all educational information|
|Wikibooks||Open access textbooks you can edit to meet your content needs|
|GEM||Learning and educational resources|
|Ideas||Educator ideas separated by subject and educational level|
|Kentucky Learning Depot||Course materials for Kentucky residents and guests to access|
|The North Carolina Learning Object Repository||A place to collect and share learning materials||Only NC universities but others can view|
|FREE-Federal Resources for Educational Resources||Teaching and learning resources provided by federal agencies|
|iLumina||Digital library of undergraduate teaching materials||Undergrad-only|
|The Learning Exchange||Online teaching resources for social work||Social work only|
|The Math Forum @ Drexel||Online guides to teaching & learning math||Math only, $15 student fee, @25 teacher fee|
|NSDL||Teaching guides for math, science and engineering||math, science, engineering only all levels|
|PBL Clearing House, Univ. of Delaware||Articles for teaching using problem based methods||Problem-based methods only|
|National Engineering Education Delivery System||Digital library of learning materials for educators||Engineering and math only|
|BookBoon||Collection of free downloadable e-textbooks|
|Open CourseWare Initiative, MIT||Materials of 500 courses submitted by professors||MIT courseware only|
|The Orange Grove||Free online instruction for Florida professors|
|Boundless||A collection of free e-textbooks|
|OnlineCourses||An aggregator of open access courses with a database of over 500 courses from leading universities around the world.|
|Exploratorium||To create a web-based library for educators|