Open Educational Resources & Open Access

Started in 2012, this is considered Canada’s first official open textbook project. Several of the textbooks listed by this project were developed by faculty of BC post-secondary institutions.

This directory provides an index of 2065 books published across 93 Pressbooks networks. Search and filter books by keyword, subject matter, license, and more.

The Open Textbook Library provides a growing catalog of free, peer-reviewed, and openly-licensed textbooks. The project is coordinated by the University of Minnesota.

OpenStax is a nonprofit based at Rice University. Its first open textbook was published in 2012 and the collection has been growing since.

Open SUNY Textbooks is an open access textbook publishing initiative established by State University of New York libraries and supported by SUNY Innovative Instruction Technology Grants. This pilot initiative publishes high-quality, cost-effective course resources by engaging faculty as authors and peer-reviewers, and libraries as publishing service and infrastructure.

Started in 2004 at the University of Georgia, the Global Text Project publishes open content electronic textbooks and also works in open textbooks alternative dissemination formats when bandwidth is inadequate or unavailable.