Book Collections

Books@atla Open Press  by various (CC BY-NC).

The open access monograph publishing program was conceived in 2014 as a means of publishing open access books that were relevant to the study and practice of theological librarianship. Currently the mission of the program is publication of open access works on subjects at the intersection of librarianship and religious and theological studies that potentially impact libraries.

Atla (American Theological Library Association) is a membership association of librarians and information professionals, and a producer of research tools, committed to advancing the study of religion and theology.

Canadiana Online Monographs by various (licences vary, see the copyright notice).

A multilingual collection of Canadian historical monographs hosted by Canadiana.

Cornell Open  by various (CC BY-NC-ND).

An open access portal for both new and classic out-of-print titles from the distinguished catalog of Cornell University Press. Cornell Open offers open access to key titles in the fields of anthropology, classics, political science, literary criticism and theory, German studies, and Slavic studies.

Directory of Open Access Books  by various (various CC licences).

A collection of over 19,000 academic peer-reviewed books and chapters.

IntechOpen  by various (various CC licences).

A collection of over 3,700 peer-reviewed open access books in physical sciences, engineering, technology, life sciences, health sciences, social sciences, and humanities available for download as PDFs.

Iowa State University Digital Press: Open Textbooks by various (various CC licences).

The Iowa State University Digital Press, a unit of the Iowa State University Library, aims to publish high quality scholarship in areas reflected in Iowa State’s curricular and research offerings, tell stories of Iowa and the Midwest, and diversify the voices in the scholarly record.

JSTOR – Open Access Books  by various (various CC licences  and other licenses).

More than 6,500 Open Access ebooks from 85+ publishers, including Brill, Cornell University Press, De Gruyter, and University of California Press, are now available at no cost to libraries or users.

Kansas State University Open Access Textbooks  by various (various CC licences).

This collection contains about two dozen open access textbooks. These items are currently being used to support higher education at Kansas State University (KSU).

OAPEN  by various (various CC licences).

The OAPEN Library contains freely accessible academic books, mainly in the area of humanities and social sciences.

Open Books  by various (CC BY).

This collection is compiled from readers’ orders for scans, principally in black and white and some in colour. They highlight the range of resources at The University of Edinburgh’s Centre for Research Collections, from Herschel’s music manuscripts, to ‘An Essay on the Character and Cerebral Development of Robert Burns,’ to Charles Lyell’s handwritten notes.

Open Square  by various (CC BY-NC-SA).

Open Square is NYU Press’s platform for publishing and reading open access books. A browser-based reading platform, Open Square enables us to increase the impact of scholarly work by making it freely available in a digital format.

Open Research Library  by various (various CC licences).

A library designed to host all open access book content worldwide.

Project Gutenburg  by various (public domain).

A collection of over 54,000 eBooks that are all in the public domain.

Project Gutenburg Canada  by various (public domain).

A collection of eBooks that are in the public domain in Canada.

Standard Ebooks by various (public domain).

Standard Ebooks is a volunteer driven, not-for-profit project that produces new editions of public domain ebooks that are lovingly formatted, open source, and free.

ZTC Textbooks  by various (various CC licences).

A collection of open textbooks from the College of the Canyons (Santa Clarita, CA).

Wikibooks by various (CC BY-SA).

A collection of Wikibooks organized by subject.

Journals

Journal of Open Educational Resources in Higher Education by various (CC BY).

JOERHE is a Diamond Open Access, open peer-reviewed journal that features OER, Open Pedagogy, Open Access, Open Data, and similar topics focusing specifically within the context of  Higher Education in the United States and Canada.

Journal of Research of NIST  by various (public domain).

Volumes from the Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology going back to 1989.

Monographs

Open Monographs  by various (various CC licences).

From the University of Minnesota.

Publishers

Athabasca University Press by various (CC BY-NC-ND).

Canada’s first open-access scholarly press publishing journals and monographs.

Cornell Open by various (CC BY-NC-ND).

Cornell Open is a global open-access portal for both new and classic out-of-print titles from the catalog of Cornell University Press.

Ecampus OER – Oregon State University  by various (various CC licences).

A list of links to open textbooks written by Oregon State faculty.

Grand Valley State University Open Textbooks by various (various CC licences).

Open textbooks published by faculty at Grand Valley State University.

MIT Press Open  by various (various CC licences).

MIT’s open-access journal publications.

New Prairie Press – Kansas State University Open Access Textbooks  by various (various CC licences).

Open Book Publishers by various (various CC licences).

An open access publisher in the UK publishing open monographs and textbooks in all subject areas.

Open SUNY Textbooks  by various (CC BY-NC-SA).

Open SUNY Textbooks is an open textbook publishing initiative established by State University of New York libraries and supported by SUNY Innovative Instruction Technology Grants and SUNY Geneseo.

OpenStax by various (CC BY).

OpenStax is a nonprofit educational initiative based at Rice University that publishes high-quality, peer-reviewed, openly licensed college textbooks that are absolutely free online and low cost in print.

PDXOpen by various  (CC BY-NC).

PDXOpen is an open access textbook publishing initiative to support Portland State faculty developing open access textbooks.

Penn State University Press Unlocked by various (CC BY-NC-ND).

Penn State’s open access journals and books.

Publishers of OA Books by various (various licenses).

A wiki with a list of over 200 open-access publishers.

Saskatchewan Polytechnic by various (various licenses).

Open textbooks published with the financial support of the Government of Saskatchewan to support a granting program.

Saylor Academy Open Textbooks by various (CC BY-NC).

The open textbooks on this page include several titles published through Saylor Academy’s Open Textbook Challenge and a collection of titles re-published by Saylor Academy in 2012.

SFU Library Digital Publishing by various (various CC licences).

SFU Library Digital Publishing is an initiative of the Simon Fraser University Library and the Public Knowledge Project. We help researchers and students publish open access books, journals, and other educational projects using PKP’s free, open source software.

TU Delft Open by various (CC BY).

Open textbooks and open monographs published by Delft University of Technology.

unglue.it by various (various CC licences).

At Unglue.it, you can reward creators that have set their books free, via Creative Commons licenses. You can buy books that WANT to be free, but need funding to get there. You can pledge toward creating free ebooks from print books.

University of Minnesota Libraries by various (various CC licences).

Open textbooks and open monographs published by the University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing.

University of Toronto Press  by various (various CC licences).

Open access books from the University of Toronto Press.

University of Wisconsin-Madison Pressbooks Catalogue  by various (various CC licences).

Open textbooks published in Pressbooks by UW-Madison.

University System of Georgia Open Textbooks by various (various CC licences).

Open textbooks produced by the University System of Georgia.

Virginia Tech by various (various CC licences).

Open textbooks published by Virginia Tech Libraries’ Open Education Initiative.

Western Books  by various (various CC licences).

A publishing service that supports WSU academic authors to create and publish open textbooks to be used in the curriculum or microcredentials.

Textbook Collections

B.C. Open Collection by various (various CC licences).

A collection of open textbooks and other open educational resources covering multiple subject areas. This collection is curated by BCcampus Open Education in British Columbia, Canada.

eCampusOntario Open Library  by various (various CC licences).

A collection of open textbooks and other open resources curated by eCampusOntario. The curated collection aligns with top subject areas in post-secondary education and features reviews from experts and educators across Canada.

LibreTexts  by various (various CC licences).

A collection of subject-specific libraries containing various open textbooks and resources.

MIT OpenCourseWare Online Textbooks by various (various CC licences).

An index to the online textbooks in MIT OpenCourseWare. Each link below goes to a course or resource page that contains the textbook files. Some of these online textbooks are open-licensed electronic versions of print books. Others are self-published online books, or course notes which are so thorough that they serve as an alternative to a conventional textbook.

Open Educational Resources Textbook List [PDF] by various (various CC licences).

A list of open textbooks organized by subject with citation and links. The list was curated by Sacred Heart University in 2016.

Open Textbook Library by various (various CC licences).

The Open Textbook Library (maintained by the Open Education Network) provides a growing catalogue of free, peer-reviewed, and openly-licensed textbooks.

List of Pressbooks Catalogues by various (various CC licences).

A list of post-secondary institutions in Canada and the U.S. that have established their own instances of Pressbooks. Many instances host a catalogue of open textbooks and other OER that they have published in Pressbooks.

Vendors

Amazon – OpenLearn by various (CC BY-NC-SA).

Free Kindle files for OpenLearn courses from the Open University.

Media Attributions

• Canada Map Icon by Icons8 (CC BY-ND).
• BC Map by Adamwashere (CC BY-NC-SA).