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Open Educational Resources: Open Access Textbooks

Open Access Week

Open Access Week is an invaluable chance to connect the global momentum toward the open sharing of knowledge with the advancement of policy changes and the importance of social issues affecting people around the world. The event is celebrated by individuals, institutions, and organizations around the world, and its organization is led by a global advisory committee. The official hashtag of Open Access Week is #OAweek.

Free Textbooks

BCcampus
A growing selection of open textbooks for a variety of subjects and specialties.

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Directory of Open access Books
The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of Open Access books

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Flat World Knowledge 

Quality textbooks at prices students can actually afford.

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OASIS

Open access and openly licensed textbooks. From Milne Library at SUNY Geneseo.

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Open Book Publishers

They published more than 180 titles - peer-reviewed Open Access monographs, expanding from a focus on the humanities and social sciences into publishing works of all disciplines.

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Open Textbook Library

These books have been reviewed by faculty from a variety of colleges and universities to assess their quality.  All open textbooks in the library can be downloaded and adopted for free without additional permissions or paperwork.

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Open Culture
200 free textbooks.

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PDXOPEN: OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
Portland State University Library publishes open educational resources (OERs) and open access textbooks to reduce the cost of higher education for students. 

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Teaching Commons 

Teaching Commons pulls together OER published at a number of colleges and universities. To find open textbooks, select "textbooks" under "types of works."

Contact Us

If you need assistance finding recources in Open Access, contact us by email, chat or phone (+35973888341).

Selected Textbooks - BUS, ECO [suitable for AUBG]

Business Ethics (OpenStax) Author(s): Stephen M. Byars, Kurt Stanberry

Business Information Systems: Design an App for That, 2011.

Information Systems for Business and Beyond, 2019

Introducing Marketing, John Burnett, 2011

Macroeconomics: Theory through Applications

Macroeconomics: Theory, Models, and Policy Author(s): Douglas Curtis, Ian Irvine, Lyryx Learning Team

Microeconomics: Markets, Methods, and Models (Lyryx) Author(s): Douglas Curtis, Ian Irvine, Lyryx Learning Team

Organizational Behavior, 2019

Principles of Accounting, v.1, 2019

Principles of Accounting, v.2, 2019

Principles of Economics - 2e (OpenStax). Author(s): Steven A. Greenlaw, David Shapiro

Principles of Management, 2019
Principles of Macroeconomics (Business Administration, Management, and Economics Open Textbooks)
GALILEO, University System of Georgia

Principles of Financial Accounting (Business Administration, Management, and Economics Open Textbooks)
GALILEO, University System of Georgia

Strategic Management (Business Administration, Management, and Economics Open Textbooks)
GALILEO, University System of Georgia

Selected Textbooks - COS

Introduction to GIS Using Open Source Software, Frank Donnelly
Programming Fundamentals (Computer Science and Information Technology Open Textbooks) GALILEO, University System of Georgia

Web Programming (Computer Science and Information Technology Open Textbooks)
GALILEO, University System of Georgia

Selected Textbooks - MAT, STA

College Algebra, 2015

College Mathematics for Everyday Life - Second Edition  M. Inigo, J. Jameson, Kathryn Kozak, M. Lanzetta, K.Sonier

Discrete Math

Intermediate Algebra 2e, 2020 

Introduction to Mathematical Analysis I - Second Edition by Beatriz Lafferriere, Gerardo Lafferriere, and Nguyen Mau Nam

Introduction to Probability, Statistics and Random Processes (Electrical and Computer Engineering Educational Materials) University of Massachusetts Amherst

Introduction to Real Analysis, William F. Trench, Trinity University

Selected Textbooks - MLL

Understanding Music: Past and Present N. Alan Clark, Thomas Heflin, Jeffrey Kluball, and Elizabeth Kramer

Selected Textbooks - POS

American Government, Glen Krutz; Sylvie Waskiewicz, 2e 

Social Science Research: Principles, Methods, and Practices, Anol Bhattacherjee, University of South Florida
 

Selected Textbooks - PSY

Psychology (OpenStax) Author(s): Rose M. Spielman, Kathryn Dumper, William Jenkins, Arlene Lacombe, et al.

Paranormal Psychology: PSY410 by Larry R. Martinez.

Trauma-Informed School Practices: Building Expertise To Transform Schools, 2013
 

Selected Textbooks - SCI

Biology 2e, Mary Ann Clark; Jung Choi; Matthew Douglas

College Physics, 2012

Environmental Biology Author(s): Matthew R. Fisher, Editor, Open Oregon

Introduction to Environmental Science (Grants Collection) (Biological Sciences Open Textbooks) GALILEO, University System of Georgia

Introduction to Biology (Biological Sciences Open Textbooks) GALILEO, University System of Georgia

Selected Textbooks - HTY

U. S. History, by P. Scott Corbett; Volker Janssen; John M. Lund; Todd Pfannestiel; Pau Vickery

World History: Cultures, States, and Societies to 1500 Author(s): E. Berger, G. L. Israel, C. Miller, B. Parkinson, A. Reeves, N. Williams, University System of Georgia