Open Textbooks

By using an ISBN, you can find MERLOT Open Educational Resources (OER) that can be used to supplement most textbooks.

Enter the ISBN below to search the MERLOT library for open courses, journal articles, other texts, and other learning materials that you can use to complement textbooks that you might consider adopting for your courses.

The American Institute of Mathematics (AIM) seeks to encourage the adoption of open source and open access mathematics textbooks. The AIM Editorial Board has developed evaluation criteria to identify the books that are suitable for use in traditional university courses. The Editorial Board maintains a list of Approved Textbooks which have been judged to meet these criteria.

This catalog contains educational content originally curated by Boundless. In collaboration with the Boundless team, Lumen Learning imported these OER courses to the Lumen Platform, to ensure they remain freely available to the education community after Boundless ceased operations. Lumen maintains the Boundless content in the same condition it was provided to us, and courses may contain some formatting and accessibility issues.
Accessibility: "It enables anyone (faculty, staff, students) to produce professional, platform-agnostic outputs of educational resources in multiple formats: PDF (print and digital) | WEB | EPUB | MOBI | ODT| XML | WXR| XHTML."

GALILEO Open Learning Materials brings together open educational resources throughout the University System of Georgia, including open textbooks and ancillary materials.

This repository is administrated by Affordable Learning Georgia, an initiative of GALILEO and the University System of Georgia which aims to reduce the cost of textbooks to students and contribute to their retention, progression, and graduation. For more about Affordable Learning Georgia, visit Affordable Learning Georgia's website.

We pride ourselves to live and function by our beliefs that scientific progress is fueled by collaboration, that the playing field for scientific research should be leveled globally, combined in a democratic environment with the use of innovative technologies, and made available to anyone at the click of a mouse.

Crowd-sourced textbook content supported by UC Davis and the NSF. Read more LibreTexts in this EdSurge article.
Accessibility: "Not only is LibreTexts always accessible online, LibreTexts is promoting assistive technologies across the entire platform."

Milne Library Publishing at SUNY Geneseo manages and maintains Milne Open Textbooks, a catalog of open textbooks authored and peer-reviewed by SUNY faculty and staff.

The Noba catalog covers the traditional scope of introductory psychology and then some. With 103 modules (and counting) we're confident you'll find what you're looking for.

Expertly compiled from Noba modules to fit the scope and sequence of common courses. Use them as-is or customize them to fit your needs. Instructor manual, PowerPoint presentations, and test bank available for many modules.

OpenStax is a nonprofit organization committed to improving student access to quality learning materials. Our free textbooks are developed and peer-reviewed by educators to ensure they are readable, accurate, and meet the scope and sequence requirements of your course. Through our partnerships with companies and foundations committed to reducing costs for students, OpenStax College
is working to improve access to higher education for all. OpenStax College is an initiative of Rice University and is made possible through the generous support of several philanthropic foundations.
Accessibility: Accessibility Statement.

Ancillary materials created to support the OpenStax textbooks.
Accessibility: All content is built in a simple semantic HTML5 format rich with built-in accessibility features to ensure it can all be read by everyone. About CNX.

Shared OER textbooks from: University of Minnesota, BCCampus, Purdue University, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Oregon State University, Cleveland State University, Minnesota State Colleges & Universities, The Ohio State University, Virginia Tech and the University of Arizona.
Accessibility: Textbooks must be in a portable format. Additional information: Step 4: Determine Access from Modifying An Open Textbook: What You Need To Know.

A collection of math textbooks at all levels of college education. Frequently compatible with MyOpenMath homework, quizzes and tutorials.