Finding Open Educational Resources (OER) for Teaching and Learning

Includes over 1,500 Academic peer-reviewed books from more than 50 publishers. For reuse, select those that are available under a Creative Commons license by narrowing your search by "License".

A partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles in the public domain. Consult the "Rights" statement included in the page view of individual item for reuse.

A digital library of over 10,000,000 fully accessible public domain e-books. Also includes 300,000 modern e-books at Open Library. For reuse, select those with a Creative Commons license (Tips to search for different license types).

A small but growing collection of open access textbooks published under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike license.

Contains reports issued by the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, the US National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the US National Research Council. All books are freely accessible but not openly licensed. Reuse of books is not allowed but links can be created to point to the book content.

A comprehensive source of Open Educational Resources for K-12 and college level programmes under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial license. Includes videos, lesson guides, sound files and online tutorials from around the world.

Contains freely accessible academic books, mainly in the area of Humanities and Social Sciences. For reuse, check the type of license of individual books.

A collection of high quality open textbooks that have been licensed to be freely used, adapted and distributed. Many of them are peer-reviewed.

Developed by the Open Textbooks for Hong Kong project. Most textbooks are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license.

Offers over 53,000 free e-books. Most may be freely used in the United States only. Note the ”Terms of Use” for reuse.