1. OPEN ACCESS TEXTBOOKS: HOW TO LOCATE: NEW RESOURCES FOR 2018
by STEPHEN PERRY, former IRO for
U.S. Embassy Ghana (Accra)
2018 Updates!
ALL Free!

2. Open Access Textbooks: How are they defined?
Definition
Wikipedia:
“An open textbook is an openly-licensed textbook offered online by its author(s). The open license sets open textbooks apart from traditional textbooks by allowing users to read online, download, or print the book at no additional cost.”

3. Open Access Textbooks: A few examples
Free Textbooks from Open Culture:
Bookboon
CK-12
College Open Textbooks
Community College Open Learning Initiative
Directory of Open Access Books:

4. Open Access Textbooks FreeTechBooks.com http://www.freetechbooks.com/
Global Text Project
SCIENCE BOOKS ONLINE:

5. Open Access Textbooks OpenStax College
OpenStax College

6. HATHI TRUST: https://www.hathitrust.org/
The Hathi Trust includes selected full-text books from the University of Michigan Press, the Utah State University Press and select items from the University of Michigan Graduate Reference Collection Library

7. College Open Access Textbooks

8. OPEN TEXTBOOKS FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: https://open. umn

9. OER COMMONS OFFERS CURATED COLLECTIONS OF TEXTBOOKS: https://www

10. Additional and updated resources are noted on the following slides

11. FREE TEXTBOOKS: USE THIS LINK TO LOCATE FREE, DOWNLOADABLE TEXTBOOKS IN ANY AREA:

12. https://openstax.org/subjects
The OpenStax initiative of Rice University, a private research institution in Texas, has published digital, free, peer-reviewed texts
The initiative is funded by Rice and major philanthropic organizations including the Gates and Hewlett foundations:

13. https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/
The University of Minnesota-Twin Cities is home to the Center for Open Education and the Open Textbook Network
The network has built an Open Textbook Library of scores of textbooks:
Also note their OPEN TEXTBOOK NETWORK at the bottom of the webpage

14. https://textbooks.opensuny.org/booktype/ost-books/
The State University of New York system offers a broad variety of open educational resources, many in the humanities, as well as assistance in adopting and creating materials.
The state has budgeted well over $8 million for open educational resources at SUNY and City University of New York:

15. California legislators gave $5 million to establish an Open Education Resource Council and a Digital Open Source Library:
and:

16.
AN OPEN TEXTBOOK SITE

17. https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/--
BC CAMPUS OPEN TEXTBOOKS:
for their updated collections of OPEN, DOWNLOADABLE TEXTBOOKS, also updated monthly, with new free textbooks in all subject areas.

18. BE SURE TO CONSULT LIBGUIDES: PROFESSIONAL
LIBRARY GUIDES IN ALL SUBJECTS,WRITTEN BY
LIBRARIANS AT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES
ALL OVER THE US
THE URL is

19. HERE ARE TWO EXCELLENT LIBGUIDES ON
OPEN ACCESS TEXTBOOKS:
WHERE AND HOW TO FIND
The Libguides annotate the major collections and Repositories of Open Textbooks:

20. I HOPE THESE RESOURCES HELP YOU.
MY WEBSITE:
also has a section on where to find Open Textbooks, as well as other free resources.
For those interested in ESL, please note this new website:

21. Compiled by former IRO STEPHEN PERRY
AUGUST 2018