OPEN ACCESS TEXTBOOKS: STEPHEN PERRY IRO ACCRA PperrperrystephenWsateperrperr PerrySX2@state.gov ACCRA GHANA JANUARY 2013

Open Access Textbooks: How do you define them? Definitions 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. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_textbook

Open Access Textbooks Bookboon http://bookboon.com/ CK-12 http://www.ck12.org/ College Open Textbooks http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org/ Community College Open Learning Initiative (CC-OLI) http://bit.ly/RPoKJb/ Directory of Open Access Books: www.doabooks.org

Open Access Textbooks Connexions http://cnx.org/ Digital Textbook Initiative (California Learning Resource Network) http://clrn.org/FDTI/index.cfm Curriki http://welcome.curriki.org/ E-Books Directory http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/ Flat World Knowledge http://www.flatworldknowledge.com/

Open Access Textbooks FreeTechBooks.com http://www.freetechbooks.com/ Global Text Project http://globaltext.terry.uga.edu/ Internet Archive http://archive.org/details/opensource_English Science Books Online: http://sciencebooksonline.info/ Merlot http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm

Open Access Textbooks OER Commons Textbooks http://bit.ly/jZ62B8 http://www.openaccesstextbooks.org/ Open Textbook Catalog https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/ Orange Grove Open Textbooks http://bit.ly/N1Yvt9 OpenStax College http://openstaxcollege.org/books/

Open Access Textbooks Saylor Foundation http://www.saylor.org/otc/ Textbook Media http://www.textbookmedia.com/ Textbook Revolution http://textbookrevolution.org/ Twenty Million Minds http://www.20mm.org/ Wikibooks http://www.wikibooks.org/

OPEN ACCESS TEXTBOOKS FREE ONLINE TEXTBOOKS: http://wikieducator.org/OER_Handbook/educator/open_textbooks  FREE MEDICAL TEXTBOOKS FOR MEDICAL STUDENTS: http://freebooks4doctors.com/ DIGITAL BOOK INDEX: links to more than 140,000 free books and textbooks: http://97.107.129.173/search_keyword

College Open Access Textbooks

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

A few of the Business Textbooks in the U of Minnesota Catalog of Free Textbooks

http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org/

Flat World Knowledge flatworldknowledge.com

www.flatworldknowledge.com

OER Commons http://bit.ly/jZ62B8

Note you can search, or browse by subect or by grade level level

from www.saylor.org

WikiBooks http://www.wikibooks.org/

www.wikibooks.org

from www.wikibooks.org

SCIENCE BOOKS ONLINE

MEDICAL RESOURCES IN SCIENCE BOOKS

BOOKS ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE in SCIENCE BOOKS ONLINE

Resources

WIKIBOOKS and SEARCH ENGINES for eBOOKS: http://wikieducator

Search Engine for eBooks: http://libweb.lib.buffalo.edu/ft/EBooks.asp

Searches all these free book sites

http://collegeopentextbooks.ning.com/

http://bit.ly/WpOo7v

Overview http://digital-textbooks.blogspot.com/

Late Breaking News

FREE DIGITAL TEXTBOOKS SIGNED INTO CALIFORNIA LAW, SEPT 2012 2012

MORE OPEN ACCESS RESOURCES MAY BE FOUND IN MY WEBSITE: www. tinyurl MORE OPEN ACCESS RESOURCES MAY BE FOUND IN MY WEBSITE: www.tinyurl.com/6dfaxn

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