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!

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.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_textbook

Open Access Textbooks: A few examples Free Textbooks from Open Culture: http://www.openculture.com/free_textbooks Bookboon http://bookboon.com/ CK-12 http://www.ck12.org/ College Open Textbooks http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org/ Community College Open Learning Initiative http://bit.ly/RPoKJb/ Directory of Open Access Books: www.doabooks.org

Open Access Textbooks FreeTechBooks.com http://www.freetechbooks.com/ Global Text Project http://globaltext.terry.uga.edu/ SCIENCE BOOKS ONLINE: http://sciencebooksonline.info/

Open Access Textbooks OpenStax College https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/ OpenStax College http://openstaxcollege.org/books/

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

College Open Access Textbooks

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

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

Additional and updated resources are noted on the following slides

FREE TEXTBOOKS: USE THIS LINK TO LOCATE FREE, DOWNLOADABLE TEXTBOOKS IN ANY AREA: http://www.merlotx.org/find/textbooks.html

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: https://openstax.org/subjects

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: https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/ Also note their OPEN TEXTBOOK NETWORK at the bottom of the webpage

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: https://textbooks.opensuny.org/booktype/ost-books/

California legislators gave $5 million to establish an Open Education Resource Council and a Digital Open Source Library: http://cool4ed.org/findetextbooks.html and: http://www.cool4ed.org/courseshowcase.html

http://www.opentextbookstore.com/catalog.php AN OPEN TEXTBOOK SITE

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

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 https://community.libguides.com

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: https://library.ric.edu/open-textbooks https://researchguides.loyno.edu/c.php?g=534299&p=3655056  

I HOPE THESE RESOURCES HELP YOU. MY WEBSITE: https://bit.ly/2GPkkSQ 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: http://eslres1.pbworks.com http://eslres1.pbworks.com/

Compiled by former IRO STEPHEN PERRY AUGUST 2018