1. OPEN ACCESS TEXTBOOKS: HOW TO LOCATE 2013 STEPHEN PERRY IRO ACCRA – PerrySX2@state.gov PerrySX2@state.gov ACCRA GHANA JANUARY 2013 Open Access Accra Free!

2. 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

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

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

5. 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/ http://sciencebooksonline.info/ Merlot http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm

6. Open Access Textbooks OER Commons Textbooks http://bit.ly/jZ62B8 Open Access Textbooks 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/

7. 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/ http://www.20mm.org/ Wikibooks http://www.wikibooks.org/ http://www.wikibooks.org/

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

9. HATHI TRUST : http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/mb#featured The Hathi Trust includes selected full- text books from the University of Michigan Press, the Utah State University Press and items from the University of Michigan Graduate Reference Collection Library

10. College Open Access Textbooks

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

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

13. http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org/

20. Books from the Hathi Trust : http://www.hathitrust.org/ http://www.hathitrust.org/

21. Flat World Knowledge flatworldknowledge.com

24. www.flatworldknowledge.com

27. OER Commons http://bit.ly/jZ62B8 http://bit.ly/jZ62B8

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

31. from www.saylor.org

32. WikiBooks http://www.wikibooks.org/ http://www.wikibooks.org/

35. www.wikibooks.org

38. from www.wikibooks.org

42. SCIENCE BOOKS ONLINE

43. MEDICAL RESOURCES IN SCIENCE BOOKS

44. BOOKS ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE in SCIENCE BOOKS ONLINE

45. Resources

46. WIKIBOOKS and SEARCH ENGINES for eBOOKS: http://wikieducator.org/OER_Handbook/educator/open_textbooks

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

48. Searches all these free book sites

49. http://collegeopentextbooks.ning.com /

50. http://bit.ly/WpOo7v

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

52. Late Breaking News

54. FREE DIGITAL TEXTBOOKS SIGNED INTO CALIFORNIA LAW, SEPT 2012 2012

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

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