An increasing number of textbooks are available electronically online (eTextbooks) that are 100% free to use, print, or remix. You can search through collections of these open textbooks online, and then add the hyperlink for a particular book to your Learning Management site.
Open Textbook Library via the University of Minnesota - Open textbooks are textbooks that have been funded, published, and licensed to be freely used, adapted, and distributed.
OpenStax is a part of Rice University - Offers freely licensed, 100% free textbooks to read online or download in multiple formats, including some classroom resources as well.
Find e-Textbooks through the Library's OneSearch page.
MERLOT by California State University - The MERLOT system provides access to curated online learning and support materials and content creation tools, led by an international community of educators, learners, and researchers. A catalog of open textbook materials from various sources.To find open materials, limit the material type to "Open Textbook".
Directory of Open Access Books - It is a joint service of OAPEN, OpenEdition, CNRS, and Aix_Marseille Universite. This directory includes peer-reviewed books published under open access licenses by academic publishers.
Open SUNY TextbooksOpen SUNY Textbooks is an open textbook publishing initiative established by State University of New York libraries. These faculty written textbooks fall under a Creative Commons license.
OER Commons -OER Commons is a dynamic digital library and network. Open Textbooks section offers many textbooks.
WAC Clearinghouse - TheWAC Clearinghouse is an open-access, educational website supported by more than 125 contributors, institutional sponsors, and the Colorado State University Open Press as well as more than 180 volunteer editors, editorial staff members, reviewers, and editorial board members.
Ebook Central Proquest includes CSU system-wide shared Academic Complete collection of over 180,000 titles as well as campus purchased titles covering multidisciplinary topics.
EBSCOhost ebook collection consists of ebooks in multi-subjects. These ebooks can be searched directly alongside our EBSCO databases. The collection includes previous NetLibrary ebooks, CSU system-wide shared EBSCO ebooks, as well as our library purchased ebooks on the EBSCO interface. The concurrent user level is displayed under "eBook Availability" on the left for each title.
Offers an online collection of premier reference eBooks including encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. You can search a single eBook or across an entire eBook collection.
The collection contains the following subjects: art, biography, business, education, environment, history, information and publishing, law, literature, medicine, multicultural studies, nation and world, religion, science, social science, and technology.
The IEEE Xplore Digital Library offers online access to more than 4,000 technical eBook titles. The IEEE-Wiley eBooks Library—a partnership between IEEE and Wiley & Sons, Inc.—spans numerous technology areas, including bioengineering, power & energy, and communication technologies, among other growing areas of research.
O'Reilly Online Learning E-books, formerly Safari Books Online, is a comprehensive repository of business and technology electronic resources. The business content covers from problem-solving and leadership to customer service and employee performance. The technology content covers most essential areas to users including certification, enterprise computing, Java, Linux/Unix, Web development, Windows, XML, as well as big data, artificial intelligence, and gaming. It includes 35K book titles plus 30K+ hours of video, proven learning paths, case studies, interactive tutorials, audio books, and videos from O’Reilly’s global conferences and 250 of the world’s publishers.
ACLS Humanities eBooks is a digital collection of over 5400 full-text titles offered by the ACLS in collaboration with nineteen learned societies and nearly 100 contributing publishers. The collection contains searchable full-text contents in historical studies, art history, literature, political science, religion, and primary sources.
Contains current editions of engineering references on a variety of engineering subjects as well as Schaum's Outlines on those subjects. Comprises instructional videos, calculators, interactive tables and charts, and personalization tools allowing users to organize crucial project information. The global news feed provides the latest technical advances in core engineering areas.