LibGuides: Textbook Affordability & Open Educational Resources (OER): Find Open Textbooks & other OER

Best Places to Search for OER (licensed for revising, remixing, redistributing)

Use these resources when you want to look for open textbooks in your subject area OR when you're looking for resources which you can edit, adapt, embellish, and re-distribute.

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#GoOpenVA
Welcome to #GoOpenVA where teachers are empowered to support personalized learning for all their students by creating, using and sharing openly-licensed digital resources.
Merlot
A curated collection of online learning and support materials and content creation tools. (A project of the California State University)
NOVA Open Publishing-Pressbooks for NOVA
All faculty and staff at NOVA have access to Pressbooks. Visit the Pressbooks Directory and browse thousands of free resources, including open textbooks and H5P interactives.
OASIS (by SUNY)
Excellent OER search engine with options to limit by resource type, license type, and reviews available.
OER Lab Manuals for BIO 141 Lab Curriculum
Here you can peruse the Open Educational Resources (OER) developed at Northern Virginia Community College for the BIO141 (Human Anatomy and Physiology) lab curriculum. These 13 labs are suitable for 100- and 200-level Anatomy and Physiology courses, and 100-level BIO101 courses. Designed for upper level high school and undergraduate students.
U of MN- Open Textbook Library
Center for Open Education in the University of Minnesota’s College of Education and Human Development.

ZTC TextBooks

These textbooks are available at Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) from College of the Canyons.