Research Guides: Open Educational Resources (OER) Research Guide: Open Textbooks

Why Open Textbooks?

MEASURABLE SAVINGS FOR STUDENTS

"With the average student budgeting $1200 annually for books and supplies, open textbooks provide real savings for students and their families. Nine early OTN members have reported a $1.5 million savings in textbook costs to students, with most of the savings realized in the past year." --- Open Textbook Library

Open Textbook Library reports...

over 600+ Campuses represented, with 8.5 Million dollars in student savings, and 45% of faculty who attend workshops will adopt an open textbook.

Open Textbook Resources

BC Campus OpenEd
Since 2012, the goal of BCcampus is to make higher education more accessible by reducing student cost through the use of openly licensed textbooks. BCcampus was tasked with co-ordination of the project because of our 10-year experience funding open educational resources (OER) through the Online Program Development Fund.
bookboon
Bookboon.com was established in Denmark in 1988, under the name Ventus, and has always focused on publishing educational material for students and business professionals. The company continuously aims to set new standards in the world of modern publishing based on its readers’ needs.
College Open Textbooks
The College Open Textbooks Collaborative, a collection of twenty-nine educational non-profit and for-profit organizations, affiliated with more than 200 colleges, is focused on driving awareness and adoptions of open textbooks to more than 2000 community and other two-year colleges.
Cool 4 ED
California Open Online Library for Education
EBooks Minnesota | Scholarly Resources
OER scholarly resources and open textbooks in Ebooks Minnesota.
HathiTrust
HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world. The HathiTrust Digital Library brings together the immense collections of partner institutions in digital form, preserving them securely to be accessed and used today, and in future generations.
Lumen Learning
Lumen Learning creates digital course materials that replace expensive textbooks in high-enrollment college courses and save students millions every term.
OpenStax
OpenStax is a nonprofit based at Rice University, and it’s our mission to improve student access to education.
Open SUNY Textbook (OST)
The mission of Open SUNY Textbooks is to provide an academic-friendly publishing model and infrastructure which supports faculty adoption, remixing, and creation of open educational resources (OER) and courses.
Open Textbook Library
Open textbooks are a solution. The Open Textbook Library provides a growing catalog of free, peer-reviewed, and openly-licensed textbooks.
Explore the library's books to see if an open textbook fits your course's, and students', needs.
PDXOpen
PDXOpen is an open access textbook publishing initiative to support Portland State faculty developing open access textbooks.
UCL Press
UCL Press is the first fully Open Access University Press in the UK. It seeks to use modern technologies and 21st-century means of publishing/dissemination radically to change the prevailing models for the publication of research outputs.

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Why Open Textbooks?

MEASURABLE SAVINGS FOR STUDENTS

Open Textbook Resources

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