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TextBooks

FREEPhonics from Primary Concepts with 82 lessons designed to help pre-K students build vocabulary and reading skills.

OpenStax: Creative Commons Textbooks: https://openstaxcollege.org/books 
Versions in Web, PDF, and EPUB. 

Open Textbook Library: http://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/​

CK-12: http://www.ck12.org/ 
Flexbooks/e-textbooks in Math Science, English, History, and more.

Connexions – Open Source Textbooks: http://cnx.org/
 a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc. Anyone may view or contribute:

Textbook Revolt: http://www.textbookrevolt.com/?sb=tbr 
TextbookRevolt (formally Socialbib) is a service, where students offer up old textbooks that they no longer have a need for and trade them for ones that they do need. 

Book Gold Mine: http://www.bookgoldmine.com/
Links to texts in the categories of Biology, Business, Computer Science, Math and Physics.

Tar Heel Reader: http://tarheelreader.org/
Easy to read and accessible books for beginning teenaged readers.

Book Boon: http://bookboon.com/ 
Textbooks (many areas) and business ebooks (PDF)

Academic Commons (http://www.academiccommons.org/)

• Academic Commons is dedicated to the development of free web-based resources for academic professionals focusing on liberal arts education via digital tools.

• The news aggregator showcases current developments and projects in the open education community.

AcademicPub (http://www.academicpub.sharedbook.com/)

• AcademicPub is a build-your-own-textbook service that offers students three different options for purchasing the book: digital download, paperback, or hardcover.

• Instructors can create a customized textbook with book chapters, case studies and journal articles.

• AcademicPub provides services to track how much royalties will cost for each custom textbook.

Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (http://oerconsortium.org/)

• The CCCOER collects open access resources for the creation of textbook alternatives, in addition to open content repositories and developmental tools.

• Access to over 500 open textbooks, as well as a useful guide to creating and implementing your own open access textbook.

Connexions (http://cnx.org)

• Connexions contains educational materials for everyone - from children to college students to professionals - organized in small modules that are easily connected into larger collections or courses

• All content is free to use and reuse under the Creative Commons attribution license

Flat World Knowledge (http://www.flatworldknowledge.com)

• Provides a new approach to college textbooks offering rigorously reviewed textbooks online free of cost to students.

• Offers full-text online for free and in a variety of affordable formats.

OER Commons: Open Textbooks (http://www.oercommons.org/)

• This catalog contains hundreds of college-level open textbooks from higher education institutions around the world.

Ohio Digital Bookshelf Project (http://ohiodigitalbookshelf.ning.com/)

• A pilot project for the Ohio Textbook HQ, the Ohio Digital Bookshelf aims to provide inexpensive higher-ed textbooks.

• Free registration required to view textbooks.

Open Courseware Consortium (http://www.ocwconsortium.org)

• Free and open digital publication of high quality educational materials, organized as courses.

• A collaboration of more than 200 higher education institutions and associated organizations from around the world creating a board and deep body of open educational content using a shared model.

Open KSA (http://knowlton.osu.edu/open/about.asp)

• Digital course material made freely available by the Knowlton School of Architecture at The Ohio State University 

Open Textbook Catalog ( https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/)

• A catalog of open access textbooks to be reviewed by faculty members, made available by the University of Minnesota's College of Education and Human Development.

• All textbooks in this catalog are openly licenses, complete, and available in print at very little cost.

SmARThistory (http://smarthistory.org/)

•  A free and open, online, not-for-profit art history textbook with complete multimedia content. 

Student PIRGs: Open Textbooks (http://www.studentpirgs.org)

• A catalog of information about some of the top examples of open college textbooks, offered online under a license allowing free digital access and inexpensive print options. Material can be easily modified to fit your needs.

• Subjects covered: Accounting & Finance; Business, Management & Marketing; Computer Science & Information Systems; Economics; General Education; Humanities & Language; Mathematics & Statistics; Natural & Physical Sciences; Social Sciences.

Textbook Media (http://www.textbookmedia.com/)

• Offers a number of e-Textbooks sorted by author and topic

• All of the textbooks can be downloaded for free and many of them can be purchased in print form

Textbook Revolution (http://textbookrevolution.org/)

• A student-run site dedicated to increasing the use of free educational materials by teachers and professors

• The approach is to bring all of the free textbooks they can find together in one place, review them, and let the best rise to the top and find their way into the hands of students in classrooms around the world

The Global Text Project (http://globaltext.terry.uga.edu/)

• A free library of thousands of texts for students in a range of topics covered in a university undergraduate program

• Join venture between the Terry College of Business of the University of Georgia and the Daniels College of Business of the University of Denver.

• Individual book chapters can be opened and modified to fit your own needs.

WikiEducator (http://wikieducator.org/Main_Page) 

• An evolving online community intended for the planning of education projects linked with the development of free content and the development of free content on WikiEducator for free learning.

World Lecture Hall (http://wlh.webhost.utexas.edu/about/index.cfm)

• Includes links to pages created by faculty worldwide who are using the Web to deliver course materials in any language.

Open Textbooks List: http://cccoer.wordpress.com/discipline-specific/

FHSST: Free High School Science Texts: http://www.fhsst.org/

Freeload Press
http://www.freeloadpress.com/bookList.aspx (variety of online texts free)

Elementary Algebra

http://www.totallyfreemath.com/toc.html

Textbooks in Mathematics

http://users.ictp.it/~stefanov/mylist.html 
General Mathematics
Number Theory
Algebra,
Algebraic Geometry
Topology Analysis
Geometry
Mathematical Physics
Probability Theory
Applied Mathematics

Elementary Algebra  http://www.totallyfreemath.com/toc.html
Nature is in a constant state of change, with each new development building on what already existed. Elementary Algebra with Applications, Third Edition, follows the same pattern - it develops concepts and ideas as natural extensions of previously learned material. This problem-solving approach leads today's students beyond memorization to a true conceptual understanding.

Reasonable Basic Algebra (RBA): http://freemathtexts.org/RBAtext.html

Elementary Algebra http://cnx.org/content/col10614/1.1
Elementary Algebra is a work text that covers the traditional topics studied in a modern elementary algebra course. It is intended for students who (1) have no exposure to elementary algebra, (2) have previously had an unpleasant experience with elementary algebra, or (3) need to review algebraic concepts and techniques. NOTE: This book is a work in progress and has not yet been marked up in CNXML. You can download individual chapter PDF files from their respective modules.

Algebra 1 (CK12) http://flexbooks.ck12.org/flexr/workbench/?searchTerm=algebra&category=&mode=search

Algebra I in Simple English:  http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Algebra_I_in_Simple_English

XP Math eBooks
http://www.xpmath.com/ebooks/math.php 

Bob Miller's Algebra for the Clueless
Go Figure: Using Math to Answer Everyday Imponderables
Number: The Language of Science
Math Wonders to Inspire Teachers and Students
Everyday Math Demystified
Trigonometry Demystified
Algebra Demystified
Instant Revision: AS Maths
Algebra Concepts and Applications
Geometry Concepts and Applications
Statistics for the Utterly Confused
5 Steps to a 5: Advanced Placement Statistics
QuickStudy - Calculus 1
Instant Revision: GCSE Mathematics
IMPACT Mathematics, Course 3
Schaum's Outline of Elementary Algebra
Schaum's Outline of Beginning Finite Mathematics
Careers for Number Crunchers & Other Quantitative Types, Second Edition
Fast Ideas For Busy Teachers, Math Grade 4
Fast Ideas For Busy Teachers, Math Grade 5
Mathematics for Business, Science, and Technology
Master Math Solving Word Problems
More Damned Lies and Statistics: How Numbers Confuse Public Issues
Teach Yourself Trigonometry
Foundations of Infinitesimal Calculus
Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science (2nd Edition)
Bob Miller's Calc for the Clueless: Calc I
Bob Miller's Calc for the Clueless: Calc II
Algebraic Topology

eCourses Math

https://ecourses.ou.edu/cgi-bin/eBook.cgi?topic=ma

Wikibooks Mathematics

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks:Mathematics_bookshelf

Anthropology

·         Introduction to Paleoanthropology

Art

• Making Photographs

Biology

• Bacteriology
• Biochemistry
• Biochemistry by Berg, Tymoczko, & Stryer
• Biology
• The Structures of Life (biology)
• Human Physiology
• The New Genetics
• Inside the Cell - Biology
• The Cell - A Molecular Approach
• Developmental Biology
• Inspired by Biology: From Molecules to Materials to Machines
• Immunology and Evolution of Infectious Disease
• Help Me Understand Genetics Handbook
• Modern Genetic Analysis 
• Introduction to Genetic Analysis
• Genomes
• Genes and Disease
• DNA from the Beginning

Chemistry

• Concept Development Studies in Chemistry
• Chemistry
• Biochemistry

Computer Science

• XML - Managing Data Exchange
• Programming from the Ground Up
• Learning 2.0
• How to Think Like a Computer Scientist 2nd Edition
• Lessons in Electric Circuits
• The Theory and Practice of Online Learning (2nd ed.)
• A Conceptual Guide to OpenOffice.org 2 for Windows and Linux
• Information Systems (1st edition, release 6)
• Wireless Networking in the Developing World
• Programming in C

Economics and Business

• U.S. Economy in Brief
• Outline of the U.S. Economy
• Political Economy
• New Rules for the New Economy
• Introduction to Economic Analysis (Micro)
• Electronic Commerce: The Strategic Perspective (2nd ed.)
• Introduction to Economic Analysis (3rd ed.)
• Macroeconomics
• Microeconomics
• Financial Analysis
• eMarketing: The Essential Guide to Online Marketing
• Marketing
• Principles of Enterpreneurship
• Accounting I
• Accounting II

Education

• Open Educational Content - Introduction and Tutorials
• Common Wisdom: Peer Production of Educational Materials
• Social and Cultural Foundations of American Education (authored by students)

English and Composition

• Methods of Discovery: A Guide to Research Writing
• Clear Simple: Developing Effective Print Materials for Low-Literate Readers
• Rhetoric and Composition

Health

• The Chemistry of Health
• HIV Medicine 2007
• Free Medical Information
• Medicines by Design (pharmacology)
• First Aid
• Medical Knowledge Base
• The Brain: Understanding Neurobiology Through the Study of Addiction
• Atlas of Human Anatomy
• Informing the Future: Critical Issues in Health

History

• Hypertext History: Our Online American History Textbook
• US History.org
• Hippocampus - click on U.S. history, then click on Textbooks tab
• Outline of U.S. History
• About America: Women of Influence
• United States History
• A Survey of Modern European History

Languages and Communications

• Better Communication
• French
• Spanish

Literature

• U.S. Literature in Brief
• Bulfinch’s Mythology

Math

• A First Course in Linear Algebra
• Elements of Abstract and Linear Algebra
• Understanding Algebra
• Reasonable Basic Algebra
• Linear Methods of Applied Mathematics
• Applied Finite Mathematics Textbook
• Multivariate Calculus
• Vector Calculus
• Mathematics under the Microscope
• Calculus

Philosophy

• Formal Logic
• Introduction to Formal Logic
• Logic
• Logic Primer
• An Introduction to  Philosophy
• Ethics
• Reading for Philosophical Inquiry: A Brief Introduction to Philosophical Thinking

Physics

• Open Text Project — Physics
• Physics
• Calculus-Based Physics
• FHSST Physics
• A Radically Modern Approach to Physics
• Physics Light and Matter
  • Simple Nature
  • Conceptual Physics
  • Discover Physics
• Motion Mountain - The Adventure of Physics
• Chaos: Classical and Quantum

Political Science

• Democracy in Brief
• How the U.S. is Governed
• Outline of the U.S. Legal System
• Introduction to Human Rights
• Outline of American Geography
• The CIA World Factbook
• The 9/11 Commission Report

Psychology

• Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience

Science

• AP Environmental Science
• Physical Geography
• The Physical Environment Introduction to Physical Geography
• Intro to Physical Oceanography
• Environmental Science
• Introduction to Physical Oceanography
• Nanotechnology

Sociology

• Introduction to Sociology

Statistics and Probablity

• Collaborative Statistics
• From Algorithms to Z-Scores: Probabilistic and Statistical Modeling in Computer Science
• Introduction to Probability
• Introductory Statistics: Concepts, Models, and Applications
• Statistics Wikibook
• UCLA General Statistics Curriculum E-Book, including Advanced-Placement (AP) materials
• Online Statistics: An Interactive Multimedia Course of Study

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