Scholarly Communication and Open Access: Textbooks

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Rice-based publisher’s books now used in more than 1,000 US courses

Rice University-based nonprofit OpenStax College today announced its free textbooks have saved students more than $30 million and have been adopted by instructors in more than 1,000 courses worldwide in less than three years.

"As part of this year’s theme of “opening education” BCcampus is working with partner institutions to pilot a number of open textbook projects. These include an initial pilot of 5 open textbooks being developed by the Northern ICT Collaborative Program, a number of workshops on adopting open textbooks and authoring open texts that will be offered throughout the year, as well as a number of other pilots to be announced in the coming months. Watch this space for news and resources about this interesting area that promises to save learners money and help instructors get better control of revision cycles and content suitability." (October 2013)

"Open Educational Repository in Support of Computer Science"

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. This includes providing training for instructors adopting open resources, peer reviews of open textbooks, and mentoring online professional networks that support for authors opening their resources, and other services.

"Connexions is: 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:
- authors create and collaborate
- instructors rapidly build and share custom collections
- learners find and explore content"

"Browse 100+ Textbooks -- Written by the industry's top authors, our textbooks are helping improve teaching and learning at more than 2,500 leading colleges and universities worldwide. "

"Freebookcentre.net contains links to thousands of free online technical books. Which Include core computer science, networking, programming languages, Systems Programming books, Linux books and many more. You are welcome to follow the following links for the free books tour.."

MERLOT is an aggregator of Open Educational Resources, including textbooks, course modules, videos, and more. It is peer reviewed for quality, and has numerous faceted searches for finding materials across different subjects, levels, and types of content.

Many thousands of OERS, including textbooks. Good search and faceted classification to help you find what you need.

OpenStax, hosted through Rice University, publishes high-quality, peer reviewed, higher education textbooks. Math, science, and other textbooks are available.

"We publish open content electronic textbooks that are freely available from this website. We focus on content development and Web distribution, and we will work with relevant authorities to facilitate dissemination by other means when bandwidth is unavailable or inadequate. The goal is to make textbooks available to the many who cannot afford them."

The Open Textbook Library provides a growing catalog of free, peer-reviewed, and openly-licensed textbooks.