Recent studies have shown that students would like their instructors to consider using open source and creative commons textbooks. Use this page to develop your own open source materials.

About Open Source Textbooks

For more information about Open Source Textbooks and how to develop them please see the following links:

Community College Open Textbook Project

Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources

Creative Commons: Get your own creative commons license and share alike.

OSPRIG Advocacy Textbook Costs: Advocacy for awareness on textbook costs by the Oregon Student Public Interest Group.

The Public Domain: A book on open source/creative commons by Jame Boyle

Wired Article: An article on open source texts from Wired Magazine

Open Textbook and Coursework Catalogs

These places have catalogs of open source or creative commons textbooks. 

The Assayer: self-proclaimed largest catalog of books that the author has made free. Particularly great for boosk on math, science and computers.

CK-12 Flexbooks: K-12 level, adaptable, textbooks on a variety of topics.

Connexions: Rice University's open coursework and texts. Allows for outside collaborators. There are a variety of topics in this category.

Flat World Knowledge: this company is an open source for-profit publisher who provides open source materials. Students can read electronic texts for free, or can pay a small fee for print on demand services. 

Global Text Project: This University of Georgia project, funded by the Jacobs Foundation, seeks to create open content for educating at a global level. There are some great books on sociology and psychology on this site.

HippoCampus: Monterey Institute for Technology and Education is providing access to quality media and information on a variety of topics.

MIT: Open Courseware: MIT has made the material for all of their online courses free for anyone to use at any time.

Online Books Page: Hosed by Univeristy of Pennsylvania Libraries, this is a large database of out of copyright or open source works.

Open Textbook: A repository of open textbooks on many topics.

Wikibooks: From the creators of Wikipedia, these books are open content and are editible by anyone.