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Open Textbooks

View over 400 open textbooks in many subject areas:
Anthropology
Art
Biology
Business
Chemistry
Computer Science
Economics
Education
Engineering
English and Composition
Health
History                                 
Languages and Communications
Literature
Math
Music
Philosophy
Physics
Political Science
Psychology
Sciences
Sociology
Statistics and Probability

Find open and free textbooks that may be suitable for use in community college courses from the list of Subjects provided.  For descriptions of these open textbooks, see listings in MERLOT and OER Commons. Most of the textbooks on this list have Creative Commons (CC) open licenses or GNU-Free Document License. Others are U.S. government documents in the public domain (PD).

Many other textbooks are free to view online but are NOT OPEN for reuse and customization. See Copyrighted Digital Textbooks for a list of learning content without open licenses.

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  3. [...] (CCCOER) is a combined effort to develop and use open educational resources (OER) and in particular open textbooks in community college courses. An open textbook is defined as: a body of educational content that is [...]


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