LibGuides: Open Educational Resources Guide: Open Textbooks

Find Open Textbooks

Open textbooks are available with nonrestrictive licenses. The following sites include peer-reviewed titles representing a wide range of disciplines and subjects.

COOL4ed ISBN Search
COOL4ed is a service of the California State University, MERLOT program. The ISBN search feature is located near the bottom of the page. Use the ISBN of a similar OER text and this search feature will find related resources.
BC Campus OpenEd Resources
Repository of open textbooks created from the University of British Columbia Open Textbook Project.
Boundless Courses
In collaboration with the Boundless team, Lumen Learning imported these OER courses to the Lumen Platform, to ensure they remain freely available to the education community after Boundless ceased operations.
Galileo Open Learning Materials - Textbooks
Find textbooks from Affordable Learning Georgia, an initiative of the University System of Georgia.
OER Commons Community College Textbooks
Search for textbooks for community college courses and many other supplementary and ancillary resources. Use the "Education Level" filter on the left side of the page to select for Community College resources or otherwise adjust the search for your needs.
Open Oregon Educational Resources
A small collection of texts presented through Pressbooks. Various disciplines and topics available.
OpenStax Textbooks
A growing collection of peer-reviewed introductory level college textbooks covering biology, anatomy and physiology, sociology, statistics, and economics. Pre-calculus, chemistry, U.S. history, and psychology textbooks are in development.
Milne Open Textbooks (formerly Open SUNY)
An open access initiative from the State University of New York (SUNY) system which is publishing faculty produced course textbooks.
Open Textbook Library
An open textbook library hosted by the University of Minnesota. Over 500 titles showcased on a variety of disciplines.
OpenTextBookStore
A directory of open textbooks focusing on mathematics from arithmetic to calculus to linear algebra.
Saylor Academy Bookshelf
100 downloadable textbooks from the Saylor Academy.

Arts & Humanities

Introduction to Art: Design, Context, and Meaning
This text offers a comprehensive introduction to the world of Art. Authored by three university faculty members with advance degrees in the arts, this textbooks offers up-to-date original scholarship. It includes over 400 high-quality images illustrating the history of art, its technical applications, and its many uses.
Boundless Art History Hub
This resources features thirty chapters covering art history from prehistoric times until now. Chapters are arranged chronologically and they present an overview of art history in different areas of the world. Includes seven chapters on Oceania, including one chapter on Hawaiian art.

American Literature I
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American Literature I (1650–1860) examines significant literary works of early American and Puritan literature, the Enlightenment, American Romanticism, and pre-Civil War era. The course includes primary texts (many accompanied by video/audio options), historical background, literary criticism and interpretation, and instruction on writing about literature.
Becoming America: An Exploration of American Literature from Precolonial to Post-Revolution (2019)
Featuring sixty-nine authors and full texts of their works, the selections in this open anthology represent the diverse voices in early American literature. This completely-open anthology will connect students to the conversation of literature that is embedded in American history and has helped shaped its culture.
World Literature I: Beginnings to 1650
Peer-reviewed anthology authored by University System of Georgia faculty
Compact Anthology of World Literature I
Covers world literature from the ancient world up through the Renaissance. Similar to World Literature I but developed around different curricula.
Compact Anthology of World Literature II
A continuation of the Compact Anthology of World Literature written and edited by six faculty members at the University of North Georgia. Covers literature from the seventeenth century up to contemporary literature. Most recently updated in 2022.
Open Anthology of Early World Literature in English Translation
"A collection of free and open primary texts in digital formats for the study of early world literature in English translation." Developed by faculty at Columbus State University, part of the University System of Georgia.
Writing the Nation: A Concise Introduction to American Literature 1865 to Present
"...surveys key literary movements and the American authors associated with the movement. Topics include late romanticism, realism, naturalism, modernism, and modern literature."

Music Appreciation
A music appreciation compilation of various authors.
Open Music Theory
Open Music Theory (Version 2) is an open-source, interactive, online “text”book for college-level music theory courses. The text was developed by Music faculty at Universities around North America, including Cornell University, the University of Texas at Tyler, and Lethbridge University. It includes assignments and an embedded music player with notations.
Understanding Music: Past and Present
The text covers the fundamentals of music and the physics of sound, an exploration of music from the Middle Ages to the present day, and a final chapter on popular music in the United States.

Introduction to Technical Theatre (2018)
Developed by faculty at Pacific University Oregon. The text provides a comprehensive overview of technical theatre, including terminology and general practices.
Theatrical Worlds
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Developed by faculty at the University of Florida - Gainesville. The text gives insight into the people and processes that create theater. It does not strip away the feeling of magic but to add wonder for the artistry that make a production work well.

A Concise Introduction to Logic
A Concise Introduction to Logic is an introduction to formal logic suitable for undergraduates taking a general education course in logic or critical thinking, and is accessible and useful to any interested in gaining a basic understanding of logic. Developed by State University of New York system faculty.
Form and Content: An Introduction to Formal Logic (2020)
From Connecticut College, this introductory philosophy textbook differs from other standard logic textbooks in its reliance on fun, low-stakes examples involving dinosaurs, a dog and his friends, etc.
Introduction to Logic and Critical Thinking
An introductory textbook in logic and critical thinking. The goal of the textbook is to provide the reader with a set of tools and skills that will enable them to identify and evaluate arguments. The book is intended for an introductory course that covers both formal and informal logic. Developed by faculty at Lansing Community College in Michigan.
Introduction to Philosophy: Philosophy of Mind (2019)
This text surveys the central themes in philosophy of mind and places them in a historical and contemporary context intended to engage first-time readers in the field. It focuses on debates about the status and character of the mind and its seemingly subjective nature in an apparently more objective world. Developed by a global group of scholars from institutions including the University of New South Wales, Loyola University Maryland, and National Chengchi University.

College Success

Achieving Success and Happiness in College: 5 Ways to Make it Work
This book provides insights to help students understand college life and strategies to address the most pressing issues—the personal challenges, social pressures, and academic demands.
Blueprint for Success in College and Career (2018)
Now in available in audio...See below. This text received a 2019 Textbook Excellence Award by the Textbook & Academic Authors Association. Presented in Pressbooks, this resource is designed to show how to be successful in college and in career preparation focuses on study skills, time management, career exploration, health, and financial literacy.
College Success
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This course provides resources for first-year college students on the path to academic and life success. Available via Course Hero and Lumen Learning.
College Success
College Success has a student-friendly format arranged to help students develop the essential skills and provide the information they need to succeed in college. Published by the University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing.
College Success (Lumen Learning via MERLOT)
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This version is by ELI (Extended Learning Institute at NOVA) via Lumen Learning. The focus of this textbook is preparing students for a college education with the study and life skills they need to become successful students.
A Different Road To College: A Guide For Transitioning Non-Traditional Students
This book is designed to engage students in seeing themselves as college students and understanding the complexity of what that means to their lives. Published by Open Oregon Educational Resources.
Foundations of Academic Success: Words of Wisdom
This book introduces students to the various aspects of student and academic life and prepares them to thrive as successful college students. Developed by Thomas Priester, Director of Transitional Studies/Assistant Professor at SUNY Genesee Community College.
University 101: Study, Strategize, and Succeed (2018)
This Pressbooks text helps students to create a foundation for post-secondary studies by learning how to learn. By taking the time to read this book and work through the exercises included, students are investing in the skills that will support them in all of their classes and future learning. Developed by Kwantlen Polytechnic University Learning Centres in British Columbia.

Culinary Arts

The following are some open textbooks that are part of a "series of Culinary Arts open textbooks developed to support the training of students and apprentices in British Columbia’s foodservice and hospitality industry. Although created with the Professional Cook, Baker and Meatcutter programs in mind, these have been designed as a modular series, and therefore can be used to support a wide variety of programs that offer training in foodservice skills..." Note: While much of the content in these resources is universal, they were developed for students in Canada and therefore may be references to standards and regulations that differ from those in the United States.

You may download the following books in PDF, ePub, mobi and other formats, or you may read them online.

• Working in the Food Service Industry

• Basic Kitchen and Food Service Management

• Modern Pastry and Plated Dessert Techniques

• Food Safety, Sanitation, and Personal Hygiene

Culinary Math
This CC BY-NC text for culinary and bakery students offers math skills building when working with measurements and recipe conversion factors. Chapters provide word problems for learning and practice. Answer keys to word problems are included in the appendix.
Foundational Cooking Methods (video series)
This video series showcased on YouTube is CC BY 4.0. The videos feature an assortment of food preparation topics by Cosumnes River College (California) culinary arts professor Michael Frigm.

Economics, Finance & Business

Financial Management for Small Businesses (2021)
This text features traditional financial management themes emphasized in corporate financial management courses to meet the needs of small businesses. Published by Michigan State University Libraries.
Fundamentals of Business
This 2016 textbook was designed for use in Virginia Tech’s Pamplin College of Business introductory level business course, MGT1104 Foundations of Business.
Introduction to Business (2018)
The book provides detailed explanations in the context of core themes such as customer satisfaction, ethics, entrepreneurship, global business, and managing change. Developed by faculty from around the U.S. including San Diego State University, University of Texas at Austin, Houston Community College, and More.

Advanced Business Law and the Legal Environment
This textbook looks at different meanings and approaches and considers how social and political dynamics interact with the ideas that animate the various schools of legal thought. and sets out some basic differences between the US legal system and other legal systems.
Business Ethics
Business Ethics is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of the single-semester business ethics course. This title includes innovative features designed to enhance student learning, including case studies, application scenarios, and links to video interviews with executives, all of which help instill in students a sense of ethical awareness and responsibility.
Business Law and Ethics
This textbook will introduce the student to the laws and ethical standards that managers must abide by in the course of conducting business.
Business Law and the Legal Environment
This textbook provides context and essential concepts across the entire range of legal issues with which managers and business executives must grapple. The text provides the vocabulary and legal acumen necessary for businesspeople to talk in an educated way to their customers, employees, suppliers, government officials—and to their own lawyers.
Business Law I Essentials (2019)
This introductory textbook is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of courses on Business Law or the Legal Environment of Business. The concepts are presented in a streamlined manner, and cover the key concepts necessary to establish a strong foundation in the subject. The textbook follows a traditional approach to the study of business law.
Fundamentals of Business Law (2020)
Undergraduate business law textbook written by Melissa Randall and Community College of Denver Students [utilizing open pedagogy] in collaboration with lawyers and business professionals for use in required 200 level business law courses in the United States. This book is an introductory survey of the legal topics required in undergraduate business law classes.

Economics - Theory through Applications (2012, Cooper and John)
This textbook, Economics: Theory Through Applications, centers around student needs and expectations through two premises: Students are motivated to study economics if they see that it relates to their own lives. Students learn best from an inductive approach, in which they are first confronted with a problem, and then led through the process of solving that problem.
Principles of Economics (2nd ed., Oct. 2017)
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Principles of Economics covers scope and sequence requirements for a two-semester introductory economics course. The authors take a balanced approach to micro- and macroeconomics, to both Keynesian and classical views, and to the theory and application of economics concepts. The text also includes many current examples, which are handled in a politically equitable way.

Principles of Macroeconomics 3e (2022, multi-institution collaboration)
Principles of Macroeconomics 3e covers the scope and sequence of most one semester introductory macroeconomics courses. The third edition takes a balanced approach to the theory and application of macroeconomics concepts. The text uses conversational language and ample illustrations to explore economic theories, and provides a wide array of examples using both fictional and real-world scenarios.

Principles of Microeconomics (2nd ed., Sep. 2017; OpenStax)
This textbook covers the scope and sequence of most introductory microeconomics courses. The text includes many current examples. The outcome is a balanced approach to the theory and application of economics concepts.
UH Microeconomics 2019 (Assoc. Authors, University of Hawaiʻi)
Designed for ECON 130, this is a revised version of the OpenStax OER text Principles of Microeconomics 2e.
Microeconomics: Theory Through Applications (by Russell Cooper, European University Institute & Andrew John, Melbourne Business School)
This textbook, Microeconomics: Theory Through Applications, centers around student needs and expectations through two premises: Students are motivated to study economics if they see that it relates to their own lives. Students learn best from an inductive approach, in which they are first confronted with a problem, and then led through the process of solving that problem.

Organizational Behavior (Updated 2023)
The text presents the theory, concepts, and applications with particular emphasis on the impact that individuals and groups can have on organizational performance and culture. Developed by faculty at institutions across the U.S.
Principles of Management (Updated 2023)
This is a traditional approach to management using the leading, planning, organizing, and controlling approach. Developed by faculty at institutions across the U.S.

Accounting Principles: A Business Perspective (2011)
This BCcampus text uses annual reports of real companies to illustrate many of the accounting concepts in use in business today. Note: This text was published by a Canadian organization, but was written and developed by faculty in the University System of Georgia and University of California system.
Introduction to Financial Accounting (2021 updated)
This text is intended for use in entry-level college and university courses in financial accounting. Note: This text was developed by faculty at Canada's Athabasca University. While much of the content is universal, there is a chance it contains some content specific to Canadian systems, laws, and/or regulations around accounting.
Principles of Financial Accounting (2017)
This text is peer reviewed by academic professionals and tested by students contains over 100 charts and graphs, instructional exercises appearing both in-text and for Excel, as well as resources for student professional development. Use the "Download" tab to access the free PDF.

English

88 Open Essays: A Reader for Students of Composition & Rhetoric (2019)
This book is a free and open resource to composition instructors and students, full of essays that could supplement OER rhetoric and writing texts that lacked readings.
About Writing: A Guide
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This writer's reference condenses and covers everything a beginning writing student should need to successfully compose college-level work. The book covers the basics of composition and revising, including how to build a strong thesis, how to peer review a fellow student's work, and a handy checklist for revision, before moving on to a broad overview of academic writing.
BC Reads: Adult Literacy Fundamental English - Course Pack 6
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This course pack is designed to meet the learning outcomes for Adult Literacy Fundamental English Level 6 (roughly equivalent to grades 7.5 to 9 in the K-12 system). Every chapter includes a level-appropriate, high-interest reading of between 500 and 1,000 words.
Business English for Success
Business English for Success provides instruction in steps, builds writing, reading, and critical thinking, and combines comprehensive grammar review with an introduction to paragraph writing and composition. This step-by-step approach provides a clear path to student-centered learning.
College Skills: Intermediate English
This book has been written for adult students of English Language Arts at a Grade 10 level. The goal of the book is to help students develop skills in reading, writing, language use, and study skills. The book is divided into ten units, each of which focuses on a specific theme; these include food, work, art, money, nature, and more.
Composition and Literature (2019)
This book is divided into two parts. Part I is a Composition Handbook designed to teach students the components of the writing process and the conventions of various forms of school and college writing assignments. Part II is an Anthology of Literature designed to help students read actively, analyze, understand, enjoy, and appreciate stories, poems, and plays by a diverse and inclusive group of exceptional writers.
English Composition: Connect, Collaborate, Communicate (2019)
This OER textbook has been designed for students to learn the foundational concepts for English 100. The content aligns to learning outcomes across all campuses in the University of Hawai'i system.
English Composition I by Lumen Learning
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English Composition I is a study of the rhetorical modes of writing and essay production.
English Composition II by Lumen Learning
English Composition II is a writing course that emphasizes the process of research writing.
EmpoWord: A Student-Centered Anthology & Handbook for College Writers
EmpoWord is a reader and rhetoric that champions the possibilities of student writing. The textbook uses actual student writing to exemplify effective writing strategies, celebrating dedicated college writing students to encourage and instruct their successors: the students in your class. Published by Portland State University Libraries.
Expressions and Inquiry
This first year composition text contains three major sections—Section One primarily focuses on the nuts and bolts of writing to get students engaged in the process of writing and also considering what their point or claim is. This section shares ideas about expressing ideas and is primarily derived from the Wiki Book on Rhetoric and Composition. Section Two continues to discuss academic writing including research and other inquiry methods as well as analysis and blends more of the previously cited Wiki Book and Shane Abram’s EmpoWord: A Student Centered Anthology and Handbook for College Writers.
In the Community: An Intermediate Integrated Skills Textbook
This is an English language skills textbook to help ELL students acquire communication skills in the community (listening, speaking, reading, and writing). The book is aimed at Canadian Language Benchmark levels 5/6, focusing on intercultural skills and essential skills: reading text, document use, writing, oral communication, thinking skills, working with others, and computer use.
In the Workplace: An Intermediate Integrated Skills Textbook
This is an English language skills textbook to help ELL students acquire communication skills in the workplace (listening, speaking, reading, and writing). The book is aimed at Canadian Language Benchmark levels 5/6, focusing on intercultural skills and essential skills: reading text, document use, writing, oral communication, thinking skills, working with others, and computer use.
The Information Literacy User's Guide: An Open, Online Textbook
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The Information Literacy User’s Guide is based on two models in information literacy: The 2011 version of The Seven Pillars Model and the conception of information literacy as a metaliteracy.
Libretext
A collection of freely available materials for use in first-year composition courses. Content is arranged by themes or categories.
Online Writing Lab at Excelsior College
A free, online comprehensive college-level writing lab.
Writing Commons
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A free, comprehensive, peer-reviewed, award-winning Open Text for students and faculty in college-level courses that require writing and research skills.
Writing for Success (via Open Textbook Library)
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Writing for Success is a text that provides instruction in steps, builds writing, reading, and critical thinking, and combines comprehensive grammar review with an introduction to paragraph writing and composition. This adapted edition is produced by the University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing through the eLearning Support Initiative.
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The linked review of this textbook is for the original version authored by Scott McClean, Arizona Western College.
Writing Guide with Handbook (2021)
Writing Guide with Handbook aligns to the goals, topics, and objectives of many first-year writing and composition courses. It is organized according to relevant genres, and focuses on the writing process, effective writing practices or strategies—including graphic organizers, writing frames, and word banks to support visual learning—and conventions of usage and style. The text includes an editing and documentation handbook, which provides information on grammar and mechanics, common usage errors, and citation styles.
Writing Spaces
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Writing Spaces is an open textbook project for college-level writing studies courses. Each volume in the Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing series contains peer-reviewed collections of essays about writing—all composed by teachers for students—with each book available for download for free under a Creative Commons license.

Communication

Communication in the Real World: An Introduction to Communication Studies
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Communication in the Real World overviews the time-tested conceptual foundations of the field, while incorporating the latest research and cutting-edge applications of these basics. A key feature of this book is the integration of content regarding diversity and organizational communication in each chapter through examples and/or discrete sub-sections.
Effective Professional Communication: A Rhetorical Approach (2021)
From the Introduction: "Our goal in this text is to break down the communication process in professional environments so you can maximize your chance to get hired and retain your job once you graduate from university. We will do this by looking at communication through political, rhetorical, ethical, and interpersonal lenses and applying this knowledge to your future career."
Introduction to Professional Communications (2018)
No matter what your field is, having professional communication skills are essential to success in today's workplace. This Pressbooks text covers key business communications topics that will help you in your career, including intercultural communication, team work, professional writing, audience analysis and adapting messages, document formatting, oral communication, and more.
Media Innovation and Entrepreneurship (2018)
This Pressbooks publication is a modular open textbook designed for entrepreneurial journalism, media innovation, and related courses. In the course of envisioning, prototyping and launching, you will integrate multimedia production, social media distribution, design thinking, data collection and analysis, and audience engagement strategies.
Media, Society, Culture and You
This Pressbooks resource is an approachable introductory Mass Communication text that covers major mass communication terms and concepts including "digital culture." It discusses various media platforms and how they are evolving as Information and Communication Technologies change.
Message Processing: The Science of Creating Understanding
The Pressbooks text provides an upper-level undergraduate introduction and explanation of the social and cognitive processes involved in human communication, focusing on how people create understanding.
Understanding Media and Culture: An Introduction to Mass Communication
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"The author believes that an introduction to mass communication text should be a compelling, historical narrative sketching the ongoing evolution of media technology and how that technology shapes and is shaped by culture..."

Food Science & Human Nutrition

Human Nutrition 2nd Ed. (2022)
This Pressbook textbook by University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Food Science and Human Nutrition Program serves as an introduction to nutrition for undergraduate students and is the OER textbook for the FSHN 185 The Science of Human Nutrition course at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. The book covers basic concepts in human nutrition, key information about essential nutrients, basic nutritional assessment, and nutrition across the lifespan.

History

Ancient Civilizations (Carol Berkin, CUNY Graduate Center, et al.)
This online textbook covers major ancient civilizations including Greece, Egypt, Rome, Middle East, China, Central and South America and more.
Introductory Guide to Ancient Civilizations
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Note from the authors: "This guide is designed to be used along with a presentation or other supportive material...The individual lecturer needs to fill in the missing parts he/she wants to focus on based on their expertise and interest."
World History: Cultures, States, and Societies to 1500
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A comprehensive introduction to the history of humankind from prehistory to 1500. Authored by six USG faculty members with advanced degrees in History, this textbook offers an up-to-date original scholarship.
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Coverage includes cultures, states, and societies as Ancient Mesopotamia, Ancient Israel, Dynastic Egypt, India’s Classical Age, the Dynasties of China, Archaic Greece, the Roman Empire, Islam, Medieval Africa, the Americas, and the Khanates of Central Asia."
World History, Volume 1: to 1500 (2023)
This OpenStax text introduces students to a global perspective of history couched in an engaging narrative. Concepts and assessments help students think critically about the issues they encounter so they can broaden their perspective of global history. A special effort has been made to introduce and juxtapose people’s experiences of history for a rich and nuanced discussion.
World History, Volume 2: from 1400 (Updated 2023)
This OpenStax text is designed to meet the scope and sequence of a world history course from 1400 offered at both two-year and four-year institutions. Concepts and assessments help students think critically about the issues they encounter so they can broaden their perspective of global history.

American Environmental History (2019)
For too long the environment has been considered little more than a neutral background to history. This text surveys findings of the new field of Environmental History about how the environment of the Americas influenced the actions of people here and how people affected their environments, from prehistory to the present.
American History (Carol Berkin Ph.D., History, CUNY Graduate Center et al.)
This online resource covers American History from Pre-Columbian times to the new millennium.
American History I (University System of Georgia, 2019)
This online resource covers American History from the colonial period to the Civil War.
History in the Making: A History of the People of the United States of America to 1877
"This textbook examines U.S. History from before European Contact through Reconstruction, while focusing on the people and their history."
U.S. History (OpenStax, Updated 2023)
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This textbook covers the history of the United States chronologically and thoroughly enough to meet the requirements of most courses. Click on "Get this book" to read it online or to download the book in PDF format.
U.S. History I (Lumen Learning)
U.S. History is a survey course beginning with the indigenous people of the New World and extending to the post-Civil War Reconstruction era.
U.S. History II (Lumen Learning)
U.S. History II is a survey course that covers the post-Civil War Reconstruction era and moves forward through historical events and context to the present day.

From the Mountains to the Sea: early Hawaiian life (Julie Stewart Williams)
Full text available at Ulukau, The Hawaiian Electronic Library.
The Hawaiian Kingdom - vol. 1, 1778-1854: foundation and transformation (Ralph Kuykendall)
Full text available at Ulukau, The Hawaiian Electronic Library.
The Hawaiian Kingdom - vol. 2, 1854-1874: twenty critical years (Ralph Kuykendall)
Full text available at Ulukau, The Hawaiian Electronic Library.
The Hawaiian Kingdom - vol. 3, 1874-1893: The Kalakaua dynasty (Ralph Kuykendall)
Full text available at Ulukau, The Hawaiian Electronic Library.

Life Sciences

Anatomy and Physiology (OpenStax, Updated 2023)
Anatomy and Physiology is a dynamic textbook for the yearlong Human Anatomy and Physiology course taught at most two- and four-year colleges and universities to students majoring in nursing and allied health.
Anatomy & Physiology (2019)
This is a Pressbooks adapted version of the OpenStax Anatomy and Physiology text with revised content and artwork by Oregon State University.
Anatomy and Physiology II (Lumen Learning)
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This introductory class integrates the anatomy and physiology of organs, the systems of the human body, and development and inheritance. It includes the study of the gross and microscopic structure of the systems of the human body with special emphasis on the relationship between structure and function. This is the second of a two-part course.
Anatomy and Physiology Lab (University of Wisconsin - La Crosse, Updated 2022)
An on-line lab manual for anatomy and physiology. Mostly annotated images. Some histological slides are presented at different levels of magnification.
Anatomy and Physiology I Lab Manual
The manual contains labs on cells, histology, the integumentary system, the skeletal system, the nervous system, muscles and the senses. From the University System of Georgia.
Digital Histology
Digital Histology is organized as chapters that parallel those of most histology textbooks. Each of the over 1600 pages contains an original, high quality image accompanied by descriptive text and selectable labels. In addition, interactive quizzes with formative feedback accompany each chapter of Digital Histology. A review textbook with hyperlinks to images in the main package is also included. From Virginia Commonwealth University.
Human Anatomy Lab Manual (2018)
This is a lab manual for a college-level human anatomy course. The activities in this manual encourage students to engage with new vocabulary in many ways, including grouping key terms, matching terms to structures, recalling definitions, and written exercises.
Introduction to Human Body Systems and Related Medical Terminology (Kurt Rutter)
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This text is adapted from the OpenStax Textbook Anatomy and Physiology, which is a college level text intended for a traditional two semester anatomy and Physiology course. This adaptation is highly edited to focus on basic human body systems required for an introductory anatomy and medical terminology course (HLTH 140 at Kaua`i CC).
Medical Terminology (Grimm, et al.; 2022)
This resource is targeted for health services students in the first year of their college programs.
Medical Terminology Student Companion (2022)
This is a printable companion to Medical Terminology (authors Stacey Grimm, et al.). It adds no new content, but formats the content in a way that is easily printed for student study and review. The interactive activities are translated into a static, printable version, and the contextual content is removed from the essential word parts and medical terminology to be learned.

Biology 2nd ed. (OpenStax, Updated 2023)
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Biology 2e is designed to cover the scope and sequence requirements of a typical two-semester biology course for science majors. The 2nd edition has been revised to incorporate clearer, more current, and more dynamic explanations, while maintaining the same organization as the first edition. Art and illustrations have been substantially improved, and the textbook features additional assessments and related resources.
Biology I Laboratory Manual (Lumen Learning)
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This set of Biology I lab assignments ensures students have the opportunity to apply the concepts and information they learn as they work through Biology I course content. Content includes lab assignments for students, as well as Instructor Materials Preparation for each lab with detailed lists of what faculty members need for each lab.
Biology II Laboratory Manual (Lumen Learning)
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This set of Biology II lab assignments ensures students have the opportunity to apply the concepts and information they learn as they work through Biology II course content. Content includes lab assignments for students, as well as Instructor Materials Preparation for each lab with detailed lists of what faculty members need for each lab.
Biology 351 Anatomical Illustrations (2021)
Supplemental materials. These eight anatomical illustrations were created by Iowa State University Biological and Pre-Medical Illustration (BPMI) students who attended the course BIOL 351: Comparative Chordate Anatomy. The illustrations are licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0.
Concepts of Biology (OpenStax, Updated 2023)
Concepts of Biology is designed for the typical introductory biology course for nonmajors, covering standard scope and sequence requirements. The text includes interesting applications and conveys the major themes of biology, with content that is meaningful and easy to understand. The book is designed to demonstrate biology concepts and to promote scientific literacy.
General Biology Laboratory Manual (Merlot)
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A lab manual designed to be used in conjuction with an entry level biology course.

Botany in Hawaiʻi (2021)
Created by Leeward CC instructors Daniela Dutra Eilliot and Paula Mejia Velasquez, this CC BY-NC-SA licensed LibreTexts publication discusses introductory topics of Botany through examples of the native and introduced plants found in Hawaiʻi. It includes the anatomy and physiology of seeds, roots, leaves, stems, fruits, and flowers and covers the main plant groups from nonvascular to flowering plants. This book provides a visual reference to botanical concepts and terminology for beginners.
Botany (2012)
This book is devoted to botany and covers topical issues in this diverse area of study.
Botany online - The Internet Hypertextbook
Botany online is an html textbook that has been translated from German into English covering plant anatomy, classic genetics, organic chemistry and plant biochemistry, intercellular communication, interactions between plants, fungi, bacteria, and viruses, evolution, and ecology.

Climate Toolkit: A Resource Manual for Science and Action (Updated 2021)
This Pressbooks resource is designed to help the reader navigate the complex and perplexing issue of climate change by providing tools and strategies to explore the underlying science. As such it contains a collection of activities that make use of readily available on-line resources developed by research groups and public agencies.
Environmental Biology
This is a Pressbooks adaptation covering the most salient environmental issues, from a biological perspective. The text is designed for an introductory-level college science course. Topics include the fundamentals of ecology, biodiversity, pollution, climate change, food production, and human population growth.
He Aliʻi Ka ʻĀina: Learning to Live and Teach Sustainability in Hawaiʻi (2022)
From the textbook's introduction:
"The title of the book refers to a Hawaiian ‘olelo no‘eau, or wise saying, ʻHe ali‘i ka ‘āina, he kauwa ke kanaka.ʻ Land is the chief, man is the servant. We are entirely dependent on land to grow food, to provide clean water, and provide us with materials to build our homes, cloth our bodies, and heal our illnesses. This textbook aims to help teachers incorporate sustainability across a wide variety of academic disciplines."
Sustainability, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship (2011)
"This book is suited for the Entrepreneurship or Innovation course with an emphasis on Sustainability or for a course devoted entirely to Sustainability. What are the trends and forces underlying the changing character of the business-environment relationship? How they are creating significant entrepreneurial opportunities for individuals and companies? Around the world, the movement toward ”sustainable development“ has caused many firms to adopt policies and practices that reflect what is sometimes called a ”sustainable business“ or ”triple bottom line“ approach. ”Triple bottom line“ refers to the demonstration of strong performance across economic, social, and environmental indicators."
Sustainability: A Comprehensive Foundation (2015)
"This text is designed to introduce the reader to the essential concepts of sustainability... The content is intended to be useful for both a broad-based introductory class on sustainability and as a useful supplement to specialist courses which wish to review the sustainability dimensions of their areas of study."

Assessing Cranial Nerves
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In this interactive resource, learners read a scenario and identify the cranial nerve that is being assessed.
The Complete Subjective Health Assessment (2019)
This textbook is designed for the novice learner who is seeking to develop a foundational understanding of the complete subjective health assessment in the context of health and illness.
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The textbook deconstructs the categories of the complete subjective health assessment, providing learners with explanations and examples of what constitutes relevant subjective data. This textbook provides an opportunity to learn how to respond to normal, abnormal, and critical findings when completing a complete subjective health assessment.
Nursing: Management and Professional Concepts (2022)
This book introduces concepts related to nursing leadership and management, prioritization strategies, delegation and supervision, legal implications of nursing practice, ethical nursing practice, collaboration within the interprofessional team, health care economics, quality and evidence-based practice, advocacy, preparation for the RN role, and the avoidance of burnout with self-care.
Nursing: Mental Health and Community Concepts (2022)
This Pressbooks text discusses mental health and community health concepts while emphasizing stress management techniques, healthy coping strategies, referrals to community resources, and other preventative interventions. Nursing care for individuals with specific mental health and substance use disorders is examined, and the nurse’s role in community health needs assessments and caring for vulnerable populations is introduced.
Nursing Fundamentals (2021)
This book introduces the entry-level nursing student to the scope of nursing practice, various communication techniques, and caring for diverse patients.
Nursing Pharmacology (2020)
The Pressbooks text is designed for entry-level undergraduate nursing students. It explains basic concepts of pharmacology and describes common medication classes.
Vaccine Practice for Health Professionals: 1st Canadian Edition (2020)
This open access textbook is intended to guide best practices in vaccine delivery in Canada. This resource is designed for students in post-secondary health profession programs, including nursing.
Nursing Skills 2e (2023)
This open access Nursing Skills textbook includes physical assessments routinely performed by entry-level registered nurses and basic nursing skills performed by licensed practical nurses.

Math

Key Concepts of Intermediate Level Math (2018)
This textbook is a concise, understandable, and effective guide on intermediate level mathematics. Each topic, concept, term, and phrase has a clear definition followed by examples. It acts as a concise study guide, quickly getting to the heart of each particular topic, helping students with a quick review before doing mathematics homework or preparing for tests.
Mathematics for the Liberal Arts
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This book is a survey of contemporary mathematical topics, most non-algebraic, appropriate for a college-level quantitative literacy topics course for liberal arts majors. The text is designed so that most chapters are independent, allowing the instructor to choose a selection of topics to be covered. Emphasis is placed on the applicability of the mathematics.

Abstract Algebra: Theory and Applications (Tom Judson, 2022)
Updated annually. Developed by Tom Judson, a former faculty member at Stephen F. Austin University's Mathematics and Statistics Department.
Adult Learning Academy - Pre-Algebra (by Debbie Char & Lisa Whetstine)
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Adult Learning Academy - Pre-Algebra is a competency-based, contextualized and accelerated basic academic skills course aligned to the competencies in the credit developmental education Pre-Algebra math course.
Advanced Algebra II - Conceptual Explanations (Kenny M. Felder)
Various file formats available. Formerly a part of OpenStax CNX but migrated into the Internet Archive.
Algebra and Trigonometry (OpenStax, Updated 2023)
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"Algebra and Trigonometry provides a comprehensive exploration of algebraic principles and meets scope and sequence requirements for a typical introductory algebra and trigonometry course."
College Algebra (Carl Stitz Ph.D. and Jeff Zeager Ph.D.)
The link provided gives users direct online access to full text in PDF format. The book may be downloaded, read online, or printed.
Elementary Algebra (OpenStax, Updated 2023)
This text is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of a one-semester elementary algebra course. The text expands on the fundamental concepts of algebra while addressing the needs of students with diverse backgrounds and learning styles.
Intermediate Algebra Student Workbook (Scottsdale Community College)
Designed to help students develop a deep understanding of Intermediate Algebra concepts through 12 lessons.

Apex Calculus (by Gregory Hartman & multiple contributors)
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Calculus textbook available in three separate volumes. Click on download to access text in PDF format, in color.
Calculus
Various calculus text resources.
Calculus (Gilbert Strang, MIT Professor)
The link provides users direct online access to full text in PDF format. The book may be downloaded, read online or printed.
Precalculus (lead author Jay Abramson, Updated 2023)
Precalculus is adaptable and designed to fit the needs of a variety of precalculus courses. It is a comprehensive text that covers more ground than a typical one- or two-semester college-level precalculus course.

Collaborative Statistics (2012, Illowsky and Dean)
This book is intended for introductory statistics courses being taken by students at two– and four–yearcolleges who are majoring in fields other than math or engineering. Intermediate algebra is the only prerequisite.The book focuses on applications of statistical knowledge rather than the theory behind it.
Introductory Statistics (2012, Shafer and Zhang)
This book is meant to be a textbook for a standard one-semester introductory statistics course for general education students.

Physical Sciences

Astronomy (OpenStax, Updated 2023)
The book begins with relevant scientific fundamentals and progresses through an exploration of the solar system, stars, galaxies, and cosmology.

The Basics of General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry
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“The Basics of General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry is for the one-semester General, Organic and Biological Chemistry course. The authors designed this textbook from the ground up to meet the needs of a one-semester course. It is 20 chapters in length and approximately 350-400 pages; just the right breadth and depth for instructors to teach and students to grasp…” Available for download in PDF format.
Chemistry 2e (Updated 2023)
This text is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of the two-semester general chemistry course. The second edition has been revised to incorporate clearer, more current, and more dynamic explanations, while maintaining the same organization as the first edition.
CLUE: Chemistry, Life, the Universe and Everything (2020)
This text is intended to provide an in-depth introduction to the key ideas in chemistry, and to show how these ideas are developed from simple to complex systems and how they relate to each other.
Introductory Chemistry (Key and Ball)
This survey should give you enough knowledge to appreciate the impact of chemistry in everyday life and, if necessary, prepare you for additional instruction in chemistry.

Geology
What is geology and why is it is an intricate part of your everyday life?
Laboratory Manual for Introductory Geology
This textbook is a comprehensive lab manual for the core curriculum Introductory Geosciences classes with both informational content and laboratory exercises.
Physical Geology (2nd ed., 2019)
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Physical Geology is a comprehensive introductory text on the physical aspects of geology. A 2019 adaptation of this text is available (https://openpress.usask.ca/physicalgeology/) from the First University of Saskatchewan with a strong emphasis on examples from western Canada.
Principles of Rock Mechanics
The principles of rock mechanics explains the fundamental concepts of continuum mechanics and rheology as applied in studies of rock deformation.
The Story of Earth: An Observational Guide (2021)
This lab manual focuses heavily on students making observations of geologic data, whether rocks, minerals, fossils, maps, graphs, etc.
Structural Geology & Map Interpretation
The discipline of structural geology studies the architecture of the solid Earth and other planets.

College Physics (OpenStax, Updated 2023)
This introductory, algebra-based, two-semester college physics book is grounded with real-world examples, illustrations, and explanations to help students grasp key, fundamental physics concepts. College Physics can be can be downloaded now by clicking on the "Get this book" button below. This online, fully editable and customizable title includes learning objectives, concept questions, links to labs and simulations, and ample practice opportunities to solve traditional physics application problems. This book is available in paperback.

Social Sciences

Becoming Human: How Evolution Made Us
The book discusses traces of evolution in our bodies, basic evolutionary theory from Darwin to the genomic revolution, sexual selection and reproduction, and how human brain development affects our evolution, including into the future.
Explorations: An Open Invitation to Biological Anthropology
The first comprehensive, peer-reviewed open access textbook for biological anthropology courses. Produced with support from the Society for Anthropology in Community Colleges (a section of the American Anthropological Association) and a grant from Minnesota State.
Gendered Lives: Global Issues (2021)
Gendered Lives takes a regional approach to examine gender issues from an anthropological perspective with a focus on globalization and intersectionality. Chapters present contributors’ ethnographic research, contextualizing their findings within four geographic regions: Latin America, the Caribbean, South Asia, and the Global North.
Introduction to Anthropology (2022)
OpenStax Introduction to Anthropology is a four-field text integrating diverse voices, engaging field activities, and meaningful themes like Indigenous experiences and social inequality to engage students and enrich learning. The text showcases the historical context of the discipline, with a strong focus on anthropology as a living and evolving field. There is significant discussion of recent efforts to make the field more diverse—in its practitioners, in the questions it asks, and in the applications of anthropological research to address contemporary challenges.
Introduction to Paleoanthropology
This resource explores the subdiscipline of physical anthropology that studies human evolution through fossil records.
Native Peoples of North America
This text is intended to be an introductory text about the Native peoples of North America (primarily the United States and Canada) presented from an anthropological perspective.
Perspectives: An Open Invitation to Cultural Anthropology
The first peer-reviewed open access textbook for cultural anthropology courses. Produced by the Society for Anthropology in Community Colleges and available free of charge for use in any setting.

Introduction to Human Geography
Introduction to Human Geography (by R. Adam Dastrup, MA; Pressbooks, 2019). This website also provides a lab manual with a CC BY license.
Physical Geography and Natural Disasters
The intent of this textbook is to update and build upon the body of knowledge that exists within the geographic discipline.
Open Geography Education eTextbooks
This is a non-profit website and open for everyone to use. Everything on this website is free, open, and licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. Developed, edited, and administered by R. Adam Dastrup.
World Regional Geography
Rather than present students with a broad, novice-level introduction to geography, emphasizing places and vocabulary terms, this text approaches geography as experts understand the discipline, focusing on connections and an in-depth understanding of core themes.
World Regional Geography: People, Places and Globalization
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This textbook is "designed for students to experience and study as much of the world as possible within a limited amount of time. It gives students the fundamental concepts and the latest data regarding world places in a concise, easy-to-read format..." To learn more about this book and to read it online click here.

American Government
Textbook from Florida Atlantic university Department of Political Science that explores the role of government, politics, and policy in American lives.
American Government
The book provides an important opportunity for students to learn the core concepts of American government and understand how those concepts apply to their lives and the world around them. American Government includes updated information on the 2016 presidential election.
American Government
Lumen Learning open textbook (via Course Hero) on American government.
American Government and Politics in the Information Age
The text introduces the intricacies of the Constitution, the complexities of federalism, the meanings of civil liberties, and the conflicts over civil rights;explains how people are socialized to politics, acquire and express opinions, and participate in political life; describes interest groups, political parties, and elections—the intermediaries that link people to government and politics; details the branches of government and how they operate; and shows how policies are made and affect people’s lives.
Boundless Political Science
Boundless open textbook (via Course Hero) includes chapters on American Politics, The Constitution, Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Public Opinion, Interest Groups, Campaigns and Elections, and Voting,
A Primer on Politics
An Introduction to Politics proposes to chart a path that is at once a little more brief, concise and in between than those textbooks currently on the market.

Child Growth and Development (Updated 2019)
This text is a presentation of how and why children grow, develop, and learn. We will look at how we change physically over time from conception through adolescence. We examine cognitive change, or how our ability to think and remember changes over the first 20 years or so of life.
Essentials of Abnormal Psychology
This text tackles the difficult topic of psychological disorders in 8 chapters. After the first three foundational chapters, a discussion of psychological disorders ensues to include anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive and related disorders, mood disorders, schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders, and personality disorders.
Human Development (2021)
This open textbook is designed for Human Development, a core Psychology course. This course provides a bird’s eye view of major milestones and developmental tasks during each age period, starting at conception and ending with old age.
Introduction to Community Psychology (2019)
This textbook will show you how to comprehensively analyze, investigate, and address escalating problems of economic inequality, violence, substance abuse, homelessness, poverty, and racism. It will provide you with perspectives and tools to partner with community members and organizations to promote a fair and equitable allocation of resources and opportunities.
Introduction to Psychology (Jorden A. Cummings & Lee Sanders)
This introductory text has been created from a combination of original content and materials compiled and adapted from a number of open text publications.
Introduction to Psychology: The Full NOBA Collection
This textbook represents the entire catalog of Noba topics. It contains 101 learning modules covering every area of psychology commonly taught in introductory courses.
Lifespan Development (by Martha Lally and Suzanne Valentine-French)
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This textbook introduces the idea of lifespan development from a psychological perspective.
Principles of Social Psychology (1st International Edition)
Helping students organize their thinking about social psychology at a conceptual level.
Psychology 2e (Spielman, Jenkins, & Lovett)
This OpenStax text is designed to meet scope and sequence requirements for the single-semester introduction to psychology course. The book offers a comprehensive treatment of core concepts, grounded in both classic studies and current and emerging research.

Beyond Race: Cultural Influences on Human Social Life
This text is for introductory courses on cultural sociology providing sociological terms, concepts, theories, and research in the study of culture. The book contains five modules with sociological applications on: 1) Culture and Meaning, 2) Culture as a Social Construct, 3) Cultural Power, 4) Cultural Identity, and 5) The Multicultural World. Note: Membership to the Merlot website is needed for access to the PDF file. Membership is free.
A Career in Sociology (Updated 2023)
The book contains five modules with sociological applications on: 1) Careers in Sociology, 2) Theoretical Approaches in Practice, 3) Sociological Interventions, 4) Working with Diverse Groups, and 5) Preparing for a Career in Sociology. Note: Logging in Merlot is required to access this text.
Gender in Canada: A Companion Workbook
This Pressbooks's workbook is designed for first or second-year sociology of gender or gender studies courses. While it focuses on a Canadian context for this topic, as a workbook it offers activities to accompany a course textbook that may be adapted given its CC BY license.
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Immigrant and Refugee Families, 2nd ed.
This textbook uses a family systems lens to discuss challenges and strengths of immigrant and refugee families in the United States. Chapters address immigration policy, human rights issues, economic stress, mental health and traumatic stress, domestic violence, substance abuse, family resilience, and methods of integration.
Intimate Relationships and Families (Hammond and Cheney)
This College of the Canyons PDF is CC BY 4.0.
Intro to Sociology (Ron J. Hammond)
This is an online textbook created by the author who has 20+ years of experience teaching Introduction to Sociology. The online textbook is designed for accessible laptop, computer or iPad display and its navigation elements get automatically removed when printing.
Introduction to Sociology (Lumen Learning)
Introduction to Sociology is survey course focused on how people and society affect each other.
Introduction to Sociology (OpenStax)
Introduction to Sociology 2e adheres to the scope and sequence of a typical, one-semester introductory sociology course. It offers comprehensive coverage of core concepts, foundational scholars, and emerging theories. The textbook presents section reviews with rich questions, discussions that help students apply their knowledge, and features that draw learners into the discipline in meaningful ways.
Social Problems: Continuity and Change
Readers of this book will find many examples of how social problems have been improved and of strategies that hold great potential for solving them today and in the future.
Sociology: Understanding and Changing the Social World
This text presents a sociological understanding of society but also a sociological perspective on how to change society, while maintaining the structure and contents of the best mainstream texts.

Speech

Public Speaking (The Public Speaking Project)
This text offers an assortment of virtual tools to help users improve their public speaking skills. A variety of speech professionals who are dedicated to providing free and low cost instructional materials contributed their original work.
Stand up, Speak out: the Practice and Ethics of Public Speaking (Wrench, Goding, Johnson & Attias)
This text focuses on helping students become more seasoned and polished public speakers, and second is its emphasis on ethics in communication.
Business Communication for Success
This text provides a comprehensive, integrated approach to the study and application of written and oral business communication to serve both student and professor.

Teacher Education

Communication, Affect, & Learning in the Classroom (4th ed., 2020)
"Communication, Affect, & Learning in the Classroom was original published by Virginia Richmond and Joan Gorham in 1992 and then updated a decade later by Virginia Richmond, Jason S. Wrench, and Joan Gorham in 2001. As we enter into the revision of the 3rd edition of the text, the basic content has not been drastically altered over the years. However, the research in Instructional Communication has clearly become more prominent and stronger."
EdHub: The Educators Resource Network
EdHub is an online library of professional development materials dedicated to the advancement of best practices in teaching and learning at the PK-12 and higher education levels.
Foundations of American Education: A Critical Lens (2021)
Topics include the teaching profession, influences on student learning, philosophical and historical foundations, structures of schools, ethical and legal issues, curriculum, classroom environment, and the path forward.
K-12 Open Textbooks & Open Educational Resources: Teacher Education Resources
Follow this link to view a guide to K-12 open textbooks and OER maintained by the Odum Library, Valdosta State University.
OER Teacher Education Resources
This page provides a register of OER providers in the teacher education area, links to OER search engines, and other aggregate sites, allowing you to find further resources.

The following resources include materials specifically for Educational Technology.

Education for a Digital World: Advice, Guidelines and Effective Practice from Around Globe
This textbook contains a comprehensive collection of proven strategies and tools for effective online teaching, based on the principles of learning as a social process.
Teaching Crowds: Learning and Social Media
This textbook introduces a new model for understanding and exploiting the pedagogical potential of Web-based technologies, one that rests on connections — on networks and collectives — rather than on separations.
Teaching in a Digital Age: Guidelines for designing teaching and learning for a digital age (Updated 2019)
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This textbook examines the underlying principles that guide effective teaching in an age when everyone, and in particular the students we are teaching, are using technology.

Foreign Languages

Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning (COERLL)
COERLL's mission is to produce and disseminate Open Educational Resources for the Internet public (e.g., online language courses, reference grammars, assessment tools, corpora, etc.). Provides learning materials in 16 languages.

Au Boulot! First-Year French
Au boulot! is a two-year college French program consisting of: a textbook, workbook and 21 accompanying audio exercises; as well as a reference grammar. This previously all rights reserved course (1995) is currently available under a CC BY-NC license.
Chapeau! First-Year French
Chapeau! is a first-year college text. This resource contains a textbook, and workbook with 24 accompanying audio exercises. This previously all rights reserved course (1989) is currently available under a CC BY-NC license.
Liberté
This text is a first-year college French textbook with a true communicative approach. (Note that audio is available only to institutions adopting the text.)

Musubi: A New Approach to Japanese Language and Culture, Vol. 1
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Two texts available through the UH System Repository for the University of Hawaiʻi: Reading & Writing and Oral Communication.

Beginning Korean 1 (2022)
This CC BY-NC licensed textbook is designed for elementary Korean learners to practice and learn how to communicate in Korean. It provides basic grammar, vocabulary, and discourse information that are essential to beginning level students.
Beginning Korean - Activity Book 1
A CC BY-NC licensed supplemental textbook to Beginning Korean 1.

Spanish 001 - Elementary Spanish 1
This text is available through Penn State University's Pressbooks and is intended for a first-year, college Elementary Spanish I level.

Information and Computer Science

Discrete Mathematics for Computer Science (2019)
This 1st edition resource is by L. J. Miller from Kapiʻolani Community College's Math and Sciences Department. It is a derivative of Applied Discrete Structures (Doerr and Levasseur).
Information Systems for Business and Beyond
This book is written as an introductory text, meant for those with little or no experience with computers or information systems. While sometimes the descriptions can get a little bit technical, every effort has been made to convey the information essential to understanding a topic while not getting bogged down in detailed terminology or esoteric discussions.
Information Systems: A Manager's Guide to Harnessing Technology
This text is intended for use in undergraduate and/or graduate courses in Management Information Systems and Information Technology. Rather than lead with technical topics, the book starts with strategic thinking, focusing on big-picture issues that have confounded experts but will engage students. And while chapters introduce concepts, cases on approachable, exciting firms across industries further challenge students to apply what they've learned.
Introduction to Web Accessibility (2019)
With raised awareness and accessibility laws emerging around the world, understanding what inclusive access to the Web means is becoming necessary knowledge for anyone who produces digital content. This book will “interpret” the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.1), to make it easier to understand for a general audience.
Patterns for Beginning Programmers (2022)
Programming patterns are solutions to problems that require the creation of a small fragment of code that will be part of a larger program. This book is about teaching you how to write such fragments of code.
Professional Web Accessibility Auditing Made Easy (2018)
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Digital accessibility skills are in high demand, as the world becomes more aware of barriers in digital content that prevent some people from participating in a digital society. These are essential skills for web developers, and essential knowledge for organizations that want to ensure their web content is reaching the broadest audience possible.
Teaching with Digital Tools and Apps (2020)
This text addresses the following questions: How do you find the right technology tools and apps for your practice? How do you ensure the digital tools and apps that you select for use in your classroom will enrich and extend your teaching, provide an accessible learning experience, and protect students' privacy? What should you look for when evaluating the user experience of apps and tools?

Hospitality and Tourism

Introduction to Tourism and Hospitality in BC, 2nd ed. (2021)
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This textbook is an introduction to the tourism and hospitality industry in British Columbia, and is written with a first year college and university audience in mind. Each chapter is organized thematically moving from a global, then national, and finally provincial context.

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