How To Use Open Educational Resources: Open Educational Resources

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

Easy discovery of almost 5,000 free and open etextbooks within a collection of over 70,000 free and open educational resources.

Open educational resources, open textbooks, and open courseware to expand access to higher education and improve teaching and learning.

Frustrated by the limitations of traditional textbooks and courses, Dr. Richard Baraniuk founded OpenStax (then Connexions) in 1999 at Rice University to provide authors and learners with an open space where they can share and freely adapt educational materials such as courses, books, and reports. OpenStax CNX is a dynamic non-profit digital ecosystem serving millions of users per month in the delivery of educational content to improve learning outcomes.

Developed by the California State University Center for Distributed Learning. Merlot's affliated faculty and institutional partners developed evaluation standards and peer review processes for on-line teaching-learning material.

While these E-Books from the NASEM are not open source, there is an option to download free pdfs of most materials in this database.