Open Books and Textbooks Cornell University Press/Project MUSE OA Books: Seven books on History & Literature published by Cornell University Press, now offered as Open Access books. Topics include the history of Russia, Poland and Germany as well as cultural criticism. DPLA eBook Collections: An effort by the Digital Public Library of America to increase access to eBooks. Contains both open and "closed" ebooks. Global Text Project: The Global Text Project is an open educational resources that creates and translates open content textbooks and makes them freely available online. Global Text Project is a non-profit organisation which aims to eliminate the prohibitive cost of textbooks and make education accessible to everyone, regardless of income, location, or any other factor. The organisation focuses on reaching people of university-going age in the developing world. Founded in 2006, the Global Text Projects has made over 100 textbooks available for free online, many of which have also been translated into a variety of other languages. IntechOpen: A multidisciplinary Open Access publisher of books and journals covering the fields of Science, Technology and Medicine. InTech has published more than 850 Open Access books, and provides support services for faculty who wish to publish a book or journal and make it available via Open Access. JSTOR Open Books: A collection of over 6,000 Open Access DRM-free ebooks from a variety of academic publishers with coverage in many disciplines including Business, Anthropology, Education, Environmental Science, Health Sciences, History, Law, Political Science, Religion, Psychology, Technology and more! Open Research Library: The Open Research Library (ORL) is planned to include all Open Access book content worldwide on one platform for user-friendly discovery, offering a seamless experience navigating more than 14,000 Open Access books. Wikibooks: Almost 3000 open-content textbooks that anyone can edit. "Wikibooks is for textbooks, annotated texts, instructional guides, and manuals. These materials can be used in a traditional classroom, an accredited or respected institution, a home-school environment, as part of a Wikiversity course, or for self-learning. As a general rule, only instructional books are suitable for inclusion. Non-fictional books (as well as fictional ones) that aren't instructional aren't allowed on Wikibooks. Literary elements, such as allegory or fables, that are used as instructional tools can be permitted in some situations." Lumen Pressbooks: A collection of course materials developed by Lumen Learning, Lumen Learning was co-founded by open education visionary Dr. David Wiley and education technology strategist Kim Thanos, Lumen is dedicated to facilitating broad, successful adoption of OER. Open Textbook Library: Provides about 100 open textbooks in various disciplines. The Open Textbook Library is supported by the Center for Open Education and the Open Textbook Network.
