Open Textbooks
View over 500 open textbooks in many subject areas:
Art
Biology & Genetics
Business
Chemistry
Computer Science
Economics
Education
Engineering & Electronics
English & Composition
Health & Nursing
History
Languages & Communications
Literature
Math
Music
Philosophy
Physics
Political Science
Psychology
Science
Sociology
Statistics & 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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