Educational Resources

Open Educational Resources (OER)

• OER Commons: a public digital library of open educational resources.

• MIT Open Courseware: videos and course materials for full courses at MIT

• Open Yale Courses: full courses from Yale University

• LabXchange: free science content, through a collaboration including Harvard, Amgen, Khan Academy, and more.

• SkillsCommons: open library of workforce training materials, supported by the MERLOT project at CSU Long Beach.

Public Domain works

• Project Gutenberg: online library of public domain works

• Standard Ebooks: open source public domain works with high quality formatting

• Library Athena: another collection of public domain works, nicely formatted

• Internet Sacred Texts Archive: a large freely available archive of online books about religion, mythology, and folklore.

• Cookbooks: thousands of archived cookbooks

Open Textbooks

There are lots of free and open source textbooks online. Some books are made available by the author, and others by the publisher.

• OpenStax: peer-reviewed free textbooks published by Rice University

• Open Textbook Library: searchable collection of open textbooks hosted by University of Minnesota

• Open Textbooks: searchable collection from OER Commons

• OASIS: open educational resource database hosted by Geneseo college (SUNY)

• Online Books Page: search engine from UPenn

• Open Book Publishers: an independent open access academic publisher

• LibreTexts: open, interactive, online textbooks

Math and Computer Science Textbooks

• Real Not Complex: a large collection of free math textbooks from elementary school through graduate-level mathematics

• American Institute of Mathematics: open textbooks approved by the American Institute of Mathematics

• Green Tea Press: publisher of free computer science books

• Open Content Mathematics Curriculum: a selection of books for a full undergraduate mathematics curriculum, from Professor Robert Beezer

• Free and Open-Source Textbooks: another list of free college-level mathematics textbooks from Professor Dana Ernst

• Springer: graduate level math and physics books available during the pandemic

• Paul’s Online Notes: free online and downloadable math notes and tutorials

• Computer Science Textbooks: a list of CS books from Professor Colin S. Gordon

Reference

• NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions: mathematical function reference from the National Institute of Standards and Technology

• The Mathematical Functions Grimoire: open source library of formulas and data for special functions