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Find and adopt Open Textbooks

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Open textbooks improve learning and teaching by insuring that every student has access to the resources needed to succeed in a course from the first day of class. Open textbooks are free or low-cost on the web and modestly priced for downloads, use on eReaders, or in bound format.

OpenStax
OpenStax offers free textbooks that meet scope and sequence requirements for most courses. These are peer-reviewed texts written by professional content developers.
Open Textbook Library
A catalog of open access textbooks to be reviewed by faculty members, made available by the University of Minnesota's College of Education and Human Development. All textbooks in this catalog are openly licenses, complete, and available in print at very little cost.
Milne Open Textbooks
"Milne Library Publishing at SUNY Geneseo manages and maintains Milne Open Textbooks, a catalog of open textbooks authored and peer-reviewed by SUNY faculty and staff."
BC Campus OpenEd (Canada)
Funded by British Columbia’s Ministry of Advanced Education, BCCampus OpenEd has published over 40 open textbooks designed for use in first and second year undergraduate courses.
Pressbooks Directory
Search over 2000 public textbooks created with Pressbooks
OER Commons: Open Textbooks
This catalog contains hundreds of college-level open textbooks from higher education institutions around the world.
Libretexts
A multi-institutional collaborative venture to develop the next generation of open-access texts to improve postsecondary education at all levels of higher learning.

Modifying an Open Textbook

A true open textbook will allow you to edit the work as you see fit, while maintaining compliance with the copyright license. Faculty have the ability to add, subtract, reorder, or otherwise modify the text, graphics, and other components of an open textbook in order to best suit their teaching needs.

This useful guide provides tips and instructions for importing and editing common open textbook file and platform types:

Modifying an Open Textbook: What You Need to Know