Open Textbooks
View open textbooks in many subject areas. Use links below to search by discipline.
Engineering & Electronics
English & Composition
Health & Nursing
History
Languages & Communications
Literature
English & Composition
Health & Nursing
History
Languages & Communications
Literature
Law
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).
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.
Learn more about open textbooks:
Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources 
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