Tag: text

Open Case Studies from the University of British Columbia

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This project brings together faculty and students from across departments and Faculties to co-create an interdisciplinary, open educational resource on sustainability and environmental ethics.

Internet Archive: Ebook and Texts Archive

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The Internet Archive’s site OpenLibrary provides an interface to download free books and texts published on archive.org and links to other online book collections. The Internet Archive Text Archive contains a wide range of fiction, popular books, children’s books, historical texts and academic books.

Project Gutenberg

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Project Gutenberg offers over 42,000 free ebooks: choose among free epub books, free kindle books, download them or read them online.

Openstax College

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Openstax offers free textbooks developed and peer-reviewed by educators to ensure they are readable, accurate, and meet the scope and sequence requirements of your course.

Wikibooks

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Open textbooks, manuals, annotated texts and guides available in a wiki editor. Wikibooks contains nearly 2500 books available freely for editing.

Connexions

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Part of Rice University, Connexions is a repository of free learning materials organized and easily exported as textbooks. Content is modularized and can be mixed and combined to make custom resources.

Flatworld Knowledge

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Flatworld Knowledge claims to be first and largest publisher of open and free textbooks. The former publisher aims to offer cheap print and free digital versions of high quality textbook titles. The catalog as of October 2012 contains over 100+ titles.

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