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Open Education Resources (OER): Textbooks

OER Textbooks

BC Accessibility Toolkit

  • A great resource to help create an open textbook.

MERLOT: Authoring Accessible OER

  • A collection of links to assist with the development of accessible resources.

UDL on Campus: Creating Accessible OER

  • Best practices and resources for creating accessible OER.

Inclusive Learning Design Handbook

  • A guide to creating accessible resources from the FLOE (Flexible Learning for Open Education) Project at OCAD University in Toronto.

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)

  • From W3C, a collection of accessibility guidelines and documents for improving the accessibility of web content.

EPUB 3: Accessibility Guidelines

  • From the International Digital Publishing Forum, EPUB is the international checklist of standards for the publication and distribution of web content. Contains an "accessibility" section.

BC (Canada) Campus Open ED

  • Find quality open textbooks in a variety of digital formats. Search by subject, including vocational trade. Reviews included for textbooks.

LibreTexts

  • The texts are curated by the Libre Texts development team. Search by keyword or subject. Use the content directly or remix it. 

Oasis

  • Oasis is a search tool that makes it easy to search for OER content from many sources. Currently, Oasis houses content from 117 different sources.

OER Commons 

  • Search for teaching and learning materials, which include full university courses, open textbooks, and interactive mini-lessons.

OpenStax

  • A great starting point for looking for OER textbooks. The content is written by experts in their fields and peer-reviewed. Get started searching by clicking on the "Subjects" tab at the top.  

Milne Open Textbooks

  • Find textbooks authored by Suny faculty members. The site includes original works or remixes of another openwork. 

Open Textbook Library

  • Consists of over 800 open textbooks and also displays a section for textbooks in development.

Attribution
Regardless of the specific licensing requirements, it is important to provide an Attribution when using Open Educational Resources. Use the attribution builders in the OER Faculty Resources tab to help you build an attribution statement.