Open textbooks are freely available, openly licensed educational materials that can be linked to in LEARN and added to the Library Catalogue. There are many repositories online for finding open textbooks and case studies. This page identifies useful repositories we have identified so far but we are happy to investigate any suggested repositories.
Faculty Select is a tool for for all disciplines for finding open textbooks and DRM-free (no Digital Rights Management restrictions) textbooks.
Click one of the discipline buttons below to see a list of open textbook databases that are useful for that discipline.
If you have any questions, or would like assistance in identifying an appropriate open textbook for your course, please contact your Kaitiaki Kaupapa | Subject Librarian.
Social Sciences
OER textbook databases for Social Sciences
Faculty Select is a tool for finding open textbooks and DRM-free (i.e. need to be purchased but have unlimited access conditions for library provision) textbooks.
The Open Textbook Library provides a collection of peer-reviewed textbooks affiliated with universities, scholarly societies or professional organisations.
ANU Press is Australia’s first open-access university press. It contains peer-reviewed research on a broad range of topics including Asia and Pacific studies, Australian politics, humanities, arts, indigenous studies and science.
NOBA is a free online platform that provides high-quality, flexibly structured textbooks and educational materials in the field of Psychology and related disciplines. Customize or build-your-own textbooks. These textbooks and materials are licensed under the Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 International License. Users may reuse, redistribute, and remix the content to suit their needs.