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OPEN ACCESS TEXTBOOKS: HOW TO LOCATE 2013

OPEN ACCESS TEXTBOOKS: HOW TO LOCATE 2013. STEPHEN PERRY IRO ACCRA PerrySX2@state.gov ACCRA GHANA JANUARY 2013. Free!. Open Access Textbooks: How do you define them?. Definitions. Wikipedia

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OPEN ACCESS TEXTBOOKS: HOW TO LOCATE 2013

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  1. OPEN ACCESS TEXTBOOKS: HOW TO LOCATE 2013 STEPHEN PERRY IRO • ACCRA • PerrySX2@state.gov • ACCRA GHANA JANUARY 2013 Free!

  2. Open Access Textbooks: How do you define them? Definitions Wikipedia An open textbook is an openly-licensed textbook offered online by its author(s). The open license sets open textbooks apart from traditional textbooks by allowing users to read online, download, or print the book at no additional cost. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_textbook

  3. Open Access Textbooks: A few examples Free Textbooks from Open Culture: http://www.openculture.com/free_textbooks Bookboonhttp://bookboon.com/ CK-12http://www.ck12.org/ College Open Textbooks http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org/ Community College Open Learning Initiative (CC-OLI) http://bit.ly/RPoKJb/ Directory of Open Access Books: www.doabooks.org

  4. Open Access Textbooks Connexions http://cnx.org/ Digital Textbook Initiative (California Learning Resource Network) http://clrn.org/FDTI/index.cfm Curriki http://welcome.curriki.org/ E-Books Directory http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/ Flat World Knowledge http://www.flatworldknowledge.com/

  5. Open Access Textbooks FreeTechBooks.com http://www.freetechbooks.com/ Global Text Project http://globaltext.terry.uga.edu/ Internet Archive http://archive.org/details/opensource_English Science Books Online: http://sciencebooksonline.info/ • Merlot http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm

  6. Open Access Textbooks OER Commons Textbooks http://bit.ly/jZ62B8 Open Access Textbooks http://www.openaccesstextbooks.org/ Open Textbook Catalog https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/ Orange Grove Open Textbooks http://bit.ly/N1Yvt9 OpenStax College http://openstaxcollege.org/books/

  7. Open Access Textbooks Saylor Foundation http://www.saylor.org/otc/ Textbook Media http://www.textbookmedia.com/ Textbook Revolution http://textbookrevolution.org/ Twenty Million Minds http://www.20mm.org/ Wikibookshttp://www.wikibooks.org/

  8. OPEN ACCESS TEXTBOOKS • FREE ONLINE TEXTBOOKS: http://wikieducator.org/OER_Handbook/educator/open_textbooks • FREE MEDICAL TEXTBOOKS FOR MEDICAL STUDENTS: http://freebooks4doctors.com/ • DIGITAL BOOK INDEX: links to more than 140,000 free books and textbooks: http://97.107.129.173/search_keyword

  9. HATHI TRUST: http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/mb#featured • The Hathi Trust includes selected full-text books from the University of Michigan Press, the Utah State University Press and items from the University of Michigan Graduate Reference Collection Library

  10. College Open Access Textbooks

  11. OPEN TEXTBOOKS FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/

  12. A few of the Business Textbooks in the U of Minnesota Catalog of Free Textbooks

  13. http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org/

  14. Books from the Hathi Trust: http://www.hathitrust.org/

  15. Flat World Knowledgeflatworldknowledge.com

  16. www.flatworldknowledge.com

  17. OER Commonshttp://bit.ly/jZ62B8

  18. Note you can search, or browse by subector by grade level level

  19. from www.saylor.org

  20. WikiBookshttp://www.wikibooks.org/

  21. www.wikibooks.org

  22. from www.wikibooks.org

  23. SCIENCE BOOKS ONLINE

  24. MEDICAL RESOURCES IN SCIENCE BOOKS

  25. BOOKS ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE in SCIENCE BOOKS ONLINE

  26. Resources

  27. WIKIBOOKS and SEARCH ENGINES for eBOOKS: http://wikieducator.org/OER_Handbook/educator/open_textbooks

  28. Search Engine for eBooks: http://libweb.lib.buffalo.edu/ft/EBooks.asp

  29. Searches all these free book sites

  30. http://collegeopentextbooks.ning.com/

  31. http://bit.ly/WpOo7v

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