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Open Textbook Catalog

This catalog provides information about some of the top examples of open textbooks -- college texts offered online under a license that allows free digital access and low-cost printing. 

Our intent is to offer a place to start learning about and searching for open textbooks, and the titles on this list were carefully selected for their usability and number of existing adoptions. Please visit our resources page for links to more comprehensive lists maintained by other organizations. 

Open textbooks by subject:

• Accounting & Finance
• Business, Management & Marketing
• Computer Science & Information Systems
• Economics
Humanities & Language
• Mathematics & Statistics
• Social Sciences
Natural & Physical Sciences

Disclaimer: Although we have done our best to identify the highest quality texts, please remember that we are a student group and do not have the expertise to recommend materials for their academic merit.


Accounting & Finance

Financial Accounting
Joe Ben Hoyle, University of Richmond
C. J. Skender, University of North Carolina
Publisher: Flat World Knowledge
[details] [straight to book]

Fundamentals of Income Tax Theory & Practice
Dieter Kiefer, American River College
Publisher: Flat World Knowledge
[details] [straight to book]

Money and Banking
Robert E. Wright, New York University
Vincenzo Quadrini, University of Southern California
Publisher: Flat World Knowledge
[details] [straight to book]

Personal Finance
Rachel Siegel, Lyndon State University
Carol Yacht
Publisher: Flat World Knowledge

[details] [straight to book]

Risk Management for Enterprises and Individuals
Etti Baranoff, Virginia Commonwealth University
Patrick Lee Brockett, University of Texas at Austin
Yehuda Kahane, Tel Aviv University
Publisher: Flat World Knowledge
[details] [straight to book]

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Business & Management

Exploring Business
Dr. Karen Collins, Lehigh University
Publisher: Flat World Knowledge
[details] [straight to book]

Principles of Management
Dr. Mason Carpenter, University of Wisconsin
Dr. Talya Bauer, Portland State University
Dr. Berrin Erdogan, Portland State University
Publisher: Flat World Knowledge
[details] [straight to book]

Organizational Behavior
Dr. Talya Bauer, Portland State University
Dr. Berrin Erdogan, Portland State University
Publisher: Flat World Knowledge
[details] [straight to book]

Business Communication for Success
Scott McLean, Arizona Western College
Publisher: Flat World Knowledge
[details] [straight to book]

Launch! Advertising and Promotion in Real Time
Dr. Michael Solomon, St. Joseph’s University
Dr. Lisa Duke Cornell, University of Florida
Amit Nizan, Advertising Age 
Publisher: Flat World Knowledge
[details] [straight to book]

Principles of Marketing
Jeff Tanner, Baylor University
Mary Anne Raymond, Clemson University
Camille Schuster, California State University San Marcos
Publisher: Flat World Knowledge
[details] [straight to book]

eMarketing: The Essential Guide to Online Marketing
Rob Stokes, CEO, Quirk eMarketing
Publisher: Flat World Knowledge
[details coming soon] [straight to book]

The Power of Selling
Kimberly Richmond
Publisher: Flat World Knowledge
[details] [straight to book]

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Computer Science & Information Systems

Information Systems: A Manager’s Guide to Harnessing Technology
John Gallaugher, Boston College
Publisher: Flat World Knowledge
[details] [straight to book]

Think Python 
Dr. Allen Downey, Olin College of Engineering
Publisher: Green Tea Press
[details] [straight to book]

Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation
Dr. Shriram Krishnamurthi, Brown University
[details] [reviews (1)] [straight to book]

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Economics

Principles of Economics
Dr. Libby Rittenberg, Colorado College
Dr. Timothy Tregarthen, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Publisher: Flat World Knowledge
[details] [straight to book]

Principles of Microeconomics
Dr. Libby Rittenberg, Colorado College
Dr. Timothy Tregarthen, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Publisher: Flat World Knowledge
[details] [straight to book]

Principles of Macroeconomics
Dr. Libby Rittenberg, Colorado College
Dr. Timothy Tregarthen, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Publisher: Flat World Knowledge
[details] [straight to book]

Introduction to Economic Analysis
Dr. R. Preston McAfee, Caltech
Dr. Tracy R. Lewis, Duke University
Publisher: Flat World Knowledge
[details] [straight to book]

International Trade Theory and Policy
Dr. Steve Suranovic, George Washington University
Publisher: Flat World Knowledge
[details] [straight to book]

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Humanities & Language

Project Gutenberg
Extensive library of digitized works in the Public Domain, including most major literary works published before 1923 (such as Jane Austen, Shakespeare and Locke).
[details] [straight to books]

forallx: An Introduction to Formal Logic 
Dr. P. D. Magnus, University at Albany (SUNY)
[details coming soon] [straight to book]

Liberté
Dr. Gretchen Angelo, Cal State LA
[details coming soon] [straight to book]

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Mathematics & Statistics

College Algebra
Dr. Carl Stitz, Lakeland Community College
Dr. Jeff Zeager, Lorain County Community College
[details] [straight to book]

Calculus
Dr. Gilbert Strang, MIT
Publisher: Wellesley-Cambridge (PDF through MIT OpenCourseWare)
[details] [reviews (1)] [straight to book]

Whitman Calculus
Dr. David Guichard, Whitman College
Host: Whitman College
[details] [straight to book]

Worldwide Differential Calculus
Dr. David B. Massey, Northeastern University
Publisher: Worldwide Center of Mathematics
[details] [straight to book]

A First Course in Linear Algebra
Dr. Robert Beezer, University of Puget Sound
[details] [reviews (5)] [straight to book]

Linear Algebra
Dr. Jim Hefferon, St. Michael's College
[details] [straight to book]

Book of Proof
Dr. Richard Hammack, Virginia Commonwealth University
Publisher: Virginia Commonwealth University Mathematics
[details] [straight to book]

Abstract Algebra: Theory and Applications
Dr. Thomas W. Judson, Stephen F. Austin State University
[details] [straight to book]

Collaborative Statistics
Dr. Barbara Illowsky, De Anza College
Susan Dean, De Anza College
Publisher: Connexions
[details] [reviews (4)] [straight to book]

Introduction to Probability
Dr. Charles M. Grinstead, Swarthmore College
Dr. J. Laurie Snell, Dartmouth College
Publisher: American Mathematical Society
[details] [straight to book]

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Social Sciences

Introduction to Psychology (Coming Oct. 2010)
Dr. Charles Stangor, University of Maryland
Publisher: Flat World Knowledge
[about the book]

Sociology: Understanding and Changing the Social World (Coming Oct. 2010) 
Dr. Steve Barkan, University of Maine
Publisher: Flat World Knowledge
[about the book]

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Natural & Physical Sciences

Newtonian Physics, Light and Matter Series
Dr. Benjamin Crowell, Fullerton College
[details] [reviews (3)] [straight to book]

Introduction to Physical Oceanography 
Dr. Robert Stewart, Texas A&M University
[details] [reviews (1)] [straight to book]

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