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Open Textbook Catalog

This catalog is a resource to help connect professors with some of the top open textbooks currently available. Since open textbooks are based online (print copies are optional), they can be difficult to locate or evaluate for quality. This catalog provides information to help make finding a free, open textbook less time consuming for instructors.  Click here to download a PDF list of the titles in the catalog.

This catalog contains a select group of open textbooks, chosen for their usability and number of existing adoptions. For links to other open textbooks, visit the resources page. Please keep in mind that we are a student group and do not have the expertise to recommend any of these books based on their academic merit.

Open textbooks by subject:

• Accounting & Finance
• Business & Management
• Computer Science
• Earth Science
• Economics
• Marketing & Communication
• Mathematics
• Physics

Click on the titles below for a page with more information about the open textbook. A link directly to the book is also provided below each listing.  Please note that this website only contains information about open textbooks, and not the textbooks themselves.

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]

Business & Management


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

Information Systems: A Manager’s Guide to Harnessing Technology
John Gallaugher, Boston College
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]

Computer Science


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]

Earth Science


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

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]

Marketing & Communication


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]

Mathematics


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

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

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

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

Physics


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