Textbooks

What are Open Textbooks?

Open textbook is a textbook licensed under an open copyright license and made available online to be freely used by students, teachers, and members of the public.

They are available for free as online versions and in a variety of file formats (e.g., for eReaders, editable files like XML and HTML), and as low-cost printed versions, should students or faculty opt for these.
Open textbooks are a way to significantly reduce student textbook costs while giving instructors the flexibility to reformat and customize their course material.
They are an affordable, flexible alternative to traditionally published textbooks.

Open Textbooks

Title	Source	License	notes
Health Case Studies	BC Open	CC BY-SA 4.0	multiple formats
Creative Clinical Teaching in the Health Professions	BC Open	CC BY-NC-SA 4.0	multiple formats
Undergraduate Diagnostic Imaging Fundamentals	Open Textbook Library	CC BY-NC-SA	PDF or EPUB
Handbook of eHealth Evaluation: An Evidence-based Approach	BC Open	CC BY-NC 2.5	PDF or EPUB
Clinical Procedures for Safer Patient Care	BC Open	CC BY 4.0	multiple formats
Nursing Care at the End of Life: What Every Clinician Should Know	Open SUNY Textbooks,	CC BY-NC-SA 4.0	multiple formats
Nutrition for Nurses	OpenStax	CC BY	Read Online or PDF
Public Health Ethics: Global Cases, Practice, and Context	Springer Open	CC BY-NC 2.5	PDF download
Pharmacology for Nurses	OpenStax	CC BY	Read Online Or PDF
Nursing Pharmacology	Open Textbook Library	CC BY	multiple formats
Fundamentals of Nursing	Open SUNY	CC BY-NC-SA	PDF
Clinical Nursing Skills	OpenStax	CC BY	Read Online or PDF
Building a Medical Terminology Foundation	OpenStax	CC BY	Read Online Or PDF
Population Health for Nurses	OpenStax	CC BY	Read Online Or PDF
Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing	OpenStax	CC BY	Read Online Or PDF

Textbook Sites

OER Commons
OER Commons is a large, multidisciplinary digital library of teaching and learning materials. It is searchable by both subject area and "grade level" (this includes post-secondary learning).
SUNY Open Textbooks
Faculty-written and -reviewed textbooks published by the State Universities of New York.
Open Textbook Library
All textbooks are either used at multiple higher education institutions; or affiliated with an institution, scholarly society, or professional organization. From the University of Minnesota.
BCOpen Campus
From the BC Open Textbook Project and BCcampus.
Open RN
The Open RN project is led by Chippewa Valley Technical College as part of the Wisconsin Technical College System (WTCS) consortium. All Open RN materials have CC-BY 4.0 Creative Commons licensing. Open RN textbooks are published in Pressbooks and are uploaded to LibreTexts.

OERs for Health & Nursing

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