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Textbooks, references and open learning resources.
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Introduction to African American Studies
Kiandra Jimenez et al. · ASCCC Open Educational Resources Initiative (OERI)
As you navigate this text, you will be introduced to a chorus of voices that paved the way for exploring Black Studies. Our writing collective’s transdisciplinary approach, drawing from fields such as Africana Studies, Black Feminism/Womanism, Black Psychology, and Cultural Studies, offers a comprehensive understanding of the transformative power of Black Thought.
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PS 111 General Psychology SMWC
Sherry Schnake · Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College
This text is designed for a one-semester college-level introduction to psychology course. It has been remixed from multiple open educational resources (OERs) to best meet the needs of students and instructors for Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College’s PS 111 General Psychology course.
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Engineering Success: A Seminar for First-Year Student
JuEun Lee · California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt
Welcome to Prof. Lee's Engineering Success: A Seminar for First-Year Students, an Open Educational Resource (OER) textbook tailored to support engineering students as they embark on their academic journey. This book is designed to equip first-year engineering students with essential skills, strategies, and insights that will set the foundation for a successful undergraduate experience and a rewarding career. Video lectures are available at youtube.com/@MECHProfLee.
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Investment Fundamentals for College Students
Sarah Maokosy · Reedley College
In the contents: 15.01: Saving for a Car Home Education
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Mental Health is a Verb
Jake Bush and Jill Van Der Like · University of West Florida
MENTAL HEALTH IS A VERB is an Open Education Resource that addresses mental health nursing care. A principal focus of a mental health nursing is to provide care to patients with a psychiatric disorder, mental health issue, or behavioral problems. The text reviews the foundations of mental health, psychopharmacology, and the most common mental health diagnoses.
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Organic Chemistry II
Divan Fard · Shasta College
About This Resource: Organic Chemistry II (Shasta College Remix) A Convergence of Global Knowledge and 45 Years of Expertise. This textbook represents a unique milestone in chemistry education. It is the result of a massive collaborative effort that leverages the LibreTexts project—a global initiative that has grown into the world’s most comprehensive open-access Textbook library. This specific remix was curated and edited by an organic chemist and graduate of the University of Pennsylvania.
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Biopsychology
Open Education Resource Initative · OERI
Biopsychology is the study of biological mechanisms of behavior and mental processes. The field examines the role of the nervous system, particularly the brain, in explaining behavior and the mind.
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Personal Finance
Guy Buker, Jerrie Muir & Erin Thomas · Coastline College
This extensively updated edition of an open educational resource (OER) personal finance textbook brings timeless principles into the 2020s. With content originally developed by Rachel S. Siegel, CFA, and Carol Yacht, the revised version reflects today’s economic realities, technology, and diverse learner needs, empowering you to make informed, ethical, and well-reasoned financial decisions across all stages of life.
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Modern World History
Dan Allosso and Tom Williford · Bemidji State University
This is the textbook for an undergraduate survey course taught at all the universities and most of the colleges in the Minnesota State system. Similar courses are taught at institutions around the United States and the world, so the authors have made the text available as an open educational resource that teachers and learners can read, adapt, and reuse to meet their needs. We’d like to hear from people who have found the text useful, and we’re always open to questions and suggestions.
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Infant and Toddler Care and Development
Amanda Taintor · ASCCC Open Educational Resources Initiative
Una copia de este libro traducida al español está disponible en https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Courses/Clackamas_Community_College/Cuidado_y_desarrollo_de_bebes_y_ninos_pequenos_(Taintor_y_LaMarr)
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Open Music Theory 2e
Mark Gotham et al. · VIVA - Virtual Library of Virginia
Open Music Theory is a natively-online open educational resource intended to serve as the primary text and workbook for undergraduate music theory curricula. OMT2 provides not only the material for a complete traditional core undergraduate music theory sequence (fundamentals, diatonic harmony, chromatic harmony, form, 20th-century techniques), but also several other units for instructors who have diversified their curriculum, such as jazz, popular music, rhythm, counterpoint, and orchestration.
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General Chemistry, 1A and1B
Divan Fard · Shasta College
About This Resource: General Chemistry, 1A and1B (Shasta College Remix) A Convergence of Global Knowledge and 45 Years of teaching experiences. This textbook represents a unique milestone in chemistry education. It is the result of a massive collaborative effort that leverages the Libre Texts project—a global initiative that has grown into the world’s most comprehensive open-access Textbook library. This textbook will be continuously remixed and updated to keep up with the latest discoveries.
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Tarea Libre 2
Cristina Moon, Alejandro Lee, Sarah Harmon, and Hugo Díaz-Rodil · LibreTexts
This is an instructor guide to Tarea Libre 2 - a comprehensive and accessible Open Educational Resources question bank of 800 interactive activities created in ADAPT for second-year Spanish courses for California Community Colleges.
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ESL Integrated Advanced Reading/Writing 2 (2026)
Phuong Emily Bank and Rachel Cohen-Reyes · Evergreen Valley College
This OER (Open Educational Resources) textbook is designed for non-native speakers of English one level below English C1000, first-year college composition course. Divided into ten chapters, it focuses on the active reading process, writing and research processes, and the integration and connection of these three major skills. The last three chapters focuses on grammar within the context of writing and vocabulary expansion.
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Histories of Indigenous Peoples and Canada
John Belshaw, Sarah Nickel, and Chelsea Horton · LibreTexts
Histories of Indigenous Peoples and Canada was conceived in 2016 as material in support of a new 3rd-year History course at Thompson Rivers University – Open Learning. The need for such an online course was underlined with the release of the Calls to Action of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 2015. In the process of developing the curriculum, it was decided that the part you see here could be shared as a stand-alone Open Educational Resource (OER) in the form of an open textbook.
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Nursing Skills
Ernstmeyer & Christman (Eds.) · OpenRN
This Nursing Skills textbook is an open educational resource developed for entry-level undergraduate nursing students. It is aligned with the Wisconsin Technical College System (WTCS) statewide nursing curriculum for the Nursing Skills course (543-102) that describes techniques for obtaining a health history and performing a basic physical assessment using a body systems approach. It also includes evidence-based clinical skills with related mathematical calculations and conversions.
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FRNC 1B: Elementary French
William J. Carrasco, Shahrzad Zahedi, & Caren Barnezet Parrish · ASCCC Open Educational Resorces Initiative (OERI)
This course is the second semester of French. This elementary level course is a study of the French language and French-speaking cultures, with continued emphasis on the development of communicative skills and basic structures. Course combines in-class instruction with self-paced study in the Foreign Language Laboratory.
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Information Systems for Business (Revised 1st Edition, 2021)
Ly-Huong T. Pham, Tejal Desai-Naik, Laurie Hammond, & Wael Abdeljabbar · ASCCC Open Educational Resources Initiative
This book is divided into three parts. Part 1 discusses what an information system (IS) is and its components. Part 2 discusses how people use IS for personal and professional development, how businesses use IS to create and sustain competitive advantages, and how people build and support IS. Part 3 discusses the role of IS in globalization, the ethical and legal implications, and emerging trends of the future.
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OERI Contemporary World Geographies
Aline Gregorio, Jason Scogtt, Nazanin Naaghi, Waverly Ray · OERI
World Geographies: A Critical Introduction was designed to serve as a foundational resource for students taking World Regional Geography courses. It is a peer-reviewed textbook that was curated and authored by diverse geography educators, as part of the efforts of the Open Educational Resources Initiative (OERI) of the Academic Senate of California Community Colleges (ASCCC). This book uses ASCCC’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Antiracism framework and a critical geography lens.
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Educational Learning Theories
Molly Zhou & David Brown · Dalton State University
This open textbook was the result of a remix of pre-existing open materials collected and reviewed by Molly Zhou and David Brown. Learning theories covered include the theories of Piaget, Bandura, Vygotsky, Kohlberg, Dewey, Bronfenbrenner, Eriksen, Gardner, Bloom, and Maslow.