Open Access Books, E-Books & Open Data for Engineering: Home

A listing of links to open acces textbooks organized by engineering discipline & curated by the Engineering Libraries Division of the American Society for Engineering Education.

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This is the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Engineering Case Library (ECL). The cases are accounts of real engineering work written for use in engineering education.The Engineering Case Program originated at Stanford University in 1964 with the support of the National Science Foundation. The library has been maintained by Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and Carleton University. It continues under the sponsorship of the Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED) of the ASEE.

Open Educational Resources and university lectures from the United States and China -- contains free courses, video lectures, and supplemental materials.

"adaptable, user-friendly open education resource platform that educators trust for creating, customizing, and sharing accessible, interactive textbooks, adaptive homework, and ancillary materials."

The MERLOT system provides access to curated online learning and support materials and content creation tools, led by an international community of educators, learners and researchers.

Curated repository of OER that allows you to search by topic, grade level, format, and conditions of re-use.

Free, adaptable, openly licensed textbooks and supplemental resources. By subject and by provider.

Free Online Courses, MOOCs, Movies, Audio Books, eBooks, Textbooks, Language Lessons, Business Courses, and K-12 Education.

Gateway provided by the FDLP (Federal Depository Library Program)

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Free lectures and other materials in the humanities, social sciences, and physical and biological sciences fro Yale courses.

Harvested index of OER Resources.

LibGuide of open access data sets compiled by librarians at Colorado School of Mines

Founded in 2008, HathiTrust is a not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries preserving 17+ million digitized items.

Applied Science & STEAM (integrating art into STEM)

Our listing of open textbooks is organized by engineering discipline. To browse resources within a discipline, select the appropriate icon below. Note that some specific disciplines have been grouped within a larger discipline (e.g., transportation engineering texts can be found in civil & environmental engineering). If you don't find a needed discipline, try the search icon, which will connect you to the Mason OER Metafinder search engine.