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Tutorials to help you use the library, do academic level research, and find resources.

Writing Open Textbooks

Free to reuse, redistribute, and remix! Assign the whole thing or a few chapters; mix and match! These are edited, peer reviewed online textbooks by actual college faculty. Some of them are anonymously authored; this is because these books were previously published by commercial publishers, who, when the book went out of print, allowed the author to republish a changed and anonymized version as an Open Textbook. 

Research Open Textbooks

Free to reuse, redistribute, and remix! Assign the whole thing or a few chapters; mix and match! These are edited, peer reviewed online textbooks by actual college faculty. Some of them are anonymously authored; this is because these books were previously published by commercial publishers, who, when the book went out of print, allowed the author to republish a changed and anonymized version as an Open Textbook. 

Critical Thinking Open Textbooks

Free to reuse, redistribute, and remix! Assign the whole thing or a few chapters; mix and match! These are edited, peer reviewed online textbooks by actual college faculty. Some of them are anonymously authored; this is because these books were previously published by commercial publishers, who, when the book went out of print, allowed the author to republish a changed and anonymized version as an Open Textbook.