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FHDA's Sophia (Sharing of Free Intellectual Assets): The goal of Sofia is to publish community college-level course content and make it freely accessible on the web to support teaching and learning. See: http://sofia.fhda.edu/

Project Gutenberg:  This is the oldest producer of free electronic books (ebooks).  There are more than 19,000 complete books in the public domain for free downloading.  See: http://www.gutenberg.org/

Project Gutenberg's Top 100 most popular titles.
See: http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/scores/top

Page by Page Books: Hundreds of classic books you can read right now, all absolutely free! See:  http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/

Online Books: a website that facilitates access to more than 25,000 English books that are freely readable over the Internet. Includes State of the Union addresses from 1790-present. See:  http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/

The Open Content Alliance (OCA): The OCA represents the collaborative efforts of a group of cultural, technology, nonprofit, and governmental organizations from around the world that will help build a permanent archive of multilingual digitized text and multimedia =content. See: http://www.opencontentalliance.org/  For an article about the OCA see: http://acrlblog.org/2005/10/05/another-take-on-the-digital-library

University of California’s eScholarship Editions: Nearly 500 free books under the “public books” option. See: http://texts/cdlib.org/escholarship

National Academies Press: Over 3000 free online books in sciences and social sciences. See: http://www.nap.edu

University of Illinois Press. This growing archive of books, features selections of electronic versions of front list and newly released titles from their catalog and provides full access to around 40 titles. See: http://www.press.uillinois.edu/epub/books.html

MERLOT—Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching. Provides access to peer reviewed online teaching and learning materials. Take a tour at http://taste.merlot.org/tour/index.htm or locate materials by discipline from the home page at http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm

Wisconsin Online Resource Center Wisc-Online.  See: http://www.wisc-online.org

GEM: The Gateway to 21st Century Skills. Thousands of lesson plans and other teaching and learning resources at your fingertips. See:
http://www.thegateway.org

Cooperative Learning Object Exchange (CLOE) See: http://cloe.on.ca

ePsych is an interactive multimedia website . Look for it at http://epsych.mssatet.edu/index.html

Textbook Revolution is the web’s source for free educational materials. This is a student-run, volunteer-operated website started in response to the textbook industry’s constant drive to maximize profits instead of educational value. Get free textbooks online at http://www.textbookrevolution.org



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