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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