Textbooks by Discipline
Ten of the most-taught undergraduate disciplines, mapped to specific, peer-reviewed open textbooks from OpenStax, the Open Textbook Library, LibreTexts, and a few respected specialty publishers. Every title below is openly licensed — free for students to keep, and free for you to adapt.
OpenStax dominates majors and non-majors intro sequences; LibreTexts fills the upper-division gap.
Courses covered: Intro Biology · A&P I / II · Microbiology
Majors-track intro. Slides, test bank, and LMS integrations included.
The most-searched OER textbook in the US. Full A&P I + II coverage.
Includes clinical focus boxes suitable for allied-health programs.
The intro market is well-covered; NOBA is the go-to for modular, mix-and-match upper-division units.
Courses covered: Intro Psychology · Lifespan Development · Research Methods
Intro survey text with instructor answer keys and test bank.
Build your own book from 100+ peer-reviewed modules.
Widely adopted; strong reviews on OTL.
OpenStax now covers most of the core BBA sequence; the Open Textbook Library fills the electives.
Courses covered: Intro to Business · Principles of Management · Principles of Marketing
The OpenStax pair (Micro + Macro) is the highest-adopted OER combo in economics.
Courses covered: Principles of Microeconomics · Principles of Macroeconomics
OpenStax covers algebra through calculus; OpenIntro is the go-to for statistics with real datasets.
Courses covered: College Algebra · Calculus I–III · Intro Statistics
OpenStax owns intro; LibreTexts (funded by NSF) is the biggest OER footprint in upper-division chemistry.
Courses covered: General Chemistry · Organic Chemistry · Biochemistry
OpenStax's three physics titles cover algebra-based and calc-based intro sequences.
Courses covered: College Physics · University Physics I / II / III
OpenStax's US History is one of the highest-traffic OER pages on the internet.
Courses covered: US History · World History · Introduction to Sociology
Composition is fragmented — WAC Clearinghouse + Writing Spaces are the anchor OER publishers.
Courses covered: First-Year Composition · Technical Writing · Introduction to Literature
OpenStax's first-year composition text.
Peer-reviewed essay collections — assign single chapters.
Modular composition reader built for community-college classrooms.
CS is heavily OER-adjacent — most anchor texts are permissively licensed but not always on the big OER hubs.
Courses covered: Intro to Programming · Data Structures · Introduction to Computing
Interactive Python textbook with in-browser code execution.
AP CSP–aligned; suitable for CS0 courses.
Widely adopted for intro web-programming courses.
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