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There are many websites that offer open-licensed textbooks or so-called open textbooks, both under the Creative Commons system’s standard licenses [1] X Research Sources and under the open license systems others, such as the GNU Free Document License – GFDL (GNU Free Document License [2] X Research Sources ) or the open public license (Open Public License [3] X Research Sources ). One such site is Cplege OpenTextbook [4] X Research Source (Open Textbook for Colleges). You may search and freely use such openly licensed textbooks.
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Introduce
Go to Cplege OpenTextbook – Open Textbook for Colleges. Go to the page by typing http://www.cplegeopentextbooks.org/
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Introduce some elements of the page.
- Search field (Search…). This is where you will type in your search terms in English and then press the Enter key to get the search results or use the filters to further filter those returned search results.
- Textbook Listings – List textbooks. This is where the textbooks available on the page are listed according to different criteria, for example:
- Featured Books – Featured Books.
- Textbooks by Subject – Textbooks by subject.
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- For example, choose a textbook topic on the topic Computer Science – computer science.
- Textbook Content Reviews – Textbook Content Reviews. This is where you can select the next topic to see the content rated for that topic.
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- Results screen when you select a computer science-themed textbook review. You will see all the information regarding the selected textbook reviews.
- Textbook Accessibility Reviews – Textbook accessibility reviews. This is where you will get the results of the textbook accessibility assessment on the page.
- About the Reviewers – About the reviewers. This is where you will get brief biographies of people who have conducted reviews of the textbooks featured on the site.
- How to be a Reviewer – How to become a reviewer. This is where you will find information relevant to becoming a textbook reviewer on the site.
- Other ingredients. You can explore the other elements of the page yourself, which can be quite interesting work for you.
Search, identify licenses, and download textbooks
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Search using the search field. Type the English search word or phrase in the search field, and then press the Enter key. For example, with the keyword algebra and then press Enter, you will see the results returned as shown. In the figure, you will see different search result filters, they include:
- Search for – Search. With this filter, you can search by options:
- All words – All words.
- Any words – Any word.
- Exact phrase – Exact phrase.
- Search only – Search only. With this filter, you can search by only one of the following options:
- Categories – Categories.
- Contacts – Contacts.
- Articles – Articles.
- Newsfeeds – News feeds.
- Weblinks – Links on the Web.
- In addition to the above filters, you can also choose the number of results returned on the page, if selected in the Display # combo box. Below the check box you will see a list of results found with the search term algebra . Interesting to see that the first result of this example is a document posted to the site very recently, on 7/11/2016.
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Search using the textbook listing feature. Select Textbook Listings , then select Textbooks by Subject .
- List by subject. For example, choose the topic Computer Science .
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- A list of results will appear with the textbook titles with links to the textbooks, and the licenses for each of those textbooks.
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- A list of results will appear with the textbook titles with links to the textbooks, and the licenses for each of those textbooks.
- Select the textbook and take note of its license. Select the textbook you want by clicking the link in the title of the textbook.
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- Example of a Creative Commons Openly Licensed Textbook [5] X Research Sources .
- Download the textbook. With the above 2 specific examples, you can:
- For Creative Commons licensed textbooks: Click the links to PDF file (PDF File) or Microsoft Word file (Microsoft Word File) to download the selected textbook file in the respective formats.
- Where a non-Creative Commons licensed textbook is listed here, you can only view it online, or save the page as an HTML hypertext file to your computer.
Recommendation
- This article will show you how to build a site of open-licensed textbooks with the necessary ingredients, especially regarding review and referral of reviewers.
- There are many sites on the Internet that have openly licensed materials that you are free to use, as long as you follow the terms and conditions set forth in the license of each of those materials.
- Refer to the ‘Important elements of the Creative Commons license system’ section of the article Understanding the terms and conditions of using Creative Commons open-licensed video on Vimeo for more information on each Creative Commons license.
Warning
- There are some articles on this site with broken links and you may not be able to find the textbooks you are looking for.
- Resources are not always open-licensed under Creative Commons licenses. In many cases, material may be open-licensed using other licenses and/or licensing systems.
- You may not always be able to download the document you are looking for in a familiar format like PDF. In many cases, that document exists only in HTML and/or XML.
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wikiHow is a “wiki” site, which means that many of the articles here are written by multiple authors. To create this article, volunteer authors have edited and improved the article over time.
This article has been viewed 1,367 times.
There are many websites that offer open-licensed textbooks or so-called open textbooks, both under the Creative Commons system’s standard licenses [1] X Research Sources and under the open license systems others, such as the GNU Free Document License – GFDL (GNU Free Document License [2] X Research Sources ) or the open public license (Open Public License [3] X Research Sources ). One such site is Cplege OpenTextbook [4] X Research Source (Open Textbook for Colleges). You may search and freely use such openly licensed textbooks.
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