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BC Campus - British Columbia Open Campus Textbook List: Find FREE open textbooks (open.bccampus.ca)
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Milne Open FREE Textbooks (was OpenSUNY.org Textbooks) (milneopentextbooks.org)
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Good News: You can have your OER copied by a 3rd party

GREAT MINDS, Plaintiff, v. FEDEX OFFICE AND PRINT SERVICES, INC. Defendant. GM claimed FedEx should not have made a profit off of making copies of OER materials.
GREAT MINDS, Plaintiff, v. FEDEX OFFICE AND PRINT SERVICES, INC., Defendant. - Ruling went in favor of Fed-Ex If a school asks a 3rd party to make copies that the school will then use for "non-Commercial purpose" that is allowed. A 3rd party may not make copies of OERs and try to sell them to schools.

TOOL TO GET FULL TEXT FOR FREE: Unpaywall Unpaywall – A database of open access scholarly articles. The browser extension will search this database for open access versions of articles you see online.
DOCUMENTARY: Paywall: The movie Paywall: The Business of Scholarship is a documentary which focuses on the need for open access to research and science, questions the rationale behind the $25.2 billion a year that flows into for-profit academic publishers, examines the 35-40% profit margin associated with the top academic publisher Elsevier and looks at how that profit margin is often greater than some of the most profitable tech companies like Apple, Facebook and Google. Staying true to the open access model: it is free to stream and download, for private or public use, and maintains the most open CC BY 4.0 Creative Commons designation to ensure anyone regardless of their social, financial or political background will have access.