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The open textbooks on this page include several titles published through Saylor Academy’s Open Textbook Challenge and a collection of titles re-published by Saylor Academy in 2012.
Many know Saylor Academy for these books, but our main efforts go into creating open online courses. We encourage educators to use our courses, in whole or in part, in their own classrooms. Visit our course site to find more textbooks and curated open educational resources (OER).
About the Books
- These books are available for you to use, keep, revise, and share under open licenses.
- Saylor Academy does not own the copyright to any books on this page. Each book’s open license is an agreement between you as the end user and the copyright holder.
- We do not have supplements (e.g. lecture slides and question banks) available for these textbooks, but our open online courses are useful teaching tools. If you create your own supplementary materials for a book, please consider sharing them under an open license for the benefit of other educators.
- You can submit issues to our list of errata.
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Textbooks by Subject
Except as specifically noted, the textbooks below are reproduced without attribution to the authors or original publisher, as requested by the licensor, and are available under a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 license.
Additional formats:
- PDF copies are available (under slightly different titles) at the 2012 Book Archive.
- Many of these titles are also available in various formats through the Open Textbook Library and BCcampus.
- Source code for most titles is available as repositories on our GitHub page. We invite improvements and contributions.
Browse by subject and title below, or search the contents of these books:
Accounting
Advertising, Sales, Marketing
General Business
Social Sciences
Accounting
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Management and Leadership
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- Building Strategy and Performance
- Focusing on Organizational Change
- Fundamentals of Global Strategy
- Growth and Competitive Strategy in 3 Circles
- Leading with Cultural Intelligence
- Mastering Strategic Management
- Organizational Behavior (v. 1.1)
- Principles of Management (v. 1.1)
- Principles of Managerial Economics
- Project Management from Simple to Complex (v. 1.1)
- Project Management for Instructional Designers
A remix by David Wiley of Project Management from Simple to Complex
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
HTML - Risk Management for Enterprises and Individuals
- Small Business Management in the 21st Century
- Sustainability, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship
- The Sustainable Business Case Book
Advertising, Sales, and Marketing
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- Developing New Products and Services
- eMarketing: The Essential Guide to Online Marketing
- Introduction to Contracts, Sales, and Product Liability
- Launch! Advertising and Promotion in Real Time
- Mastering Public Relations
- The Power of Selling
- Principles of Marketing (v. 2.0)
Business Law
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- Advanced Business Law and the Legal Environment
- The Business Ethics Workshop
- Business Law and the Legal Environment (v. 1.0)
- Corporate Governance
- Foundations of Business Law and the Legal Environment
- Government Regulation and the Legal Environment of Business
- Introduction to the Law of Property, Estate Planning and Insurance
- Law for Entrepreneurs
- Law of Commercial Transactions
- The Legal and Ethical Environment of Business
- Legal Aspects of Corporate Management and Finance
- Legal Aspects of Marketing and Sales
Business – General/Miscellaneous
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- Business Communication for Success
- Business English for Success
- Exploring Business (v. 2.0)
- Business Information Systems: Design an App for That
- Human Relations
- Human Resource Management
- Information Systems: A Manager’s Guide to Harnessing Technology (v. 2.0)
- Information Systems for Business and Beyond
by David T. Bourgeois, Ph.D.
CC BY 3.0
Pressbooks | PDF | DOCx | ePub | Mobi | HTML | XML - International Business
Social Sciences
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- A History of the United States, Vol. 2
- American Government and Politics in the Information Age
- Criminal Law
- Economics: Theory Through Applications
- International Economics: Theory and Policy
- International Finance: Theory and Policy
- International Trade: Theory and Policy
- International Political Economy: An Introduction to Approaches, Regimes, and Issues
by Timothy C. Lim, Ph.D.
CC BY 3.0
PDF | DOCx | ePub | Mobi | HTML (source) | XML - Introduction to Economic Analysis
- Introduction to Psychology
- Macroeconomics: Theory Through Applications
- Microeconomics: Theory Through Applications
- Money and Banking (v. 2.0)
- Principles of Economics (v. 2.0)
- Principles of Macroeconomics (v. 2.0)
- Principles of Microeconomics (v. 2.0)
- Principles of Social Psychology
- Principles of Sociological Inquiry: Qualitative and Quantitative Methods
- Social Problems: Continuity and Change
- Sociology: Understanding and Changing the Social World
- Research Methods in Psychology
- World Regional Geography: People, Places, and Globalization
Science and Mathematics
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- The Basics of General, Organic and Biological Chemistry
- Computer Networking: Principles, Protocols, and Practice
by Olivier Bonaventure
CC BY 3.0
PDF | EPUB | iBooks - Elementary Algebra
- Elementary Linear Algebra
by Kenneth Kuttler
CC BY 3.0
PDF | iBooks | EPUB - Essentials of Geographic Information Systems
- General Chemistry: Principles, Patterns, and Applications (v. 1.0)
- Intermediate Algebra
- An Introductory Course in Elementary Number Theory
by Wissam Raji
CC BY 3.0
PDF | DOC | ePub | TEX/LaTeX - Introductory Chemistry
- Introductory Statistics
- Linear Algebra: Theory and Applications
by Kenneth Kuttler
CC BY 3.0
PDF | iBooks | Also: Lyryx Learning (multiple formats) - Mathematical Analysis I
by Elias Zakon, with Bradley J. Lucier and Tamara Zakon
CC BY 3.0
PDF | iBooks | HTML - Topics in Applied Mathematics
by Charles Chui
CC BY-NC 3.0
PDF
Writing and Communication
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- A Primer on Communication Studies
- Exploring Perspectives: A Concise Guide to Anaylsis
- Handbook for Writers
- Stand Up, Speak Out: The Practice and Ethics of Public Speaking
- Understanding Media and Culture: An Introduction to Mass Communication
- Writing for Success
Professional and Personal Development
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