On this page you will find several openly licensed Psychology textbooks along with supplemental material, interactive simulations, and other resources.
Discipline-specific pages are not intended to be exhaustive, but to showcase content that may be of interest to faculty considering adopting open educational resources for use in their classes.
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OpenStax Psychology includes ancillary resources (Follow the license terms: CC BY)\
OpenStax Psychology 2e (Follow the license terms: CC BY)\
An Open Textbook Adoption Story (Oregon, August 2015) by Adam Privitera, Psychology Program Chair
Jhangiani, R., & Dastur, F. (2014, Oct.). Opening up psychology: Adopting open textbooks, open pedagogy, and an open philosophy in the classroom. Symposium at the 2014 Annual Conference on the Teaching of Psychology, Atlanta, GA. Resource List
NOBA Project Psychology Textbooks (Follow the license terms: CC BY NC SA 4.0) Read about the NOBA Project
Introduction to Psychology "wikibook"
Introduction to Psychology (Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiative) CC BY NC SA 3.0
Principles of Psychology by Steven E. Wisecarver (email the author) (Follow the license terms: CC BY 4.0)
Psychology as a Biological Science (Noba) http://noba.to/cv4ktxnq (Follow the license terms: CC BY NC SA)
Developmental Psychology from Boundless (freely available, editable but not openly licensed or freely downloadable).
Open course Lifespan Development (Saylor Foundation) Licence terms: CC BY Note: Needs updating.
eBooks on developmental psychology from University Libraries (no-additional-cost to students/faculty, but not openly licensed or editable. Downloading privileges vary by vendor platform.)
Open course Theories of Personality (Saylor Foundation) Licence terms: CC BY Note: Needs updating.
Personality & Pedagogy resource page
Open course: Psychology of Learning & Behavior (Saylor Foundation) Licence terms: CC BY Note: Needs updating.
eBooks on Learning and Behavior; Springer eBooks on Learning and Behavior. from University Libraries (no-additional-cost to students/faculty, but not openly licensed or editable. Downloading privileges vary by vendor platform.)
Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience (BCCampus.ca) Terms: CC BY SA
Principles of Social Psychology (1st International Edition) (BC Campus.ca) Terms: CC BY NC SA (See the author's keynote presentation at the Open Textbook Summit - May 2015 Vancouver BC)
Principles of Social Psychology (original edition/Maryland) CC BY NC SA
eBooks on Social Psychology from University Libraries (no-additional-cost to students/faculty, but not openly licensed or editable. Downloading privileges vary by vendor platform.)
Abnormal Psychology: An e-text! (Dr. Caleb Lack, UCentral Oklahoma and Arkansas Tech University) (Terms: CC BY NC SA)
eBooks on Abnormal Psychology from University Libraries (no-additional-cost to students/faculty, but not openly licensed or editable. Downloading privileges vary by vendor platform.)
Abnormal Child Psychology - still working on this!
Open Course Industrial/Organizational Psychology (Saylor Foundation) Licence terms: CC BY Note: Needs updating.
BioInformatics/Neuroinformatics Course: CC BY ND (verbatim copying only; no changes allowed)
Open Course Neuropsychology (Saylor Foundation) Licence terms: CC BY Note: Needs updating.
Edited chapters from many different institutions are available from OpenStax CNX.
Search for additional textbooks from the University of Minnesota Open Textbook Library
See CollegeOpenTextbooks for a wider variety of Lower-Division Undergraduate psychology open textbooks
Saylor Academy Open Courses (GitHub)
Lectures:
Statistics in Psychosocial Research (Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Open Courseware) CC BY NC SA
New Psychology of Depression (University of Oxford) CC BY NC SA
Modules from CNX.org (Rice University) [Advanced search]
Psychology (higher ed level) resources from OER Commons
Search the National Center for Biotechnology Information Bookshelf (Some materials are Public Domain; others are under copyright)
Publications (booklets, brochures, fact sheets) from the National Institute of Mental Health