Open documents & open education

Find, Licence and Share Open Learning Materials

LibriDocs.org is an independent guide for teachers and students who want to use open textbooks and Creative Commons material legally, and for anyone who wants documents that stay readable for years: open formats, clean PDFs, LaTeX and good templates.

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Start with a question

Each guide answers one practical question in plain language.

Can I reuse this?

How copyright, the public domain and the six Creative Commons licences work, and what attribution you owe.

Why open textbooks?

What open-access textbooks change for students and instructors, and how they are produced and reviewed.

How do I adopt OER?

Finding, evaluating and adapting open educational resources for a course.

Where are free papers?

Legal routes to peer-reviewed research without a journal subscription.

Is my PDF any good?

Fonts, compression, accessibility and forms: PDFs that work everywhere.

Should I learn LaTeX?

Getting started with LaTeX for theses, papers and anything with equations.

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