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Find open and free textbooks that may be suitable for use in community college courses from the list of Subjects provided. Findand free textbooks that may be suitable for use in community college courses from the list ofprovided. For descriptions of these open textbooks, see listings in MERLOT and OER Commons . Most of the textbooks on this list have Creative Commons (CC) open licenses or GNU-Free Document License. Others are U.S. government documents in the public domain (PD).

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