Each year the Scout Report features a variety of materials designed for educators and students. Amid an impressive array, Open Textbook Library was a clear favorite. The resource is committed to curating no- and low-cost textbooks for a variety of academic subjects. With a plethora of titles for both STEM and Humanities classes, the collection makes education more accessible to educators and...

Educators and learners interested in free digital textbooks, either to supplement or to replace traditional textbooks, may want to check out OpenStax. This nonprofit initiative at Rice University "publish[es] high-quality, peer-reviewed, openly licensed college textbooks that are absolutely free online and low cost in print." Visitors to OpenStax will find dozens of downloadable, up-to-date...