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Import https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks Open Text books

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Good First Issue Lead: @cdrini Module: Import Needs: Review Priority: 3 Type: Feature Request
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Description

I found a source of freely-available textbooks that are not indexed in OpenLibrary. This issue is to consider including their corpus in Open Library. Actually a short web search brings up several sites that announce freely available texts.

### Tasks

There are numerous sources, I'm not sure which it was that I was checking out:

See https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks, https://oercommons.org/hubs/open-textbooks, https://collegeopentextbooks.org/, https://openstax.org/,

RefersTo: TrustedBookProvider

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

Research direction

Compare the listed sources—Open Textbooks, OER Commons, College Open Textbooks, and OpenStax—and determine which corpus should be considered for Open Library. Start with the TrustedBookProvider reference and existing project guidance for source imports. Done means selecting a source, defining the corpus and import scope, and documenting the required approach.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Domain
content, data
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
20/100

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