Last updated on 27 November 2024
Book publishers were among the first to respond to the coronavirus pandemic that led to the closure of schools, colleges, high schools and universities for several weeks. The largest publishing houses have made digital versions of their textbooks and school books available free of charge to teachers, parents and students. An opportunity to discover the richness of this publishing sector in France.
A detailed review of open access resources. This article will be updated according to the novelties that will come to me. If you know of other publishers who have opened their digital libraries or if you are a publisher and would like to be included in this list, send me an email to fidel.navamuel at toolstice.com. This will allow me to enrich this resource and share it with as many people as possible.
Update – 6 April – Digital Premium Addition
Update – 3 April – Addition ONISEP
Update – 19 March – Addition of Belin Education, Educagri
Update – 18 March – Addition of the School Book
Update – 17 March – Added Generation 5 , Sondo.
Table of Contents
Lib-Manuals. The school books of the editions Delagrave, Magnard and Vuibert
The digital shelving of lib-manuel is extensive and well supplied by the Delagrave, Magnard and Vuibert editions. You will find their digital textbooks for middle school, general and technological high school and vocational high school. A high-quality digital library providing remote access to a large number of books free of charge and without registration. A search engine and filters (title, level, … material) will allow you to find the right manual.
Link: Lib-Manuals Platform
My textbooks. The textbooks of the school publishers of the Hachette group
More than 600 textbooks are made available free of charge by the publishers of the Hachette group (Les éditions Hatier, Hachette Éducation, Istra, Foucher, Didier). All student textbooks can be used online. The online reader is very ergonomic. To find a unique school book, here too you can use a search engine or play with a series of filters on the homepage to only display online books of a level, subject, publisher, class or discipline.
Link: My manuals
Biblio Manuals. The digital library of publishers Bordas, Nathan, Le Robert, Retz.
The Editis group is one of the main players in school publishing in France. Publishers in the group’s Education sector provide teachers, pupils and their families with free access to and consultation of all their school books from the CP to the 3rd (all disciplines).
Link: Biblio Manuals
Belin Education
Belin makes all its textbooks available directly online and without restriction. Belin Education also provides free access to its remote exercise and training services, in particular the Cahiers connected (more than 3700 interactive exercises of the 6th edition).e to 3e managed by teachers by level of difficulty) and Pep’s (1300 cycle 3 exercises in French and mathematics).
Link: Belin Education
Generation 5
The publisher of the world of education Generation 5 is in turn committed to contributing to the continuity of school learning as it can no longer be provided in the classroom. Generation 5 makes it clear that it is not a question of replacing the initiatives taken by Education Nationale to ensure pedagogical continuity. Just a little stone in the building.
The publisher thus offers free access to textbooks and exercise books. They have opened the service with mathematics, from CE2 to 3rd grade. Resources for other disciplines and educational levels will be added over time.
Link: Generation 5 – MonEcoleaDomicile
Sondo by Mobidys
Another excellent complementary resource is the SONDO platform, which we have already had the opportunity to talk about here on several occasions. Sondo by Mobidys offers an online library of school books and literature included in the programme accessible for Dys children and beyond for all children with reading difficulties. In the shelves of Sondo dozens of textbooks sounded to complete the paper textbooks but especially versions in FROG format for many works of literature. The people of Mobidys have developed, together with speech therapists and researchers, an absolutely incredible format dedicated to Dys children. Very easy to use by the reader on a tablet, it offers several options to promote deciphering, maintain attention, facilitate understanding. That's great. Sondo offers students and teachers free access to the SONDO Library until the normal resumption of classes.
Link: Sondo
Lelivrescolaire.fr
Many of you have pointed out to me that the School Book is missing from this list. And you were right. This alternative editor offers quality productions from 6é to terminale. All subjects are covered. Digital textbooks are very rich and include a lot of interactivity and animation. During the lockdown and closure of schools, the schoolbook team offers the Premium mode free of charge to all teachers. This mode allows you to manage homework and interactive exercises remotely, retrieve copies of your students, send them a correction, and even customize your digital textbooks.
Link: The School Book.
Digital Premium via the Bpi
A digital resource opened by the Bpi of the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris of great use for students as well as for teachers of college or high school. A high quality resource. Digital premium offers the best of ebooks in Science Human, Social, Legal and Political. 3 500 books in French, in partnership with around 50 publishers, to be consulted and read 24/7 from your library and remotely.
Free access during containment. Log in with the following username and password: np _bpi
Link: Digital Premium
Educagri
Access all the digital resources of the agricultural education publishing house, Educagri. Online course Free access digital videos and manuals. Teachers can freely access it with the username: educagrinet2020 and the password: continuous
Link: Educagri
ONISEP
This is good news, they are not textbooks per se, but ONISEP guides are particularly useful, especially at this time of year. During this lockdown period, Onisep offers free access to its publications in digital format on training and occupations, integrated into the online kiosk.
Click on ‘Login’ and enter the code ‘onisep2020’ for the username and password.
Link: The Onisep kiosk
So much for the principals. Thank you for helping me complete this list for a full sharing.
Good luck.
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Hello, the ISTRA edition with its Litchi math books is missing. Thank you for everything!
Hello,
Thank you for this article!
It is also necessary to remember that all textbooks are free on their website and no account is required.
Lucie
Hello,
Apparently Hachette has deleted his service, or the site is clogged … anyway resources are inaccessible …
Teacher in a professional agricultural high school and as part of the pedagogical continuity, I want to have access to the various digital textbooks you have.
Great initiative!
Hello,
Thank you for this work.
For the manuals of the publisher Belin, there is also this link:
https://demo.lib-manuels.fr/bibliotheque/belin
Sincerely
Hello,
Thank you for this very useful census.
The school book also shares its books.
YES it is not bad but Nathan only does it for … College Nothing for our BTS even though we are prescribers and unfortunately some activation keys for a few students do not work!!!
Hello, I do not see anywhere the book History/geo/emc/history of the arts cycle 3 cm2 at BELIN (collection Odyssée? thank you again infinitely
A mistress
Hello,
I am AESH in middle school, I greatly appreciated and used the links to the digital textbooks to help my students during the lockdown. It's great to finally have access to your resources, but unfortunately it's over.
Teachers are generally entitled to free access to a digital version of the textbooks used in the school by publishers.
We are national education staff, we have to help students in difficulty … and to have access to e-books we have to pay, while we have salaries much lower than teachers.
When will publishers take our function into account? When will these specific situations be taken into account? It would not be so complicated to give us access as for teachers like them we have an academic email address, we can provide the list of textbooks used in our school and a numen. We just have another function and other needs.
Thank you for your understanding. And most importantly, thank you for making these valuable tools available to us during the lockdown.
V. HENRI