Abby Elder, the renowned open education scholar and advocate from Iowa State University, succinctly describes best practices for finding and evaluating OER.
Search strategy:
Try searching for broad topics and general course themes. It will be easier to get a list of results with broader terms, then you can review chapter descriptions to see if they meet the more specific needs.
Search strategy:
Try searching for select topics and concepts that may be lacking from the textbook options. You can get more specific with your search in these tools than with the textbook-based resources.
