OpenStax Provides 1.5 Million Textbooks for Free in 2017

OpenStax, the Rice University–based publisher of open education resource materials, has provided free peer-reviewed textbooks to an estimated 1.5 million students in the U.S. in the 2017-2018 school year. Since 2012 OpenStax has offered 29 textbooks for the most-attended college courses. The free, peer-reviewed, openly licensed books include College Physics, Biology, Concepts of Biology, University Physics, Principles of Microeconomics, Psychology, American Government and College Algebra, among others. By this fall more than 11,000 faculty members at 4,200 universities or colleges will have adopted OpenStax textbooks for 8,500 courses.

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