OpenStax
Open textbooks · Rice University (OpenStax, a non-profit based at Rice)
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Free peer-reviewed university textbooks for first- and second-year courses, readable online, downloadable as PDF or cheap in print.
Before you rely on itIt covers standard survey courses under its own titles, so you will not find named commercial books such as Thomas' Calculus here.
The first place to look for a calculus, physics or statistics text you can keep, because every title is professionally edited and free in full.Telebem editors
Details
- How you get in
- Free to readOpen to anyone, no account needed.
- Rights
- Openly licensedThe rights holder published it free, usually under Creative Commons.
- Subjects
- Mathematics · Physics · Chemistry · Biology · Economics · Psychology · Business · Statistics · Social sciences
- Formats
- PDF · Web · Print-on-demand
- Languages
- English, with some Spanish and Polish editions
- Size
- more than 80 peer-reviewed titles across introductory university subjects
- Run by
- Rice University (OpenStax, a non-profit based at Rice)
- Address
- openstax.org
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