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OpenStax College is an initiative of OpenStax CNX (formerly Connexions) at Rice University. Since 2012 OpenStax has created peer-reviewed open textbooks, which are available in both printed and digital formats. In December 2012 "College Physics" became the first OpenStax textbook to be released in iBook format.

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Aiming to compete with major publishers' offerings, the project was initially funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the 20 Million Minds Foundation, and the Maxfield Foundation. All textbook content is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Licenses and the textbooks can be modified to suit different purposes by users. Specifically, the books use Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) License, which only requires attribution.

List of textbooks

OpenStax aims to release a total of 25 textbooks and as of November 2016 the following books had been released or were forthcoming:

  • College Physics (released June 2012)
  • Introduction to Sociology (released June 2012)
  • Biology (released April 2013)
  • Concepts of Biology (released April 2013)
  • Anatomy and Physiology (released June 2013)
  • Introductory Statistics (November 2013)
  • Principles of Economics (March 2014)
  • Principles of Microeconomics (March 2014)
  • Principles of Macroeconomics (March 2014)
  • Precalculus (October 2014)
  • Psychology (December 2014)
  • U.S. History (January 2015)
  • College Algebra (February 2015)
  • Algebra and Trigonometry (February 2015)
  • Chemistry (March 2015)
  • Introduction to Sociology 2e (April 2015)
  • Calculus (in 3 Volumes) (March 2016)
  • American Government (July 2016)
  • University Physics (in 3 Volumes) (September-October 2016)
  • Astronomy (October 2016)
  • Microbiology (November 2016)

    • Textbooks under construction

    OpenStax College is working on the following titles between now and the end of 2016:

  • Prealgebra (forthcoming 2016-2017)
  • Elementary Algebra (forthcoming 2016-2017)
  • Intermediate Algebra (forthcoming 2016-2017)

    • References

    OpenStax College Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA