The Oviatt Library is excited to be a part of OpenStax College’s efforts to save students money when buying textbooks. Please come by and check out our free textbooks display on the fourth floor of the Oviatt Library in the Reserves, Periodicals and Microform (RPM) Room. You may be able to use some of these free textbooks in your courses.
There are currently nine textbooks on display and 11 titles online: Anatomy and Physiology; Biology; College Physics; Concepts of Biology; Introduction to Sociology; Introductory Statistics; Pre-Calculus; Principles of Economics; Principles of Macroeconomics; Principles of Microeconomics; and Psychology. Two are coming soon: Chemistry and U.S. History.
CSUN Faculty can re-tool these open textbooks to meet course design needs. Faculty members are able to use or adapt these materials to their liking thanks to a Creative Commons Attribution license. The Oviatt Library invites CSUN faculty to review OpenStax College textbooks. These textbooks are free to download from http://openstaxcollege.org/ or check out a print copy on the fourth floor of the Oviatt Library. There is a sign in sheet at the RPM desk for this purpose. In addition, faculty members who would like to explore further the possibility of utilizing these free peer reviewed texts within their courses may visit https://openstaxcollege.org/faculty.
OpenStax College is a nonprofit organization that offers students free textbooks that meet the scope and requirements for most college courses. These textbooks are peer-reviewed and have been written by professional content developers. There is truly no fee for many textbooks and other texts are offered at a very low cost. OpenStax College is supported by foundations that would like to help alleviate the high cost of student textbooks.
Students who would like more information about free textbooks through OpenStax may visit https://openstaxcollege.org/students.
For more information please contact Oviatt Library Digital Learning Initiatives Librarian, Laurie Borchard at laurie.borchard@csun.edu.
