High-quality, openly licensed textbooks from OpenStax will now be available to students in the United Kingdom, thanks to a partnership between the Rice University-based nonprofit and The Open ...

Rutgers University in New Jersey has launched its Open and Affordable Textbook (OAT) Project, which offers grants to faculty or department groups that switch to free, low-cost or open alternatives to ...

Seven in 10 college students say they don't buy required textbooks because they cost too much. Low-cost, open-content textbooks are universally popular on college campuses, but two burning questions ...

Roxanne Missingham works for the Australian National University. For university students, textbooks have been both a saviour and a bane. Having most of the essential readings in a single volume ...

Kalamazoo, Mich.—Western Michigan University Libraries is thrilled to announce the publication of two new open textbooks by Western faculty funded by Open Educational Resources Creation Grants. These ...

There’s no way anyone can reach their goal of attaining a college degree without doing some heavy reading—by deeply engaging with assigned texts. Those marathon cram sessions, office hours with ...

University of California students and faculty are asking the UC Board of Regents to fund a systemwide open textbook grant program. The California Public Interest Research Group, a student activist ...

Open-source textbooks, long considered a promising way to cut costs but still not widely used, could become more readily available and easily vetted as a University of Minnesota project expands.

Academic libraries have long advocated for open educational resources (OERs)—openly licensed materials for learning and research—at colleges and universities. Pioneers like University of Massachusetts ...

Menendez is a history major at UCSD, and lives in La Jolla. Textbooks are a major burden on college students due to their increasing cost. Since 1977, the price of textbooks has gone up by more than 1 ...

If ramen noodle sales spike at the start of every semester, here’s one possible reason: textbooks can cost as much as a class itself; materials for an introductory physics course can easily top $300.