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An open textbook is a textbook licensed under an open license, and made available online to be freely used by students, teachers and members of the public.Many open textbooks are distributed in either print, e-book, or audio formats that may be downloaded or purchased at little or no cost.
The Affordable College Textbook Act is a United States legislative bill intended to support use of open textbooks. It was introduced on April 4, 2019, to the 116th Congress by four senators ( Dick Durbin of Illinois, Angus King of Maine, Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, Tina Smith of Minnesota), and one representative ( Joe Neguse of Colorado). [ 1 ]
OpenStax textbooks follow a traditional peer review process aimed at ensuring they meet a high quality standard before publication. Textbooks are developed and peer-reviewed by educators in an attempt to ensure they are readable and accurate, meet the scope and sequence requirements of each course, are supported by instructor ancillaries, and are available with the latest technology-based ...
OpenStax, a library of free, peer-reviewed, and openly licensed college textbooks Creative Commons , the organization that created the licenses used by OpenStax CNX Open educational resources , the idea that educational resources can be shared in general through copyleft or other free culture movement licenses
In an effort to rebuild and replenish this loss, Congress authorized the purchase of the entire 6,487 book collection that made up Thomas Jefferson’s personal reading material. That stocked some ...
ALLBUS Data Service: online archive of German General Social Survey data. Free download - for scientific purposes - of high quality data on attitudes, behavior, and social structure in Germany. Project Gutenberg's shelf of historic, public domain Anthropology Books; Library of Congress Resource Links on Anthropology
Only 22% of America’s most-popular college books have a female author Our final graphic shows the gender breakdown of the 100 most-popular books in American colleges. It is a stark visual.
The Story Up to Now: The Library of Congress, 1800–1946 (1947), detailed narrative; Ostrowski, Carl. Books, Maps, and Politics: A Cultural History of the Library of Congress, 1783–1861 (2004) Rosenberg, Jane Aiken. The Nation's Great Library: Herbert Putnam and the Library of Congress, 1899–1939 (University of Illinois Press, 1993)