Open Textbook Collection

 

Open Educational Resources (OER) published at the University of Oregon. Our Pressbooks repository with up to date web versions of the textbooks in this collection can be found at https://opentext.uoregon.edu/

Recent Submissions

  • Advanced Legal Research: Process and Practice 
    Austin, Megan (University of Oregon, 2023-11)
    Written for students and instructors in an advanced legal research course, this book uses the steps of the legal research process to facilitate skills practice, collaboration, and reflection. It proposes a hypothetical as ...
  • Science and Culture: Readings for Writers 
    Rust, Stephen; Wilde, Jenée (2023-09-21)
    Science and Culture is a resource intended for college and secondary students to engage with scientific concepts, facts, and history as they relate to society in the United States and globally. The multimodality, diversity ...
  • Introduction to Arabic: Egyptian Arabic for first-year students 
    Hollenberg, David; Ghazy, Amira; Eissa, Abdulrahman; Elsherif, Hanan; Loy, Benjamin; Rizk, Kerlos (University of Oregon, 2023-07)
    This book presents materials for mastering the Arabic alphabet and the student's first steps in Egyptian Arabic. This book contains interactive activities that can only be accessed through the web version of this book which ...
  • Pay for Play: How the Music Industry Works, Where the Money Goes, and Why 
    Wayte, Larry (University of Oregon, 2023-05-15)
    The history of music is closely linked to the history of copyright law. This book explores how the law shaped music and the music industry. From church and court patronage in pre-19th Century Europe, to the effects of ...
  • Teaching about Difference and Power: A Guide for Instructors 
    Schreiner, Jason (Open Oregon, 2021-12-16)
    Teaching about difference and power: a guide for instructors. Intended to help instructors teach United States: Difference, Inequality and Agency courses at the University of Oregon. The most up to date and interactive ...
  • The Politics of Sports 
    Carroll, Anna; Wakefield, Eleanor (Open Oregon, 2019)
    This Open Educational Resource is a collection of texts and materials that team together students’ familiarity with sports and critical inquiry skills. The Politics of Sports has the potential to capture the interest of ...
  • Ecology of Place 
    Zalyubovskiy, Ana (Open Oregon, 2021-01-08)
    Ecology of Place is concerned with the values of conservation and preservation people place on their relationship to the earth, its features and its inhabitants. By knowing a place and naming its constituents we discover ...
  • The Culture of Science 
    Rust, Stephen; Wilde, Jenée (Open Oregon, 2019)
    This casebook opens up modes of inquiry into Western knowledge foundations, asking students to embrace epistemological uncertainty as a productive means of developing critical thinking skills. Each chapter includes an ...
  • Introduction to the Nonprofit Sector 
    Mason, Dyana P. (Open Oregon, 2022-10)
    This text is designed to provide an introduction to the nonprofit sector. It is designed to help readers understand the definition of the sector, its role in society, and the key questions facing it. The book also considers ...
  • Writing as Inquiry 
    Clevinger, Kara; Rust, Stephen (University of Oregon, 2022)
    Welcome to our creative commons OER (open educational resource) for Writing 121 at the University of Oregon. This resource is designed for students to be a zero-cost, high-quality guide to academic writing, with the goal ...