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Browse OER Textbooks from the University of Minnesota's Open Textbook Library. These textbooks are authored and peer reviewed by faculty or other accredited subject matter experts. Many of these textbooks are actively used to teach OER based courses at instiutions across the United States. 

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Nursing Pharmacology
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ISBN: 9781734914108

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Applied Science
Health, Medicine and Nursing
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Textbook
Author:
Chippewa Valley Technical College
Date Added:
06/08/2020
Nursing Skills
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Word Count: 206452

ISBN: 9781734914122

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Applied Science
Health, Medicine and Nursing
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Author:
Chippewa Valley Technical College
Date Added:
07/30/2021
Nutrition: Science and Everyday Application - Second Edition
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v. 2.0

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This book is designed as an Open Education Resource (OER) for introductory nutrition courses and has been adopted for use in high schools and colleges. Topics covered include basic nutrition and metabolism, information literacy, body weight and health, nutrition across life stages, dietary supplements, an in-depth look at each of the macronutrients, and major functions of vitamins and minerals. The second edition of Nutrition: Science and Everyday Application was released in August 2022. The second edition includes a fully revised Unit 7 (Body Weight and Health) and minor revisions to Unit 10 (Nutrition and Physical Activity). In June 2023, Unit 2 (Nutrition Science and Information Literacy) was significantly updated along with the ancillary materials for Unit 2. The remainder of the OER and the accompanying ancillary materials are the same as the first edition, originally published in December 2020.

Word Count: 159133

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Subject:
Applied Science
Career and Technical Education
Culinary Arts
Health, Medicine and Nursing
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
OpenOregon
Author:
Alice Callahan
Heather Leonard
Tamberly Powell
Date Added:
08/07/2022
Nutrition: Science and Everyday Application, v. 1.0
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Second edition of this text is available at: https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/nutritionscience2e/

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This book is designed as an OER text and learning resource for undergraduate students enrolled in FN 225 Nutrition at Lane Community College in Eugene, Oregon. The book covers basic nutrition and metabolism, information literacy, energy balance, nutrition across life stages, dietary supplements, an in-depth look at each of the macronutrients, and major functions of vitamins and minerals.

Word Count: 138254

ISBN: ISBN: 978-1-63635-003-5

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Subject:
Life Science
Nutrition
Material Type:
Textbook
Author:
Alice Callahan
Heather Leonard
Tamberly Powell
Date Added:
10/14/2020
Nutrition for Nurses
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Nutrition for Nurses is structured to support the flexible integration of nutrition content across both system-based and nursing competency-based curricula. It can be used whether nutrition is taught as a standalone course or part of another nursing course. The table of contents for Nutrition for Nurses presents content in 20 chapters, organized into 9 thematic units. The text emphasizes evidence-based practice and holistic assessment to facilitate the integration of nutritional awareness for pre-licensure nursing students in the provision of client-centered care. Nutrition for Nurses helps students develop sound clinical judgment as well as a deep understanding of the impact of nutrition on body systems across the lifespan. Written and reviewed by highly experienced faculty, Nutrition for Nurses includes a detailed narrative, extensive features and learning resources, and ample student support. The presentation utilizes concepts promoting the development of clinical judgment by building upon the systematic model developed by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN).

Subject:
Applied Science
Health, Medicine and Nursing
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
Rice University
Provider Set:
OpenStax College
Date Added:
11/22/2024
OER: A Field Guide for Academic Librarians
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We intend this book to act as a guide writ large for would-be champions of OER, that anyone called to action by the example set by our chapter authors might serve as guides themselves. The following chapters tap into the deep experience of practitioners who represent a meaningful cross section of higher education institutions in North America. It is our hope that the examples and discussions presented by our authors will facilitate connections among practitioners, foster the development of best practices for OER adoption and creation, and more importantly, lay a foundation for novel, educational excellence.

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Education
Material Type:
Reading
Date Added:
12/04/2018
OPEN MUSIC THEORY
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Version 2

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Open Music Theory is a natively-online open educational resource intended to serve as the primary text and workbook for undergraduate music theory curricula. OMT2 provides not only the material for a complete traditional core undergraduate music theory sequence (fundamentals, diatonic harmony, chromatic harmony, form, 20th-century techniques), but also several other units for instructors who have diversified their curriculum, such as jazz, popular music, counterpoint, and orchestration. This version also introduces a complete workbook of assignments.

Long Description:
Open Music Theory Version 2 (OMT2) is an open educational resource intended to serve as the primary text and workbook for undergraduate music theory curricula. As an open and natively-online resource, OMT2 is substantially different from other commercially-published music theory textbooks, though it still provides the same content that teachers expect from a music theory text.

OMT2 has been designed inclusively. For us, this means broadening our topics beyond the standard harmony and atonal theory topics to include fundamentals, musical form, jazz, pop, and orchestration. And within those traditional sections of harmony and atonal theory, the authors have deliberately chosen composers who represent diverse genders and races. The book is accessible. And perhaps most importantly, the book is completely free and always will be.

The text of the book is augmented with several different media: video lessons, audio, interactive notated scores with playback, and small quizzes are embedded directly into each chapter for easy access.

OMT2 introduces a full workbook to accompany the text. Almost every chapter offers at least one worksheet on that topic. Some chapters, especially in the Fundamentals section, also collect additional assignments that can be found on other websites.

Version 2 of this textbook is collaboratively authored and edited by Mark Gotham, Kyle Gullings, Chelsey Hamm, Bryn Hughes, Brian Jarvis, Megan Lavengood, and John Peterson.

Word Count: 268272

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Career and Technical Education
Film and Music Production
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
Virtual Library of Virginia Open Publishing
Author:
Brian Jarvis
Bryn Hughes
Chelsey Hamm
John Peterson
Kyle Gullings
Mark Gotham
Megan Lavengood
Date Added:
07/01/2021
Object-Oriented Reengineering Patterns
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The documentation is missing or obsolete, and the original developers have departed. Your team has limited understanding of the system, and unit tests are missing for many, if not all, of the components. When you fix a bug in one place, another bug pops up somewhere else in the system. Long rebuild times make any change difficult. All of these are signs of software that is close to the breaking point.

Many systems can be upgraded or simply thrown away if they no longer serve their purpose. Legacy software, however, is crucial for operations and needs to be continually available and upgraded. How can you reduce the complexity of a legacy system sufficiently so that it can continue to be used and adapted at acceptable cost?

Based on the authors' industrial experiences, this book is a guide on how to reverse engineer legacy systems to understand their problems, and then reengineer those systems to meet new demands. Patterns are used to clarify and explain the process of understanding large code bases, hence transforming them to meet new requirements. The key insight is that the right design and organization of your system is not something that can be evident from the initial requirements alone, but rather as a consequence of understanding how these requirements evolve.

Subject:
Applied Science
Computer Science
Material Type:
Textbook
Author:
Oscar Nierstrasz
Serge Demeyer
Stéphane Ducasse
Date Added:
07/03/2019
Obligaciones Tributarias y su Influencia en la Recaudación Fiscal de las Micro y Pequeñas Empresas
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La investigación titulada: “Obligaciones tributarias y su influencia en la recaudación fiscal de las micro y pequeñas empresas” tuvo como propósito reflejar la influencia de las obligaciones tributarias en la recaudación fiscal, también busca reducir la informalidad, y ampliar la base tributaria mediante beneficios otorgados a las micro y pequeñas empresas que se acojan a los regímenes tributarios, con la finalidad de aumentar la recaudación fiscal. La estructura se desarrollado en base de cuatro capítulos, el CAPÍTULO I trata sobre el planteamiento del problema, la formulación, objetivos y justificación, CAPÍTULO II abarcó los antecedentes de estudio, bases teóricas sobre el tema de investigación, bases conceptuales, definición de términos, hipótesis, variables y la operacionalización de variables, el CAPÍTULO III contiene los materiales y métodos que se utilizó en el presente estudio finalmente el CAPÍTULO IV trató sobre la discusión de resultados, análisis de la información y la prueba de hipótesis. Como parte final del presente estudio comprende las conclusiones, recomendaciones, referencias bibliográficas y anexos.

Subject:
Business and Communication
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
Editorial Grupo AEA
Author:
Andrés Jesús Ramírez-Laurente
Emiliano Reymundo-Soto
Erick Zenon Gutiérrez-Quispe
Estheysi Vianny Echevarria-Quispe
Luis Julio Palacios-Aguilar
Xiomara Padua Fernández-Condori
Yuri Quispe-Cusi
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01/31/2024
#OnYGo
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#OnYGo is an innovative first-year French language e-textbook, designed as Open Educational Resource (OER), for learning beginning French (equivalent to one year at an American university). It is inspired by a remix of task-based, multiliteracies and communicative approaches, which provides students with opportunities to engage with French language and culture in a variety of contexts and situations, across a range of modalities. Through a wide range of activities, students develop and practice their language skills, and reflect on their cross-cultural knowledge and positionality in their understanding of the vast francophone landscape.

#OnYGo is a first-year textbook that takes a DEI-forward approach to the depiction of people, contexts, and concepts. It views language learners, instructors and a wide range of individuals interacting in French as belonging to a large multilingual and francophone community. It recognizes multilingualism and multiculturalism in all its forms, and showcases French speakers with a variety of backgrounds and relationships to the French language. The cultural and pedagogical materials in this collection have been selected for their authenticity and diverse representation of French speakers on the five continents, and are thus purposely inclusive of gender, sexual orientation, race, and ethnicity.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Languages
Material Type:
Textbook
Author:
Stéphanie Roulon
Date Added:
03/31/2023
OpenIntro Statistics
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OpenIntro Statistics is a dynamic take on the traditional curriculum, being successfully used at Community Colleges to the Ivy League

Subject:
Mathematics
Statistics and Probability
Material Type:
Full Course
Author:
Christopher Barr
Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel
David Diez
Date Added:
05/19/2020
Open Judicial Politics
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The impetus for this volume was a multitude of conversations regarding pedagogy and teaching related to our judicial process courses. Based on these conversations, we identified four main threads or needs of our colleagues: First, many of us bring or want to bring more “political science” into our classes, though we also want to avoid the high costs of reinventing successful existing courses to do so. Second, our programs all require a political methodology course, and we want to reinforce those lessons in our substantive courses. We want to encourage our students’ understanding of how to read and understand research studies as well as how to craft their own research questions. Third, we want to keep our courses as current as possible. And fourth, we wanted to find a way to bring the cost of our courses down, as we see so many students struggle with the high costs of a college degree. This volume (as well as any future editions) addresses each of these concerns. Data Dashboard

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Subject:
Law
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
Oregon State University
Author:
Eric Waltenburg
Jennifer Segal Diascro
Rorie Spill Solberg
Date Added:
08/18/2021
Open Logic Project
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The Open Logic Text is an open textbook on mathematical logic aimed at a non-mathematical audience, intended for advanced logic courses as taught in many philosophy departments. It is open-source: you can download the LaTeX code. It is open: you’re free to change it whichever way you like, and share your changes. It is collaborative: a team of people is working on it, using the GitHub platform, and we welcome contributions and feedback. And it is written with configurability in mind.

Subject:
Applied Science
Arts and Humanities
Computer Science
Mathematics
Philosophy
Material Type:
Textbook
Author:
Aldo Antonelli
Andrew Arana
Audrey Yap
Gillian Russell
Jeremy Avigad
Nicole Wyatt
Richard Zach
Walter Dean
Date Added:
05/14/2015
Open Research
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If you have an interest in openness, open education, research skills or want to find out more about the impact of Open EducationalResources (OER), then this resource is for you. You could be:

Using an OER with students and interested in assessing its impact
Facilitating sessions on open practice with students or colleagues and looking for inspiration
Working on a research project and wanting to find out more about incorporating open research techniques into your own practice
Curious about the benefits and challenges of open research
Looking to use open tools in your research
Wanting increased impact for your research
Interested in open research on OER
This resource will help you explore what open research is, how you can ethically and openly share your findings so others can reuse or developyour work, and the role of reflection and open dissemination. Whilstmany challenges and issues apply to all aspects of research (forexample choosing an appropriate methodology), open research bringsa range of different opportunities and challenges; it's these that weare specifically interested in exploring. What can openness add to theresearch process?

Subject:
Education
Material Type:
Textbook
Author:
B. De Los Arcos
M. Weller
R. Farrow
R. Pitt
Date Added:
12/02/2019
Open Resources for Community College Algebra
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Open Resources for Community College Algebra (ORCCA) is an open-source, openly-licensed textbook package (eBook, print, and online homework) for basic and intermediate algebra. At Portland Community College, Part 1 is used in MTH 60, Part 2 is used in MTH 65, and Part 3 is used in MTH 95.

Subject:
Algebra
Mathematics
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
Portland Community College
Author:
Alex Jordan
Ann Cary
Cara Lee
Carl Yao
Ralf Youtz
Ross Kouzes
Scot Leavitt
Date Added:
07/02/2019
Open Signals and Systems Laboratory Exercises
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Open Signals and Systems Laboratory Exercises is a collection of lab assignments that have been used in EE 224: Signals and Systems I in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State University. These lab exercises have been curated, edited, and presented in a consistent format to improve student learning.

Subject:
Applied Science
Computer Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Textbook
Provider:
Iowa State University
Author:
Andrew K. Bolstad
Julie A. Dickerson
Date Added:
10/15/2021
Open Signals and Systems Laboratory Exercises - Second Edition
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Open Signals and Systems Laboratory Exercises is a collection of lab assignments that have been used in EE 224: Signals and Systems I in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State University. These lab exercises have been curated, edited, and presented in a consistent format to improve student learning. This second edition provides a thorough coverage of the MATLAB concepts needed to complete each exercise, and incorporates hardware descriptions and explanations into the exercises that had integrated new lab equipment. A ZIP file containing additional materials is also available.

Subject:
Applied Science
Engineering
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
Iowa State University
Date Added:
11/22/2024
Open-Source Property: A Free Casebook
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Open Source Property: A Free Casebook is a free resource for instructors and students of the first-year Property Law course at American law schools, and anyone else with an interest in the subject.

Subject:
Law
Material Type:
Textbook
Author:
James Grimmelmann
Michael Grynberg
Stephen Clowney
Date Added:
11/18/2021
OpenStax College Algebra 2e
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College Algebra 2e provides a comprehensive exploration of algebraic principles and meets scope and sequence requirements for a typical introductory algebra course. The modular approach and richness of content ensure that the book addresses the needs of a variety of courses. College Algebra 2e offers a wealth of examples with detailed, conceptual explanations, building a strong foundation in the material before asking students to apply what they’ve learned.

The College Algebra 2e revision focused on improving relevance and representation as well as mathematical clarity and accuracy. Introductory narratives, examples, and problems were reviewed and revised using a diversity, equity, and inclusion framework. Many contexts, scenarios, and images have been changed to become even more relevant to students’ lives and interests. To maintain our commitment to accuracy and precision, examples, exercises, and solutions were reviewed by multiple faculty experts. All improvement suggestions and errata updates from the first edition were considered and unified across the different formats of the text.

Subject:
Mathematics
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
Rice University
Provider Set:
OpenStax College
Author:
Jay Abramson
Date Added:
12/28/2022