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Rice University's nonprofit textbook press: peer-reviewed, openly licensed books for physics, biology, economics, psychology, and more — used by millions of students.

25 courses here1,110 hours of teaching457 lectures & chapters70+ books in their full catalog

Every OpenStax course

Free, complete, and yours to keep — stream every lecture in our player or download the whole course.

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Anatomy and Physiology 2e

The complete A&P textbook — every system of the human body, from cells to reproduction, free and peer-reviewed.

122h read28 ch
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Biology 2e

The complete majors-biology textbook — from the chemistry of life to ecology — free, peer-reviewed, and used by millions.

98h read47 ch
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Principles of Finance 2e

The complete corporate finance textbook — time value of money, valuation, risk, and capital budgeting.

78h read20 ch
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Principles of Economics 3e

The complete two-semester economics sequence — micro and macro together — from the standard open textbook.

75h read34 ch
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Astronomy 2e

The complete introduction to modern astronomy — from the night sky to cosmology — free from OpenStax.

61h read30 ch
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U.S. History

American history from the first nations to the present — a complete, peer-reviewed open textbook.

54h read32 ch
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Introductory Business Statistics 2e

Statistics for business students — sampling, confidence intervals, regression, and forecasting, with business cases.

50h read13 ch
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Chemistry 2e

Two semesters of general chemistry — atoms to thermochemistry to electrochemistry — free and peer-reviewed.

47h read21 ch
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University Physics Volume 2

University physics, volume 2 — heat, electricity, magnetism, and circuits, the calculus-based second semester.

47h read16 ch
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Entrepreneurship

The complete entrepreneurship textbook — from opportunity recognition to funding, growth, and exit.

45h read15 ch
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Microbiology

From microbial cell structure to epidemiology and immunology — the complete open microbiology text.

44h read26 ch
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Introduction to Business 2e

The whole business landscape in one book — economics, marketing, finance, and entrepreneurship — free and current.

44h read17 ch
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Introduction to Sociology 3e

Sociology's core lens — from the sociological imagination to inequality, deviance, and social change — in one open book.

40h read21 ch
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Principles of Management

Management theory that respects practice — planning, organizing, leading, and controlling, free from OpenStax.

40h read18 ch
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Psychology 2e

The full introduction to psychological science — biology of behavior through social psychology — free from OpenStax.

37h read16 ch
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Introductory Statistics 2e

Statistics the way it should be taught — descriptive through inferential, with real datasets, free and peer-reviewed.

35h read13 ch
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Precalculus 2e

The complete precalculus textbook — algebra, trigonometry, and analytic geometry, everything calculus assumes.

33h read12 ch
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University Physics Volume 1

Rice University's peer-reviewed university physics text — mechanics, waves, and thermodynamics, free and complete.

31h read17 ch
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College Algebra 2e

College algebra, complete and free — functions, exponentials, logarithms, and the algebra everything after depends on.

26h read9 ch
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Principles of Data Science

OpenStax's data science text — statistics meets computation, from data ethics to machine learning, free.

20h read10 ch
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Calculus Volume 2

Calculus, volume 2 — integration techniques, differential equations, sequences and series, and parametric curves.

19h read7 ch
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Calculus Volume 3

Calculus, volume 3 — vectors, partial derivatives, multiple integrals, and vector calculus, the complete third semester.

19h read7 ch
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Introduction to Computer Science

The newest OpenStax title — computer science from data representation to machine learning, free from day one.

18h read14 ch
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Additive Manufacturing Essentials

The 3D printing textbook — how additive manufacturing actually works, from processes and materials to economics.

16h read8 ch
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Calculus Volume 1

The open calculus text — functions, limits, derivatives, and integration, free from Rice University's textbook press.

11h read6 ch