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Welcome to The University of Queensland’s Pressbooks site.  UQ is committed to supporting the creation of Open Educational Resources (OER) to benefit student learning.

What are Open Textbooks?

Open textbooks are a type of open educational resource (OER) that are free for everyone to use. Open textbooks provide an alternative to commercial textbooks and offer many benefits to you, your students and the community.

Find out how you can create or use open textbooks

Find open textbooks

  • Visit the Open Textbooks @ UQ catalogue to find open textbooks by UQ authors published on our Pressbook platform.
  • Search the Pressbooks Directory for open textbooks published by other institutions using Pressbooks.

Contact us

Open Textbooks @ UQ is managed for UQ by the Library. To find out more about creating or adapting an open book:

 

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