Total number of open textbooks
We currently have 31 open textbooks published (at 29 August 2024) in the Open Textbooks @ UQ catalogue.
Courses using Open Textbooks @ UQ books
This information is updated after census date each semester.
38
UQ courses use Open Textbooks @ UQ books
11,431
Total number of UQ students who have used Open Textbooks @ UQ books in their course
4,683
Students who used Open Textbooks @ UQ books in their course in Semester 2, 2024
$389,194
Total savings* for UQ students not having to purchase a textbook
Individual book information
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2024
Communication Essentials in Dentistry
Access Communication Essentials in Dentistry.
- Course using the textbook – DENT2061 Dental Practice IIB
- Number of students enroled in Semester 2, 2024 – 79
- Total enrolments to date (since the open textbook was first used in the course) – 79
Financial Markets and Institutions: A Step-by-Step Analysis of Core Mechanisms
This open textbook is a forthcoming publication piloted in a course.
- Course using the textbook – ECON3210 Financial Markets and Institutions
- Number of students enroled in Semester 2, 2024 – 462
- Total enrolments to date (since the open textbook was first used in the course) – 462
Introduction to Financial Management: A Contemporary Approach
Access Introduction to Financial Management: A Contemporary Approach.
- Course using the textbook – FINM1416 Introduction to Financial Management
- Number of students enroled in Semester 2, 2024 – 392
- Total enrolments to date (since the open textbook was first used in the course) – 1421
Legal Research Skills: An Australian Law Guide
Access Legal Research Skills: An Australian Law Guide
- Course using the textbook – LAWS7936 Fundamentals of the Common Law
- Number of students enroled in Semester 2, 2024 – 36
- Total enrolments to date (since the open textbook was first used in the course) – 74
Mastering Reinforcement Learning
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- Course using the textbook – COMP3702 Artificial Intelligence
- Number of students enroled in Semester 2, 2024 – 398
- Total enrolments to date (since the open textbook was first used in the course) – 398
Music Research Essentials
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- Courses using the textbook:
- MUSC1050 Western Art Music
- MUSC7060 Advanced Musicianship
- Number of students enroled in Semester 2, 2024 – 85
- Total enrolments to date (since the open textbook was first used in the course) – 159
A Portable Introduction to Data Analysis
Access A Portable Introduction to Data Analysis
- Courses using the textbook:
- CHEE2010 Engineering Investigation and Statistical Analysis
- HRSS7801 Research Project Health & Rehab Sci School
- NEUR2530 Motor Control & Learning
- PHRM1102 Pharm Prac Medicines Mgt 1B
- STAT1201 Analysis of Scientific Data
- STAT1301 Advanced Analysis of Scientific Data
- STAT7120 Analysis of Scientific Data
- STAT7174 Computational Statistics
- Number of students enroled in Semester 2, 2024 – 1712
- Total enrolments to date (since the open textbook was first used in the course) – 2603
- Retail price of required textbook previously used in the course (AUD$) – $95
- Savings to date (AUD$)* – $157,700
Quality in Healthcare: Assessing What We Do
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- Course using the textbook – NUMW3101 Evidence Based Practice
- Number of students enroled in Semester 2, 2024 – 266
- Total enrolments to date (since the open textbook was first used in the course) – 266
UQ Bachelor of Pharmacy (Hons) Placement Handbook
Access UQ Bachelor of Pharmacy (Hons) Placement Handbook
- Courses using the textbook:
- PHRM3101 Pharmacy Practice and Medicines Management 3A
- PHRM3011 Quality Use of Medicines B1
- PHRM4071 QUM Research Placement
- PHRM4072 QUM Pharmacy Practice Placement
- Number of students enroled in Semester 1, 2024 – 327
- Total enrolments to date (since the open textbook was first used in the course) – 327
2023
CSR Communication and Cultures of Sustainability
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- Course using the textbook – COMU7430 Corporate Social Responsibility
- Number of students enroled in Semester 1, 2024 – 191
- Total enrolments to date (since the open textbook was first used in the course) – 299
Introduction to the Social Sciences
Access Introduction to the Social Sciences
- Courses using the textbook:
- SOSC1000 Society, Challenges and Solutions: Introduction to the Social Sciences
- PHRM3302 Social Pharmacy and the Health System 3B
- Number of students enroled in Semester 2, 2024 – 197
- Total enrolments to date (since the open textbook was first used in the course) – 263
Legal Research Essentials
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- Courses using the textbook:
- LAWS1700 Foundations of Law
- LAWS7936 Fundamentals of the Common Law
- Number of students enroled in Semester 1, 2024 – 376
- Total enrolments to date (since the open textbook was first used in the course) – 376
Using Language Data to Learn About Language: A Teachers’ Guide to Classroom Corpus Use
Access Using Language Data to Learn About Language: A Teachers’ Guide to Classroom Corpus Use
- Course using the textbook – SLAT7829 Corpus Linguistics
- Number of students enroled in Semester 1, 2024 – 31
- Total enrolments to date (since the open textbook was first used in the course) – 70
2022
Dentistry Environment Essentials
Access Dentistry Environment Essentials
- Courses using the textbook:
- DENT1050 Dental Practice I
- DENT1060 Dental Practice 1A
- DENT1061 Dental Practice 1B
- Number of students enroled in Semester 2, 2024 – 83
- Total enrolments to date (since the open textbook was first used in the course) – 409
- Retail price of required textbook previously used in the course (AUD$) – $114.81
- Savings to date (AUD$)* – $8,495.94
Exercise Delivery
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- Courses using the textbook – EXMD2362 Exercise Prescription & Programming
- Number of students enroled in Semester 1, 2024 – 118
- Total enrolments to date (since the open textbook was first used in the course) – 357
Public Interest Communication
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- Course using the textbook – COMU3015 Public Interest
- Number of students enroled in Semester 2, 2024 – 104
- Total enrolments to date (since the open textbook was first used in the course) – 302
Social Cost Benefit Analysis and Economic Evaluation
Access Social Cost Benefit Analysis and Economic Evaluation
- Courses using the textbook:
- ECON2101 Cost Benefit Analysis
- ECON7740 Cost Benefit Analysis
- Number of students enroled in Semester 2, 2024 – 527
- Total enrolments to date (since the open textbook was first used in the course) – 2252
- Retail price of required textbook previously used in the course (AUD$) – $75.64
- Savings to date (AUD$)* – $170,341
2021
JUNTXS Introductory Spanish
Access JUNTXS Introductory Spanish
- Courses using the textbook:
- SPAN1010 Introductory Spanish A
- SPAN1020 Introductory Spanish B
- Number of students enroled in Semester 1, 2024 – 91
- Total enrolments to date (since the open textbook was first used in the course) – 635
- Retail price of required textbook previously used in the course (AUD$) – $61.95
- Savings to date (AUD$)* – $39,338.25
+JUNTXS Intermediate Spanish
Access +JUNTXS Intermediate Spanish
- Courses using the textbook:
- SPAN2010 Introductory Spanish
- SPAN2020 Intermediate Spanish
- Number of students enroled in Semester 2, 2024 – 51
- Total enrolments to date (since the open textbook was first used in the course) – 396
- Retail price of required textbook previously used in the course (AUD$) – $61.95
- Savings to date (AUD$)* – $13,319.25
*The Savings figure is calculated on the assumption that every student in the course would purchase the required textbook.
Grants for open textbooks used in courses
The Open Textbooks @ UQ program offers grants to assist UQ academics to adapt or create open textbooks and prescribe them in their courses.
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Published in 2024
UQ authors | Textbook project and grant awarded | Date of Publication |
---|---|---|
Associate Professor Jacquelyn Humphrey and Dr Saphira Rekker | Sustainable Finance
$4000 Also awarded an Australian Council of Australian Libraries (CAUL) grant – $4500 |
31 January 2024 |
Associate Professor Michael Bulmer | A Portable Introduction to Data Analysis
$2000 |
9 February 2024 |
Dr Saphira Rekker | Introduction to Financial Management: A Contemporary Approach
$3000 |
2 April 2024 |
Dr Sowmya Shetty, Jessica Zachar and Matthew Nangle | Communication Essentials in Dentistry
$3000 |
14 May 2024 |
Professor Tim Miller | Mastering Reinforcement Learning
$4000 |
19 July 2024 |
Dr Catherine Kilgour and Dr Lori Delaney | Quality in Healthcare: Assessing What We Do
$4000 |
24 July 2024 |
Professor Winnifred Louis | Psychological Research Methods Workbook
$4000 |
30 July 2024 |
Published in 2023
UQ authors | Textbook project and grant awarded | Date of Publication |
---|---|---|
Dr Peter Crosthwaite and Franciele Spinelli | Using Language Data to Learn About Language: A Teacher’s Guide to Classroom Corpus Use
$3000 |
16 February 2023 |
Associate Professor Gerhard Hoffstaedter, Dr Zoe Staines and Ned Binnie | Introduction to the Social Sciences
$3000 |
19 May 2023 |
Professor Tracey Bunda and Mia Strasek-Barker | Language of Relationships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples – Introductory Guide
$3000 |
23 October 2023 |
Published in 2022
UQ authors | Textbook project and grant awarded | Date of Publication |
---|---|---|
Dr Nicole Stormon, Tachae Douglas-Miller and Dr Sowmya Shetty | Dentistry Environment Essentials
$3000 |
24 January 2022 |
Dr Emma Beckman and Chloe Salisbury | Exercise Delivery
$3000 |
24 January 2022 |
Dr Suzanne Bonner | Social Cost Benefit Analysis and Economic Evaluation
$3000 |
18 February 2022 |
Associate Professor Jane Johnston and Dr Robyn Gulliver | Public Interest Communication
$3000 |
22 February 2022 |
Forthcoming
UQ authors | Textbook project and grant awarded | Date of Publication |
---|---|---|
Dr Denis O’Hara | The Practice of Counselling and Psychotherapy
$4000 |
Forthcoming |
Professor Tracey Bunda | Evoking the Fryer Library Indigenous Collection (EFLIC)
$3000 |
Forthcoming |
Dr Lee Wilson, Associate Professor Gerhard Hoffstaedter and Associate Professor Sally Babidge | Anthropology as a Vocation: A Discipline for a Changing World
$4000 |
Forthcoming |
Dr Teegan Green | Strategic Branding: A Practical Guide
$3000 |
Forthcoming |
Dr Nicole Stormon | The Art of Tooth Anatomy
$3000 |
Forthcoming |
Dr Frederique Bracoud | Financial Markets and Institutions: a step-by-step analysis of core mechanisms
$3000 |
Forthcoming |