Open Textbooks @ UQ snapshot

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.

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UQ courses use Open Textbooks @ UQ books

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Total number of UQ students who have used Open Textbooks @ UQ books in their course

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Students who used Open Textbooks @ UQ books in their course in Semester 2, 2024

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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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

2024 Open textbooks awarded grants
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

2023 Open textbooks awarded grants
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

2022 Open textbooks awarded grants
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

Open textbooks awarded grants – 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