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Textbooks every student can access and afford open textbooks are textbooks that have been funded, published, and licensed to be freely used, adapted, and distributed. These books are also sold in pdf, epub, and online. Open access ebooks provides a common platform for publishing the latest scientific work and acquiring knowledge on latest scientific happenings in different areas of science, technology and medicine. Make a difference in your students lives with free, openlylicensed textbooks. Open access and academic monographs oxford university press. Open access books open access is a relatively new concept for books publishing. Distilling a decade of subers influential writing and thinking about open access, this is the indispensable book on the subject for researchers, librarians, administrators, funders, publishers, and policy makers. It has been accepted for inclusion in textbooks collection by an authorized administrator of scholar commons. This book is brought to you for free and open access by the usf tampa library open access collections at scholar commons. Open the pdf document, tap, then choose mail or print. Authors retain and are able to comply with funders open access mandates.
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