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OpenStax textbooks
OpenStax, Rice University
Peer-reviewed university and senior-school textbooks from Rice University, free to read online and free to download. Physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics, economics and more.
A free external resource. Its licence allows copying and reuse under its own terms. This link reached the site on 2026-08-31. We did not read the page.
https://openstax.org/subjects
Written for a US curriculum. Excellent for understanding a topic, and not a substitute for your board’s syllabus. Most titles are CC BY 4.0; each book states its own licence on its title page.
Source, licence and version
- Published by
- OpenStax, Rice University. Published by a recognised institution or research organisation working in this field.
- Rights held by
- Rice University
- Access
- Openly licensed. Free to read, and the licence allows reuse under its own conditions.
- Licence
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) Read the licence
- What you may do
- Copies may be redistributed under the licence below. Read the licence for the conditions — they are not optional.
- Attribution required
- “OpenStax textbooks” by Rice University, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).
- Version
- Recorded as the version in force, but nobody has checked it against the source. Confirm the year on the source page.
- What we checked
- The source and provenance were checked. That says nothing about whether the material is good, complete, or right for you.
- Languages
- en
- Useful for
- Learn it properly · Understand deeply · Introduction
What it lines up with
One resource can sit differently against different curricula. Each row below says how strong the connection is and whose claim it is.
Around the subjectTutor’s assessment
Useful alongside the subject rather than part of it.
Senior secondary
PhysicsNamed without enough alongside it for us to look it up — a subject needs a programme before the catalogue can give it the board’s own title.
Around the subjectTutor’s assessment
Useful alongside the subject rather than part of it.
Senior secondary
ChemistryNamed without enough alongside it for us to look it up — a subject needs a programme before the catalogue can give it the board’s own title.
Around the subjectTutor’s assessment
Useful alongside the subject rather than part of it.
Senior secondary
BiologyNamed without enough alongside it for us to look it up — a subject needs a programme before the catalogue can give it the board’s own title.
Around the subjectTutor’s assessment
Useful alongside the subject rather than part of it.
Senior secondary
EconomicsNamed without enough alongside it for us to look it up — a subject needs a programme before the catalogue can give it the board’s own title.