HOUSTON -- (May 2, 2013) -- Rice University-based publisher OpenStax College today announced plans to more than double the number of titles in its catalog of free, online textbooks by 2015, thanks to ...

OpenStax College, the Rice University-based publisher of free, peer-reviewed textbooks, has partnered with the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Press to produce a new introductory microbiology ...

College students and instructors are rushing to adopt the first free textbooks from upstart publisher OpenStax College. The Rice University-based publisher said it expects to save students at least $1 ...

Three new free textbooks have been added to the inventory within Rice University's OpenStax College collection. This set of open educational resources now includes new volumes on algebra and ...

August 2, 2013 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Textbooks are incredibly expensive (not to mention cumbersome and heavy in dead tree format). Smart students can ...

Founder Rich Baraniuk in the OpenStax office. HOUSTON — On the third floor of a bank building near Rice University, the future of higher education is being written. Or at least, edited. Perched in ...

OpenStax, a nonprofit based at Rice University that publishes free online peer-reviewed textbooks, reports that more than two million students at U.S. colleges used at least one of its textbooks ...

Nearly 1.5 million U.S. college students are expected to save an estimated $145 million in the 2017-18 academic year by using free textbooks from OpenStax, the Rice University-based publisher of open ...

Rice University-based publisher OpenStax College and the American Society for Microbiology Press today announced they are teaming up to produce Microbiology, a new introductory-level textbook due for ...

OpenStax, the Rice University-backed publisher, is partnering with textbook distributor NACSCORP to get its free textbooks into the hands of more students. The two organizations will offer faculty ...

In an interesting twist in the college textbook market, John Wiley this week announced a partnership with Rice University-based OpenStax College, an initiative to provide free, open textbooks. Under ...

With its latest free textbook, Rice University-based OpenStax College is going where no open-education publisher has gone before. Principles of Economics, available online today, is OpenStax College’s ...