B.C. Collection – Books under Consideration and Evaluation
Below is a list of books that are currently under consideration for the B.C. Open Textbook Collection or open for evaluation by Canadian faculty.
Books under consideration
The following curated books are currently in line to be reviewed against the B.C. Open Textbook Collection criteria.
Academic/Career Success
- Choosing & Using Sources: A Guide to Academic Research
- College Success
- Structured Work Experience Placement Handbook
Agriculture
Business
- Customer-Centric Strategy
- Principles of Economics
- Principles of Management
- Principles of Macroeconomics
- Principles of Economics
- Project Management from Simple to Complex
- Financial Accounting
- Exploring Business
- Business Plan Development Guide
- Principles of Financial Accounting (OpenStax)
- Principles of Managerial Accounting (OpenStax)
- Introduction to Cooperation and Mutualism
- Excel for Decision Making
- Introduction to Entrepeneurship
Campus and Community Resources
Communications and Media
- Information Strategies for Communicators
- Write Here, Right Now
- Stand Up, Speak Out: The Practice and Ethics of Public Speaking
- Write Like a PR Pro
- Communication in the Real World: An Introduction to Communication Studies
- Effective Professional Communication: A Rhetorical Approach
Computer Science
- Introduction to Computing
- Signal Computing: Digital Signals in the Software Domain
- Linear Regression Using R: An Introduction to Data Modeling
Earth and Ocean Sciences
- Digging in to Canadian Soils
- Quantitative Ecology: A New Unified Approach (ancillaries: https://github.com/adamtclark/QuantitativeEcologyBook)
Education
- Project Management for Instructional Designers
- The Role of Equity and Diversity in Early Childhood Education
- Observation and Assessment in Early Childhood Education
Engineering
- Embedded Controllers using C and Arduino + Lab Manual
- Lessons In Industrial Instrumentation
- Mechanisms / Drives (Electromechanical Technology Series)
- Electromagnetics, Volume 1
- Operational Amplifiers & Linear Integrated Circuits + Lab Manual
- Semiconductor Devices: Theory & Application + Lab manual
Fine Arts
Health, Medical, and Social Work
- Foundations in Epidemology
- The Scholarship of Writing in Nursing Education: 1st Canadian Edition
- Atlas of Renal Lesions in Proteinuric Dogs
- Introductory Animal Physiology
- Veterinary Histology
- Undergraduate Diagnostic Imaging Fundamentals
- Body Physics
- The Lymphatic System of the Dog
Hospitality and Tourism
N/A
Law/Criminal Justice
Liberal Arts and Humanities
- Inferring and Explaining
- Keys to Understanding the Middle East
- History in the Making: A History of the People of the United States of America to 1877
- Beginning Japanese for Professionals: Book 1, Book 2, and Book 3
- Português para principiantes
- Writing and Literature
- The Bright Continent: African Art History
- Introduction to French
- Introduction to Ethics
- Philosophy of Western Religions
- forall x: UBC
- Bate Papo
- Spunti 1 and 2 (Italian)
- Global Femicide: Indigenous Women and Girls Torn from Our Midst
- Decolonization and Justice: An Introductory Overview
Math and Stats
Science
Biology
Chemistry
Social Sciences
Anthropology and Archaeology
Political Science
- American Government and Politics in the Information Age
- The Basics of American Government
- Immigrant and Refugee Families: Global Perspectives on Displacement and Resettlement Experiences
- Political Ideologies and Worldviews: An Introduction
Sociology
Trades
Upgrading
Non-English Language
N/A
Interdisciplinary
Books open for evaluation by Canadian faculty
We are looking for Canadian subject-matter experts to complete a short evaluation of curated open textbooks. Interested faculty should visit Evaluate a Suggested Textbook for more information.
Books scheduled to be added to the collection
The following books have been approved to add to the collection and will be posted as time permits.