Let’s Read French Books
An open textbook created by Somayeh Kamranian (FHIS) to make reading literary books easier for the students by creating an open textbook reader using Public Domain 19th century French literature.
Laboratory Manual for Introduction to Physical Geography, First British Columbia Edition
A cross-institutional open textbook project from British Columbia (BC), Canada that provides 22 labs to be implemented within first year post-secondary physical geography courses.
Global Storybooks
Global Storybooks is a free multilingual literacy resource for children and youth worldwide. Read, download, and listen to a wide variety of illustrated stories in a variety of languages. Development continues at UBC.
Science Writing Resources for Learning (ScWRL)
The Science Writing Resources for Learning (ScWRL) provides students with the resources they need to learn – and educators the resources they need to teach – the most important skills associated with good science writing.
LAW424: Commercial Law
This course covers the legal and regulatory aspects of telecommunications, broadcasting and the Internet. The instructors are providing open access to course content, including lecture notes and slides, as well as open discussion on the course site.
Multilingual Forestry Dictionary
An open, online, multilingual forestry dictionary that students can grow and refine. The dictionary caters to the diversity of languages in our UBC Faculty of Forestry and provide a BC forestry context to key terms and their definitions. This dictionary is a tool for international students as they transition to UBC, making it easier to learn and thrive.
OpenChemE
Open chemical engineering resources for everyone. It includes open textbooks, course materials, and Jupyter notebooks for chemical engineering topics aligned with UBC CHBE courses.
GEOG352: Urbanization in the Global South
One of the primary tasks for a scholar of any field or discipline is to carefully examine an idea, a question, a hypothesis, or a challenge, and to emerge from that quest with a richer and more profound sense of its significance, value, context(s), and/or consequence. Students in GEOG352 are creating open wiki entries on a specific city and course theme, which are then added to a growing course map.
forall x (UBC Edition)
This is an open-access introductory logic textbook, prepared by Jonathan Ichikawa, based on P.D. Magnus’s forallx. This book is an introduction to sentential logic and first-order predicate logic with identity, logical systems that significantly influenced twentieth-century analytic philosophy. It contains content, practice exercises, symbolic notations, and solutions to selected exercises.
Phyto’pedia
Phyto’pedia is an online encyclopaedia of common phytoplankton from the coast of British Columbia, Canada. Inside, the reader will find an extensive database of high-resolution images indicating the characteristic features of a variety of genera and species paired with carefully written descriptions.