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Classical Sociological Theory and Foundations of American Sociology book cover

Classical Sociological Theory and Foundations of American Sociology

CC BY-SA (Attribution ShareAlike)   English

Author(s): Allison L. Hurst

Subject(s): Sociology

Publisher: Oregon State University

Last updated: 07/04/2025

There are many excellent introductory readers to sociological theory out there. Why another one? The primary reason is that this is an Open Access textbook, free to you, the student, thanks to Oregon State University. We know that textbooks can be very expensive, and we think it is particularly problematic to charge students for access to work that has been published, in its original form, several decades ago. If you wanted, you could find all of the work included here in your local library, although you would have to put together many different books and articles. That is the second reason for this textbook – important passages have been collected for you, assembled here in one handy volume.

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A Handbook of Higher Education Leadership

CC BY-NC (Attribution NonCommercial)   English

Author(s): Collected Works

Editor(s): Dr. Ed Ray

Subject(s): Higher education, tertiary education

Institution(s): Oregon State University

Publisher: Oregon State University

Last updated: 03/04/2025

Thirty-five experienced and accomplished higher education leaders have come together to provide twenty-five essays on twelve topics about which all leaders, aspiring leaders and students of higher education should be informed. This is a labor of love, provided for free electronically, and there are no star turns here. Each essay is focused on providing the reader with advice based on wisdom acquired from lessons learned. Some topics covered include: beginning and completing a leadership position, responding to authority, establishing accountability, budget policy, long-term planning, affordability and student success, creating a safe community, fundraising, research funding, college athletics, and crisis management.
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Zero to MATLAB

CC BY-NC (Attribution NonCommercial)   English

Author(s): Adam L. Lambert, PhD

Subject(s): Mathematical and statistical software

Publisher: Oregon State University

Last updated: 02/04/2025

For immediate access, this book may be downloaded in PDF format. The original LaTeX files may be downloaded from the GitHub repository.

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Biochemistry Free For All

CC BY-NC (Attribution NonCommercial)   English

Author(s): Kevin Ahern, Indira Rajagopal, Taralyn Tan

Subject(s): Biochemistry

Publisher: Oregon State University

Last updated: 01/04/2025

For immediate access, this book may be downloaded as an iPad version or in PDF format.

All formats of the book (and Powerpoint files), along with other biochemistry OER materials, are found at the Biochemistry Free and Easy site.
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Introduction to Advanced Engineering Mathematics and Analysis

CC BY-SA (Attribution ShareAlike)   English

Author(s): Brian D. Wood

Subject(s): Engineering: general

Publisher: Oregon State University

Last updated: 01/04/2025

An introduction to applied mathematics written for students in engineering and science. Focus is on a rigorous presentation that also builds understanding by discussion, analogy, and examples. Discussion of concepts involved in modeling physical processes is a central theme in the text. Updated with new chapter on feedforward neural networks.

A full version (1.3) of this textbook can be downloaded here.
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All Things Flow

CC BY-NC (Attribution NonCommercial)   English

Author(s): William Smyth

Subject(s): Physics: Fluid mechanics

Publisher: Oregon State University

Last updated: 01/04/2025

Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods book cover

Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods

CC BY-SA (Attribution ShareAlike)   English

Author(s): Allison Hurst

Subject(s): Research methods / methodology, Sociology

Institution(s): Oregon State University

Publisher: Oregon State University

Last updated: 31/03/2025

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Intermediate Microeconomics

CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike)   English

Author(s): Patrick M. Emerson

Subject(s): Microeconomics

Institution(s): Oregon State University

Last updated: 11/02/2025

Intermediate Microeconomics is a comprehensive microeconomic theory text that uses real world policy questions to motivate and illustrate the material in each chapter. Intermediate Microeconomics is an approachable yet rigorous textbook that covers the entire scope of traditional microeconomic theory and includes two mathematical approaches, allowing instructors to teach the material with or without calculus. With real-world policy topics as an entrée into each subject, Intermediate Microeconomics will help students engage with the material and facilitate learning not only the concepts, but their importance and application as well.
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Tale of Two Systems 2E

CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike)   English

Author(s): René Reitsma, Kevin Krueger

Subject(s): Systems analysis and design

Publisher: Oregon State University

Last updated: 11/02/2025

This is the story of a web-based information system rebuild. The system in question is www.teachengineering.org, a digital library of K-12 engineering curriculum that was built from the ground up with established technology and which for 13 years enjoyed lasting support from its growing user community and its sponsors. These 13 years, however, cover the period during which smart phones and tablets became commonplace, during which the Internet of Things started replacing the Semantic Web, during which NoSQL databases made their way out of the research labs and into everyday development shops, during which we collectively started moving IT functions and services into ‘the cloud,’ and during which computing performance doubled a few times, yet again. During this same period, TeachEngineering’s user base grew from a few hundred to more than 3 million users annually, its collection size quadrupled, it went through several user interface renewals, and significant functionality was added while having an exemplary service record, and it enjoyed continued financial support from its sponsors.

Yet, although the system architecture could probably have survived a while longer, it started to become clear that with the newer technologies, better and newer services could be developed faster and at lower cost, that moving most of its functionality into the cloud would both boost performance and lower maintenance cost, and that the system’s resource and code footprint could be significantly reduced by rebuilding it on a different architecture, with different and more modern technology.

In this monograph we provide a side-by-side of this rebuild. We lay out the choices made in the old architecture —we refer to it as TE 1.0— and compare and contrast them with the choices made for TE 2.0. We explain why both the 1.0 and 2.0 choices were made and discuss the advantages and disadvantages associated with them.

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Anatomy & Physiology

CC BY-SA (Attribution ShareAlike)  656 H5P Activities    English

Author(s): Lindsay M. Biga, Staci Bronson, Sierra Dawson, Amy Harwell, Robin Hopkins, Joel Kaufmann, Mike LeMaster, Philip Matern, Katie Morrison-Graham, Kristen Oja, Devon Quick, Jon Runyeon, OSU OERU, OpenStax

Subject(s): Anatomy

Publisher: OpenStax/Oregon State University

Last updated: 11/02/2025

This work, Anatomy & Physiology, is adapted from Anatomy & Physiology by OpenStax, licensed under CC BY. This edition, with revised content and artwork, is licensed under CC BY-SA except where otherwise noted.