Open Educational Resources

Introduction to Climate Science

CC BY-NC (Attribution NonCommercial) English

Author(s): Andreas Schmittner

Subject(s): Climate change, Climatology and climate modelling, Atmospheric physics, Oceanography (seas and oceans)

Institution(s): Oregon State University

Publisher: Oregon State University

Last updated: 19/05/2023

This book describes how Earth's climate is changing, how it has been changing in the recent geological past and how it may change in the future. It covers the physical sciences that build the foundations of our current understanding of global climate change such as radiation, Earth's energy balance, the greenhouse effect and the carbon cycle. Both natural and human causes for climate change are discussed. Impacts of climate change on natural and human systems are summarized. Ethical and economical aspects of human-caused climate change and solutions are presented.

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Introduction to Advanced Engineering Mathematics and Analysis

CC BY-SA (Attribution ShareAlike) English

Author(s): Stefanie Buck, Brian D. Wood

Subject(s): Engineering: general

Publisher: Oregon State Univeristy

Last updated: 05/05/2023

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.

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

Subject(s): Anatomy

Publisher: OpenStax/Oregon State University

Last updated: 03/05/2023

An adapted and revised edition of the OpenStax Anatomy & Physiology (https://openstax.org/details/books/anatomy-and-physiology) with revised content and artwork, Open Oregon State, Oregon State University.

A Dam Good Argument

CC BY (Attribution) 1 H5P Activities English

Author(s): Collected works

Editor(s): Liz Delf, Rob Drummond, Kristy Kelly

Subject(s): Writing and editing guides, English, Literary essays, Language learning: writing skills

Institution(s): Oregon State University

Publisher: Oregon State University

Last updated: 02/05/2023

Arguments are all around us. Everywhere we look, someone is trying to get our attention, change our minds, or sell us something. Learning about how persuasion works will make you a more thoughtful and skeptical consumer of all that content, so that you can come to your own conclusions and recognize the underlying assumptions that inform those attempts to persuade you. This book is about analyzing others' arguments and crafting your own. The rhetorical choices that you make as a writer–from evidence to structure to tone–impact how your audience will receive your ideas. Using those tools effectively will help your voice be heard.

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Women Worldwide

CC BY-NC (Attribution NonCommercial) English

Author(s): Collected works

Editor(s): Tracy Butts, Patti Duncan, Janet Lockhart, Susan Shaw

Subject(s): Gender studies: women and girls

Institution(s): Oregon State University

Publisher: Oregon State University

Last updated: 02/05/2023

During the past few years, we’ve witnessed how interconnected our world is. These instances of global interconnection—both positive and negative—have differing impacts on people based on gender while also creating and reinforcing the ways people experience gender. We see that experiences of gender are always shaped by nationality, race/ethnicity, sexual identity, social class, ability, age, and religion. This social construction of gender, its shaping of the world, and its effects on individuals and groups of people are at the core of this textbook.

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New Media Futures

CC BY-NC (Attribution NonCommercial) English

Author(s): Daniel Faltesek

Subject(s): Media studies

Publisher: Oregon State University

Last updated: 02/05/2023

This book is intended for use in a large introductory class in new media in a program that covers the “full-stack” including critical/cultural studies, media management, diffusion of innovation, and synthetic media production. The first half of this basic sequence covered new media and democracy, finance, intellectual property law, basic games, and transmedia. The second half of the sequence covers many topics related to aesthetics, design, technology, and methodology.

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Chemical Biology & Biochemistry Laboratory Using Genetic Code Expansion Manual

CC BY-NC (Attribution NonCommercial) English

Author(s): Ryan Mehl, Kari van Zee, Kelsey Kean

Subject(s): Chemical biology

Publisher: Oregon State University

Last updated: 02/05/2023

Proteins play vital roles in most biological processes; these roles include acting as catalysts for physiological reactions, as regulators for those reactions, or as structural framework around which these processes can occur. Proteins’ complex organization of diverse functionality in 3D space leads to an astonishing range of function for living organisms. Understanding this intimate relationship between structure and function is the backbone of understanding the natural world and is the key to controlling it.

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State and Local Government and Politics

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

Author(s): Christopher A. Simon, Brent S. Steel, Nicholas P. Lovrich

Subject(s): Regional, state and other local government

Publisher: Oregon State University

Last updated: 18/04/2023

This book is a collective effort to understand and apply current conceptualizations of sustainability to a study of state and local government. It is an attempt to focus our attention on a basic understanding of the time-tested institutions and guiding principles likely to take society and governance towards greater advancement. Our work is, however, tempered by a developing understanding of smart growth — growth in productive capacity, quality of life and social justice that does not necessitate large-scale destructive or extractive activity. The growth sought produces widespread mutual benefit, is prudent in design and thoughtful in execution. The growth in question here is mindful of the past, yet builds better lives and futures for our posterity.

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Marine Law and Policy for Scientists and Managers

CC BY-NC (Attribution NonCommercial) English

Author(s): Holly V. Campbell

Subject(s): International law, transport and commerce: maritime law

Publisher: Oregon State University

Last updated: 18/04/2023

This open educational resource is designed for use by undergraduate and graduate ocean science, natural resource, fisheries and wildlife, and environmental policy students enrolled in a ten-week academic quarter. The purpose of this project is to provide students and non-law professionals with a freely accessible, clearly written guide to support engaging and effective learning. As such, the book serves as a gateway and an invitation to become a well informed, committed and involved ocean citizen as well as to explore the field beyond our course study.

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Entomology 311 Lab Manual

CC BY-NC (Attribution NonCommercial) English

Author(s): Melissa Scherr, Gail Langellotto

Editor(s): Daniel Adams, Baylee Bullock

Subject(s): Insects (entomology)

Publisher: Oregon State University

Last updated: 17/04/2023

Labs in this book supplement the information gained in lecture, as well as providing some perspective and experience with hands-on applications of ideas in pest management. The labs are presented in week-by-week order, so the pre-labs and reading for week 1 are labeled “Pre-Lab 1” and “Week 1 Reading”.

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