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Open Textbooks: What Are They and What Makes Them Free?

Open Textbooks are textbooks that are free to use, keep, and access online. Authors of open textbooks choose to share their work openly by allowing others to use it free of charge and without certain access limitations.

How are they "Free"?

This has to do with copyright and open licences.

In Canada, copyright applies automatically when someone creates an…

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