The Renegade Rip : BC faculty speaks on textbooks

"Professors across the nation have begun to adopt open-source textbooks (free textbooks found online) in their classes to completely alleviate their students of the financial burden. In 2013, California enacted legislation (Senate Bill 1053), which directed community colleges, CSUs and UCs to form the California Open Education Resource Council, which aimed to build new libraries of free textbooks as well as leverage existing collections like the OER (Open Educational Resources)."