Taylor & Francis Open Access Books is pleased to be able to provide Open Textbook content across a wide range of different subjects covered by Routledge, CRC Press and our other leading imprints in the humanities, social sciences, STEM and behavioral sciences. We publish open textbooks for emerging subject areas as well as the most established and for students at all stages of their studies.

Please click here to explore our ever expanding catalogue of available Open textbooks

Immediate Universal Access

Our Open Textbooks are all free and permanently available online and are ideal resources for students and course instructors looking for high-quality textbook content. Anyone, anywhere, can access, read, download, and share our Open Textbook content under a Creative Commons license.

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Highest Standards of Scholarship

All Taylor & Francis Open Textbooks are subject to rigorous peer review to ensure academic quality and integrity.

Personalized Care for Authors

You will receive thoughtful guidance and support on your work throughout the publishing process with a dedicated subject editorial team on hand to help.

Our experienced Development Team helps to shape key titles and digital products through their market-led research and development expertise.

Visibility, Discoverability and International Reach

All our Open Textbook content is hosted on our Taylor & Francis eBooks platform as well as sent to dedicated Open Access books platforms such as OAPEN and DOAB to ensure the widest possible reach. 

Our open access content also benefits from the full support and global reach of Taylor & Francis marketing departments.

Dedicated eBooks Platform

Taylor & Francis eBooks is a single destination platform which hosts a range of award-winning digital resources and a fully comprehensive eBooks platform, covering all major subject areas and sub-disciplines with a vast collection of eBooks in science, technology, engineering medicine, humanities and social science. 

Our Taylor & Francis eBooks platform includes features to help you explore our eBooks titles and find the content most relevant to you. We have enhanced our search features to support easy website navigation, and expanded our offering to include full and partial open access titles, as well as not yet published content.

To find out more please visit our Librarian Resources pages.

Flexibility of Formats

There is a freely available online version and a downloadable DRM-free PDF on the Taylor & Francis eBooks platform (taylorfrancis.com). For customers wanting a hard copy of the book, a print version is still available for purchase from Routledge.com and other booksellers including Amazon.

Production Values

All Taylor & Francis open access textbooks go through the same production process as other Routledge and CRC Press titles, and benefit from the experience, attention to detail and professionalism of our staff.

Author Retention of Copyright

Open Access textbooks are published under a Creative Commons license. We understand authors and funders may have various requirements, which is why we are committed to being flexible on the specifics of the Creative Commons license for your Open Textbook. You still retain the copyright of your work whichever license is agreed. Details of Creative Commons licenses are available here: creativecommons.org/about/cclicenses 

Cutting Edge Approaches

As the industry rapidly evolves, we are committed to staying ahead of the curve – with digital publishing, we have invested in a range of innovative new ways of delivering the highest quality content to our markets, from eBooks, eBooks+ and companion websites to online products including Routledge Handbooks Online, Europa World, CHEMnetBASE, Routledge Performance Archive, Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, and Sustainable Development Goals Online.
 

Catalogue of Available Open Textbooks

Our Open Textbook program covers a broad range of subject areas, from Archaeology to Physics, and continues to expand. Our current titles available:

Archaeology

The Archaeology of Iran

Archaeological 3D GIS

 

Architecture and Built Environment 

Latour for Architects

 

Development Studies 

Development with Dignity

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Foreign Aid and Its Unintended Consequences

     

Economics, Finance and Business 

Mathematics of Economics and Business

International Trade Policy: A Contemporary Analysis

 
     

Education 

Professional Values and Practice: Achieving the Standards for QTS

Anxious Creativity: When Imagination Fails

 
     

Environment and Sustainability  

Monitoring Biodiversity: Combining Environmental and Social Data

Valuing Nature: The Roots of Transformation

Ecology and Applied Environmental Science

Dynamic Sustainabilities:
Technology, Environment, Social Justice

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Climate, Science, and Society: A Primer

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Public International Law: A Multi-Perspective Approach

 

Engineering & Technology  

Analytical Heat Transfer

Damage to Concrete Structures

Biomedical Signal and Image Processing

Healthcare Biotechnology:
A Practical Guide

BioMEMS: Science and Engineering Perspectives

 

 

Geography 

Globalization's Contradictions:
Geographies of Discipline, Destruction and Transformation

   
     

History 

 

Making Sense of World History

The Spanish Habsburgs and Dynastic Rule, 1500–1700

The History of Japanese Economic Development

Ancient China: A History

Ancient Greek Literary Letters:
Selections in Translation

 

Humanities

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The Spanish Habsburgs and Dynastic Rule, 1500–1700

 

 
     

Language, Literature & Media Studies 

De-mystifying Translation:
Introducing Translation to Non-translators

Intermedial Studies:
An Introduction to Meaning Across Media

Literature and the World

Understanding Linguistic Fieldwork

News Framing Effects

 

Management 

Marketing Management and Communications in the Public Sector

   
     

Physics 

The Standard Model and Beyond

Unifying Physics of Accelerators, Lasers and Plasma

A Course in Field Theory

Gauge Theories in Particle Physics: A Practical Introduction, Fourth Edition - 2 Volume set

Group Theory for the Standard Model of Particle Physics and Beyond

An Introduction to Particle Physics and the Standard Model

Cosmology in Gauge Field Theory and String Theory

Lie Algebras In Particle Physics:
from Isospin To Unified Theories

Introduction to Supersymmetric Field Theory

Introduction to Gauge Field Theory Revised Edition

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Detectors In Particle Physics