About Open Education Resources

Biology and the Citizen— was adapted by Colleen Jones and Elisa Taylor from the BCcampus’ Concepts of Biology- 1st Canadian Edition and OpenStax’s Concepts of Biology. For information about what was changed, refer to the copyright statement. In 2022, this book was created to incorporate the BCcampus version of H5P activities and build new H5P activities for the OpenStax version.

Open educational resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research resources that, through permissions granted by the copyright holder, allow others to use, distribute, keep, or make changes to them. Our open textbooks are openly licensed using a Creative Commons license and are offered in various e-book formats free of charge, or as printed books that are available at cost.