About the Book

NSCC Human Biology was created by Rhea Langille. The NSCC edition is an adapted version of the open textbook Concepts of Biology—1st Canadian Edition by Charles Molnar and Jane Gair.  Information about the modifications and changes made to create the NSCC edition are contained in the Open Textbook Edition History section at the end of the textbook.

Concepts of Biology—1st Canadian Edition was adapted by Charles Molnar and Jane Gair from the OpenStax College textbook, Concepts of Biology. For information about what was changed in this adaptation, refer to the Open Textbook Edition History section.

Open textbooks are open educational resources (OER); they are instructional resources created and shared in ways so that more people have access to them. This is a different model than traditionally copyrighted materials. OER are defined as teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others (Hewlett Foundation). 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.