Library Reserves & Course Material Support for Faculty Guide

About OER:

• Open educational resources typically provide users with a license to engage in the "5R"s: Retain, Reuse, Revise, Remix, Redistribute.
• "Open textbooks are used just like any other textbook. The primary differences are that students can choose from a variety of affordable formats, and instructors have the option to customize or supplement the book if desired."
• "Utilizing OERs is not an all or nothing decision", as these faculty testimonials from Fort Hays State University make clear.
• OER "Tips and Trends" from ACRL (Spring 2019)

• Learn about Creative Commons licenses; many open textbooks adhere to these terms.
   
• ​Adopt and use an open textbook!
  • Set aside time to research materials that fit your course objectives and learning outcomes.
  • Search repositories, such as the Open Textbook Library, MERLOT, or OpenStax for existing open textbooks to use or adapt
  • Browse the resources on this guide (linked below)
  • Search Google by Usage Rights to find content (text, images, etc.) that is free to use or share (instructions are available here).
  • Search our library catalog for e-books, video, or other materials to supplement existing OER materials
  • Ask a librarian for help!
  • Visit OpenOregon's "OER" FAQ!
  • Watch this webinar from California Community Colleges on finding high quality OER
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• Consider creating or sharing your own OER. Visit this 5-step guide for faculty, which details how to modify an open textbook.
   

This section was adapted from Lauren Collister's "OER - Open Educational Resources" guide at the University of Pittsburgh (CC-BY 4.0).

Resources for Open Textbooks:

• Open Textbook Library
• MERLOTx (CSU)
• openstax
• MIT Open Courseware
• Open Textbooks (SUNY)
• Mason OER Metafinder - search multiple OER sources at once
• OASIS (Openly Available Sources Integrated Search) - OER search tool
• Creative Commons Search

Below links courtesy of Stephen Bell's "Discovering Open Educational Resources (OER)", guide at Temple University (CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0).

• BC Campus Open Ed : links to open textbooks organized by subject
• California Open Online Library for Education : Find free and open textbooks, materials, courses. Search by ISBN to find "related" free textbooks
• College Open Textbooks 
• Community College Consortium for OER
• DOAB - Directory of Open Access Books
• LibreTexts
• Mason OER Metafinder - search multiple OER sources at once
• NCBI Bookshelf - free books related to life science and healthcare
• OASIS (Openly Available Sources Integrated Search) - OER search tool
• OER Commons - Open Textbooks - college level open textbooks created at institutions around the world
• Open Textbook Library  - catalog of open textbooks, made available by the University of Minnesota
• BC Open Textbooks Toolkit - offers tips on adopting open textbooks
• Sacred Heart Open Educational Resource 2017 Textbook List - an updated, discipline specific OER textbook list for departments at Sacred Heart University
• Steven Bell's OER Links - provides up to date articles, reports on the state of OER
• OpenOregon's "OER" FAQ

University of Pittsburgh - OER

The Textbook Affordability Project at Temple Libraries

Colorado State University - OER

Humboldt State University - OER

UCLA's Affordable Course Materials Initiative

Nicole Allen - "OER Policy" SPARC slides (2018)

FHSU "OERs - Getting Started"

OER - A Field Guide for Academic Librarians

Open Education Group (BYU)

California State University Affordable Learning Solutions