Building a Successful Open Access Textbook Collection on Your Campus | DC Telegraph: Institutional Repository and Open Access Success Stories

abernard102@gmail.com 2014-04-30

Summary:

"When Ted Sundstrom, Professor of Mathematics at Grand Valley State University, learned from his publisher that they would not be pursuing the third edition of his textbook, he decided to seek a different outlet. He asked his editor for the rights to “Mathematical Reasoning: Writing and Proof” back and was soon approached by liaison librarian Debbie Morrow about adding the textbook to GVSU’s growing open educational materials (OEM) collection. Sundstrom worked with the library to put the finishing touches on the textbook, then added it to the repository in July of 2013. By December it had become the most downloaded item in the OEM collection, and soon after soared to the third most downloaded item in GVSU’s entire repository ... With the help of dedicated liaison librarians and more concentrated outreach efforts, Beaubien is seeing word about the collection ripple through campus and beyond. She’s heard from several faculty members who have received emails from both their students and students at other institutions thanking them for making their textbooks free, online, and open-access. For those institutions looking to grow their own OEM collections, Beaubien offered several useful tips: First, she says, make sure you define exactly what kind of materials you’re looking for—whether that’s syllabi, lecture notes, or completed manuscripts only. Second, approaching faculty that you know have already completed manuscripts is a good place to start ..."

Link:

http://blog.digitalcommons.bepress.com/2014/04/29/building-a-successful-open-access-textbook-collection-on-your-campus/

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.oer oa.courseware oa.textbooks oa.mathematics oa.grand_valley_state.u oa.libraries oa.librarians oa.recommendations oa.books

Date tagged:

04/30/2014, 08:52

Date published:

04/30/2014, 04:52