Commercial Textbooks Present Challenges in a Virtual Environment | Library

ab1630's bookmarks 2020-08-02

Summary:

"As we approach the fall 2020 semester, library staff are working hard to provide alternative access to the print course reserves collection. ...However, this work is hampered by textbook publishers who do not provide electronic purchasing options for libraries. Approximately 85% of existing course textbooks are simply unavailable to libraries in any other format than print. ...

We are working with instructors to explore and identify viable textbook alternatives, including...Adopting an open educational resource (OER). OERs are freely available educational materials that are openly licensed to allow for re-use and modification by instructors...."

Link:

https://www.lib.uoguelph.ca/news/commercial-textbooks-present-challenges-virtual-environment

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » peter.suber's bookmarks
Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » ab1630's bookmarks

Tags:

oa.new oa.oer oa.textbooks oa.canada oa.hei oa.books oa.obstacles oa.print

Date tagged:

08/02/2020, 07:04

Date published:

08/02/2020, 05:48