Just in time for its 10-year anniversary, the Open Textbook Library's collection of open education resources has surpassed 1,000 titles. Launched in 2012, the Library is an online catalog of openly ...

Textbook affordability is very important to the library and Bates College. One way to address the issue of textbook cost is by adopting Open Educational Resources (OER) as course required texts. You ...

The University of Delaware Library has announced its membership in the Open Textbook Network, an alliance of higher education institutions that collaborate to further campus efforts to raise awareness ...

The high cost of some course materials can interfere with students’ academic success. In fact, seven out of 10 students do not purchase a required textbook during their academic careers because of ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The price of going to ...

Drexel faculty now have greater access to open-licensed textbooks — and are already starting to implement them in the classroom. Last summer, the Drexel University Libraries joined the Open Textbook ...

As the price of college textbooks continues to increase, more students are opting to skip the books even if their grades suffer, a survey conducted by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group has found ...

When Galadriel Chilton was an undergraduate English major at Berea College in Kentucky, she remembers asking a reference librarian for help on a project. Instead of going to the bookstacks, the ...

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