Research/IT Desk
Research/IT Desk
Contact:
Contact the Reference Librarians online
reference@carleton.edu
reference@carleton.edu
507-222-4264
Introduction
Carleton faculty looking to incorporate open textbooks and open educational resources into their courses. Please feel free to reach out to your liaison if you have questions about copyright or how to find more. If you are interested in an open access collection, please reach out to Collections Strategy and Development.
- Research Consultations with Librarians by SubjectClick on a librarian's name to find contact and schedule information.
Open Textbooks and Open Educational Resources
- Open Textbook Library from University of MinnesotaOpen textbooks are licensed by authors and publishers to be freely used and adapted. Download, edit and distribute them at no cost. Over 800 textbooks available.
- OASISOpenly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) is a search tool that aims to make the discovery of open content easier. OASIS is being developed at SUNY Geneseo's Milne Library.
- LibreTextsThe LibreTexts mission is to unite students, faculty and scholars in a cooperative effort to develop an easy-to-use online platform for the construction, customization, and dissemination of open educational resources (OER) to reduce the burdens of unreasonable textbook costs to our students and society.
- OpenStaxOpenStax books are free to view online, download as PDF, but there is a cost on iBooks.
- BC Campus OpenEdSearch engine for open educational resources and open textbooks.
- Open resources related to a specific bookFrom The California State University, enter an ISBN number for a book and find related open educational resources to support teaching that book or as an alternative.
- GALILEO Open Learning MaterialsThis repository is administrated by Affordable Learning Georgia, an initiative of GALILEO and the University System of Georgia which aims to reduce the cost of textbooks to students and contribute to their retention, progression, and graduation.
- zbMATH Open This link opens in a new window(Searches through citations, reviews, and author information) An open-access index to published literature in mathematics. Included articles are reviewed and assigned a subject from the Mathematics Subject Classification. Covers 1826 - current.
- DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals This link opens in a new windowOne of the primary places to find listings of journals that publish their material free to everyone in the world.
Why Choose Open Educational Resources?
- Commercial Textbooks Present Challenges in a Virtual Environment from University of Guelph LibraryApproximately 85% of existing course textbooks are simply unavailable to libraries in any other format than print.
Copyright
- Creative Commons LicensesMost open textbooks or open educational resources have a Creative Commons license that applies to them. These are the types of licenses and what they mean for what you can do with a resource. Often you can copy, distribute, edit, remix, and build upon the work so long as you give credit to the creator.
