Subject Guides

Open Educational Resources (OER)

This guide provides details about how the open access movement is impacting academic education and how to find appropriate low cost or zero cost materials for academic courses.

Financial Factors

Americans Are Buried Under a Mountain of Debt (Gallup Poll)
Trends in Higher Education Pricing (College Board Report)
Open 101: An Action Plan for Affordable Textbooks
Public Interest Research Group report on matter of expensive textbooks

Policy

SPARC Open Education Policy and Advocacy
Overview of laws and policies influencing open education
Open Educational Resources Policy (University of Edinburgh)
University encourages staff and students to use, create and publish OERs
Go Open Campaign (US Department of Ed)
Government funded initiative to make education more open.