We want to help you find no- and low-cost readings for your students!
First, a few definitions:
- An OER is an Open Educational Resource, meaning it has been created and published completely free online. It's open to anyone with an internet connection.
- You may also be able to provide no- or low-cost course materials to your students through a combination of OERs plus books and journals the library already provides. The library pays for many academic resources, which are not open or free to the world at large, but are free to students and other members of the UMass Lowell community.
- No-cost, when used in the UML course catalog, means course materials have no cost.
- Low-cost, when used in the UML course catalog, means that course materials are under $50.
How does this actually work? You may have a set list of readings and a textbook you already know you want to use. Contact us because:
- We may already own the articles and books, and we can help you find permalinks for you to add to Blackboard
- Depending on costs, we may also be able to purchase journals and books from your reading list, for use in your class. (We wish we could purchase every book! But some electronic textbooks cost in the thousands of dollars, so we may be limited in what we can provide.)
- We can help you discover new titles (either freely available as OERs online, or available for us to purchase) that could take the place of your current textbook or readings, that would be no- or low-cost to your students
