Helping Keep the Costs of Textbooks for Students Down: Two Approaches

ECU Author/Contributor (non-ECU co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)

Beth R. Bernhardt (Creator)

William Joseph Thomas (Creator)

Institution

East Carolina University (ECU )

Web Site: http://www.ecu.edu/lib/

Abstract: Librarians at East Carolina University and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro received a 2-year grant to support a combined alternative textbook project. This project engages in a two-pronged approach to reduce students' textbook costs and increase their academic engagement. One strategy is to award departmental faculty mini-grants to use materials that would have no cost to their students , including OER or library resources. The second strategy is to identify required texts that the library already owns or can purchase as unlimited-user e-books. Benefits to students include reduced costs and an increased opportunity for engagement and academic success. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in Technical Services Quarterly on May 17 , 2018 , available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07317131.2018.1456844 .

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Wm. Joseph Thomas & Beth R. Bernhardt (2018) Helping Keep the Costs of Textbooks for Students Down: Two Approaches , Technical Services Quarterly , 35:3 , 257-268 , DOI: 10.1080/07317131.2018.1456844

Language: English

Date: 2018

Keywords

Academic Libraries, Alternative Textbooks, Open Educational Resources

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