My portion from panel:
Learn how to champion open access and open textbooks that make education more affordable. Educators can build their own tools, make them available to others and ultimately save money for everyone involved.
Emily Billings (moderator), Yunfei Du, and Greg G. Hardin, University of North Texas; Nicole Finkbeiner, Rice University's OpenStax; and Bruce Herbert, Texas A&M University.
3. Benefits
Student Benefits
● Creative use of OERs offer tangible benefits in student success
and retention, resulting in measurable performance increases.
● Students who used open textbooks tended to have higher grades
and lower withdrawal rates.
● Cost Savings.
Faculty Benefits
● Re-professionalizing teaching.
● Pedagogical Freedom.
9. Books
● Mainly digitized from print
○ HathiTrust Digital Library
○ Project Gutenberg
● New OA books
○ Directory of Open Access
Books (scholarly)
■ OAPEN Library
● Open Library (popular; mix of
new & old books)
● Open Access journals -- DOAJ
● Repositories
○ OpenDOAR
● OA academic databases like
PubMed Central
● Google Scholar
Articles
11. Thank You!
Greg Hardin, M.L.S.
Associate Librarian
Information Literacy Coordinator
University of North Texas Libraries
Greg.Hardin@unt.edu
@ghardin