Open Educational Resources: Social Sciences

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OER Textbooks

  • B.C Open Collection by BCcampus that it is a Canadian government agency that works with post-secondary institutions to help adapt teaching and learning practices to best serve students.
  • Directory of Open Access Books was established by the OAPEN Foundation in 2012 provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books
  • GALILEO Open Learning Materials Open educational resources throughout the University System of Georgia, including open textbooks and ancillary materials. Most works have a Creative Commons license, allowing the reuse, redistribution, remix, and revision of these materials.
  • LibreTexts by LibreNet is a consortium of educators, its membership is open to all institutions from the K-12 space and higher education.
  • MERLOT A peer reviewed collection teaching and learning materials and faculty-developed services.
  • OER Commons a single search source that pulls OER resources from a variety of existing collections.
  • OpenStax is part of Rice University, which is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit charitable corporation, publish high-quality, peer-reviewed, openly licensed college textbooks that are absolutely free online and low cost in print.
  • Teaching commons brings together OER that have been curated by librarians at colleges and universities throughout the US.
  • B.C Open Collection by BCcampus that it is a Canadian government agency that works with post-secondary institutions to help adapt teaching and learning practices to best serve students.
  • Open Textbooks Pilot Program by U.S. Department of Education. This pilot program emphasizes the development of projects that demonstrate the greatest potential to achieve the highest level of savings for students through sustainable, expanded use of open textbooks in high-enrollment courses or in programs that prepare individuals for in-demand fields.

Other OER Materials

 

 

Open Access Theses and Dissertations Open access to graduate theses and dissertations published around the world from over 1100 colleges, universities, and research institutions.

A new model of  scholarly communication is to build open access born-digital special collections. Below are some examples of different initiatives under way. 

Subject Librarian

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Rui Wang
Social Sciences Librarian / Professor / Official Representative (OR) of the Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)

Contact:
Email: wang1r@cmich.edu
Office: Park Library 232
989-774-4218

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