RESEARCH DATABASES
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INSTRUCTIONAL VIDEOS
How to Access Your Course Reserve Materials
How to Find Scholarly Articles
How to Use Boolean Operators in Your Keyword Search
Quick Keyword Searching
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OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
OER Commons →
The worldwide OER movement is rooted in the human right to access high-quality education. This shift in educational practice is not just about cost savings and easy access to openly licensed content; it’s about participation and co-creation.
Open Stax →
Based at Rice University, OpenStax is one of the world’s largest nonprofit digital learning platforms and publisher of free, open education resources. Join us and help millions of students experience an affordable, engaging education.
BC Campus – Open Ed →
Search for quality open textbooks offered in a variety of digital formats; the first step in adopting open educational resources. Search by subject and download them to your computer.
Milne Open Textbooks →
Milne Library Publishing at SUNY Geneseo manages and maintains Milne Open Textbooks, a catalog of open textbooks authored and peer-reviewed by SUNY faculty and staff.
Open Textbook Library →
Open textbooks are licensed by authors and publishers to be freely used and adapted. Download, edit and distribute them at no cost.
Saylor Academy →
Want more resources for your classroom? Saylor Academy’s courses are built from curated OER and are openly-licensed for reuse — you can adopt and adapt our materials to meet your needs.
Open Education North Carolina →
Bringing high-quality, open textbooks to North Carolina located in the NCLIVE database for the library.
Merlot →
The MERLOT collection consists of tens of thousands of discipline-specific learning materials, learning exercises, and Content Builder webpages, together with associated comments, and bookmark collections, all intended to enhance the teaching experience of using a learning material.
HBCU Affordable Learning →
With the essential support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the California State University and MERLOT (www.merlot.org) welcomes the collaboration and community of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to implement strategies to make college more affordable by reducing the cost of course materials. The HBCU AL$ Portal provides any HBCU free access to the tools, technologies, and some services for them to initiate their own AL$ program and learn from their HBCU colleagues.
LET ME KNOW HOW I CAN HELP
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CONTACT
Tanya Williams, M.L.S.
Director of Library Services
Prezell R. Robinson Library
libraryinstruction@rivercitysessions.com