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Alternative Textbook Providers on the Rise
More than half of all colleges and 2.94 million students using free OpenStax textbooks this year
Pearson’s Next Chapter -- The company will abandon its traditional textbook publishing model in favor of a digital-first strategy.
Planned Merger of Cengage and McGraw-Hill Could Remake College-Textbook Market
Professors Worry About the Cost of Textbooks, but Free Alternatives Pose Their Own Problems
Publishers' Pending Merger Faces Growing Opposition
The Radical Transformation of the Textbook
When It Comes To Free Textbooks... Who Pays?
Wiley acquiring Newton. This continues the trend of textbook publishing companies becoming monopolies
Library campaign shares students’ stories about course material affordability
Further Readings
2018-2019 CONNECT OER REPORT
This report offers a snapshot of the state of OER activities at participating institutions as of the end of the 2018-2019 academic year.
2019 Textbook Affordability Survey Report
Library Journal
Freeing the Textbook: Educational Resources in U.S. Higher Education, 2018
A survey report, Babson Survey Research Group
The Future of OA: A Large-Scale Analysis Projecting Open Access Publication and Readership
Open Educational Resources and Libraries
An IFLA briefing document on OER
The State of Open Data 2019 - Digital Science Report
A selection of analyses and articles about open data, curated by Figshare
Teaching and Learning Without a Textbook: Undergraduate Student Perceptions of Open Educational Resources
International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, Volume 20, Number 3, 2019
Don’t Let Science Publisher Elsevier Hold Knowledge for Ransom
A discussion about the importance of open acces to scientific research publications.
A Looming Challenge for OER?
A discussion about the survey on educational resources by Babson Survey Research Group.
No one wants to pay $200 for a textbook
- This piece is part of StateScoop & EdScoop’s Special Report on Digital Services.
Open content survey 2019 by OCLC
Teaching with OER during pandemics and beyond
This paper aims to raise awareness of OER by providing a rationale for using these learning materials and a strategy for educators to get started with OER during the collective crisis and beyond.
TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)
TOME brings together scholars, universities, libraries, and presses in pursuit of a common goal—a sustainable open monograph ecosystem.
