Open Educational Resources (OER) and Textbooks: Opportunities for Academic Libraries

Librarians have a role in working with faculty to provide low-cost alternatives to textbooks. Open educational resources (OER) are an alternative to textbooks in college courses, but there can be barriers to using OER. Are students successful in OER courses? Do faculty see librarians as collaborators in designing courses using OER? What are some alternatives to OER that libraries and library consortia can take advantage of to make college more affordable for students? The following articles address these issues, and the work of the following authors can benefit all types of academic librarians as they contemplate their role in the OER world.     

Open Pathways to Student Success: Academic Library Partnerships for Open Educational Resource and Affordable Course Content Creation and Adoption

This paper explores the current state of open educational resources (OER) including notable library-lead and multi-institutional programs. The potential for OER and affordable course material creation and adoption programs to impact student retention and persistence is examined. Potential additional partnerships and future directions for library-lead programs are discussed as well as the framework necessary for assessing the impact of library-lead OER initiatives.     

国内外开放教育资源的分布及特点分析

开放教育资源是开放存取的重要实践成果之一。文章根据国内外开展开放教育资源的机构及国家情况,对全球开放教育资源分布情况及特点进行了较为全面的梳理和分析,为下一步开发、重组和利用开放教育资源奠定基础。     

国外开放教育资源(OER)建设情况分析及启示

选取国外具有代表性的开放教育资源(OER)项目案例,分别从资源特征、服务方式、技术特征、遵循标准协议和共享机制等方面进行对比分析,通过这些分析对国外开放教育资源项目建设情况有了深入了解,国外项目开展较早,实践活动相对成熟,在资源的分类组织、提供服务方式和共建共享政策上具有自身优势.最后在借鉴国外实践经验基础上,从项目规划、资源分类组织、服务方式、遵循标准协议、版权问题、可持续发展等方面对我国建设实践提出几点建议.     

Enhancing Teaching and Learning: Libraries and Open Educational Resources in the Classroom

Academic libraries continually adjust services to adapt to the ever-changing landscape in higher education. In response to the broken textbook market, libraries are becoming actively involved in the open educational resources (OER) movement. Although there is not a formal program in place, librarians at Utah State University explored a collaborative approach to integrate OER in faculty members' courses. One goal of the effort was to work closely with faculty to consider course objectives and learning outcomes when evaluating and incorporating OER. This article identifies a streamlined process for targeting courses most suited for OER adoption and outlines a process of collaborating with teaching faculty to integrate relevant OER. The paper includes a detailed workflow that other libraries can easily adapt to make OER part of their faculty outreach toolkit.     

Faculty and Instructor Perceptions of Open Educational Resources in Engineering

As open education initiatives aiming to lower the cost of course materials appeared at two universities, librarians became involved in identifying open educational resources (OERs) for university courses. However, when considering a number of subject areas—particularly in colleges focused on upper-division instruction—librarians encountered problems related to the availability of resources and materials selection processes. For this project, librarians selected one prominent subject area at their respective institutions—engineering—and worked to identify best practices for introducing OERs into courses. They surveyed engineering faculty and instructors to better understand their perceptions and needs related to OERs and, based on this work, they suggest best practices for liaison librarians in specialized fields who wish to incorporate OERs into their outreach work with a focus on upper-division courses.     

Open Source Textbooks: A Paradigm Derived from Open Source Software

This work exposes a new paradigm for the creation and publication of textbooks: open source. The phrase open source is borrowed from the computer software industry, where the word source has a technical meaning explained in this paper; open source software is software which has been developed by many collaborators using the internet to produce a final product. The contributors receive no financial compensation, yet there have been many successful open source software projects (Linux, Open Office, Apache, etc.). Open source textbooks use a similar financial model; the authors and contributors receive no direct financial compensation for their work. Contributors are listed in the produced work as primary author(s), co-authors, contributors, minor contributors, etc. according to the magnitude of their contribution. The produced work is available free for users on the internet. This paper will explain the open source process and will provide justification for open source as an effective paradigm; it will also present some existing open source textbook projects, as well as the author’s own open source textbook project.     

《西文文献著录条例（修订扩大版）》新增电子资源及非书资料的著录

本文概要介绍了《西文文献著录条例 (修订扩大版 )》第五章“电子资源”及第六章“非书资料”的编写背景、目的及特点等。     

E-books for the Classroom and Open Access Textbooks: Two Ways to Help Students Save Money on Textbooks

ABSTRACT

To help students withstand the rising cost of textbooks and in turn support the mission of student success, the University of South Florida (USF) has implemented two electronic resources–based initiatives as part of the Tampa Library’s Textbook Affordability Project. Through the E-books for the Classroom program, the library purchases electronic versions of texts required for coursework, providing equitable access to needed materials at no cost to the students. For the past 5 years, this program has evolved into a highly successful textbook affordability measure, acquiring hundreds of e-books and serving thousands of students. Additionally, the library, with the support of the Office of the Provost and in collaboration with Innovative Education, is publishing a faculty-authored multimedia Open Access textbook to be used by hundreds of students each semester in USF’s children’s literature courses. The USF institutional repository, Scholar Commons, will host the textbook, making it freely available on a global scale. This program effectively uses library expertise and skills, coordinating university-wide faculty, professional, and technical resources, to create library-as-publisher for the benefit of the students and textbook affordability.     

图书馆开放教育资源服务策略--以金陵图书馆为例

文章针对当前国内外开放教育资源建设中政策支持力度不够、版权及利益分配存在矛盾、技术平台开发滞后、资源同质化严重等现状,详细阐述图书馆建设开放教育资源的优势,并以金陵图书馆开放教育资源建设为例,提出通过专项申报弥补经费缺失、开展跨界合作提供多样资源、开发移动平台改善用户体验、加强营销推广资源利用等策略,为图书馆界开放教育资源的建设提供参考。     

A Classification Scheme for Textbooks and Curriculum Materials

Many curriculum centers use locally developed classification schemes, as no standardized one has ever been accepted. A simple and logical scheme for classifying elementary and secondary textbooks, curriculum materials and teacher resources is described. The system develops the LT 1000-9000 portion of the Library of Congress "L" schedule for education. The classification system allows for specific arrangement within the broad curricular areas of language arts, mathematics, social studies, etc, and permits formatting of unique call numbers using double Cutter numbers and workmarks so that the material may be circulated manually or through an automated system.     

档案:高校的一种教育资源

提到高校的教育资源，人们熟悉的是校舍、教学仪器设备、教具、资金投入、师资队伍、教材、校训与传统、成果与声誉、制度与规定等。但说到学校的档案也应列入其中，人们往往是不能认同，认为不搭界，不能过高地抬举它的身价，以至把它排斥在教育资源之外。     

基于众包的开放会议资源建设-以开放会议资源服务系统为例

[目的/意义]鉴于开放资源建设实践面临困境,将众包引入开放会议资源服务系统(简称"系统"),以提高其开放会议资源建设效率。[方法/过程]采用经验总结法分析"系统"现有资源建设模式的不足,结合实际,从基于众包的资源建设工作流程、众包平台开发与功能设计、系统功能与服务完善3方面构建开放会议资源众包建设模式。[结果/结论]资源众包建设模式能增加系统所需的人力、智力资源,提高资源建设效率,实现丰富系统开放会议资源、获得更多使用的建设目的。开放会议资源建设众包模式能提高"系统"的工作效率,可为其他图书馆的开放会议资源建设借鉴和参考。     

电工电子教材名词术语规范与常见错误探讨

归纳了电工电子教材中名词术语规范与常见错误,供作者和编辑同仁参考.     

Copyright and Electronic Library Resources

ABSTRACT

As electronic resources represent a larger percentage of libraries' purchases and services, copyright law, licensing, and other information laws are changing some traditional library functions. This article reviews the law of electronic resources through an outline of affected library services, including acquisitions and collection development; gifts, exchanges, and sales; archiving and preservation; circulation; interli-brary loan and document delivery; reserve; and research, reference, and instructional services. Legal issues considered include copyright, licensing, and database protection.     

Marketing Electronic Resources and Services

Summary

In an effort to provide desktop access to information at Texas A&M University, an increasingly greater portion of the University Libraries' budget is being spent on electronic resources and services. This study, a survey of a random sample of the faculty and teaching staff, was designed to determine if these resources and services are being used by the targeted population and, if not, why. The results of the study indicate that a lack of information is the greatest obstacle to the use of electronic resources/services, and they suggest that the Libraries should place greater emphasis on outreach to the faculty and improved marketing strategies.     

电子资源与纸质资源的经费对比：美国和加拿大图书馆实例

用美国和加拿大12个代表性研究型图书馆2005-2007年的统计数据简要呈现了电子资源与纸质资源的经费开支比例.在平均纸质资源经费仍超过书刊总经费50%的同时,大多数样本图书馆的电子资源经费开支逐年增加.