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Registering for Classes? Want to pay less for course materials?

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Your education matters and every dollar saved makes a difference!
Discover classes with a total cost of less than $40 for course materials.

When it comes to course materials, affordability and access are essential to student success. WOU faculty across campus are making efforts to support students by intentionally choosing Open Educational Materials, or a variety of other No-cost/ Low-cost materials.

When searching for your courses use the “Textbook No Cost Low Cost”, course attribution, to help save money.

When searching for classes, through webpages like WOU Portal, Browse Courses, and Real Time Class Availability,  use the Attribute section and select “Textbook: Low cost and No Cost”. The search results will show courses that have been determined to have a total cost of course materials to be less than $40 but most often zero- cost.

For more detailed information visit: How to Search For WOU No-cost and Low Cost Courses.

  • No Cost = $0, total cost of required materials
  • Low Cost = less than $40, total cost of required materials

Reading for Black History Month

During Black History Month the library will have a selection of new and Black-authored titles on display on the 1st floor.

See research.wou.edu/BHM for additional titles and resources.

Stream videos for class or fun with ‘Films on Demand’

films on demandWatch online streaming videos about everything from biographies of famous musicians to the history of unions in the U.S. to tips for writing fiction from famous writers (and much more!) for free. Use the videos in Films on Demand for class, to learn something new, or just to satisfy your curiosity.

Films On Demand is almost like the library’s version of YouTube, except it’s all legal and appropriate for use in class assignments!

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The vast Films on Demand archive currently includes more than 6,100 complete titles and 63,000 shorter video segments. You can browse by subject, such as Health & Medicine, World Languages, Nursing, Criminal Justice & Law, or Archival Films & Newsreels, under the ‘Collections’ menu option. Or you can simply search for videos using keywords.

Happy watching!

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