Are you an instructor who’s concerned about the impact of high textbook costs on your students? Did You Know… The high cost of some course materials can impede students’ academic success. The cost of textbooks is rising at a rate of 4 times inflation. Seven out of 10 students don’t purchase a required textbook during [more…]
Hamersly now has digital books as a part of our Recreational Reading Collection! Our digital recreational collection includes both ebooks and audiobooks that you can access via Primo, WOU’s Axis360 website, or the Axis 360 mobile app. Learn more about accessing these books here.
Rule #1 of using Google Scholar to do research for your class assignments: never, ever pay for an article. In many cases, links to full text scholarly articles (like the kind that Google Scholar finds) are through subscription sources. But the library already pays for subscriptions to many of these sources already so that you, as a [more…]
The WOU Textbook Affordability Initiative Steering Committee is providing a second round of funding for WOU instructors to adopt, adapt, or create Open Educational Resources (OERs) for their course(s). The goal of this program is to significantly reduce course materials and textbook costs for students, yet provide access to high-quality, pedagogically creative, open educational content [more…]
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