Open Educational Resources & Affordable Course Materials: Home

This guide is designed to help instructors find and use affordable course materials and open educational resources (OER) that make learning more accessible and support student success.

For more information on finding affordable course materials and OERs, please contact  the Open  and Affordable Course Materials Librarian, Angela Chikowero at achikowero@ucsb.edu

Open & Affordable Course Materials Initiatives at UCSB Library 

The UCSB Library is committed to advancing open and affordable course material initiatives that make learning more accessible and equitable for all students.

Open Educational Resources (OERs) are course materials that are free of cost and access barriers and carry legal permissions for open use. These permissions, typically granted through open licences like Creative Commons, grant the right to retain, reuse, revise, remix, and redistribute materials.
The Library can help: 

Course Reserves (Print & Electronic)

PURCHASE course materials and place Library-owned resources or faculty-owned textbooks on Course Reserves. (These include textbooks, articles, e-books, book chapters, films, music, and other formats.)

Library-Licensed eBooks, Journals & Streaming Media
ANALYZE your syllabi against our electronic collection to ensure that no students are purchasing materials to which the Library already subscribes.

Open Educational Resources (OER) Support
CONSULT with instructors who want to find, adopt, or create quality open educational resources (OERs). Our Open & Affordable Course Materials Librarian can advise on OER repositories, licensing, publishing platforms, and more.

Open Education Outreach & Collaboration
CELEBRATE and connect instructors using OERs and affordable materials through UCSB Library’s ongoing outreach and programming efforts.

(HOT) Teaching Mini Grants

ENCOURAGE applications for mini-grants through the Office of Teaching and Learning and the Educational Technology Advisory Committee for the creation of OERs in online, hybrid, and technology-enhanced undergraduate courses

https://otl.ucsb.edu/funding/funding-faculty/mini-grants