Library Services for Online Students: Textbooks

While the library cannot check out the print textbooks this semester, we are in the process of scanning our course textbook collection in order to provide students with an e-reserve option. Please fill out the form to request an e-reserve from the library (you must be signed into your student pipeline email account to access the form)

Please note: The title you requested may not be available in the library, may not yet be available electronically, or may be currently checked out. Library staff will email you to let you know if the book is available and how long it is likely to take us to scan it. Once an electronic copy of the title is made available and shared with you, your access to the item WILL EXPIRE AFTER 1-DAY.

“Provides free public access to collections of digitized materials, including web sites, software applications/games, music, movies/videos, moving images, and nearly three million public-domain books.”

From the Internet Archive.

A project of Rice University, OpenStax has produced 25 textbooks written by subject experts. They have focused their efforts on producing textbooks for high-enrollment courses in higher education that have most the significant traditional textbook costs. OpenStax offers peer-reviews, supplemental materials, and support for faculty that adopt their open textbooks.

“A growing catalog of free, peer-reviewed, and openly-licensed textbooks”. This is a project of the Open Textbook Network, a collection of higher education institutions dedicated to promoting OER.