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Affordable Course Materials and Open Educational Resources (OER): Creating and Publishing

This guide is designed to assist faculty in the exploration, identification, evaluation, selection, and adoption of Affordable Course Materials and Open Educational Resources

Tools for Remixing Content

Tools for remixing content

Tools for Printing Content

Why not print your own textbook! The Public Library of Cincinnati has a book printing machine that can produce an inexpensive book in just a few minutes.

Exhibit - Xavier's Institutional Repository

Creative Commons Search

Search the web with Creative Commons filtered search engine to find web sites, articles, videos, images, and other resources licensed for sharing.

Xavier Teaching With Technology

Tools for Creating Content

Government Publications

Everything published by the Federal government is free of any copyright restrictions.  The research, reports and websites can be useful resources for classes when creating your own course material.

  1. A great starting place to search is USA.gov.
     
  2. Try to search a specific agency's website.  A-Z List of Federal Agencies. Many times these materials are not retrieved with simple Google searches.   Here are some examples of US Federal Databases. 

Homeland Security Digital Library
The Homeland Security Digital Library is a collection of documents related to homeland security policy, strategy, and organizational management. Topics include maritime, unmanned aerial systems, terrorism, epidemics and many more. 

SciTech Connect
SciTech Connect is a collection of science, technology, and engineering research information from the U.S. Department of Energy.