The Open & Affordable Textbook Initiative (OATI) is designed to help LMU faculty identify and adopt high-quality, flexible, accessible, and low or no-cost course materials for our LMU students using OER and library resources.
This guide contains information about Open Educational Resources, LMU Library resources suitable for course adoption, and information to help with discovery, evaluation, and use of alternative course materials. It is intended as a starting point, and we encourage faculty interested in the initiative (or those already doing this work!) to get in touch with your librarian liaison. This is also a work in progress. If you have suggestions for additional information that would make the guide more helpful, please let us know!
Not all online materials are free, and not all free materials are openly licensed. This table summarizes the most common options you'll encounter & what you and your students can do with them.
This resource for the LMU Open & Affordable Textbook Initiative, created by Jamie Hazlitt, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
This guide was developed in part by adapting portions of the following open resources:
