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Library Quick Fixes for your Course: Writing and Critical Thinking OERs

Are your students running aground on library assignments and library-related skills? You don't have to wait til the next revision cycle to make some improvements. The library can help with simple improvements that you can make before the module is done!

Writing Open Textbooks

Free to reuse, redistribute, and remix! Assign the whole thing or a few chapters; mix and match! These are edited, peer reviewed online textbooks by actual college faculty. Some of them are anonymously authored; this is because these books were previously published by commercial publishers, who, when the book went out of print, allowed the author to republish a changed and anonymized version as an Open Textbook. 

Research Open Textbooks

Free to reuse, redistribute, and remix! Assign the whole thing or a few chapters; mix and match! These are edited, peer reviewed online textbooks by actual college faculty. Some of them are anonymously authored; this is because these books were previously published by commercial publishers, who, when the book went out of print, allowed the author to republish a changed and anonymized version as an Open Textbook. 

Critical Thinking Open Textbooks

Free to reuse, redistribute, and remix! Assign the whole thing or a few chapters; mix and match! These are edited, peer reviewed online textbooks by actual college faculty. Some of them are anonymously authored; this is because these books were previously published by commercial publishers, who, when the book went out of print, allowed the author to republish a changed and anonymized version as an Open Textbook.