LibGuides: Affordable &amp; Open Educational Resources (A&amp;OER): Affordable Course Materials &amp; Textbooks

Library Resources

Integrate affordable STLCC Libraries resources in your courses

Below you'll find a few examples that are easily implemented.

Discipline-specific Library Research Guides are automatically linked in your Canvas course. Select the Libraries/Resources folder to view them. In the Libraries/Resources folder, you'll also find a link to create a reading list for your students directly from the Libraries' discovery tool, ArcherSearch. If you are in the Canvas edit mode, look for the hidden folder housing this tool.
Faculty may place direct links to resources such as library instruction videos, a favorite database for an assignment, select ebooks, articles, or to a full text run of a journal title. Use Ask a Librarian to contact an instruction librarian for assistance.
Some of our ebooks allow for unlimited simultaneous users, making these texts perfect for affordable course textbooks. The databases listed below provide collections of books allowing unlimited simultaneous users.

Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
Online reference library that provides access to a growing selection of reference books.
Online reference library that provides access to a growing selection of reference books. Includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, books of quotations, and a range of subject-specific titles from art to accountancy and literature to law. Credo Reference generates a network of cross-references that provide an easy-to-follow trail to related information contained anywhere within the library.

Credo Reference Subject Guides
Gale eBooks This link opens in a new window
Encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources.
Gale eBooks is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.

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O’Reilly for Higher Education (OHE) This link opens in a new window
Provides unlimited access to over 45,000 ebooks in computer programming, information technology, business, math, science, and engineering. Includes streaming videos, case studies, expert playlists, and more. Need help?
Support at https://www.oreilly.com/online-learning/support/

• Download apps, sync all your devices, and never lose your place.
• Learn even when there’s no signal with offline access.
Sage Knowledge This link opens in a new window
Reference books including social science, green issues, and criminal justice.
SAGE Knowledge provides an interface to search SAGE Book, Business Case, Reference, and Video titles in the social sciences. Links to SAGE Journals and SAGE Research Methods are provided through a "SAGE Recommends" widget.

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Salem Press This link opens in a new window
Salem Press titles in literature, history, science, and health.
Salem Press titles in literature, history, science, and health. Includes Magill's Literary Annual 1977-current, Masterplots, Magill's Medical Guide, the Great Events and Great Lives from History reference series, and several science encyclopedias.

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