OER Commons
The network that brings together 47,237 OER, tools for sharing curriculum with the world, and news and training on the brave new world of open education.
HippoCampus.org is a free, core academic web site that delivers rich multimedia content--videos, animations, and simulations--on general education subjects to middle-school and high-school teachers and college professors, and their students, free of charge.
ROARMap List of registered Open Access Mandates
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Florida Orange Grove OER Repository
Florida's digital repository for instructional resources. The repository provides an environment for educators to search for, use, remix, share, and contribute educational resources. The repository can also be integrated with your Learning Management Systems (e.g., Blackboard, Desire 2 Learn, Canvas) . Discover, contribute, and import repository resources directly from your LMS.
Wikiversity is committed both to conventional learning patterns and resources, and to innovation and experimentation. Wikiversity is open to reconceptualising how web education can occur and how open educational resources can be made, and we are open to new ideas about the use of the Mediawiki environment for learning and research.
WikiEducator
is a global community resource supported by the Open Education Resource Foundation, an independent non-profit based at Otago Polytechnic for the development of free educational content. The Commonwealth of Learning provides financial support to the OER Foundation.
The Open Education Consortium has a YouTube channel where many videos regarding various aspects of OER are posted regularly.
Library Journal Periodical Price Survey 2014
Stanford University Press Awarded $12Million for publishing interactive scholarly works
Bringing Science to the Masses
Congress,Tech Have Their Eyes on Rethinking the Textbook - And Educators Should Too. - Wired Magazine
Open Textbooks and Open SUNY Textbooks: Cooperative Strategies for Reducing the Costs of Textbooks. Katherine Pitcher, Mary Jo Orzech, and Stephen Weiter, Educause presentation, October, 2014
Open-Source Textbooks can Drive Down the Overall Cost of College, Maria Millard, Sept 2014
NMC Horizon Report - Library Edition 2014
Evaluating Big Deal Journal Bundles
http://blogs.plos.org/opens/2014/11/23/let-it-go-cancelling-subscriptions-funding-transitions/
http://www.against-the-grain.com/2014/11/changing-roles-in-providing-textbook-content/
http://www.educause.edu/library/open-educational-resources-oer
The roles of libraries an dinformation professionals in Opern Educational Resources (OER) initiatives: Survey Report CAPLE/JISC CETIS. August 2012 URI: http://publicaions.cetis.ac.uk/2012/492
Rosen, Rebbecca J. The Hole in Our Collective Memory Atlantic Monthly 30 July 2013
Jenica Rogers' Presentation at the 2013 Charleston Conference Video
Yglesias, Matthew, "Amazon is doing the word a favor by crushing book publishers" VOX 22 October 2014
Howey, Hugh C. "Two Important Publishing Facts Everyone Gets Wrong" 27 October 2014