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Who is best suited to control textbooks: the faculty or the publishers? There are ways to make sure it is the faculty. Editorial in AAUP's Academe.
Moxley, J. (2013). Open textbook publishing. Academe, 99 (5). http://www.aaup.org/reports-and-publications/academe
U.S. PIRG Education Fund and the Student PIRGs. (7 April 2014). Affordable Textbooks: A Policy Guide. http://uspirg.org/reports/usp/affordable-textbooks-policy-guide
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Attack of the wallet killers: Students cannot afford exorbitantly-priced coursepacks, (February 18, 2005). Harvard Crimson. Retrieved from http://www.thecrimson.com/
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Additional Resources
The number of resources on OERs grows as interest in them increases. Below are a few links to key reports and documents on the importance of OERs and the issues surrounding them.
A report by Student PIRGs. A video presentation is also available.
A Basic Guide to Open Educational Resources
Provides "readers with a quick and user-friendly introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER) and some of the key issues to think about when exploring how to use OER most effectively."
FLITE Research Guides
