Library Support for Online Instruction

We subscribe to a number of ebook packages, giving you access to thousands of titles online. 

The number of simultaneous users varies for individual ebooks. We buy multi-user access whenever possible, but certain ebooks may not allow enough simultaneous users to work well in courses. In light of COVID-19, some ebook vendors and publishers are reducing limits on access. 

Free Tools Available until the end of the 2020 Semester:

• EBSCO Faculty Select: Faculty Select is a single interface for faculty of discover and access over 12,4000 Open Educational Materials (OER), as well as find and request access to unrestricted over 225,000 DRM-free e-books from top academic publishers.  

Open textbooks are ideal for online course use because they're free to use, print, share, and customize. Here are some good places to look for open textbooks:

• Open Textbook Library: includes about 700 complete textbooks (all can be downloaded for offline use)
• OER Commons (scroll down the page to find open textbooks by subject)
• OASIS: includes more than 2,300 open textbooks
• OpenStax: ebooks come with free instructor resources (also see help moving courses online)
• Open SUNY: Openly licensed textbooks and courses written and cruated by SUNY faculty.
• ScholarWorks@GVSU: Freely accessible textbooks provided by Grand Valley State University.