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Discovering Open Educational Resources (OER)

This guides is an introduction to open educational resources. It provides information about what open education resources are and how to discover and use them.

Library Etextbooks

Temple Libraries acquires e-books that are identified as course material. These digital versions are available free to students. While the library attempts to purchase unlimited access licenses to these e-books, it is not always possible. Some may offer more limited access options. We encourage faculty to include links to these e-books in the course syllabus. Instructors can also adopt library e-books using the bookstore course materials adoption system. 

Etextbooks at Temple University Libraries: Use this web page to review all of the currently available etextbooks that instructors can assign to their students. Note that the library provides access to millions of e-books. Items listed on this page are known to have been adopted as course materials by instructors - but there are many other e-books in the library collection that could be adopted as course material.

For additional general information on finding and using Temple University Libraries e-books, please consult this guide.

Library Database Article Content

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Free Web Content

Scanned Print Content