OA & OER: a small college library’s plan to promote open access to its faculty

Abstract

In 2010, librarians at the [name redacted] at [name redacted] began promoting open access to faculty members initially by creating an institutional repository and subsequently by developing an Open Education Resource (OER) grant.  The grant awards a stipend to a faculty member who proposes to adopt OER resources in a course and explains the benefits to student learning by using these resources.  The intention of the grant is to continue developing awareness about OER to faculty members with the goal to reduce textbook costs to students.  This article discusses one grant project awarded to a Political Science professor and what the liaison librarian learned during the process.