What if you aren't able to adopt or create an OER for your courses this semester? You can still try to utilize low-cost options to help students with textbook affordability. This page offers some options for using the Library's resources and course reserve system to offer students ways to access required texts without buying a textbook. Also, remember that you still can incorporate open resources into your teaching to supplement traditional texts as well.
The Library course reserves are a collection of books, movies, and other materials instructors have told us their students need to have access to for class. These items are kept at the Circulation desk, they can only be checked out by UCCS students, and they have limited check out periods (set by the instructor) to insure students have enough time to complete a reading or do an assignment, but prevent any one student from keeping an item for the whole semester. Depending on their nature and availability, course reserve items can be electronic or physical.
Do you teach a course at UCCS and want to make your textbooks and other course readings more available to your students? Use course reserves!
Course reserves are library items (books, journal articles, streaming videos, etc) which are designated for special class use.
It's important to let the library know you want an item to be available via course reserves so the library can ensure we have the needed number of seats on ebooks or that a physical book is available. Use the links below to request items. Please remember, the library cannot guarantee the acquisition of every item you request.
Course reserve requests follow the fair use statute of U.S Copyright Law. The Library is unable to fulfill requests that fall outside the U.S Copyright Law.