Open Stacks

Meeting College Students’ Needs one Ebook and Audiobook at a Time

Posted on 06/15/2019

Affordable or Open?

The real promise of open educational resources lies not in their affordability but in their potential to change teaching and learning.

Posted on 03/01/2019 in Publisher Editorial

Course Materials Adoption: A Choice White Paper

A Choice survey of some 88,000 instructors reveals some interesting misconceptions about the definition and purpose of open educational resources.

Posted on 12/01/2018 in Publisher Editorial

Evaluating the Open Educational Resource

It is important to recognize that course materials are evaluated and adopted by the instructors themselves, who care first and foremost about the quality of the instruction they offer.

Posted on 11/01/2018 in Publisher Editorial

Choice publishes white paper examining course materials adoption and the outlook for OER

Posted on 10/04/2018 in Press Releases

Choice publishes white paper examining marketing outreach activities by academic libraries

Posted on 09/13/2018 in Press Releases

Switching Costs

For the goal of creating these more open and equitable systems of scholarship to become a reality, we need to understand the real-world friction that inhibits change instead of looking for villains.

Posted on 08/01/2018 in Publisher Editorial

The Open Choice Review Template

For OER to succeed as alternatives to commercially produced materials, they must be of a quality equal to or better than these competing works, sufficiently so as to win the trust of instructors in the field.

Posted on 07/01/2018 in Publisher Editorial

Choice publishes white paper on new directions for institutional repositories

Posted on 02/05/2018 in Press Releases

What is a Textbook?

A textbook, no less than any other text, must not be regarded simply as an assemblage of interchangeable parts.

Posted on 01/01/2018 in Publisher Editorial

Choice and The Charleston Company Launch ccAdvisor

Posted on 09/06/2017 in Press Releases

Alternative Facts

We need to heed the tenets of information literacy we teach others, including knowing the source of the news we receive and, yes, going so far as to pay for professionally produced and curated information.

Posted on 09/01/2017 in Publisher Editorial