[LIBRARYDIR] OER tool: EBSCO Faculty Select

[Mindy Coslor]

I am interested in it too.  George Dragich (Ebsco) offered us a 10% discount so $900 per year.

Mindy Coslor, PhD
Director of Library Services
Skagit Valley College
2405 E College Way
Mount Vernon, WA  98273

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We are interested in a Faculty Select pilot/trial.

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I loved seeing Faculty Select in action during the EBSCO day in Olympia last week. I'm sharing it with Sue and we might consider it. That it has the ability to include OER from a variety of sources, eBooks you have access to through EBSCO, eBooks you don't have access to through EBSCO, and other eBooks from other vendors that provide MARC, is great.

The best part of this product, in my opinion as a librarian, is that any faculty who select their book(s) in Faculty Select have to fill out a brief form, which notifies the library of their use-this could potentially prevent some of the cat-herding that takes up so much time in the librarians' schedules.

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Subject: [LIBRARYDIR] OER tool: EBSCO Faculty Select

Hi all,

I am sure that George Dragich (EBSCO) has been visiting everyone to talk about the new OER tool from EBSCO called Faculty Select.  I was pleased to see how simple it is to use.  It seems to me that it is a good starter for faculty new to OER and needing a way to find OER textbooks that are easy to add links into Canvas.  I like that we can import other resources found or owned by the library.  Since this platform is compatible with Canvas and helps lower or eliminate costs for students, I think it might be of interest to eLearning as well.  Here is a link to more information:

https://www.ebsco.com/products/ebsco-faculty-select

I am interested in agreeing to a pilot year if there are others willing to pilot as well.  The starting price is $1,000 for a community college.  EBSCO is willing to lower the price from there, if there are more colleges interested in a consortial purchase.

Mark and Boyoung, is this a product that the state board might underwrite to encourage faculty to move to low/no price text books?

Christie, could we look at EBSCO (e.g. a demo) as a possible consortial purchase?

Thanks,
Mindy

Mindy Coslor, PhD
Director of Library Services
Skagit Valley College
2405 E College Way
Mount Vernon, WA  98273

360.416.7761

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