LibGuides: Criminal Justice: OER for Criminal Justice

NAC for Criminal Justice

Gale eBooks This link opens in a new window
Books covering business, environment, history, literature, medicine, religion, social science, and more.
Ebook Central (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Books covering a range of subject areas and disciplines. Includes e-Libro Spanish language ebooks and Science and Technology Ebook Collection.
Ebook Collection (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Books covering a range of academic disciplines, including health sciences, social sciences, business, and humanities, as well as general interest topics.
GALILEO Open Learning Materials This link opens in a new window
Textbooks and learning materials covering a range of academic disciplines. Also includes assessments, syllabi, lecture slides, as well as audio, video, and image content.

OER for Criminal Justice

MERLOT - Criminal Justice Portal
OER Commons
GALILEO Open Learning Materials
Most works hosted in GALILEO Open Learning Materials have a Creative Commons license, allowing the reuse, redistribution, remix, and revision of these materials. To learn more about Creative Commons licenses, please visit the Creative Commons Licenses Page.
Open Textbook Library
Open textbooks are textbooks that have been funded, published, and licensed to be freely used, adapted, and distributed. These books have been reviewed by faculty from a variety of colleges and universities to assess their quality. These books can be downloaded for no cost, or printed at low cost. All textbooks are either used at multiple higher education institutions; or affiliated with an institution, scholarly society, or professional organization.
BC Campus - Law/Criminal Justice

Directory of Open Access Books This link opens in a new window
Open access (OA) peer-reviewed books covering a wide range of academic disciplines.
Directory of Open Access Journals This link opens in a new window
Open access (OA) peer-reviewed journals covering a wide range of academic disciplines.

What is OER?

Open Educational Resources (OER) is defined by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as:

...any type of educational materials that are in the public domain or introduced with an open license. The nature of these open materials means that anyone can legally and freely copy, use, adapt and re-share them. OERs range from textbooks to curricula, syllabi, lecture notes, assignments, tests, projects, audio, video and animation.

Defining OER_NAC_LCCM
UIW defined terms for open educational resources (OER), No additional cost (NAC), Low-cost course materials (LCCM)