Discovering Affordable Content
The Digital Marketplace facilitates the adoption of no-cost and lower-cost course materials, whether commercial, open educational resources, or library owned or licensed materials.
Get It @ CalState - Cost Savings over Interlibrary Loans FALL 2010
Leveraging Digital Marketplace software, the CSU Virtual Library allows faculty and students to search for online resources and deliver them rapidly using agreements with the Copyright Clearing Center. This service will reduce the time to receive selected content via the interlibrary loan program from weeks to minutes. It also reduces the cost of delivering this content substantially, shifting the acquisition of this content from an annual subscription to a pay-per-view model.
To sign up or get more information, contact Marvin Pollard.
Federated Search/Discovery Service FALL 2010
An enterprise-wide service for discovering content found in numerous repositories. With this tool, faculty can discover course content through a search of existing materials that includes publisher content, library materials, and open educational resources (OER).
The federated search, along with the HEOA adoption application, can also facilitate administrations’ need to comply with the new HEOA requirements to publish pertinent information about all assigned course materials in a timely fashion.
To sign up or get more information, contact Marvin Pollard.
Open Education Resources FALL 2010
Every adoption of Free OER materials saves students money. Tools facilitate faculty searches through a wealth of available OER content, including repositories at MERLOT, Connexions, MIT Open Courseware. Currently OER is well distributed but not well organized for easy discovery. The Digital Marketplace provides tools for faculty such as typing in an ISBN # for a textbook and Open Textbook Finder 
will deliver a hitlist of available free, open content the faculty can review and potential use in their classes.
To sign up or get more information, contact Jeff Kahn.
Licensed Content PILOT RUNNING FALL 2010
The high cost of textbooks is a significant factor in the overall cost of an education. Consistent with the goal of making learning content as affordable as possible, the Digital Marketplace provides access to licensed publisher content, at dramatically lower costs to students.
This model will allow every student to license digital and/or print versions of their course material for a fraction of the price currently charged for new and used textbooks. The DM provides the enabling delivery services to interested institutions.
To sign up or get more information, contact Steve Paxhia.
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