Open @ U of I Library

University of Idaho Library supports initiatives in Open Access and Open Education to make an impact across campus and the world. Open @ U of I Library aims to reduce the costs and barriers associated with accessing educational materials and research. These initiatives benefit Vandals as well as the greater Idaho, national, and international scholarly communities.

Think Open Fellowship

The University of Idaho Library's Think Open Fellowship is an opportunity to equalize access to educational materials in your classroom and save your students money by supporting the use of low- or no-cost course materials in place of traditional textbooks.

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Open Access Publishing Fund

The University of Idaho Open Access Publishing Fund (U of I - OAPF) supports authors in their efforts to publish in open access journals. Funding is provided by the University of Idaho Library, Office of the Provost, and Office of Research and Economic Development to help make the innovative research conducted at U of I as widely accessible as possible.

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Pressbooks

The University of Idaho Library supports our institutional instance of Pressbooks, a platform used by educational institutions and publishers around the world to create quality OER publications, websites, and books.

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Course Marking

The U of I Library is developing and implementing course marking strategies so that students can easily identify reliably zero and low-cost courses.

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Open Access Resolution

The faculty of the University of Idaho Library believes that open access to scholarship positively supports the communication of research and the future of libraries and education. To formally acknowledge our position, library faculty voted to adopt an Open Access Resolution in 2018.

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Open Source

The Library helps curate and make available open data, as well as developing and releasing our own code under open licenses.

INSIDE Idaho U of I Library on GitHub CollectionBuilder Framework