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It’s an expensive time to be a college student for all but the wealthiest of students, and tuition isn’t even the biggest expense. The College Board estimates that tuition and fees are approximately 39% of a typical undergraduate student’s budget, while they spend, on average, $1,298 per year on books and supplies. The continually increasing … Continue reading the article: PDX Open Textbooks Save PSU Students $59,000 →

Portland State University Library announces the publication of six new open textbooks authored by PSU faculty. This brings to eleven the open textbooks published by PSU Library through the Library’s textbook publishing project. These open textbooks are available for free in PDXScholar, the Portland State University digital, institutional repository for faculty and student scholarship and research. With … Continue reading the article: New Open Textbooks Published by PSU Library →

Portland State University Library aspires to make higher education more affordable for students at PSU and beyond. PDX Open, our open textbook publishing initiative, is part of this effort. Now we hope to grow PDX Open. The Library has submitted a proposal to the Knight News Challenge, which asks How might libraries serve 21st century information … Continue reading the article: Free the Textbook. Educate the World. →

Thursday, March 3 & Friday, March 4 The Library is conducting usability testing on our website. We are looking for PSU students to help us with testing. In exchange for 30 minutes of your time, we will give you a $10 gift card to Starbucks. What is usability testing? Usability refers to how well our … Continue reading the article: Students: Help the Library for a Starbucks Gift Card! →

Analyze Your Research Strategy, a tutorial available on the Portland State University Library website, has been reviewed by and accepted into the American Library Association (ALA) Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Instruction Section’s Peer-Reviewed Instructional Materials Online (PRIMO) project and added to the PRIMO database. According to the PRIMO Committee, “PRIMO … promotes … Continue reading the article: Library Tutorial Added to Peer-Reviewed Database →