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Faculty Select

EBSCO Faculty Select is a new resource from Montclair State University Libraries that gives you access to free open course materials and low cost library-licensed resources for your courses.

Faculty Select supports textbook affordability for college students. Using a single interface, faculty can search for quality Open Educational Resources (OER) and DRM-free* eBooks from top academic publishers.

Explore Faculty Select

(This link is for faculty only)

The Faculty Select database includes:

  • OER
    • Textbook links from multiple OER repositories. This content may be freely repurposed and edited to fit your course.
  • Open Access eBooks
    • These are free eBooks that may be adopted for your course in their original form.
  • eBooks available for purchase from the following collections:
    • Cambridge University Press
    • EBSCO
    • Taylor & Francis
    • Wiley

Once you identify a title that is of interest, you can evaluate the book and decide if it is something you want to adopt.

In the case of OER, you are provided a link to include in your course. In the case of a book not yet owned by the library, you submit a purchase request. That request is routed to a library staff member who can review and complete the order and notify the faculty member when the book is ready to be included in their course.

*DRM-free eBooks provide unlimited access to users without Digital Rights Management restrictions on printing, downloading, copying, or saving.

How to Use Faculty Select