Research Guides (LibGuides): Scholarship in the Digital Age: Kill Your Textbook

Alternatives to Textbooks

Looking to decrease student costs and kill your textbook? Here are some tools that you can take advantage of in order to still provide quality content without the standard textbook:

Butler Libraries' fantastic online resources (ebooks, articles, reviews, videos, and more)

Butler's eBook Collections
Also searchable within WorldCat Discovery; see also https://libguides.butler.edu/az.php?t=2555

AVON - Academic Video Online (Alexander Street Press) This link opens in a new window
AVON: Academic Video Online is a comprehensive multidisciplinary streaming video resource.
Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
Films on Demand is a state-of-the-art streaming video platform for a variety of educational media content.

- Be sure to comply with all copyright laws by permalinking directly to the article.
Freely available educational resources

TED Talks
Khan Academy
"Khan Academy features thousands of educational resources, including a personalized learning dashboard, over 100,000 practice problems, and over 6,000 micro lectures via video tutorials stored on YouTube teaching mathematics, history, healthcare, medicine, finance, physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, cosmology, American civics, art history, economics, and computer science."
Digital Public Library of America
A portal to digital collections from the Library of Congress, HathiTrust, the Internet Archive, universities, public libraries, and other public-spirited organizations. Materials include books, images, historic records, and audiovisual materials providing open and coherent access to our society’s digitized cultural heritage.
Open Educational Resources (OER) Commons
"OER Commons is a freely accessible online library that allows teachers and others to search and discover open educational resources (OER) and other freely available instructional materials."
Google Cultural Institute Art Project
"The Art Project is a unique collaboration with some of the world’s most acclaimed art institutions to enable people to discover and view artworks online in extraordinary detail. Working with over 250 institutions, we have put tens of thousands of works of art from more than 6,000 artists online."

There are so many others that we haven't listed -- the best person to talk to about these resources is your librarian!

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