New and Noteworthy is the City Tech Library OER Team’s weekly roundup of new and noteworthy OER. We try to include at least one OER relevant to each school at City Tech in every post. At the end of the month, these resources will be compiled and distributed by the library liaison for your department. Please contact us if you know of new or particularly interesting OER to share with our colleagues or would like more information about OER initiatives at City Tech. 

Arts & Sciences 

  1. Reframing Digital Humanities, by Julian Chambliss (2021). License: CC BY-NC-SA. 
    “Defining digital humanities is a unique academic challenge. In this volume, Julian Chambliss, Professor of English at Michigan State University, explores the meaning, practice, and implication of digital humanities by talking to scholars deeply engaged with digital methods and the promise they hold for the humanities”
  2. Introduction to Psychology, by Jorden A. Cummings and Lee Sanders, University of Saskatchewan (2020). License: CC BY-NC-SA.
    “This introductory text has been created from a combination of original content and materials compiled and adapted from a number of open text publications […] This version of the text includes a Key Terms list for each chapter, an expanded glossary, and H5P chapter self-tests.”


Professional Studies

  1. Introduction to Food Production and Service, by Beth Egan, The Pennsylvania State University Open Resource Publishing (2021). License: CC BY.
    “Food service is a dominant segment of the hospitality industry that represents a significant proportion of the economy. The restaurant industry is approximately an $800 billion dollar industry. The average household spends nearly 50% of its food dollars in restaurants. Food service is also a significant employer. Approximately fifteen million individuals are employed in food service establishments, and 10% of the U.S. workforce is employed in restaurants… This book has been prepared for students studying hospitality management in the School of Hospitality Management at The Pennsylvania State University.”
  2. Workplace Writing: A Handbook for Common Workplace Genres and Professional Writing, by Anna Goins, Cheryl Rauh, Danielle Tarner, Daniel Von Holten, New Prairie Press (2016). License: CC BY-NC-SA.
    “This handbook is designed for a generalized business writing course that seeks to meet the needs of a variety of student majors and career interests. In it you will find: descriptions and discussions of common genres, both routine and formal, print and electronic, and in-class activities and sample assignments. You will also find commentary on how to adapt the writing process to the rhetorical constraints of a workplace as well as how to think about, conduct, and use research outside an academic setting.”

Technology & Design

  1. Energy and Human Ambitions on a Finite Planet, by Thomas W. Murphy, eScholarship, University of California (2021).
    “The message throughout is that humanity faces a broad sweep of foundational problems as we inevitably transition away from fossil fuels and confront planetary limits in a host of unprecedented ways—a shift whose scale and probable rapidity offers little historical guidance. Salvaging a decent future requires keen awareness, quantitative assessment, deliberate preventive action, and—above all—recognition that prevailing assumptions about human identity and destiny have been cruelly misshapen by the profoundly unsustainable trajectory of the last 150 years.  The goal is to shake off unfounded and unexamined expectations, while elucidating the relevant physics and encouraging greater facility in quantitative reasoning.”
  2. Notes on Diffy Qs: Differential Equations for Engineers, by Jiri Lebl, (2020). License: CC BY-SA.
    “A first course on differential equations, aimed at engineering students. The prerequisite for the course is the basic calculus sequence. This OER is usable as a standalone textbook or as a companion to a course using another book, such as Edwards and Penney, Differential Equations and Boundary Value Problems: Computing and Modeling or Boyce and DiPrima, Elementary Differential Equations and Boundary Value Problems (section correspondence to these two is given). The author developed and used this book to teach Math 286 and Math 285 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign”

Cailean Cooney, Assistant Professor, OER Librarian: ccooney@citytech.cuny.edu
Joshua Peach, Adjunct Reference & OER Librarian: jpeach@citytech.cuny.edu
Joanna Thompson, Adjunct OER Librarian: jthompson@citytech.cuny.edu 

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