Open Educational Resources

New and Noteworthy is the City Tech Library OER Team’s monthly roundup of notable open educational resources. We try to include at least one open resource 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 open educational resources initiatives at City Tech.

Business

• Navigating the 21st Century Business World: Case Studies in Management, by Dorottya Sallai and Alexander Pepper, LSE Press (2025).
  License: CC BY-NC
  “Navigating the 21st Century Business World: Case Studies in Management is a fully open access collection of management cases, featuring examples from the health sector, media, oil and gas industries, fast fashion, financial services, and the public sector. Written by LSE academics and tested in the classroom, the case studies in this book challenge students to evaluate classic issues of management, such as corporate governance and leadership, and to address contemporary dilemmas, from considering a company’s responsibilities in the face of man-made climate change to how to create inclusive workforces.”

Career and Technology Teacher Education

• Meraki: Towards transformative learning in higher education, by Chrissi Nerantzi, University of Leeds (2025). License: CC BY-NC-SA
  “Created with creativity, openness, and collaboration at its core, this living book reveals the impact education can have when it’s approached with heart, curiosity, and innovation. Across 13 engaging articles, it offers a personal yet widely relatable exploration of critical and creative teaching. It encourages readers to think differently about learning—both inside and outside the classroom—and how these experiences can be meaningfully connected.”

Chemistry

• Cooperative Organic Chemistry Student Laboratory Manual, by Elizabeth L. Day, Melanie M. Cooper, and Mengqi Zhang, Michigan State University Libraries (2025). License: CC BY-NC
  “The basis for this laboratory curriculum is to experience science from the perspective of an organic chemist. Working in groups, students are tasked with a project requiring them to design and carry out an investigation centered around an organic chemistry reaction. Students have opportunities to plan investigations, engage in green decision-making, use scientific models of phenomena, construct explanations, analyze data to generate evidence, and use that evidence in argumentation communicated in classically scientific ways—reports, scientific papers, posters, and oral presentations.”

Chinese

• Elementary Chinese 1 Workbook, by Wenying Zhou, Michigan State University Libraries (2025). License: CC BY-NC
  “Through the power of H5P interactive activities, this workbook, employing an innovative e-writing approach, is designed to help beginning learners lay a solid foundation for the natural development of the Chinese language skills necessary to excel in their learning journey. At the heart of this method lies a focus on Chinese receptive skills that are essential for the development of communicative competences: listening and reading, seamlessly integrated with typing. This unique combination, unlike the traditional handwriting approach, not only fosters accuracy in listening and reading comprehension but also enhances their accurate pronunciation and typing in Chinese communication.”

Computer Systems Technology

• A History of Enterprise Search 1938-2022, by Martin White, University of Sheffield (2022). License: CC BY-NC
  “A chronological history of the development of enterprise search applications on a decade – by – decade basis from 1938 – 2022 starting with the use of punched cards to search through enterprise collections of scientific information and ending with the transition to the integration of artificial intelligence models into search applications.”

Construction Management & Civil Engineering Technology

• Civil Engineering Tools: Concepts, Applications, and Question Bank, by Ramteja Sajja; Yusuf Sermet; and Ibrahim Demir, University of Iowa (2025). License: CC BY-NC
  “Civil Engineering Tools: Concepts, Applications, and Question Bank is a concise and practical guide to the essential software and digital tools used in modern civil engineering. Covering key platforms like AutoCAD Civil 3D, ArcGIS, Excel, Mathcad, and generative AI, this book bridges theory with real-world application. Designed for students, educators, and professionals alike, it offers clear explanations, workflow examples, and a targeted question bank to reinforce learning and technical confidence.”

English

• Futurism, Feminism, and the Right to “Genius”: Mina Loy’s “The Sacred Prostitute” and Other Plays, edited by Alison Dobbins and Alexis Bacon, Michigan State University Libraries (2025). License: CC BY-NC
  “Published together here for the first time, the plays of Mina Loy are full of frank expressions of female desire and satirical critiques of social hierarchies. These Futurist poetic dramas provide catalysts for conversations about issues that remain volatile today: gender identity, free speech, reproductive rights, equity, and access, and serve as a palpable reminder of the contributions of women to an avant-garde arts tradition that has historically championed white, European men. In addition to the play scripts, this book includes performance video and production and design notes.” 

Geography

• An Introduction to Geospatial Thinking and Open Source GIS, by Jennifer Moore, WashU Libraries (2025). License: CC BY-NC-SA
  “An Introduction to Geospatial Thinking and Open Source GIS is a beginners guide to understanding geospatial concepts and tools.”

Health Sciences

• Africa’s Knowledge Bridge: Empowering Global Access to Research Resources in a COVID World, edited by Uchechukwu Levi Osuagwu; Kingsley Emwinyore Agho; Bernadine Nsa Ekpenyong; Khathutshelo Percy Mashige; and Tanko Ishaya, by Western Open Books (2025). License: CC BY
  “This book brings together first-hand COVID-19 research led by Western Sydney University academics in collaboration with African scholars. While these studies were originally published in leading open access journals, many colleagues across Africa faced barriers to access due to connectivity and database limitations. In response, Western Sydney University Library has created this open textbook as a freely accessible repository, allowing anyone to download and read the research with ease.”

• Public Health Today: Public Health in the Twenty First Century, by Hector (Giovanni) Antunez, Minnesota State Pressbooks (2024).
  License: CC BY-NC-SA
  “This book is designed for undergraduate students but can also be used for all levels of public health education.”

Nursing

• Nursing Informatics, Communication, and Collaboration: The Impact on Patient Outcomes, by Laura K. Garner-Jones, Weber State University (2025). License: CC BY-NC-SA
  “Nursing Informatics, Communication, and Collaboration…explores essential competencies such as computer and information literacy and examines the impact of health information technology. The text highlights digital tools that enhance outcomes, including electronic health records, artificial intelligence, and precision medicine. Beyond technology, this resource emphasizes the importance of communication, conflict management, person-centered care, and interprofessional collaboration as core elements of effective nursing practice.”

Radiologic Technology & Medical Imaging

• Radiographic Procedures Review Guide, by Carla M. Allen and Taylor M. Otto, University of Missouri-Columbia (2024). License: CC BY-NC-ND
  “This resource has been designed to support clinical preceptors in effectively assessing radiography students during competency evaluations. Our goal is to enhance the clinical education experience by providing clear guidelines for evaluating a student’s knowledge and performance while reinforcing their understanding of anatomy, positioning, and image quality.”

Technology and Design

• Project Management Fundamentals, by Shelly Morris and Karla Murtescu, Seneca Polytechnic (2025). License: CC BY-NC
  “The primary purpose of this text is to provide an open source textbook that can be used in introductory project management courses. The objective is to develop a concise, widely applicable open source textbook that can be used in the for-profit and non-profit sectors. This text covers all aspects of the project management lifecycle. The author has intentionally left out examples from fields of practice like business, engineering and information technology in order to ensure this text has universal applicability.”

City Tech OER team:
Cailean Cooney, Associate Professor, OER Librarian: ccooney@citytech.cuny.edu Joshua Peach, Adjunct OER Librarian: jpeach@citytech.cuny.edu
Jo Thompson, Adjunct OER Librarian: jthompson@citytech.cuny.edu