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New and Noteworthy OER 09/28

September 28, 2022 / / 0 Comments

New and Noteworthy is the City Tech Library O.E.R. Team’s monthly roundup of new and noteworthy O.E.R. We try to include at least one O.E.R. 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 O.E.R. to share with our colleagues or would like more information about O.E.R. initiatives at City Tech.

Arts & Sciences 

  1. Douglas College Human Anatomy & Physiology I (2nd ed.) by Douglas College Biology Department, BCCampus (2022). License: CC BY
    This is an adaptation of the OpenStax Anatomy & Physiology textbook, organized in three sections with subsequent units: levels of organization, nervous regulation and integration, and support and movement.
  1. Foundations of Chemical and Biological Engineering I by Jonathan Verrett, BCCampus (2020) License: CC BY-SA
    “This textbook will give you a good basic understanding of a number of chemical engineering concepts, which you can take with you as you progress in your engineering degree and career. This book covers the basics of process diagrams, reaction chemistry, phase equilibrium, energy balances, unsteady-state operations, process control, process economics and safety, and green engineering.”
  1. Introducción al estudio de las culturas hispánicas by University of Minnesota Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Minnesota. License: CC BY-NC
    “This book was edited for an upper-division writing-intensive course centered on major issues of culture in the context of the Spanish-speaking world. It is not a history of civilization, nor is it a survey of either Latin American or Peninsular literature. Rather, our objective here is to familiarize ourselves with the different issues central to the development of the Hispanic world as a cultural entity, and to practice analyzing and questioning received notions of culture in this context.”
  1. Introduction to Evolution & Human Behavior: An Anthropological and Comparative Approach by Shelly Volsche, Boise State University    (2022). License: CC BY-NC-SA
    An introductory text that takes a conversational tone about evolutionary anthropology. 
  1. Open Music Theory (v.2) by Mark Gotham, Kyle Gullings, Chelsey Hamm, Bryn Hughes, Brian Jarvis, Megan Lavengood, and John Peterson, Virtual Library of Virginia (2021). License: CC BY-SA
    “…intended to serve as the primary text and workbook for undergraduate music theory curricula. OMT2 has been designed inclusively. For us, this means broadening our topics beyond the standard harmony and atonal theory topics to include fundamentals, musical form, jazz, pop, and orchestration.”
  1. Para vivir con salud: leyendo la salud y la literatura by Kathryn Joy McKnight and Jill Kuhnheim (2022). License: CC BY-NC
    “We have developed this open access book for universities and colleges responding to the needs and interests of students preparing for careers in health or even seeking to add a “health track” to their majors or minors. Para vivir offers an introduction to reading different literary and cultural texts from the Spanish-speaking world with a thematic focus on health. It can be used as an alternative to the standard Introduction to Hispanic Literature course texts, as it also teaches techniques of close reading.”
  1. Social Cost Benefit Analysis and Economic Evaluation by Suzanne Bonner, The University of Queensland (2022). License: CC BY-NC-SA
    “This book provides detailed foundational tools to assess and evaluate the costs and benefits associated with public or private decision making through a cost-benefit analysis (CBA). This book is targeted at students with preliminary foundations in economics.”
  1. Student Companion for Mathematical Economics by J. Zachary Klingensmith, Penn State. License: CC BY-NC-SA
    Practice problems in matrix algebra, univariate calculus, and multivariate calculus and constrained optimization. 

Professional Studies

  1. Dress, Appearance, and Diversity in U.S. Society, by Kelly L. Reddy-Best (2020). License: CC BY
    “This book introduces topics about identity, dress, and the body. Through the content, readers explore how individuals and communities use dress as a way to communicate (i.e. “negotiate” in fashion studies) their various identities.”

  2. The Fundamentals of Healthcare Administration: Navigating Challenges and Coordinating Care, by Deanna L. Howe, Andrea L. Dozier, and Sheree O. Dickenson (2021). License: CC BY-SA
    “This book is written for those interested in acquiring a thorough knowledge base relative to the intricacies of the organizational theories, customs, and insights significant to the management of health service organizations.”

  3. Game Based and Adaptive Learning Strategies, by Carrie Lewis Miller, Odbayar Batsaikhan, and Elizabeth Pluskwik, Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (2022). License: CC BY-NC
    “This book is designed to accompany a graduate-level instructional design course: Game-Based and Adaptive Learning, but could also be used for undergraduate teacher education or instructional design courses.”
  1. Nursing: Mental Health and Community Concepts, by Chippewa Valley Technical College. License: CC BY
    “This textbook is an open educational resource with CC-BY licensing developed specifically for prelicensure nursing students. […] Content is based on the Wisconsin Technical College System (WTCS) statewide nursing curriculum for the Nursing Mental Health and Community Concepts course (543-110), the NCLEX-RN Test Plan, and the American Psychiatric Nurses Association Education Council’s Crosswalk Toolkit: Defining and Using Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing Skills in Undergraduate Nursing Education.”

Technology & Design

  1. Audio Production Course Manual, by Mark J. Lindquist, Minnesota Libraries Publishing Project (2022). License: CC BY-NC-SA
    “This course is designed to help beginners get a feel for what audio production is, while also helping more advanced students expand their own production skills.”

  2. Building Information Modeling using Revit for Architects and Engineers, by Atefe Makhmalbaf, Mavs Open Press (2022). License: CC BY
    “This book offers a web-based multimedia platform to enable students in Architecture, Civil Engineering, and Construction Engineering to learn fundamentals of BIM using Revit and be able to create building architectural, mechanical and structural models, develop construction documentation and analyze building performance.”
  1. Cut/Copy/Paste: Fragments from the History of Bookwork, by Whitney Trettien, Minnesota (2022). License: CC BY-NC-ND
    “In Cut/Copy/Paste, Whitney Trettien journeys to the fringes of the London print trade to uncover makerspaces and collaboratories where paper media were cut up and reassembled into radical, bespoke publications. Bringing these long-forgotten objects back to life through hand-curated digital resources, Trettien shows how early experimental book hacks speak to the contemporary conditions of digital scholarship and publishing.”
  1. Introduction to Engineering Thermodynamics, by Claire Yu Yan,  BCcampus (2022). License: CC BY-NC-SA
    “The book is most suitable for a one-term, introductory engineering thermodynamics course at the undergraduate level. It may also be used for self-learning of fundamental concepts of classical thermodynamics.”

  2. Tutorials of Visual Graphic Communication Programs for Interior Design, Volume 2, Yongyeon Cho, Iowa State University (2022). License: CC BY-NC
    “This book is for advanced-level architecture and interior design students who have in-depth knowledge and skills with computer-aided visualization software. The author developed a total of twenty-two chapters to teach practical graphic presentation techniques for architectural presentations.”

City Tech O.E.R. team
Cailean Cooney, Assistant Professor, OER Librarian: ccooney@citytech.cuny.edu
Joshua Peach, Adjunct Reference & OER Librarian: jpeach@citytech.cuny.edu
Jo Thompson, Adjunct Reference & OER Librarian: jthompson@citytech.cuny.edu

New and Noteworthy 04/08

April 8, 2022 / / 0 Comments

New and Noteworthy is the City Tech Library O.E.R. Team’s bi-weekly roundup of new and noteworthy O.E.R. We try to include at least one O.E.R. 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 O.E.R. to share with our colleagues or would like more information about O.E.R. initiatives at City Tech.

Open Education

  1. Authoring Open Textbooks, by Melissa Falldin and Karen Lauritsen, Open Education Network. License: CC BY
    “This guide is for faculty authors, librarians, project managers and others who are involved in the production of open textbooks in higher education and K-12. Content includes a checklist for getting started, publishing program case studies, textbook organization and elements, writing resources and an overview of useful tools.”
  1. Considerations of Open: Faculty Reflections about Open Educational Resources, edited by Elvis Bakaitis; contributors: Nora Almeida, Colleen Birchett, Cailean Cooney, Emma Kontzamanis, Sarah Nguyen, Joshua Peach, Christopher Swift, Jesse Rice-Evans, Jenna Spevack, Carol Thomas, and Joanna Thompson, New York City College of Technology (2022).
    License: CC BY-NC-SA
    “The New York City College of Technology (CityTech) fosters robust and interdisciplinary work involving Open Educational Resources. This compilation brings together the reflections of twelve faculty members about the intersection of open resources with Theater Arts, English Literature, Communication Design, Nursing, and Library & Information Science.”

  2. Towards a Critically Open Future: An Annotated Resource Guide for Open Educational Resources, by Brian Mercado, Angela LaScala-Gruenewald, Nicole Cote, Maria Victoria Salazar, and Tania Avilés Vergara; edited by Elvis Bakaitis. License: CC BY-NC-SA
    “Annotated Resource Guides offer an in-depth look at a variety of topics, through a critical lens with a focus on open resources. These extensive guides are an essential tool for educators, addressing contemporary issues of police violence, feminist care narratives, the historical impact(s) of pandemics, and Latinx community activism.”

Arts & Sciences 

  1. Climate, Justice and Energy Solutions, by Dargan M. W. Frierson, University of Washington (2022). License: CC BY-NC-SA
    “Climate, Justice and Energy Solutions is for visionaries, dreamers, utopian thinkers, and social justice advocates. It’s for those who can imagine not just surviving in a world without fossil fuels, but truly flourishing. The hope is that activists in a wide range of fields can use this text to help bolster their knowledge of science-based climate action when they’re building the next wave of social movements, renewable power networks, and regenerative communities.”
  1. Culture and Psychology, by L.D. Worthy,T. Lavigne, and F. Romero, Maricopa Community Colleges (2020). License: CC BY-NC-SA
    “Culture is one of the most powerful forces in the world. It shapes how we make sense of our world, how we express ourselves and how we understand and relate to others. In this textbook we introduce cultural universals and culturally specific constructs in psychology. This textbook was created for an undergraduate course that appeals to psychology majors and non-majors because it meets several general education and transfer credit requirements.”

Professional Studies

  1. Fermentology: on the culture, history, and future of fermented foods, by NC State University Public Science Lab (2021). License: CC BY
    “Fermentology is a series of talks and related resources about the culture, history, and science behind the foods you have at home. It began as a project of the NC State University Public Science Lab, with support and partnerships from the NC State University Libraries and the Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics at the University of Copenhagen. In this website you will find the lectures (captured via Zoom and posted to YouTube), some of which are transcribed and enriched with media, web resources, recipes, and more. Come back often, to taste and see. This is just the start(er).”

  2. Foundations in Digital Marketing: Building meaningful customer relationships and engaged audiences, by Rochelle Grayson, BCcampus (2022). License: CC BY
    “Foundations in Digital Marketing is a textbook intended to introduce marketing students to the world of digital marketing. The book covers fundamental frameworks, practical applications, and online tools that can all be applied to build and execute a cohesive and engaging digital marketing strategy.”

Technology & Design

  1. Coastal Dynamics by Judith Bosboom and Marcel J.F. Stive, TU Delft (2021). License: CC BY-NC-SA
    “This textbook on Coastal Dynamics focuses on the interrelation between physical wave, flow and sediment transport phenomena and the resulting morphodynamics of a wide variety of coastal systems. The textbook is unique in that it explicitly connects the dynamics of open coasts and tidal basins; not only is the interaction between open coasts and tidal basins of basic importance for the evolution of most coastal systems, but describing the similarities between their physical processes is highly instructive as well. This textbook emphasizes these similarities to the benefit of understanding shared processes such as nonlinearities in flow and sediment transport.”
  1. Dredging Engineering: Special Topics by Sape A. Miedema, TU Delft (2019). License: CC BY-NC-SA.
    “In dredging, production estimating is carried out mainly with analytical physical models of the different dredging processes. Slurry transport of settling slurries and cutting processes in sand, clay and rock are already covered in two other books by the author. Other processes like hopper sedimentation and erosion, water jet fluidization, cutter head spillage, pump/pipeline dynamics and clamshell dredging are covered in this Special Topics Edition.”

City Tech O.E.R. team
Cailean Cooney, Assistant Professor, OER Librarian: ccooney@citytech.cuny.edu
Joshua Peach, Adjunct Reference & OER Librarian: jpeach@citytech.cuny.edu
Rachel Jones, Adjunct Librarian

New and Noteworthy 03/25

March 25, 2022 / / 0 Comments

New and Noteworthy is the City Tech Library O.E.R. Team’s bi-weekly roundup of new and noteworthy O.E.R. We try to include at least one O.E.R. 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 O.E.R. to share with our colleagues or would like more information about O.E.R. initiatives at City Tech.

Arts & Sciences

  1. An Introduction to African and Afro-Diasporic Peoples and Influences in British Literature and Culture before the Industrial Revolution, by Jonathan Elmore and Jenni Halpin, University System of Georgia (2021).
    License: CC BY-NC-SA
    “Funded by the University System of Georgia’s “Affordable Learning Georgia” initiative, An Introduction to African and Afro-Diasporic Peoples and Influences in British Literature and Culture before the Industrial Revolution corrects, expands, and celebrates the presence of the African Diaspora in the study of British Literature, undoing some of the anti-Black history of British studies.”
  1. forall x: Calgary, by Aaron Thomas-Bolduc, Richard Zach, P. D. Magnus, and Tim Button, University of Calgary (2020). License: CC BY
    “forall x: Calgary is a full-featured textbook on formal logic. It covers key notions of logic such as consequence and validity of arguments, the syntax of truth-functional propositional logic TFL and truth-table semantics, the syntax of first-order (predicate) logic FOL with identity (first-order interpretations), translating (formalizing) English in TFL and FOL, and Fitch-style natural deduction proof systems for both TFL and FOL. It also deals with some advanced topics such as modal logic, soundness, and functional completeness. Exercises with solutions are available. It is provided in PDF (for screen reading, printing, and a special version for dyslexics) and in LaTeX source code.”
  1. Introduction to Anthropology, by Jennifer Hasty, David G. Lewis, and Marjorie M. Snipes, OpenStax (2022). License: CC BY
    “Designed to meet the scope and sequence of your course, OpenStax Introduction to Anthropology is a four-field text integrating diverse voices, engaging field activities, and meaningful themes like Indigenous experiences and social inequality to engage students and enrich learning. The text showcases the historical context of the discipline, with a strong focus on anthropology as a living and evolving field.  There is significant discussion of recent efforts to make the field more diverse—in its practitioners, in the questions it asks, and in the applications of anthropological research to address contemporary challenges.  In addressing social inequality, the text drives readers to consider the rise and impact of social inequalities based on forms of identity and difference (such as gender, ethnicity, race, and class) as well as oppression and discrimination. The contributors to and dangers of socioeconomic inequality are fully addressed, and the role of inequality in social dysfunction, disruption, and change is noted.”


Professional Studies

  1. Garde Manger: A Guide to the Cold Kitchen, by William Thibodeaux and Marshall Welsh, LOUIS: The Louisiana Library Network (2021).
    License: CC BY-NC-SA
    “The Garde Manger course is an introduction to the art and craft of the cold kitchen. It is rooted in preservation methods and techniques dating back to the days when the Garde Manger or ‘keeper of the food’ had no refrigeration and needed to preserve food for its wholesomeness. Techniques such as aspics and terrines are making a resurgence in the modern kitchen and a good foundation is important for you to be able to create your own niche as a modern chef. First, learn the old then redefine the new.”

  2. Introduction to Baking and Pastries, by Tammy Rink, LOUIS: The Louisiana Library Network (2021). License: CC BY-NC-SA
    “This introductory text on baking and pastries cover the following topics: baking and pastry equipment; dry ingredients; quick breads; yeast doughs; pastry doughs; custards; cake and buttercreams; pie doughs and ice cream; mousses, Bavarians, and souffle; and cookies. The appendix includes measurement and conversion charts, cake terms, and industry resources.”

  3. Public Health Image Library, by Centers For Disease Control and Prevention (2022). License: Public Domain and Copyright Protected
    “Much of the information critical to the communication of public health messages is pictorial rather than text-based. Created by a Working Group at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the PHIL offers an organized, universal electronic gateway to CDC’s pictures. We welcome public health professionals, the media, laboratory scientists, educators, students, and the worldwide public to use this material for reference, teaching, presentation, and public health messages. Many images are “Public Domain” (free use), but some are “Copyright Protected” (restricted, obtain permission before use).”


Technology & Design

  1. Basic Motor Control by Aaron Lee and Chad Flinn, BCcampus (2020). License: CC BY
    This readily accessible online resource was developed for anyone who has interest in, or works with, AC motors and their associated motor control equipment. Whether you are an electrical apprentice learning about the subject in school or a seasoned journeyperson installing equipment in the field, you will find it easy to navigate through the descriptive text, original diagrams, and explanatory videos to find the exact information you are looking for.
  1. Introduction to Electronics by Tim Grebner, Minnesota State Opendora (2019). License: CC BY-NC
    The advent of electronics has had a profound impact on our lives and impacted nearly every product that we use either directly or indirectly. Without electronics, present day computers, cell phones, stereos, televisions, and the internet would not be possible. And of course, without computers and modern communications tools, society could not have made the huge strides in fields such as medicine, aerospace technologies, meteorology, transportation, agriculture, education, and many others. It is for these reasons that the invention of the transistor is considered as one of the most important technological advancements in history.
  1. Technics and Architecture: The Development of Materials and Systems for Building by Cecil D. Elliott, MIT Open Pres (reprint of 1994 classic).
    License: CC BY-NC-ND 
    In this richly illustrated history Cecil Elliott focuses on a neglected aspect of architecture, the technics of building form. Elliott tells the story in two parts, first covering materials – in chapters on wood, masonry, terracotta, iron and steel, glass, cement, and reinforced concrete – and then systems – including lightning protection, sanitation, lighting, heating, air conditioning, elevators and escalators, fire protection, structural engineering, and acoustics. Each chapter begins with a review of the relevant classical and medieval technology, then focuses on developments over the past two centuries, including related business, political, scientific, or social events where these impinge on development or usage.

City Tech O.E.R. team

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

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