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
- Spectacles in the Roman World, by Siobhán McElduff, University of British Columbia (2021). License: CC BY-NC-SA.
“This is a collection of primary sources on Roman games and spectacles in their various forms, created for a second-year undergraduate class on spectacles in Greece and Rome at the University of British Columbia. This book is intended for use in upper-level academic studies. Content Warning: The content of this book contains animal cruelty and animal death, blood, classism, death, sexual assault, violence, and other mature subject matter and potentially distressing material.” - Atlas Of Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy, SUNY Oneonta (2020). License: CC BY.
“The Atlas of Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy is a photographic guide to the anatomy of the major specimens studied in undergraduate [biology] courses.”
Professional Studies
- Business Writing Style Guide, by John Morris and Julie Zwart, Oregon State University (2020). License: CC BY-NC-SA.
“It is the goal of this book to help students do the following: Apply basic concepts for effective and concise business writing. Compile a well written report acceptable within a business context. Follow a writing process designed for business students. Demonstrate critical thinking, reasoning, and persuasion. Communicate in writing using a business model. Apply resources for improving business writing skills.” - Vital Sign Measurement Across the Lifespan – 2nd Canadian Edition, by Jennifer L. Lapum, Margaret Verkuyl, Wendy Garcia, et al., Ryerson University (2021). License: CC BY.
“The purpose of this textbook is to help learners develop best practices in vital sign measurement. Using a multi-media and interactive approach, it will provide opportunities to read about, observe, practice, and test vital sign measurement.”
Technology & Design
- incite Change | Change insight, by Tim Keane, New Prairie Press (2015). License: CC BY-NC.
“This was the theme of the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) 2015 National Meeting and Conference, hosted by Kansas State University, March 23 – 28, 2015. The call for papers addressing this theme noted: “When we teach, design and serve, we incite change. When we observe change it informs our insight; deepening our understanding, broadening application of acts, processes, representations and the results of creating difference. How do you incite change? How do you change insight? This document contains accepted, peer-reviewed papers which address the theme: incite Change| Change insight within the teaching, creative inquiry, research, outreach, and practice of landscape architecture, its allied arts and sciences.” - Written Communication for Engineers, by Marcella Reekie, Kansas State University, New Prairie Press (2016). License: CC BY.
“This course packet seeks to develop the upper level engineering student’s sense of audience and purpose in a research-based context with workplace constraints. It requires the student to choose a technical topic of interest and research it to solve for a specific problem or to meet a typical industry need by way of several assignments: Unsolicited Research Proposal, Progress Report, Visual Aids, and Oral Presentation, all of which lead to the Formal Report. This approach readies students to write informatively and persuasively in the engineering workplace…”
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
