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New and Noteworthy OER 11/12

November 12, 2025 / / 0 Comments

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.

African American Studies

Business

Computer Systems Technology

  • InfoTech Governance, Policy, Ethics & Law, by David Tuffley, Griffith University (2025). License: CC BY-NC
    “ A comprehensive guide to IT governance, policy, ethics and law for students, practitioners and researchers. Covers the latest developments and best practices in the field, with a focus on the ethical, legal and social implications of IT. The textbook is divided into nine chapters, each covering a key topic in IT governance, policy, ethics and law.”

Construction Management Technology / Civil Engineering Technology

  • Excel for Contractors, by Barbara Lave, Nick Bredleau, Hallie Puncochar, Julie Romey, Mary Schatz, and Art Schneider, Open Oregon Educational Resources (2025). License: CC BY
    “This Beginning Excel textbook is intended for use in a one-term introductory spreadsheet course with an emphasis in the use of Excel for Building Construction Programs. The basics of Excel, as they apply to the professional workplace, are introduced, including spreadsheet design, data entry, formulas, functions, charts, tables, and multi-sheet use.”

Health Sciences

  • Health Information Management: Unlocking the Power of Data in Healthcare, by Sheree Lloyd, Joel Scanlan and Sallyanne Wissmann, Council of Australian University Librarians (2025). License: CC BY-NC
    “This comprehensive textbook captures best international practice for health information management (HIM) and is focused on the practical needs of current and aspiring health information managers. The text includes evolving and innovative approaches for health information and data management from across the world. The text provides a comprehensive overview of HIM principles, including data governance, electronic health and medical records (EHRs/EMRs), privacy and security regulations, and health informatics. It explores the role of HIM professionals in improving healthcare delivery, enhancing patient outcomes, and supporting clinical decision-making. Through case studies and practical examples, readers will gain insights into the challenges and advancements in HIM, preparing them for a dynamic and evolving healthcare environment.” 
  • Therapeutic Communication for Health Care Administrators Game Simulations, by Kimberlee Carter, Marie Rutherford, and Connie Stevens, Conestoga College (2022). License: CC BY-NC-SA
    These resources are intended for learners preparing for positions in front-line health care settings. These OER are intended to be used as companion resources to the digital text Therapeutic Communication for Health Care Administrators. It was identified that many existing resources do not address the communication skills of the health care administrator role. The game simulations and associated digital text address the gaps while also providing essential digital resources that can be used in remote, hybrid, or face-to-face delivery formats.

Hospitality Management

  • Facilities Management for Foodservice Managers, by Tracy Rieger, EcampusOntario (2025). License: CC BY-NC-SA
    “Facilities Management is a broad based discipline focused on coordinating the physical environment, people, and organizational processes to effectively meet the needs of the users. From strategic planning, design and workflow to sustainable practices and infection prevention and control this guide provides an overview of the responsibilities of the Nutrition and Food Service Manager in supporting the goals of facilities management.”
  • Introduction to Hospitality, by Alice L. McLean, Meagan A. McGuire and Angela Senter, Washington Open ProfTech (2025). License: CC BY
    “Introduction to Hospitality is a vital guide that gives students a foundational understanding of the hospitality and tourism industries. The authors offer an overview of each sector, encouraging readers to pursue further education in their chosen career paths.” 

Human Services

  • Social Justice & Advocacy in Human Services, by Cailyn F. Green, Bernadet DeJonge, Nikki Golden, Kim Brayton, Carrie Steinman and Shannon Raybold, Milne Open Textbooks (2025). License: CC BY
    “Social Justice & Advocacy in Human Services delves into the complex realm of social justice, offering a deep dive into historical roots and theories to practical applications in the field. This text covers fundamental concepts, including power, privilege, and oppression, and explores critical issues like racism, gender, sexuality, poverty, religion, and disability in the context of the United States. The last section of the book hones in on the field of human services, discussing power, privilege, and bias in this context, and lastly exploring equitable distribution, human rights, and the systems and entry points within human services practice.” 

Nursing

  • Nursing Fundamentals 2e, by Ernstmeyer & Christman – Open Resources for Nursing (Open RN), WisTech Open (2024). License: CC BY
    “Nursing Fundamentals introduces students to the foundational principles of nursing practice, including the scope of nursing, effective communication techniques, and caring for diverse client populations. Using the nursing process as a framework, this textbook covers essential concepts such as safety, oxygenation, comfort, spiritual well-being, grief and loss, sleep and rest, mobility, nutrition, fluid and electrolyte balance, and elimination. It also addresses nursing care for clients with integumentary disorders and cognitive or sensory impairments. Each chapter includes interactive learning activities, such as case studies and NCLEX Next Generation-style questions, to help students develop clinical judgment and apply their knowledge to real-world client-care scenarios. Designed for aspiring nurses, this resource provides a solid foundation for delivering compassionate, evidence-based care in a variety of healthcare settings.” 
  • Nursing: Mental Health and Community Concepts – 2e, by Ernstmeyer & Christman – Open Resources for Nursing (Open RN), WisTech Open (2024). License: CC BY
    “Mental Health and Community Concepts focuses on stress management techniques, healthy coping strategies, and preventative interventions to promote mental well-being. This textbook examines nursing care for individuals with specific mental health and substance use disorders, while also introducing the nurse’s role in community health assessments and caring for vulnerable populations. With an emphasis on holistic, patient-centered care, this resource equips nursing students with the knowledge and skills to address mental health challenges and support community health initiatives. Interactive learning activities and real-world scenarios are included to help students apply concepts to practice, making this an essential guide for those preparing to work in mental health and community healthcare settings.” 

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
Sara Sarmiento, Adjunct Reference and Instruction Librarian

New and Noteworthy OER 10/24

October 24, 2025 / / 0 Comments

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

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.”

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

New and Noteworthy OER 12/03

December 3, 2021 / / 0 Comments

New and Noteworthy is the City Tech Library OER Team’s bi-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. Advanced Public Speaking, by Lynn Meade, University of Arkansas (2021). License: CC BY
    “This advanced public speaking textbook is designed to encourage you as a speaker and to help you sharpen your skills. It is written to feel like you are sitting with a trusted mentor over coffee as you receive practical advice on speaking. Grow in confidence, unleash your personal power and find your unique style as you learn to take your speaking to the next level–polished and professional.”
  1. Genetics, Agriculture, and Biotechnology, by Walter Suza, Iowa State University & Donald Lee, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (2021). License: CC BY-NC-SA
    “This textbook provides an introduction to plant genetics and biotechnology for the advancement of agriculture. A clear and structured introduction to the topic for learners new to the field of genetics, the book includes: an introduction to the life cycle of the cell, DNA and how it relates to genes and chromosomes, DNA analysis, recombinant DNA, biotechnology, and transmission genetics.”

  2. Climate Lessons: Environmental, Social, Local, by Marja Bakermans, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (2021). License: CC BY-NC
    “Anthropogenic climate change is one of the, if not the most, pressing issues of our times. The problems that it causes range across many social and environmental domains from habitat and species loss and displacement to the more human and social concerns and issues of access to water, sea level rise that affects coastal communities, to economic degradation as a result of the aforementioned and other connected issues such as increased frequency of storms, droughts, wildfires, and the like. […] This book was co-authored by undergraduate students at Worcester Polytechnic Institute while exploring the influences of Earth systems and human systems on climate change and the communities at most risk in an interdisciplinary project-based first year course. This course attempts to bring together knowledge of the science of ecological and climate systems and their changing status with knowledge of the social and communal structures within which these systems are embedded and through which they have been influenced. The book highlights key interests and insights of current students in their quest to think through these issues and to create a better world.” 

Professional Studies

  1. A Long Goodbye: Ed and Mary’s Journey with Lewy Body Dementia, by Adele Baldwin; Stephen Anderson; Michael Inskip; Kellie Johns; David Lindsay; Bronwyn Mathiesen; and Marie Bodak, James Cook University (2021). License: CC BY-NC-ND
    “This book, built around Ed’s journal, chronicles Ed’s experiences as a carer following his wife Mary’s diagnosis with Lewy body dementia.  Students and experienced health professionals are rarely afforded such an insight into how their words and actions are interpreted by, and impact upon patients, families and friends. Ed’s Story provides information and education resources related to dementia care.  Although specifically focusing on Lewy body dementia, the resources are transferable to caring for people with any type of dementia. The freely available resources are suitable for use by students in the health professions, educators, formal and informal carers.”

  2. Human Resources in the Food Service and Hospitality Industry, by The BC Cook Articulation Committee, BC Campus (2015). License: CC BY
    “Human Resources in the Food Services and Hospitality Industry is one of a series of Culinary Arts open textbooks developed to support the training of students and apprentices in British Columbia’s foodservice and hospitality industry. Although created with the Professional Cook, Baker and Meat cutter programs in mind, these have been designed as a modular series, and therefore can be used to support a wide variety of programs that offer training in food service skills.”

  3. Introduction to Entrepreneurship, by Katherine Carpenter, Kwantlen Polytechnic University (2021). License: CC BY-NC-SA
    “Learn about entrepreneurship and what makes entrepreneurs successful, all while developing your entrepreneurial skills.”

  4. Nursing Fundamentals, by Open Resources for Nursing (Open RN), Chippewa Valley Technical College (2021). License: CC BY
    “This book introduces the entry-level nursing student to the scope of nursing practice, various communication techniques, and caring for diverse patients. The nursing process is used as a framework for providing patient care based on the following nursing concepts: safety, oxygenation, comfort, spiritual well-being, grief and loss, sleep and rest, mobility, nutrition, fluid and electrolyte imbalance, and elimination. Care for patients with integumentary disorders and cognitive or sensory impairments is also discussed. Learning activities have been incorporated into each chapter to encourage students to use critical thinking while applying content to patient care situations.”

Technology & Design

  1. Architecture as a Way of Seeing and Learning: The built environment as an added educator in East African refugee camps, by Nerea Amorós Elorduy (2021). License: All Rights Reserved. Open Access publication to share and read.
    “Presents an architect’s take on questions many academics and humanitarians ask. Is it relevant to look at camps through an urban lens and focus on their built environment? Which analytical benefits can architectural and design tools provide to refugee assistance and specifically to young children’s learning? And which advantages can assemblage thinking and situated knowledges bring about in analysing, understanding and transforming long-term refugee camps?…Crossing architecture, humanitarian aid and early childhood development, this book offers many practical learnings.”

  2. Graphic Design and Print Production Fundamentals, by Graphic Communications Open Textbook Collective, BCCampus. License: CC BY
    “This textbook — written by a group of select experts — addresses the many steps of creating and then producing physical, printed, or other imaged products that people interact with on a daily basis. It covers the concept that, while most modern graphic design is created on computers using design software, the ideas and concepts don’t stay on the computer. The ideas need to be completed in the computer software, then progress to an imaging (traditionally referred to as printing) process…Each chapter includes exercises and suggested readings.”

  3. Technology, Media Literacy, and the Human Subject: A Posthuman Approach, by Richard S. Lewis, Open Book Publishers (2021). License: CC BY
    “Informed by postphenomenology, media ecology, philosophical posthumanism, and complexity theory the author proposes both a framework and a pragmatic instrument for understanding the multiplicity of relations that all contribute to how we affect—and are affected by—our relations with media technology.”

  4. Introduction to Communication Systems: An Interactive Approach Using the Wolfram Language, by Victor S. Frost, University of Kansas (2021). License: CC BY-NC
    “This ebook provides a unique pedagogical approach to teaching the fundamentals of communication systems using interactive graphics and in-line questions. […] Interactive graphics allow the students to engage with and visualize communication systems concepts. Interactivity and in-line review questions enables students to rapidly examine system tradeoffs and design alternatives. The topics covered build upon each other culminating with an introduction to the implementation of OFDM transmitters and receivers, the ubiquitous technology used in WiFi, 4G and 5G communication systems.”


Cailean Cooney, Assistant Professor, OER Librarian: ccooney@citytech.cuny.edu
Rena Grossman, Adjunct OER Librarian: rgrossman@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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