Overall Rating Bronze
Overall Score 34.79
Liaison Eric Dodge
Submission Date Dec. 30, 2022

STARS v2.2

Hanover College
IN-41: Textbook Affordability

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.50 / 0.50 Eric Dodge
Professor
Economics
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Does the institution host a peer-to-peer textbook exchange program, textbook lending library, or alternate textbook project?:
Yes

A brief description of the textbook exchange program, textbook lending library, or alternate textbook project:
The Hanover College Duggan Library provides copies of high cost textbooks on library reserve. The library through its consortium supports access to the Open Textbook Library.

Does the institution provide incentives for academic staff that explicitly encourage the authorship, peer review, and/or adoption of open access textbooks?:
Yes

A brief description of the incentives to encourage the authorship, peer review, and/or adoption of open access textbooks:
As part of the Private Academic Library Network of Indiana consortium, faculty can obtain stipends for peer review of open textbooks, and can apply for course revision grants to adopt open textbooks, and apply for authorship grants to create open textbooks.

If yes to either of the above, provide:

Website URL where information about the textbook affordability incentives is available:

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