Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 76.57
Liaison Katie Koscielak
Submission Date April 11, 2023

STARS v2.2

Cal Poly Humboldt
IN-41: Textbook Affordability

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.50 / 0.50 Cyril Oberlander
Dean of the University Library
Library
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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 Library has a "Textbooks on Reserve" program that allows students to check out textbooks from 2 to 24 hours. In Fall 2022 nearly 2,250 students took advantage of this program.

List of available reserve items: https://reserves.calstate.edu/humboldt/ List of other OER's available (by discipline: https://libguides.humboldt.edu/openedu


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:

Faculty are eligible to receive from $300 for participating in the Affordable Learning Solutions program (see section AC-11). Additionally, The Press at Cal Poly Humboldt supports editorial services, design and layout, peer-review management, publication in open access, and distribution and marketing for textbook authors at no charge.


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