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Welcome to NETC Student Resource Center : Open Educational Resources (OER)

Providing library services to students, faculty, staff, and community users.

Open Source Textbooks

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PASCAL delivers allows instructors and students access to book from any member library.

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PASCAL  the Partnership Among South Carolina Academic Libraries offers support and guidance in implementing OER, into your classes.

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Did You Know?

The average student should budget $1250 a year for books and supplies. 

- College Board

66% of students have chosen not to purchase a textbook because it was too expensive.

- Chronicle of Higher Education

Over the past decade, textbook prices have risen at over three times the rate of inflation.

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On average, the cost of a new edition of a textbook is 12% higher than the previous one.

Student PIRGs

Just 5 textbook publishers control more than 80% of the 8.8 billion dollar market. 

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