I am calling on professors at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and every university for that matter, to adopt inclusive access textbooks or open educational resources for their classes. Inclusive access is digital course content offered by publishers at a reduced cost by volume discounts, while open educational resources allow students to download and share course content for free. Both models would substantially reduce the financial burden on students. The University of California-Davis implemented a program with inclusive access textbooks in 2014, and the 3,000 students who used them saved over $1 million. If the over 25,000 students at UNL used these textbooks, they could be a combined $8.3 million richer.
http://www.dailynebraskan.com/opinion/beach-inclusive-access-oer-sound-alternatives-to-increasingly-expensive-textbooks/article_6a99ba12-4c6f-11ea-b4f7-67292e8890a6.html
