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Industry Information / Open Educational Resources (OER)

OER, BOR, ALG, and Other College Cost-Saving Acronyms

- by University Press of North Georgia

Since 2013, Affordable Learning Georgia (ALG), a University System of Georgia (USG) Board of Regents (BOR) initiative, has saved more than 1.1 million USG students over 143 million dollars by funding and advocating Open Education Resources (OER) through grants and partnerships with eCore, eMajor, and the University of North Georgia Press (UNGP), ALG’s University Press Partner. If you’re a USG instructor who gets excited by these numbers and would jump at the opportunity to craft high-quality, innovative new resources driven by high impact practices, allow us to introduce you to some of the year’s best ALG grants for completing your dream project.

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Industry Information / Open Educational Resources (OER)

How to Skip Textbook Costs Without Falling Behind

- by Ariana Adams

The fall semester is upon us, and college students are making their annual pilgrimage back to the classroom. There’s a certain jittery excitement that accompanies the beginning of a new semester–a chance to start over, begin again with a clean slate. Possibilities are endless for students looking out over the expanse of a not-yet-experienced school year, and while this excited flutter is often felt in many students’ hearts, it is also usually accompanied by a certain nauseous feeling that can only be one thing–sticker shock.

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Interviews / Press News

What Authors Don’t Know About Book Marketing

- by Ariana Adams

As interns who have gotten the opportunity to work with the UNG Press staff for the past year, we learned a lot of surprising, little known facts about publishing. Many of these facts regard book marketing, and we were shocked at how multi-faceted the promotional process is and how little authors seem to truly know about it or the way academic publishers work. Therefore, we felt it was important to get down to the fundamental reasons why potential authors should consider publishing with a university press.

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