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    Affordability Advocates

    Affordability Advocates are UTRGV faculty, students, and staff who have dedicated their time and effort to ensure students at UTRGV have equitable access to high-quality course materials at a minimal cost to students.

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    • Dr. Wan-Lin Chang
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    • Viviana Trevino
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Students

UTRGV serves the Rio Grande Valley and beyond via an innovative and unique multicultural education dedicated to student access and success. The University Library is taking great strides to promote student representation, access and success by advocating for students to have affordable textbooks. Through the Textbook Affordability Project, we are engaging faculty in discussions about how they can make a difference in students’ lives by choosing quality teaching materials with little or no cost to students.

Finding Zero and Low Cost Courses

Every semester UTRGV professors report if their course materials will be offered to students at Zero-Cost or Low-Cost.

At UTRGV we define these courses as:

  • Zero-Cost - Courses that have no associated learning materials costs.
  • Low-Cost - Courses that require all learning materials to total less than $40 when purchased.

Course materials are textbooks, courseware/access codes, and software; course materials DO NOT include supplies such as lab coats, goggles, scantron sheets, calculators, or other reusable items.

You can find these courses in ASSIST during registration in three easy steps.

  1. In ASSIST select the term
  2. Click on Advanced Search
  3. In the Attribute section select Zero-Cost Textbook and/or Low-Cost Textbook and search.

Look for these images in ASSIST to see if the course has a Zero or Low-Cost Textbook.

Zero Cost Textbook Logo

Low Cost Textbook Logo

Flyer - Search for courses that use free Textbooks. 1. In ASSIST select the term. 2. Click on Advanced Search 3. In the Attribute section select Zero Cost Textbook and/or Low Cost Textbook and search.

 

Click here to watch a video to learn how to Find Zero and Low-Cost Courses in Assist.

Free Textbooks at the Library

The Library has dedicated resources to acquire unlimited user digital copies of textbooks that have been assigned by faculty. These ebooks can be digitally checked out or downloaded using the Library's Catalog and UTRGV credentials. Below is an alphabetical list of textbooks the library has purchased. If you need access instructions please email the Open Education Librarian at gabrielle.hernandez@utrgv.edu. If you would like to know if your current textbook is available in this format fill out the Affordable Textbook Request Form.

Titles A - C

25 essential skills & strategies for the professional behavior analyst: expert tips for maximizing consulting effectiveness

A comprehensive guide to intellectual and developmental disabilities

Additive Manufacturing Handbook: Product Development for the Defense Industry

Advanced soil mechanics

Agent of change : Adela Soss-Vento, Mexican American civil rights activist and Texas feminist

A kingdom of stargazers astrology and authority in the late medieval crown of Aragon

A nation by design immigration policy in the fashioning of America

American afterlives : reinventing death in the twenty-first century

American Contagions: Epidemics and the Law from Smallpox to COVID-19

American Difference: A Guide to American Politics in Comparative Perspective

An Ideal Theater: Founding Visions for a New American Art

An Introduction To Medical Statistics

And we came outside and saw the stars again : writers from around the world on the COVID-19

Anna May Wong: Performing the Modern

Applied metrology for manufacturing engineering

Applied Predictive Modeling

Applied theories in occupational therapy : a practical approach

Applied tribology : bearing design and lubrication

Archives of Dispossession: Recovering the Testimonios of Mexican Herederas, 1848-1960

Assertive discipline positive behavior management for today's classroom

Assessment in speech-language pathology : a resource manual

Assistive technologies: principles & practice

Assistive Technology

Beating the Devil Out of Them: Corporal Punishment in American Children

Beginning Microsoft Power BI A Practical Guide to Self-Service Data Analytics

Biology of disease vectors

Biomaterials science : an introduction to materials in medicine, 4th edition

Biomaterials science : an introduction to materials in medicine, 3rd edition

Black Mirror and Philosophy : Dark Reflections

Boats, Borders, and Bases : Race, the Cold War, and the Rise of Migration Detention in the United States

Border Patrol Nation: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Homeland Security

Borderlands Curanderos: The Worlds of Santa Teresa Urrea and Don Pedrito Jaramillo

Briefs of leading cases in corrections

Brink's Modern Internal Auditing: A Common Body of Knowledge

Burning Down The House: The End of Juvenile Prison

Business model generation : a handbook for visionaries, game changers, and challengers

"Can we all get along?" : racial and ethnic minorities in American politics

Caperucita en Manhattan

Case Studies on Diversity and Social Justice Education

Catherine the Great : Life and Legend

Celebrity Politics: Image and Identity in Contemporary Political Communications

Change they can't believe in : the Tea Party and reactionary politics in America

Chicana/Latina Education in Everyday Life: Feminista Perspectives on Pedagogy and Epistemology

Claiming Rights and Righting Wrongs in Texas: Mexican Workers and Job Politics during World War II

Clinical methods and practicum in speech-language pathology

Company K

Comprehensive evaluations : case reports for psychologists, diagnosticians, and special educators

Congressional Elections : Campaigning at Home and in Washington

Confrontational citizenship : reflections on hatred, rage, revolution, and revolt

Consultation in psychology: A competency-based approach

Contemporary theorists for medical sociology

Contested Treasure: Jews and Authority in the Crown of Aragon

Cop in the Hood : My Year Policing Baltimore's Eastern District

Corazón de Dixie : Mexicanos in the U.S. South since 1910

Crafts and creative media in therapy

Crook County: Racism and Injustice in America's Largest Criminal Court

Cultural Competence for Public Managers : Managing Diversity in Today' S World

Culturally responsive counseling with Latinas/os

Customs in common

Titles D - F

Defining boundaries in al-Andalus : Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Islamic Iberia

Deformation and fracture mechanics of engineering materials

Developing a healthcare research proposal an interactive student guide

Dialogue interpreting : a guide to interpreting in public services and the community

Disaster epidemiology : methods and applications

Disaster resilience : an integrated approach

Discourse

Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive

Distributed Hydrologic Modeling Using GIS

Doing Critical Literacy : Texts and Activities for Students and Teachers

Do I really have to teach reading? : content comprehension, grades 6-12

Documentation manual for occupational therapy : writing SOAP notes

Documents of the Christian church

Dynamics of media editing

Eating bitterness stories from the front lines of China's great urban migration

Effective practices for children with autism educational and behavioral support interventions that work

El español y la lingüística aplicada

Engaging anthropological theory: a social and political history

Engaging Musical Practices : A Sourcebook for Elementary General Music

En otra voz antología de la literatura hispana de los Estados Unidos

Environmental soil chemistry

Escaping Salem: Other Witch Hunt Of 1692

Essential Leadership Lessons from the Thin Blue Line.

Essentials of cross-battery assessment

Essentials of treatment planning

Essentials of WJ IV cognitive abilities assessment

Essentials of WJ IV tests of achievement

Ethics for behavior analysts

Exercise and disease management

Families living with chronic illness and disability interventions, challenges, and opportunities

Fateful Lightning : A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction

Flamenco: Conflicting Histories of the Dance

Flawless consulting a guide to getting your expertise used

Foundations for Teaching English Language Learners : Research, Theory, Policy, and Practice.

Freedom flyers : the Tuskegee Airmen of World War II

From coveralls to zoot suits : the lives of Mexican American women on the World War II home front

From discipline to culturally responsive engagement : 45 classroom management strategies

From Heaven to Earth : The Reordering of Castilian Society, 1150-1350

From South Texas to the Nation : The Exploitation of Mexican Labor in the Twentieth Century

From the classroom to the courtroom a guide to interpreting in the U.S. justice system

Functional communication training for problem behavior

Titles G - L

Geographic information systems (GIS) for disaster management

Girlhood in the Borderlands: Mexican Teens Caught in the Crossroads of Migration

GIs and fräuleins the German-American encounter in 1950s West Germany

GIS and the Social Sciences: Theory and Applications

Global health law

Golondrina, why did you leave me?

Gone to Texas : A History of the Lone Star State

Groundwater science

Guia para padres y maestros de niños bilingues

Guide to Psychological Assessment with Hispanics

Halfway House: Prisoner Reentry and the Shadow of Carceral Care

Handbook of ethnography

Handbook of social justice theory and research

Hazard mitigation and preparedness : an introductory text for emergency management and planning professionals

Health policy issues : an economic perspective

Heart of darkness

Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics

Household accounts : working-class family economies in the interwar United States

Houston Bound: Culture and Color in a Jim Crow City

Human Being @ Risk Enhancement, Technology, and the Evaluation of Vulnerability Transformations

Imperfect Victims : Criminalized Survivors and the Promise of Abolition Feminism

Indigenous education through dance and ceremony : A Mexica Palimpsest

Integrative nutrition : a whole-life approach to health and happiness

Introduction to Emergency Management

Introduction to Endocrinology

Introduction to Environmental Soil Physics

Introduction to Healthcare Quality Management

Introduction To Healthcare Quality Management, Third Edition

Introduction to linear optimization and extensions with MATLAB

Introduction to management in the hospitality industry

Introduction to marine biogeochemistry

Johns Hopkins evidence-based practice for nurses and healthcare professionals model and guidelines

Kaplan & Sadock's synopsis of psychiatry : behavioral sciences/clinical psychiatry

Key Change : New Musicals for Young Audiences

La Ensenanza en el Aula Bilingue: Content, Language, and Biliteracy

Las aventuras de don Chipote, o, Cuando los pericos mamen

Latinas in the Criminal Justice System : Victims, Targets, and Offenders

Leadership from the Inside Out: Becoming a Leader for Life

Learning and Teaching Early Math : The Learning Trajectories Approach

Learning computer architecture with raspberry pi

Learning in adulthood : a comprehensive guide

Lewis and Clark among the Indians

Linear Algebra Done Right

Linear programming : an introduction to finite improvement algorithms

Literacy and Power

Literacy in the Disciplines: A Teacher's Guide for Grades 5-12

Living for the city migration, education, and the rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California

Los Zetas Inc.: criminal corporations, energy, and Civil War in Mexico

Titles M - P

Machine Learning: A Probabilistic Perspective

Making thinking visible how to promote engagement, understanding, and independence for all learners

Malintzin's Choices: An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico

Management of Healthcare Organizations: An Introduction

Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History

Mathematics and its history : a concise edition

Mean

Medical aspects of disability for the rehabilitation professional

Medical translation step by step : learning by drafting

Metodología de la investigación

Mexicanos : A history of Mexicans in the United States

Mexicans in the Making of America

Miss you like hell

Mixed method design : principles and procedures

MLA guidelines

Modelling transport

Modern blood banking & transfusion practices

Motivational Interviewing in Health Care Helping Patients Change Behavior

Multicultural issues in counseling : new approaches to diversity

Mundos en palabras : learning advanced Spanish through translation

Naturalizing Mexican immigrants a Texas history

Needs assessment

No Mexicans, Women, or Dogs Allowed: The Rise of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement

No-No Boy

Nutrition-focused physical exam : an illustrated handbook

Nutrition Support For The Critically Ill Patient: A Guide To Practice

Offender reentry : beyond crime & punishment

On being a therapist

Organized violence : capitalist warfare in Latin America

Out of the Red: My Life of Gangs, Prison, and Redemption

Plagues in world history

Populism's power : radical grassroots democracy in America

Practical biomedical signal analysis using MATLAB

Practical concepts for Capstone design engineering

Preparing teachers for a changing world : what teachers should learn and be able to do

Principles of Estate Planning, 3rd Edition

Principles of Healthcare Leadership

Prisoner reentry in the era of mass incarceration

Problem solving courts : social science and legal perspectives

Professional Development and Supervision of School Psychologists: From Intern to Expert

Protein NMR spectroscopy : principles and practice

Psychology of disability

Public opinion

Public/Community Health and Nursing Practice: Caring for Populations

Public policy praxis : a case approach for understanding policy and analysis

Titles Q - Z

Racial borders Black soldiers along the Rio Grande

Raza studies : the public option for educational revolution

Readings in Latin American modern art

Rebellion in America : citizen uprisings, the news media, and the politics of plutocracy

Recasting the Vote: How Women of Color Transformed the Suffrage Movement

Reframing the Curriculum: Design for Social Justice and Sustainability

Research methods for science

Research: Successful Approaches in Nutrition and Dietetics

Rethinking Corrections: Rehabilitation, Reentry, and Reintegration

River of hope forging identity and nation in the Rio Grande borderlands

Road to Serfdom

Rodak's Hematology : clinical principles and applications

Sandtray Therapy: A Practical Manual

Sarah Osborn's World: the Rise of Evangelical Christianity in Early America

Seeds of Empire : Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850

Selecting effective treatments : a comprehensive, systematic guide to treating mental disorders

Serial Violence : Analysis of Modus Operandi and Signature Characteristics of Killers

Short circuiting policy : interest groups and the battle over clean energy and climate policy in the American states

Signals and systems using MATLAB

Silencing Gender, Age, Ethnicity and Cultural Biases in Leadership

Sit and Get Won′t Grow Dendrites : 20 Professional Learning Strategies That Engage the Adult Brain

Slaves among Us : The Hidden World of Human Trafficking

Sleuthing the Alamo : Davy Crockett's Last Stand and Other Mysteries of the Texas Revolution

Sport and exercise science : an introduction

Strangers & Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America/ 1970-1846

Supervision essentials for the practice of competency-based supervision

Teaching Gloria E. Anzaldúa: Pedagogy and Practice for Our Classrooms and Communities

Teaching Music Theory : New Voices and Approaches

The accidental history of the U.S. immigration courts : war, fear, and the roots of dysfunction

The art of coaching : effective strategies for school transformation

The bilingual counselor's guide to Spanish : basic vocabulary and interventions for the non-Spanish speaker

The Birth of the Anthropocene

The Brownsville Raid

The Canterbury Tales

The creative arts in counseling

The Cycle of Juvenile Justice

The debate on the American Revolution

The economics of killing how the West fuels war and poverty in the developing world

The essential guide to primary care procedures

The handbook of art therapy

The Happiest Song Plays Last

The injustice never leaves you : anti-Mexican violence in Texas

The Kongolese Saint Anthony : Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita and the Antonian movement, 1684-1706

The learning and teaching of geometry in secondary schools : a modeling perspective

The Little Old Lady Killer : The Sensationalized Crimes of Mexico's First Female Serial Killer

The Long Emancipation: The Demise of Slavery in the United States

The Map : A Beginner's Guide to Doing Research in Translation Studies

The Memory of Love

The mentor's guide : facilitating effective learning relationships

The neuroscience of clinical psychiatry : the pathophysiology of behavior and mental illness

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

The New Oxford Annotated Bible : New Revised Standard Version : with the Apocrypha : an Ecumenical Study Bible

The only EKG book you'll ever need

The politics of Roman memory : from the fall of the Western Empire to the age of Justinian

The Poverty Industry : the exploitation of America's most vulnerable citizens

The psychology of gender

The psychology research handbook : A guide for graduate students and research assistants

The Qur'an

The Racial Healing Handbook: Practical Activities to Help You Challenge Privilege, Confront Systemic Racism, and Engage in Collective Healing

The Spanish Frontier in North America: The Brief Edition

The supervisor's guidebook : evidence-based strategies for promoting work quality and enjoyment among human service staff

The trials of Eroy Brown : the murder case that shook the Texas prison system

The Valley: Estampas Del Valle

The white scourge Mexicans, Blacks, and poor whites in Texas cotton culture

The worlds of Herman Kahn : the intuitive science of thermonuclear war

Theories of Delinquency: an Examination of Explanations of Delinquent Behavior

Theories of International Politics and Zombies : Revived Edition

They all want magic curanderas and folk healing

They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South

Thirst for Power: Energy, Water, and Human Survival

Tierra Amarilla: Stories of New Mexico (Cuentos de Nuevo Mexico)

Tools for teaching

Transforming citizenship : democracy, membership, and belonging in Latino communities

Transforming Schooling For Second Language Learners: Theoretical Insights, Policies, Pedagogies, and Practices

Understanding and Reducing Prison Violence

Understanding and using reading assessment, K-12

Unsafe in the Ivory Tower : The Sexual Victimization of College Women

Value proposition design : how to create products and services customers want

Varieties of Spanish in the United States

Vénus noire : black women and colonial fantasies in nineteenth-century France

Water Sustainablitiy : a global perspective

We Are Not Slaves: State Violence, Coerced Labor, and Prisoners' Rights in Postwar America

We Interrupt This Newscast: How to Improve Local News and Win Ratings, Too

What we have done : an oral history of the disability rights movement

When Abortion was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867-1973

Whiteness on the Border: Mapping the US Racial Imagination in Brown and White

Woman at point zero

Women in the Holocaust : a feminist history

Working lives gender, migration and employment in Britain, 1945-2007

Working with involuntary clients a guide to practice

Working Women into the Borderlands

Y no se lo tragó la tierra

Student Involvement

Vaqueros, your voices matter! The student body and its needs are the driving force behind any university initiative. Here are some ways you can advocate for FREE and AFFORDABLE course materials at UTRGV.

Open Textbooks Guide

  • This detailed guidebook explains the advantages of open textbooks and then lays out specific ways that your college can promote open books. This piece is great to give to librarians, administrators, and other VIPs.

Organizing Toolkit

  • This organizing toolkit for student government provides instructions and tips on how to bring open textbooks to your campus.

OER Student Toolkit

  • A BCcampus Open Education advocacy guide for student leaders allows students to take action and advocate for Open Educational Resources on campus.

Making Open Educational Resources: A Guide for Students by Students

  • This book will introduce you to the idea of Open Educational Resources (OER), where to find them, why we recommend using them, and how to go about creating your own.

Script for Talking to Professors

  • Students can use this script to have a conversation with their professors about considering adopting Open Educational Resources to use as their primary teaching resource.

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