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.
- In ASSIST select the term
- Click on Advanced Search
- 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.
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.Alphabetical List of Textbooks at the Library
Titles A - C
A comprehensive guide to intellectual and developmental disabilities
Agent of change : Adela Soss-Vento, Mexican American civil rights activist and Texas feminist
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
And we came outside and saw the stars again : writers from around the world on the COVID-19
Applied metrology for manufacturing engineering
Applied theories in occupational therapy : a practical approach
Applied tribology : bearing design and lubrication
Assertive discipline positive behavior management for today's classroom
Assessment in speech-language pathology : a resource manual
Beginning Microsoft Power BI A Practical Guide to Self-Service Data Analytics
Biomaterials science : an introduction to materials in medicine, 4th edition
Biomaterials science : an introduction to materials in medicine, 3rd edition
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
Business model generation : a handbook for visionaries, game changers, and challengers
"Can we all get along?" : racial and ethnic minorities in American politics
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
Comprehensive evaluations : case reports for psychologists, diagnosticians, and special educators
Confrontational citizenship : reflections on hatred, rage, revolution, and revolt
Consultation in psychology: A competency-based approach
Contemporary theorists for medical sociology
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
Titles D - F
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
Distributed Hydrologic Modeling Using GIS
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
Eating bitterness stories from the front lines of China's great urban migration
El español y la lingüística aplicada
Engaging anthropological theory: a social and political history
En otra voz antología de la literatura hispana de los Estados Unidos
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
Exercise and disease management
Families living with chronic illness and disability interventions, challenges, and opportunities
Flawless consulting a guide to getting your expertise used
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 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
Titles G - L
Geographic information systems (GIS) for disaster management
GIs and fräuleins the German-American encounter in 1950s West Germany
GIS and the Social Sciences: Theory and Applications
Golondrina, why did you leave me?
Guia para padres y maestros de niños bilingues
Handbook of social justice theory and research
Health policy issues : an economic perspective
Household accounts : working-class family economies in the interwar United States
Human Being @ Risk Enhancement, Technology, and the Evaluation of Vulnerability Transformations
Indigenous education through dance and ceremony : A Mexica Palimpsest
Integrative nutrition : a whole-life approach to health and happiness
Introduction to Healthcare Quality Management
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
Las aventuras de don Chipote, o, Cuando los pericos mamen
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
Lewis and Clark among the Indians
Linear programming : an introduction to finite improvement algorithms
Literacy in the Disciplines: A Teacher's Guide for Grades 5-12
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
Mathematics and its history : a concise edition
Medical translation step by step : learning by drafting
Metodología de la investigación
Mexicanos : A history of Mexicans in the United States
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
No Mexicans, Women, or Dogs Allowed: The Rise of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement
Nutrition-focused physical exam : an illustrated handbook
Offender reentry : beyond crime & punishment
Organized violence : capitalist warfare in Latin America
Out of the Red: My Life of Gangs, Prison, and Redemption
Phytochemicals: Aging and Health
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
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
Public policy praxis : a case approach for understanding policy and analysis
Titles T - Z
Racial borders Black soldiers along the Rio Grande
Raza studies : the public option for educational revolution
Readings in Latin American modern art
Reframing the Curriculum: Design for Social Justice and Sustainability
Rethinking Corrections: Rehabilitation, Reentry, and Reintegration
River of hope forging identity and nation in the Rio Grande borderlands
Rodak's Hematology : clinical principles and applications
Sandtray Therapy: A Practical Manual
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
Signals and systems using MATLAB
Silencing Gender, Age, Ethnicity and Cultural Biases in Leadership
Sport and exercise science : an introduction
Supervision essentials for the practice of competency-based supervision
Teaching Gloria E. Anzaldúa: Pedagogy and Practice for Our Classrooms and Communities
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 creative arts in counseling
The debate on the American Revolution
The economics of killing how the West fuels war and poverty in the developing world
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 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 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 psychology research handbook : A guide for graduate students and research assistants
The Spanish Frontier in North America: The Brief Edition
The trials of Eroy Brown : the murder case that shook the Texas prison system
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 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
Transforming citizenship : democracy, membership, and belonging in Latino communities
Understanding and using reading assessment, K-12
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
What we have done : an oral history of the disability rights movement
Whiteness on the Border: Mapping the US Racial Imagination in Brown and White
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
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.
- 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.
- This organizing toolkit for student government provides instructions and tips on how to bring open textbooks to your campus.
- 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.
