Affordable Learning Ohio: News and Updates

OhioLINK's Inclusive Access Textbook Initiatives: Recap of 2018-2019

It's been a year since OhioLINK negotiated ground-breaking statewide price agreements with six of the major commercial textbook publishers to lower the cost of textbooks for Ohio higher education students. Below is the recap of the last year.

  Click Here for Current Fast Facts Matrix (March 2019): Publishers and Discounts 

News and Press Releases

• OhioLINK Delivers Textbook Savings to Students via Price Agreements with Four Major Publishers: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., McGraw-Hill Education, Pearson and Macmillan Learning News Release 3/22/18
• OhioLINK Partners with Cengage to Help More Than 600,000 College Students Save Money on Course Materials Press Release 11/5/18
• OhioLINK Chooses VitalSource to Improve College Textbook Affordability Press Release 12/11/18

• SAGE Publishing and OhioLINK partner to offer significant discounts on e-Textbooks to students Press Release 01/24/19

• Gwen Evans and Amy Pawlowski named Library Journal Movers and Shakers for being Change Agents as Textbook Dealmakers

• Ohio Faculty Council Resolution on Textbook Affordability Initiatives 10/17

Events and Post-Event Materials

• Panel on Textbook Affordability at the Ohio Governor's State of the State March 2018 News Release 3/8/22
  • A recording of the panel discussion is available here via the OhioLINK Facebook page. Panelists.
• Inclusive Access Immersion Event: Program, Inclusive Access Primer, Recording of Keynote, and panelist materials
• How Libraries Can Lead: slides from panel presentation on the Library's Opportunity in Affordable Textbooks at the Charleston Conference 2018

Other Articles, Writings, and Posts

• Scholarly Kitchen Blog Posts:
  • ​Affordable Learning Requires a Diverse Approach, Part 1: Playing the Short Game (and the Long One) to Secure Savings for Students: The executive director of OhioLINK shares that consortium’s experience instituting a statewide “inclusive access” textbook program–and with the criticism that has come their way as a result. (Part 1 of 2.)
  • Affordable Learning Requires a Diverse Approach, Part 2: Applying Consortial Power to Leverage Student Savings. (Part 2 of 2.)

• ​Gwen Evans (2018) Library Consortia are Poised to Support Affordable Learning in Higher Education, Journal of Library Administration, 58:7, 739-748, DOI: 10.1080/01930826.2018.1514840 (requires subscription)