About

The White Rose University Consortium is a partnership between the universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York. Established in 1997, it seeks to foster collaboration in teaching, research and knowledge exchange.  The White Rose Libraries have a long history of working together on several initiatives such as the White Rose University Press, White Rose Research Online and White Rose eTheses Online. 

This toolkit is the result of a project looking at developing cross-institutional support for Open Educational Resources (OER). The unsustainable and expensive business models associated with the provision of electronic access to textbooks in recent years has created an environment conducive to open textbook and OER use. OER will become increasingly relevant against a backdrop of restricted library and university budgets, publisher price increases, and the move towards open research and scholarship. 

The project team comprised David Curtis (York), Alison Hazelaar (Leeds), Maria Mawson (Sheffield), Helen Moore (Sheffield) and Simon Robinson (Leeds).

We remain committed to working collaboratively, not only across our three institutions but more widely, and would welcome approaches from other university libraries to work together in the field of Open Educational Resources. 

Advancing the use and creation of OER is central to this project. If you would like support to develop your OER idea please get in touch with us. 

Literature review

White Rose OER survey report

Analysis of comments from UX interviews January 2022 round 1

Analysis of comments from UX interviews April 2022 round 2 

Analysis of comments from UX interviews September 2022 round 3

The White Rose Libraries Open Educational Resources Toolkit launch event video

End of Project report

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