Merced College Libraries: How do I?...Faculty

Explore the toolkit to learn how faculty librarians can work with you to grow students' research skills.

Welcome! Use this guide to locate important documents unique to the Rising Scholar incarcerated student population.

This purpose of this guide is to provide tips, resources, support, and community for SAC faculty interested in building metacognitive reading practices into their existing curriculum. This guide emphasizes the Reading Apprenticeship (RA) framework supported by the college, which faculty from many college and university campuses find to be helpful for developing metacognitive, critical thinking, and authentic learning experiences for their students across the disciplines.

In October 2019, the American Psychological Association made radical changes its style, especially with regard to the format and citation rules for students writing academic papers. Use this guide to learn how to format and cite your papers using APA Style, 7th edition.

Do you have questions about the role and availability of OER, Open Access, Public Domain, and/or ZTC in your classroom? Start here.

The Guide is geared specifically for OER/ZTC content. It does not address copyright or fair use. It does address Creative Commons. Click this guide to search for materials by discipline.

Here are resources to help understand copyright. There is an explanation of copyright, creative commons licensing and video usage.

Academic Video Online is a comprehensive video subscription. It includes over 70,000 titles spanning a wide range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more.

Films Media Group serves the education community through its four brands: Films for the Humanities and Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.

The Artstor Digital Library is a resource containing over 2 million images from the world's museums, archives, libraries, scholars, and artists. Use Artstor to find images for papers, presentations, and study in the humanities. There's also a set of tools for sharing images, curating groups of images, downloading them directly into PowerPoint presentations, and comparing and contrasting images.