Find teaching materials
From books to videos, the Libraries has resources that can help support you and your students in the classroom.
Open Educational Resources (OERs)
Open Educational Resources are ...
... any educational resources such as textbooks, tutorials, handouts, quizzes, videos, etc.
... that have an open license, which allow users to reuse, redistribute, revise, remix, and retain resources.
Looking to search the widest possible collection of OER? Search here.
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George Mason University's OER MetafinderIn conjunction with Deep Web Technologies, University Libraries is developing a search engine that simultaneously queries more than a dozen sources of educational materials–content that is open access and immediately available for use in your courses. We’re still adding search targets but today our OER Metafinder searches fifteen sites and returns the top 250 or so hits from each site.
Case study resources
Fee-based case study publishers include Harvard Business Publishing, HEC Montreal, Ivey Publishing, WDI Publishing. These publishers require instructors to license cases individually or by building course packs. These publishers often don't allow academic libraries to purchase their cases. Therefore, students will have to pay for access to each case you assign from these publishers.
JMU Libraries subscribes to several case study resources that have no additional costs for students to use.
Library databases
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SAGE Business Cases This link opens in a new windowPeer-reviewed cases from real world situations to instruct researchers and future businesspeople in best practices for future success. Includes cases in accounting, ethics, entrepreneurship, leadership, marketing, and more.
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SAGE Business Data Decisions This link opens in a new windowOffers multi-part data challenges across fields such as entrepreneurship, international business, marketing, operations managements, and strategic management.
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SAGE Research Methods This link opens in a new windowA compilation of books, reference works, journal articles, and instructional videos from across the social sciences that helps users learn various research methodologies.
Journals and books
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Journal of Business Cases and ApplicationsPeer-reviewed journal dedicated to applied cases and exercises developed for classroom use in business education.
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Society for Case ResearchThis organization publishes three scholarly journals containing case studies: Business Case Journal (BCJ); Journal of Case Studies (JCS); & Journal of Critical Incidents (JCI).
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Search for books using Library SearchSearch for case studies by including your discipline as a keyword or subject (i.e., “information technology”) and limiting the Subject to “case studies.”
Open access resources
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Case Consortium at Columbia University.Our case collection includes "teaching" cases for the fields of journalism, public policy, public health, and other disciplines. Nearly all the cases are multimedia and based on original research; a few are written from secondary sources. All cases are offered free of charge.
