OAT Program Update

OAT Program

Rutgers University Libraries is pleased to announce the latest OAT Authoring Awards recipients:

  • Vanessa LoBue (Newark)
  • Ines Rauschenbach (New Brunswick)
  • Sherry Cirignano (New Brunswick)

Awards are $3,500 each and will be funded, respectively, by RUL–Newark, and RUL-New Brunswick.

As of July 2022, Rutgers University Libraries have issued 183 Open and Affordable Textbooks (OAT) Awards to Rutgers faculty, saving students approximately $6.25 million. Additionally, in 2021 and 2022 the Libraries provided Authoring Awards for the creation and development of a completely new Open Educational Resource (OER) textbook. For more information, please visit libraries.rutgers.edu/teaching-support/open-and-affordable-textbooks-program.

Jeff Carroll