Research Guides: Open Educational Resources at LCC: Business

Business Career Community

The Business Career Community at LCC includes degrees in: Accounting, Business, Economics, Insurance and Risk Management, Management & Leadership, and Marketing

Programs of Study in the Business Career Community
All of the programs in this Career Community offer a path to employment with transfer options or to direct transfer into a four-year or bachelor's degree program. Programs in this Career Community can lead to work in areas such as accounting, business administration, economics, sales, banks and credit unions, human resource management, insurance and risk management, international business, management, and marketing.

Textbook Search: Accounting

Insurance and Risk Management

Merlot-Insurance
Includes Insurance and Risk Management
OER Commons-Insurance

Textbook Search:: Business

OpenStax-Business Category
A list of open textbooks related to various aspects of business, including accounting, economics, and management and marketing
PressBooks Directory- Business
OER Commons-Business

Management & Leadership

Merlot-Management & Leadership

Textbook Search: Economics

OER Commons-Economics

Marketing

OER Commons-Marketing
eMarketing: The Essential Guide to Marketing in a Digital World - 7th Edition
Since our 10th Anniversary Edition of eMarketing: The Essential Guide to Marketing in a Digital World, we have witnessed a global wave of change that has had an undeniable impact on how we live, connect, and communicate worldwide. There is no doubt that the COVID-19 pandemic has, and will continue to have, a lasting effect on human reality. With this in mind, we are incredibly proud to present the 7th Edition of our textbook.

Broad Textbook and Materials Search Tools

LibreText Commons-Business
The LibreText Commons hosts curated Open Educational Resources from all 16 libraries in the LibreVerse in one convenient location. We believe everyone should have access to knowledge and we are happy to share our OER corpus to everyone completely free.
Merlot
The MERLOT collection consists of tens of thousands of discipline-specific learning materials, learning exercises, and Content Builder webpages, together with associated comments, and bookmark collections, all intended to enhance the teaching experience of using a learning material. All of these items have been contributed by the MERLOT member community, who have either authored the materials themselves, or who have discovered the materials, found them useful, and wished to share their enthusiasm for the materials with others in the teaching and learning community.

All the materials in MERLOT are reviewed for suitability for retention in the collection. Many undergo the more extensive "peer review" for which MERLOT is famous. MERLOT presents annual awards for various categories of materials added to or used in the collection. As described in Material Link Checking and Removal, all material URL's in the collection are reviewed frequently for sustainability.
MIT OpenCourseware
Since 2001, MIT OpenCourseWare has been creating new opportunities for millions of learners and educators, sharing Open Educational Resources (OER) from MIT and helping to lead a global revolution in free access to knowledge.

MIT OpenCourseWare continues to build on this foundation. With a new web platform, ever-growing content, and collaborations across the vibrant open education ecosystem, we're creating a world of more equitable and inclusive education for all.

LCC Library Resources

The Library provides access to databases that contain e-books, journals, images, videos, and more that can be used to supplement textbooks and course materials. Although these are not OER, they are free to LCC students and can be linked to in D2L. Learn about library resources as course materials.

Find E-Books
You can link to e-books from databases in D2L. You can link to the entire book, a chapter of a book, or specific pages. Contact your library liaison with questions.

Business and Economics Research Databases

Business and Economics Research Guides

Business Planning
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Company and Industry Information
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International Business
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Example Texbooks: Accounting

Principles of Managerial Accounting
Principles of Managerial Accounting is an innovative open access textbook that is intended to be watched as much as it is read. Users learn fundamental managerial accounting principles by reading about the concepts in the text immediately followed by watching short videos where the concepts are applied in demonstration problems. Each chapter contains detailed written explanations of fundamental managerial accounting concepts such as cost behavior, cost classifications, job costing, cost volume profit analysis, incremental decision making, budgeting, and variance analysis. Video Illustrations are embedded within the written text to actively demonstrate the accounting concepts. Each chapter is concluded with a series of comprehensive Practice Video Problems in which the concepts are applied to unique business situations. This textbook is particularly suited for distance education courses, hybrid courses, personal interest self-study, or any other circumstance in which users don’t receive the educational benefits from traditional, in-person lectures.
Principles of Accounting, Vol. 1 Financial Accounting
Principles of Accounting is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of a two-semester accounting course that covers the fundamentals of financial and managerial accounting. Due to the comprehensive nature of the material, we are offering the book in two volumes. This book is specifically designed to appeal to both accounting and non-accounting majors, exposing students to the core concepts of accounting in familiar ways to build a strong foundation that can be applied across business fields. Each chapter opens with a relatable real-life scenario for today’s college student. Thoughtfully designed examples are presented throughout each chapter, allowing students to build on emerging accounting knowledge. Concepts are further reinforced through applicable connections to more detailed business processes. Students are immersed in the “why” as well as the “how” aspects of accounting in order to reinforce concepts and promote comprehension over rote memorization.

Example Textbooks: Business

Fundamentals of Business-4th edition
Fundamentals of Business, 4th Edition is an open education resource intended to serve as a no-cost, faculty-customizable primary text for one-semester undergraduate introductory business courses. It covers the following topics in business: Teamwork; economics; ethics; entrepreneurship; business ownership, management, and leadership; organizational structures and operations management; human resources and motivating employees; managing in labor union contexts; marketing and pricing strategy; hospitality and tourism, accounting and finance, personal finances, and technology in business. The textbook was designed for use in Virginia Tech’s Pamplin College of Business introductory level business course, MGT1104 Foundations of Business and is shared under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial ShareAlike 4.0 license.