Digital Resources & Initiatives 

Axe Digital

The Leonard H. Axe Library Digital Collections contain selected material from the Axe Special Collections and Archives pertaining primarily to Southeast Kansas and Pittsburg State University. The collections specialize in printed materials from Southeast Kansas, its culture and inhabitants, and the correspondence, libraries, business files and memorabilia of significance to Southeast Kansans. All printed items are listed in the Library catalog. 

Photographs, correspondence, manuscripts, and other non-print materials are cataloged in the Special Collections Reading room. For more information and a complete listing of Collections available visit the Special Collections and Archives web site.

PSU Digital Commons Repository

PSU Digital Commons is the university's Institutional Repository that is powered by Bepress. Digital Commons houses the scholarship produced by faculty, staff, and students (undergraduate and graduate). Other items housed within the repository are works relating to the University Archives, Research Colloquium, Electronic Theses, and a variety of items reflecting institutional memory.

Open Educational Resources

Open educational resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others. Open educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge. 
"OER defined" by The Hewlett Foundation is licensed under a CC BY 3.0 license

For more information regarding OER at PSU, visit our Subject Guide or Open Pitt Repository, or contact the Center for Teaching and Learning - OER (CTLT) regarding past and future campus events on OER.