With support from Lilly Endowment, Inc., the PALSave Textbook Creation Grants Program is funding the creation of new OER textbooks. Applications for the 2023-2025 cohort closed on January 15, 2023.
Program Resources (licensed CC BY): Informational Session Video and Slides (November 1, 2022), Call for Proposals, Application, Rubric, Timelines, Lead Author Agreement, Kickoff Slide Deck, Author Guidelines, Content Tracker Template, Suggested Third-party OER Contributor Guidelines, and Peer Review Guide.
PALNI’s PALSave Textbook Creation Grants Program awarded funding to faculty members from PALNI-supported institutions to create open textbooks. These resources will be freely available on the web, reducing costs to students enrolled in courses in the future. Financed with support from Lilly Endowment Inc., each author will receive up to a maximum of $5,000 with a cap of $6,500 per proposal. The grants run in overlapping two-year cohorts.
Faculty members from PALNI-supported institutions were invited to submit textbook creation proposals for courses they teach, covering any discipline at the undergraduate or postgraduate level. Proposals for textbooks geared toward a specific field of study, which meet the inclusion criteria for the Open Textbook Library were sought.
For questions about the program, or the requirements, please contact palsave@palni.edu.
Congratulations to the awardees!
| Cohort | Lead Author(s) | Institution | Textbook Working Title |
| 2021-2023 (pilot) | James McGrath | Butler University | The Bible and Music |
| 2021-2023 | Nathan Willowby | Anderson University | Morality for Professionals: Developing a Moral Conscience through Christian Virtue Ethics |
| 2021-2023 | Scott Kaschner & Amber Russell | Butler University | Linear Transformations on Vector Spaces |
| 2021-2023 | Paul Bible & Lucas Moser | Marian University | An Open Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms |
| 2021-2023 | Yuriko Ikeda & Julia Baumgardt | Marian University | Comunidades |
| 2022-2024 | Cara Miller | Anderson University | Writing and Digital Media |
| 2022-2024 | Arbin Thapaliya | Franklin College | Ultrasound Physics and its Application in Medicine |
| 2022-2024 | Mark Latta | Marian University | Social Action Writing: Public Narratives and Methods of Community |
| 2023-2025 | Karen Jones | Huntington University | Curriculum Development for Christian Ministry |
| 2023-2025 | Cibele Webb | Saint Mary’s College | Concepts of Evidence-Based Practice and Nursing Research Methods |
| 2023-2025 | Vanessa Young | Saint Mary’s College | Comparative Vertebrate and Human Anatomy: Ecology, Evolution, and Function |
| 2023-2025 | Jennie Mitchell | Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College | Leveraging Data Visualization to Communicate Effectively |
| 2023-2025 | Angela Pacheco-Gonzalez | Taylor University | Cultures and Civilizations of the Hispanic Countries |
| 2023-2025 | Laura Merrifield Wilson | University of Indianapolis | The Exciting Dynamics of State and Local Government |
| 2023-2025 | Jennifer Abbott | Wabash College | Public Speaking and Democratic Participation: Speech, Deliberation, and Analysis in the Civic Realm, 2nd ed. |