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Roman Koshykar: Good afternoon i'm Roman Koshykar, Computing and Information Sciences Librarian here at the RIT Libraries, and today I
want to briefly give a tour of our newest or one of our newest electronic resources, O'reilly for Higher Education.
Roman Koshykar: This is a subscription we have had since
Roman Koshykar: right around the beginning of the Fall 2021 Semester.
Roman Koshykar: it did take a little time for us to set up our and configure our subscription but
Roman Koshykar: Everything should be working in a permanent fashion, at this point, and my intention today is to point out
Roman Koshykar: what is contained in the O'reilly for Higher Education subscription,
Roman Koshykar: what does it provide for us,
Roman Koshykar: and how to find things in the O'reilly for Higher Education
Roman Koshykar: resource. You can log in to O'reilly for Higher Education or OHE, and I think for simplicity, I will call it OHE for the rest
of the afternoon. You can log into this as a database and use their interface, or you can also access
Roman Koshykar: individual resources, as you find them in searches of the library catalog or the Summon discovery tool.
Roman Koshykar: There is also a guide page here on our guides system called Accessing O'reilly for Higher Education at RIT, and that is
an infoguides.rit.edu/ohe.
Roman Koshykar: And
Roman Koshykar: as you can see here all students and employees have access to this subscription.
Roman Koshykar: The platform includes books, videos, learning paths, case studies, interactive tutorials, and audio books. RIT users get
access to content from O'reilly, which is a well known technical publisher.
Roman Koshykar: Really anybody that's ever taken a computer programming class has probably come across one of their books, at
some point.
Roman Koshykar: But the name is deceptive, because many other publishers participate in this platform and make their books and content
available through this system.
Roman Koshykar: So it's a little bit of a misnomer to call it O'reilly for Higher Education, but because they produce the platform, they
gave it their name and, as you might imagine all of O'reilly's own books can be found through this system, there is just so much more to be
found in there.
Roman Koshykar: It's also important to note that this resource is not only for the kind of students that are in the college that I serve as
the librarian for; this resource can genuinely help out anybody studying in any field at RIT.
Roman Koshykar: It really is that broad.
Roman Koshykar: It covers so much more than and we have been surprised as librarians to find how much more other than programming
this resource covers.
Roman Koshykar: How do you log in? We have some instructions here and I'll get to that in a moment. I'm not going to spend a lot of time on
this third page, but I just at this point, want to simply point out that O'reilly does have a
Roman Koshykar: mobile app for both Apple and Android devices and, if you would like to access the content on O'reilly for Higher
Education, you can get into our subscription using their mobile app.
Roman Koshykar: And I have instructions here on this third page of the guide. Not going to demonstrate that, but I want everyone to know
that it's there if they prefer to do that.
Roman Koshykar: How to log into O'reilly for Higher Education - it works with RIT's single sign on system much the way that myCourses and RIT's Google application suite and many other things on campus work with.
Roman Koshykar: So follow the link here, and the first way again is to log into OHE as a database,
Roman Koshykar: and I'll do that momentarily, and then the second would be to locate individual titles in the library catalog.
Roman Koshykar: and
Roman Koshykar: Maybe we can take a look at that briefly right now.
Roman Koshykar: So if I wanted to search for
Roman Koshykar: Python programming
Roman Koshykar: Now, many more books from many other systems and ebook platforms are entered into our catalog.
Roman Koshykar: But you'll notice that this one, Expert Python programming, the fourth edition, is available through O'reilly Electronic
Books.
Roman Koshykar: Similarly, if you go into our Summon search from the library's main website
Roman Koshykar: say I want to learn about Python programming.
Roman Koshykar: Again, there are a number of ebooks from many different places, although result number five here says it's a learning path
and learning paths are one of those content types in OHE that I want to talk about.
Roman Koshykar: So
Roman Koshykar: know that the individual resources, books and videos to be specific, are entered into our library catalog and can be
found in other searches, such as searches of our Summon search tool.
Roman Koshykar: But if we go into the O'reilly for Higher Education database
Roman Koshykar: provides unlimited access, so that's good to know, to over 45,000 titles, including O'reilly ebooks in early release and
their whole back catalogue as well.
Roman Koshykar: Many hours of video, case studies from top companies, learning paths, expert playlists.
Let's take a look to see what these different types of content are.
Roman Koshykar: I'm going to log in as myself.
Roman Koshykar: and
Roman Koshykar: Again there's a search box here, you can search for anything you're interested in learning about, but as you begin
to navigate the the content itself you'll see the expert playlists come up. So what are expert playlists? Let's go back to my guide, to the
Viewing and Sharing Content page.
Roman Koshykar: Expert playlists are curated lists of books and videos on any one given topic that somebody over there, working for
O'reilly, has put together.
Roman Koshykar: An expert playlist on statistics for data science using Python I can, if I was a student studying that, get a bunch of
resources, all in one place. Video lessons, books to read, and so on, just by clicking on that expert playlist.
Roman Koshykar: As you start to use this system more you'll see that recommendations are made, based on your
Roman Koshykar: previous viewing habits and logging in as yourself with your RIT credentials kind of ties it to your personal account. Then
there are the learning paths - what are the learning paths? These are more focused on video.
Roman Koshykar: Video tutorials and lessons. Now some of you may be familiar with LinkedIn Learning, which is another
Roman Koshykar: e-learning system that we provide access to here at RIT. Learning paths in O'reilly for Higher Education are kind of the
closest correlation to that LinkedIn Learning style of presenting content, where you can watch videos in sequence on a particular
course, although
Roman Koshykar: it's not necessarily as formally organized as a course. If you look at the link out from my guide it goes to O'reilly's
own guide explaining what these learning paths are.
Roman Koshykar: O'reilly for Higher Education contains learning paths in IT and business from many different publishers and it kind of shows you that you
can look at different modules get learning objectives. You'll find
Roman Koshykar: a video player and go in, so this kind of if you have used LinkedIn Learning before, this
Roman Koshykar: probably would be a little bit familiar here, so if I were to go into the learning path for clean code, then I can begin watching
some videos on that particular topic and use that as a self study on brushing up on that topic, then there are the case studies and I
think for
Roman Koshykar: the way that technology and business intersect, these case studies will be very valuable for the students not only our
college of business, but in many other colleges around RIT as well.
Roman Koshykar: So if you're interested in
Roman Koshykar: any of these case studies - How Spotify uses Machine Learning - I like to use Spotify, I listen to music on Spotify all the
time. If I wanted to
Roman Koshykar: learn more about what goes on under the hood in Spotify, then that would be a fantastic resource to learn from.
Roman Koshykar: And then the recently added content here.
Roman Koshykar: The newest books and videos, popular videos,
Roman Koshykar: popular books and so on kind of go down to the bottom, so that's kind of how they arrange their
Roman Koshykar: main page here and, again, you can search for anything by topic.
Roman Koshykar: And you can explore various topics.
Roman Koshykar: So if you're interested in business, career development, data, any of these will be further subdivided as well.
Roman Koshykar: So we can go into career development, and professional communication,
Roman Koshykar: and presentation skills. Now I have, using their categorization, gotten down to a pretty specific topic. So if I want to learn
about presentation skills and improve my presentation skills, here are a whole bunch of books, learning paths, and videos that I can
delve into.
Roman Koshykar: And if I want to start saving information, I can follow this topic so that i'll be notified of any new additions that fit under the
category of presentation skills.
Roman Koshykar: Or, I can start cobbling together my own playlist of the books and videos or perhaps learning paths that I want to
focus in on from this set.
Roman Koshykar: I want to go back to my guide to talk a little bit about playlists.
Roman Koshykar: So
Roman Koshykar: playlists
Roman Koshykar: can
Roman Koshykar: be something that you just create for yourself, a private playlist, but if you don't want to make your playlist private, then it
will be shared with all RIT
Roman Koshykar: O'reilly for Higher Education users. So that's just something to know about here. Playlists can be private, shared with all
RIT users, or shared publicly with all O'reilly users. I don't know how
Roman Koshykar: appealing that is, but say for an instructor teaching a course, they may wish to make a playlist for their students. That's fine,
they just need to know that would not be locked down to students just from their course, it would be available to all of RIT.
Roman Koshykar: And you can access your playlists from
Roman Koshykar: of course I don't remember
Roman Koshykar: Ah, OK so click on shared playlists and then your playlists. So, anything that you create yourself, particularly if it's
private, will be found here.
Roman Koshykar: So that concludes our tour of the O'reilly for Higher Education platform
Roman Koshykar: and
Roman Koshykar: again, the main thing to remember is that we have
Roman Koshykar: our support page, in the form of our Accessing O'reilly for Higher Education at RIT InfoGuide.
Roman Koshykar: And we have cataloged everything - it can be found in the course of other kinds of library research and searching as
well.
Roman Koshykar: But if you get into the OHE system on its own, you can take advantage of their own organizational features and get into
something like expert playlists, or shared playlists, or learning paths, or case studies, and really delve deep into a particular topic.
Roman Koshykar: So thank you for your attention.
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