You can certainly curate a collection of articles from the CRC Library databases to help create a zero textbook costs (ZTC) course. However, this would not be an open educational resource (OER) and would not qualify for the OER Conversion Grant. The reason is that many academic articles you find in the library databases are not freely available online and even if they're published openly, many will not have an open license which would allow for revision or remixing.

The idea behind the OER Conversion grant is that you will adopt or help create newly remixed OER for a course so that other faculty who teach the same topic either in the college, district, state, or beyond can see that it is possible to teach the subject matter using openly licensed material.

As a side note, though a collection of academic articles can be a powerful learning tool, you are strongly cautioned about building a class solely around instructor-created class notes and/or a collection of websites, which could jeopardize California State University and University of California articulation agreements. More details are available in the FAQ: Is OER acceptable for articulation agreements?