Finding OER
OER search engines
- OER metafinder
The Mason OER Metafinder (MOM) searches across multiple OER textbook repositories
- OASIS Search for openly available content
An OER textbook search engine from SUNY Geneseo
- EBSCO Discovery OER Search
Searches across multiple open textbook sites for OER.
- Creative Commons Image Search
Search online for images that can be used for free (with attribution)
You can also do a Google Advanced Search and set the Usage Rights to "Free to use, share, or modify" to locate OER.
OER subject guides
- OER by Subject - OASIS
Search for OER by subject via SUNY-Geneseo's search tool
- Discipline-Specific Resources from VC/UHV Library
A list of large, popular repositories of OER separated by subject.
- OER guides by subject
Google Docs made by Portland Community College librarians in response to requests for help from instructors.
OER Textbook Collections
- OpenStax
An initiative of Rice University, this site provides access to peer-reviewed titles in a variety of fields.
- Open Textbook Library
Hundreds of complete, open college-level textbooks. Many include peer-reviews.
- BC OpenEd
A curated collection of open textbooks, many reviewed by British Columbia faculty.
- Saylor.org
Saylor offers full courses online. Their texts and content may be useful in your own courses.
- CSU Cool4Ed
California State University System's showcase for courses that use open e-textbooks
- Boundless (Lumen Learning)
Free online textbooks, now somewhat dated.
- American Institute of Mathematics Textbooks
A list of open textbooks in various subdisciplines of Mathematics approved by the AIM editorial board.
- Open Access Texts
OER textbooks in Mathematics and Physics
- Libre Texts
A collection of OER from across the U.S.
- WikiBooks
A collection of open-content, collectively written textbooks (similar to Wikipedia).
Broader Open Access Book Collections
(Note: these are free to access, but not necessarily available to revise and remix as OER are)
- OAPEN: Open Access Publishing in European Networks
Freely accessible academic books, primarily in the humanities and social sciences.
- Springer Open Access Books
Open access academic books and chapters.
- IntechOpen
High quality academic books in the sciences
- National Academies Press
Freely available books in the sciences, engineering, and medicine.
- DOAB: Directory of Open Access Books
A central site for accessing open books
- Project Gutenberg
The full text of more than 50,000 classic public domain works.
- Google Books
A massive collection of scanned books, with full-text available for those in the public domain.
OER Courses
- Canvas Commons
NAU's new LMS has an option to search for course packs, resources and materials shared by the international community using Canvas. Just click on the Commons link in your Canvas dashboard.
- Coursera
Large library of MOOCs, some of which have material freely licensed for re-use.
- EdX
Library of college-level courses from a variety of high-profile universities. Some materials are freely licensed for re-use.
- Johns Hopkins School of Public Health Open Courseware
Open public health courses and materials.
- Lumen Learning
Offers complete courses composed of mostly open materials that can be copied and adapted for free. Lumen also offers partnering with institutions to manage and adapt resources for courses at a cost to students.
- MIT Open Courseware
Open access courses from MIT.
- Noba - Psychology Modules
A series of modules in the field of Psychology from Introductory courses to more advanced topics.
- Open Course Library
The WA Open Course Library project offers 81 of Washington's most enrolled courses. There are a lot of great readings in these course files.
- OpenLearn
Open Learning initiative from the Open University in the UK.
- Open Learning Initiative
Complete courses from Carnegie Mellon University.
- Open Michigan
Open courseware from the University of Michigan.
- Open Yale Courses
Open access to a selection of introductory courses taught at Yale University.
- Oxford University Podcasts
Open Oxford U audio and video series.
- Saylor.org
Saylor offers full courses online. Their texts and content may be useful in your own courses.
OER Repositories
- Merlot
This repository is one of the biggest and best known places to find and share teaching resources.
- OER Commons
Seeks to collect and distribute a variety of OER at various levels and in many subject areas.
- Library of Congress Digital Collections
A large and growing collection of digitized historical material
- Digital Public Library of America
Images, text, video, and sounds from across the U.S.
- Galileo Open Learning materials
OER from throughout the University System of Georgia.
- Open Culture
A repository of free resources on culture and education, in all formats.
- Community of Online Research Assignments (CORA)
A place to find open access educational resources for library instruction.
Multimedia OER Collections
- Creative Commons Search
Search online for images that can be used for free (with attribution)
- Critical Commons
Many media clips for use in teaching, mostly available under Fair Use guidelines.
- DnaTube
Free science and medical videos
- HippoCampus
A repository of multimedia academic content developed primarily for high school and college students.
- Jamendo
Royalty-free music available to use in videos.
- Khan Academy
Hundreds of short educational videos covering many subjects; especially strong collections in science and math
- Moving Image Archive
Free films and videos from Internet Archive
- PhET
Interactive simulations for science and math (mostly OER).
- PRIMO
Peer-reviewed instructional materials online, "created by librarians to teach people about discovering, accessing and evaluating information in networked environments."
- Public Domain Review Images, Films, and Audio
Collections in the public domain.
- TED
A well-known collection of CC-licensed talks on topics of all sorts.
- Vimeo
A wide variety of video content, some of which is open access.
- Wikimedia Commons
Free, high quality images for research.
Open Texts for Rural Arizona
The Open Textbooks for Rural Arizona initiative is a grant project funded by the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education (FIPSE) through the U.S. Department of Education. Led by Yavapai College, a consortium of eight Arizona rural community colleges, was formed to increase student cost savings through access to Open Educational Resources (OER).
The initiative already has a series of open texts being used by Arizona Community College faculty, many of which are in courses that meet the AGEC standards.
Texts are available online via the OER Commons here (link opens in a new window).