LibGuides: Open Education Resources: Find Resources

About this guide

Thank you to Lindsey Gumb of Roger Williams University who authored the guide which was the basis for this guide, and to the University of Massachusetts-Amherst Libraries which maintains a guide on teaching and learning with open education resources.

Search for OER and Open Textbooks


Search OER Commons, a repository of OER textbooks, activities, video, images, case studies, etc. Search by keyword, subject, material type, and education level.		Search the Open Textbook's Library's growing catalog of free, peer-reviewed, and openly-licensed textbooks. Explore the library's books to see if an open textbook fits your course's and students' needs.

Open Textbooks

Open textbooks come in a variety of downloadable formats (PDF, ePub, .xml, .docx) and can be printed and bound inexpensively for students preferring a hard copy. The open licenses attached to these books give faculty the freedom to pick and choose the parts of a book(s) that they feel will best help students achieve the course learning outcomes.

BC Open Textbook Project
Open textbooks organized by discipline. Run by the University of British Columbia, BC.
College Open Textbooks
Aggregation site with a focus on trying to develop better peer review of OERs. Search by subject, reviews and accessibility. Funded by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
Directory of Open Access Books
Thousands of books from hundreds of publishers.
Libre Texts Chemistry
Course textbooks and supplemental learning resources. Supported by the National Science Foundation and the US Department of Education's Open Textbook Pilot Program.
Merlot
Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching.Tens of thousands of learning modules, tutorials, readings, videos, textbooks, etc., all available (check licensing) for educational use.
OASIS (Openly Available Sources Integrated Search)
Open content from 64 different sources and contains over 160,000 records. Content includes textbooks, simulations, books, course materials, modules, and audiobooks.
OER Commons
Repository of OER materials including textbooks, activities, video, images, case studies, etc. Browse by Subject/Discipline or Material Type.
Open Textbook Library
Most of the content has been peer-reviewed. Run by the Open Textbook Network, an organization of more than 600 higher education institutions.
OpenStax
Peer-reviewed, openly licensed collection of heavily adopted textbooks in introductory level courses. Rice University initiative funded in part by Gates, Hewlett, NSF, and Google.

Images

Music

Simulations

PhET simulations
Interactive, research-based simulations of physical phenomena for free.

Video

Vimeo (Creative Commons)
Browse the Creative Commons licensed videos on Vimeo. Learn about what you can and can't do with other people’s videos on Vimeo to help you share, rework and reuse legally.

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