LibGuides: Open Educational Resources: Find OER

Additional Guides to OER

The following LibGuides from other institutions include extensive information about OER resources by discipline.

Disciplinary Open Educational Resources, on the Iowa State University OER Guide
Lists OER resources organized by discipline.
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"Disciplinary Open Educational Resources" by Abbey Elder, Iowa State University Library is licensed under CC BY 4.0
OER by Discipline Guide: University of Ottawa
OER by discipline for courses taught at the University of Ottawa.
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OER by Discipline Guide: University of Ottawa (Version 1.0 - June 2021) by Mélanie Brunet is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
University of Illinois Guide to OER
This guide includes an overview of OER as well as discipline-specific resources.
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"Open Educational Resources (OER)" by Scholarly Communication and Publishing, University of Illinois Library is licensed under CC BY 2.0
OER by Discipline Curated Lists (ASCCC)
The Academic Senate of California Community Colleges OER curated lists
OER by Discipline Guide University of Calgary

Find OER textbooks

The following sites have links to OER textbooks and some ancillary materials. Many textbooks are linked by more than one site.

Open Textbook Library
This referatory links to open textbooks and provides faculty reviews of these materials. A service of the Open Education Network.
OpenStax
Free, Creative Commons-licensed educational materials including textbooks from Rice University.
BC Campus OpenEd
University of British Columbia's portal for open textbooks and ancillary materials.
UC Davis STEMwikis
Collaborative OER projects in Chemistry, Biology (biowiki.ucdavis.edu), Geology (geowiki.ucdavis.edu), Statistics (statwiki.ucdavis.edu), Physics (physwiki.ucdavis.edu), Math (mathwiki.ucdavis.edu)
Open Textbook Initiative of the American Institute of Mathematics
Open access and open source mathematics textbooks. All materials have been evaluated according to criteria set by the AIM board.

Find additional open content for teaching and learning

The following links allow you to search aggregated collections of OER textbooks, other Open learning and course materials, and additional materials related to creating and using OER, such as textbook reviews and course overviews.

OASIS search tool
Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) is a search tool that aims to make the discovery of open content easier.
Mason OER Metafinder
"The Mason OER Metafinder helps you find Open Educational Resources. ... The OER Metafinder launches a real-time, simultaneous search across 22 different sources of open educational materials: well-known OER repositories like OpenStax, OER Commons, MERLOT but also sites like HathiTrust, DPLA, Internet Archive and NYPL Digital Collections where valuable but often overlooked open educational materials may be found."
MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching)
A collection of open textbooks and course materials. A program of the Cal State University system.

The following links let you search very broadly for all kinds of materials that have Creative Commons licenses, such as images, audio and video files.

CCSearch
Searching at Creative Commons allows you to find images, sound, and video files that have Creative Commons licenses.
Google Advanced Search
Google Advanced Search lets you limit your search by usage rights. If you filter by "free to use share and modify" you will find openly licensed materials.

OER Courseware

The following links let you search for open course materials such as syllabi, video lectures and demos, and other course materials. Some of the courses use commercial textbooks rather than open textbooks, and those are not available.

OER resources

In addition to links to textbooks and other materials, the websites listed below present additional information such as discussion boards, blogs, and event calendars related to OER.

OER Commons
A public digital library of OER materials and discussion groups for instructors.
Open Washington
A site on Open Educational Resources managed by the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges.
Open Oregon
A site documenting and championing Open Educational Resources adoption and creation in Oregon public higher education.