Research Guides: Open Educational Resources: OER

Where to find OER

BC Campus OpenEd
Open textbook project of the institutions of British Columbia, Canada.
Directory of Open Access Books
Academic, peer reviewed books published as open access.
Fundamentals of Business
The full-color 440+ page openly-licensed and free online textbook created by a partnership between the Pamplin College of Business and Virginia Tech Libraries.
InTech
InTech is a repository of almost 2500 open access books in the fields of physical sciences, engineering, technology, life sciences, health sciences, social sciences and humanities.
LibreTexts
Created by UC Davis, an online platform for the construction, customization, and dissemination of open educational resources
MERLOT
Online teaching, learning, and faculty development services. Content builder allows for creating materials to contribute to the collection.
Milne Open Textbooks (previously SUNY Open Textbooks)
A catalog of open textbooks authored and peer-reviewed by SUNY faculty and staff.
Noba
Repository of leaning objects related to psychology -- includes textbooks, powerpoints, instructor manuals and test banks.
OAPEN
Freely accessible academic books concentrated in the area of humanities and social sciences.
OASIS Books
Search this collection of 2,000 textbooks from top OER publishers, including: College Open Textbooks, Open Textbook Library, BC Campus, Teaching Commons, and LibreTexts
OER Commons
OER Commons is a public digital library of open educational resources, supported in part by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management [ISKME]

Where to find OER

Next Generation Learning Challenges
Resources for K:12 educators.
Open Access Digital Theological Library
OADTL provides free access to over 150,000 theological ebooks and over 2,500 journal titles.
Open Book Publishers
High quality research books available to read for free online, download, reuse or embed anywhere.
Open Course Library
Initiative of Washington State providing sharable materials including syllabi, course activities, readings and assignments.
Open Culture Textbooks
Compilation of 200 free textbooks from a wide variety of publishers.
Open Michigan
Open educational resources from the University of Michigan -- including videos, lectures and more.
OpenStax
Free, peer-reviewed college and AP-aligned textbooks.
Open Textbook Library
Openly licensed textbooks in a variety of disciplines that are provided by the University of Minnesota's Center for Open Education and the Open Textbook Library.
Saylor Academy
College Credit courses with learning materials available, including textbooks.
Textbook Equity
Free college level textbooks with Creative Commons Licenses.
Textbook Revolution
Free textbooks available to download as PDF or read online. Also contains educational websites.
Wikibooks
A collaborative open-content textbook project that anyone can edit (with some guidelines to follow.) Books added must be instructional.

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Open Educational Resources: OER

What is OER?

Open Educational Resources are materials freely available for the use of students and professors. This can include textbooks, quizzes, syllabi, games, lectures, lab and classroom activities and more. The intent of this guide is to provide access to reliable sources of OER material.

Where to find OER

Where to find OER

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