LibGuides: Open Educational Resources (OER): Find OER

Open Textbooks Collection

Open textbooks are free, online learning materials with Creative Commons licenses. Many of the collections will have links to the same books, but each will have a particular focus, and items you can't find in other collections.

Open Textbook Library
Collection of openly-licensed textbooks that been reviewed by faculty from a variety of colleges and universities to assess their quality. The Open Textbook Library is supported by the University of Minnesota Center for Open Education and the Open Education Network.
OpenStax
OpenStax is a nonprofit educational initiative based at Rice University that publishes high-quality, peer-reviewed, openly licensed college textbooks that are absolutely free online and low cost in print.
B.C. Open Textbook
Collection of open textbooks for a variety of subjects and specialties from the B.C. Campus OpenEd. The open textbooks have been reviewed by faculty, meet accessibility requirements, and/or include ancillary materials (quizzes, test banks, slides, videos, etc.).
eCampus Ontario Open Library
Provides educators and learners with access to more than 250 free and openly-licensed educational resources. The library was launched in 2017 in partnership with BCCampus.
Milne Open Textbooks
An open-access textbook publishing initiative established by State University of New York libraries and supported by SUNY Innovative Instruction Technology Grants. They publish high-quality, cost-effective course resources by engaging faculty as authors and peer-reviewers, and libraries as publishing service and infrastructure.
LibreTexts
A non-commercial open textbook organization initiated at the University of California, Davis. Their collection is used across the nation as primary course textbooks and as supplemental learning resources.
PressBooks
A digital publishing space for open access books, that incorporates multimedia and interactive activities, like videos quizzes and H5Ps int to an online accessible textbooks.

OER Repositories

OER repositories contain more than just open textbooks, they are collections created at institutions and by organizations to house, and make easily searchable learning materials, includeing full courses, syllabi, images, presentations, videos, simulations, and many more.

OER Commons
A digital public library and collaboration platform launched by the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME). OER Commons allows searching by material types, educational or grade levels, and subject disciplines.
MERLOT
The Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT) provides access to curated online learning and support materials and content creation tools, led by an international community of educators, learners and researchers.
Open Course Library
A collection of expertly developed educational materials – including textbooks, syllabi, course activities, readings, and assessments – for 81 high-enrollment college courses. This collection was developed by the Washington State Colleges.
Teaching Commons
The Teaching Commons brings together high-quality open educational resources from United States, leading colleges and universities. Curated by librarians and their institutions, the Teaching Commons includes open access textbooks, course materials, lesson plans, multimedia, and more.
Open Syllabus
Open Syllabus is a massive non-profit archive of the main activity of higher education: teaching. It provides top-down views of the curriculum across thousands of schools to support curricular innovation, lifelong learning, and student success.

Subject-Specific Repositories

Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning
The Center for Open Educational Resources & Language Learning (COERLL) is one of 16 National Foreign Language Resource Centers (LRC's) funded by the U.S. Department of Education. Its mission is to produce and disseminate OER for the public.
NOBA Project
Expertly compiled from Noba modules to fit the scope and sequence of common courses. Use them as-is or customize them to fit your needs. Instructor manual, PowerPoint presentations, and test bank available for many modules.
PhET Interactive Simulations
PhET Interactive Simulations project at the University of Colorado Boulder creates free interactive math and science simulations. PhET sims are based on extensive education research and engage students through an intuitive, game-like environment where students learn through exploration and discovery.

Finding Images and Photos

The sources listed here have images and photos that can be downloaded for free with no or limited restrictions. To learn how to attribute openly licensed images go to Creative Commons' Best Practices for Attribution webpage.

Creative Commons Image Search
CC Search is a tool that allows openly licensed and public domain works searches across more than 300 million images from open APIs and the Common Crawl dataset. Aggregates results across multiple public repositories into a single catalog, facilitates reuse through features like machine-generated tags and one-click attribution.
The Gender Spectrum Collection
A stock photo library featuring images of trans and non-binary models that go beyond the clichés. Licensed under CC-BY-NC-ND
Nappy
Beautiful, high-resolution photos of black and brown people.
Pexels
Provides high quality and completely free stock photos. No attribution required.
Pixabay
Provides royalty free photos and videos. Pictures are shared as part of the public domain with people all over the world.
Unsplash
Millions of free high-resolution images created by the world’s most generous community of photographers.
WOCinTech
Free photos of women of color working in technology.
Complete College Photo Library
A free, open-source photo library showing a representative view of authentic college students on real campuses.
Flickr
Flicker is a collection of photos uploaded by the copyright holders. Flickr has a drop-down menu to filter images for Creative Commons Licenses.

Additional Media

Free Music Archive
Royalty Free ad openly licensed music by independent artist around the World. Users can download as well as create new music.
TED Talks
TED is a nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks (18 minutes or less).
Wiki Commons
Wikimedia Commons is a media file repository making available public domain and freely licensed educational media content (images, sound, video clips and 3D models) to everyone.

Open Educational Resources (OER): Find OER

Starting OER Research

Search Multiple OER Repositories at Once

Open Textbooks Collection

OER Repositories

Subject-Specific Repositories

Finding Images and Photos

Additional Media

Acknowledgements and Attribution