Research Guides: Open and Affordable Educational Resources: Find OER

Finding OER

BCcampus OpenEd
Provides open textbook resources as well as training on how to use OER in your courses.
Creative Commons
Browse over 500 million images, available for reuse.
Directory of Open Access Books
Internationally recognized resources for open access textbooks.
The Mason OER Metafinder (MOM)
"The Mason OER Metafinder helps you find Open Educational Resources. Unlike other OER repositories (e.g, OER Commons, MERLOT, OASIS, etc.) with our Metafinder you aren’t searching a database that we built. Many other sites already perform this important curation service and to be honest, we don’t have the time or staff to build or even maintain currency in that sort of database. Instead, our contribution to the progress of Open Education is to concentrate on OER discovery—helping you find current content wherever it resides–even if it’s a new OER title that just dropped earlier today."
MERLOT
A curated collection of free and open online teaching, learning, and faculty development services contributed and used by an international education community. The MERLOT collection consists of tens of thousands of discipline-specific learning materials, learning exercises, and Content Builder web pages, together with associated comments, and personal collections, all intended to enhance the teaching experience of using a learning material.
MIT Open Courseware
MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity. Subject coverage spans the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
OER Commons
OER Commons is a dynamic digital content hub. This includes full courses, modules, syllabi, lectures, homework assignments, quizzes, lab activities, pedagogical materials, games, simulations, and many more resources contained in digital media collections from around the world.
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These searchable collections allow educators to find a variety of materials in different disciplines. Most offer advanced searching options that allow you to narrow what can sometimes be an overwhelming number of results into a manageable list of quality resources. OER Commons and MERLOT are the largest repositories with broadest coverage; the others are more targeted.
OpenStax
Free open-source peer-reviewed textbooks for college courses; primarily in physics, sociology and biology.
OpenStax College is an initiative of Rice University and is made possible through the generous support of several philanthropic foundations, such as The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation & Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Open Textbook Library
A library of open access textbooks that is a tool to help instructors find affordable, quality textbook solutions. All textbooks in this library are complete and openly licensed, and the system allows for peer review.
Shareable Online Learning Resources
"SOL*R is a repository service provided by BCcampus that allows educators to access FREE online learning resources. It facilitates sharing, discovery, reuse, and remixing of a growing collection of content created by BC post-secondary educators."
SUNY Open Textbooks
An open access textbook publishing initiative established by State University of New York libraries and supported by SUNY Innovative Instruction Technology Grants. This pilot initiative publishes high-quality, cost-effective course resources by engaging faculty as authors and peer-reviewers, and libraries as publishing service and infrastructure.

The following links provide resources based on subjects from a LibGuide created by Humboldt State University and University of Texas San Antonio, except where noted.

The following links provide resources based on subjects from a LibGuide created by Humboldt State University and University of Texas San Antonio.

Biology OER
Chemistry OER
Environmental Resources Engineering OER
Environmental Studies OER
Geology OER
Hyperphysics by GSU
Kinesiology OER
MedEd Portal
MedEdPORTAL promotes educational scholarship and collaboration by facilitating the open exchange of peer-reviewed health education teaching and assessment resources
Physics & Astronomy OER

The following links provide resources based on subjects from a LibGuide created by Humboldt State University and University of Texas San Antonio.

American Institute of Mathematics
" All the books have been judged to meet the evaluation criteria set by the AIM editorial board."
American Society for Engineering Education's Open Textbook Guide
BioEngineering OER
Civil Engineering
Computer Science OER
Electrical & Computer Engineering OER
In Tech
A multidisciplinary Open Access publisher of books and journals covering the fields of Science, Technology and Medicine.
InTech has published more than 850 Open Access books, and provides support services for faculty who wish to publish a book or journal and make it available via Open Access.
Mathematics & Statistics OER
Mathworld by Wolfram
Created by Wolfram, the company that created Mathematica.
Mechanical Engineering OER
nanoHUB
nanoHUB.org is the premier place for computational nanotechnology research, education, and collaboration. The site hosts a rapidly growing collection of Simulation Programs for nanoscale phenomena that run in the cloud and are accessible through a web browser. In addition to simulation devices, nanoHUB provides Online Presentations, Courses, Learning Modules, Podcasts, Animations, Teaching Materials, and more.

The following links provide resources based on subjects from a LibGuide created by Humboldt State University and University of Texas San Antonio, except where noted.