Open Educational Resources: General OER Resources

Created through an Ohio Department of Higher Education Grant, the Open Ed. Collaborative has full courses available for many of Ohio's high enrollment courses. They can be adopted in full or in part to reduce the costs of course materials for students.

Creative Commons' Guide to the different licenses available to those creating OER's

Creative Commons' Resources for OER Creation

The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of Open Access books.

A community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.

A collection of open textbooks aligned with the top 40 highest-enrolled subject areas in British Columbia. Managed by the Canadian Government

The Digital Commons Network provides free access to full-text scholarly articles and other research from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. Curated by university librarians and their supporting institutions, this dynamic research tool includes peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work.

Designed to help students develop critical thinking skills by exploring topics in history, literature, and culture through primary sources.

Welcome to #GoOpenVA where teachers are empowered to support personalized learning for all their students by creating, using and sharing openly-licensed digital resources.

The Mason OER Metafinder searches seventeen targets in real-time, instantly returning the top several hundred or so most relevant hits from each site. Because it is a real-time search, it can take a bit longer than searches of pre-indexed, curated content; however, as compensation the results returned are absolutely up-to-the-minute for each search target.

The MERLOT collection consists of tens of thousands of discipline-specific learning materials, learning exercises, and Content Builder webpages.

OCW Educator helps education professionals navigate the vast library of openly licensed MIT teaching materials available on MIT OpenCourseWare. Explore Instructor Insights to discover how MIT instructors teach with these materials on campus, and freely select and adapt their explanations, examples, and simulations to help concepts come to life in your own classroom.

OAsis is the Commonwealth of Learning’s online institutional repository for learning resources and publications. The publications found here are licensed under Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 and can be freely downloaded for reuse and adaptation with attribution to COL (exceptions are noted).

From a single point of access in OER Commons, you can search, browse, and evaluate resources in OER Commons' growing collection of over 50,000 high-quality OER.

Low cost and open textbooks from The Ohio State University.

A collection of open educational resources (OER) from University of Michigan

Open Library is a project of the non-profit Internet Archive, and has been funded in part by a grant from the California State Library and the Kahle/Austin Foundation.

A project of Rice University, OpenStax offers quality college textbooks for general education courses. Ancillary resources are available for many of these textbooks.

The Open Textbook Library provides a growing catalog of free, peer-reviewed, and openly-licensed textbooks.

Project Gutenberg offers over 56,000 free eBooks: Choose among free epub books, free kindle books, download them or read them online. You will find the world's great literature here, especially older works for which copyright has expired.

Welcome to Smithsonian Open Access, where you can download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian’s images—right now, without asking. With new platforms and tools, you have easier access to nearly 3 million 2D and 3D digital items from our collections—with many more to come. This includes images and data from across the Smithsonian’s 19 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo.

A collection of 49,038,256 freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute