Affordable Instructional Materials & Linking to Library Resources Open Education Resources

The OER Commons is a public digital library of open educational sources.

You can quickly search OASIS, the Openly Available Sources Integrated Search, from SUNY.

OASIS has collected over 155,000 records from 52 different sources. The sources include the usual textbooks and course materials, but it also indexes audiobooks, interactive simulations, and podcasts.

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You can also use the George Mason OER Metafinder to search in real-time.

Cornell Open

• New and out-of-print titles from Cornell University Press
• Anthropology, classics, German studies, literary criticism, political science, Slavic studies, and women's studies

DOAB: Directory of Open Access Books

• Open access books, many from academic publishers

Gutenberg

• Free, public domain books

JSTOR Open Access Books

• From university presses
• Over 600 books from El Colegio de México

OAPEN

• Based in the Netherlands
• Work with publishers (many are university presses)
• Languages other than English
• Primarily Social Sciences, Humanities; also Business, Law, Science

Project MUSE Open Access

• From university presses
• Search through the library's Project MUSE platform to locate

Digital Public Library of America

• Links to libraries, archives, and museums
• Includes photographs, maps, news footage, oral histories, personal letters, museum objects, and artwork,

Khan Academy

• Educational videos
• All subjects

Open Culture

• Links to a/v resources from other sites.

Smithsonian Open Access

• images from the Smithsonian Institution

TED-ed

• Engaging short videos
• Curated playlists
• All subjects

Cool4ED

• California Open Online Library for Education
• Textbooks, course materials, courses, and journals
• All subjects

CORA: Community of Online Research Assignments

• Research assignments and teaching toolkits
• Sponsored by Loyola Marymount University Library

Galileo Open Learning Materials

• Open textbooks and materials from Georgia
• Business, Sciences, Social Sciences, Education, Engineering, Fine Arts, Foreign Languages, Philosophy

MERLOT

• Curated online learning and support materials
• International community of educators, learners and researchers.
• Can create course portfolios
• All subjects

MIT OpenCourseWare

• Materials from MIT courses
• Contains assignments, audio, video, and lectures; exams, simulations, and projects

Open Yale Courses

• Lectures, syllabi, suggested readings, and problem sets
• Business, Sciences, Social Sciences, Engineering, Fine Arts, Foreign Languages

UNC Greensboro OER by Subject

• Lists individual repositories for 47 subject areas