Tips for Searching OER:
Browse purveyors and websites that host openly licensed materials. OER can range from open access textbooks, to lesson plans, to educational videos, to interactive websites, and more.
Started by POD and LeighAnn Tomaswick, community contributed resources for open/free virtual simulations.
The Open Research Library (ORL) is planned to include all Open Access book content worldwide on one platform for user-friendly discovery, offering a seamless experience navigating more than 20,000 Open Access books. This vital infrastructure is slated to comprise the most comprehensive collection of peer-reviewed Open Access books accessible for everyone.
Open Textbooks by Subject from the University of Massachusetts Lowell Library
OER by Discipline from West LA College
OER Collections/Repositories/Images from Michigan State University
Find eTextbooks, course materials, online courses, journals/articles, and colleagues
George Mason University Libraries one-stop searchbox for Open and Affordable Educational Resources
Use Advanced Search to search by content type. You can search on "Textbook" and a subject area.
Take online courses from the world's top universities for free. Below, you will find 1,500 online courses from universities like Stanford, Yale, MIT, Harvard, Oxford and more.
A broad collection of journals and ebooks with emphasis on humanities and social sciences. Publishers include numerous university presses and scholarly societies.
Here are a few steps you might take in the evaluation process. If this process seems lengthy, think about the process you follow to review textbooks and other materials for your course. You can use a similar or modified evaluation process to that.
This research guide was produced by Nicole Arnold and Nicole Carpenter, built off the work of Allegra Swift at UCSD and Elizabeth Salmon at UC Merced.
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