Open Educational Resources (OER)

Faculty Select allows TU faculty to find and access OER content, as well as find and request unlimited-user ebooks for purchase by the library. For OER ebooks, a link is provided to preview the content, along with an option to receive a course-friendly link which instructors can include in their syllabus or Blackboard course site if they choose to adopt the title for their course. For ebooks available for library purchase, faculty can preview the content and submit a short request form asking the library to purchase the book, using their department's allocation of the library collections budget, pending approval by their department's faculty representative.

Provides hundreds of open textbooks in different subjects, with facultyreviews.

Student access to open textbooks, instructor resources, learning tools, and course-ware.

Textbooks written and peer-reviewed by State University of New York faculty, in business, science, math, history, nursing and health sciences, and humanities.

The B.C. Open Collection, formerly the BC Open Textbook Collection, was launched in 2012 to provide open textbooks for the 40 highest enrolled post-secondary courses in British Columbia. It now contains over 1,400 OERs for courses in the arts and humanities, business, education, health professions, sciences, and social sciences.

The College Open Textbooks Collaborative focuses on increasing awareness and adoption of open textbooks for community college and lower-division university classes.

Carnegie Mellon’s OLI provides access to low-cost courses which can supplement or substitute for a traditional textbook.

Searchable online textbooks, with a network of contributors and curators.

A listing posted on M.O.S.T. Commons of the OERs used at the University of Maryland Global Campus, arranged by subject/discipline.

OER Commons is a "digital public libray and collaboration platform" from the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME). The link above will take you directly to a list of post-secondary OER.
NOTE: This site includes materials which cannot be revised or remixed. To exclude these, use the "Conditions of Use" limiter on the left side of the screen. Choose either "No Strings Attached" or "Remix and Share" to only view materials which include all OER permissions.

SUNY's OASIS (Openly Available Sources Integrated Search) allows you to search for many different types of open educational content--textbooks, course materials, simulations, videos, and more. You can also browse OER by subject on the OASIS site.

The Mason OER Metafinder (MOM), from George Mason University, simultaneously searches many of the sites listed above for OER in a variety of formats.

A program of the California State University System, MERLOT II includes over 80,000 OER, comprising instructional content, learning assessments, and course planning tools. The OER available on MERLOT II span across all academic disciplines.

Collections of course materials, designed by teams of professors and librarians.

Open Educational Resources across the curriculum from the University of Michigan University Library.

Lumen has worked with “over 250 colleges and universities across the U.S. to provide sustainable, effective course materials that improve learning.”

CORA is an online collaborative space for sharing, adapting, and experimenting with OER research assignments.