LibGuides: OER (Open Educational Resources): OER Platforms

OER Search Engines

OER Metafinder
The OER Metafinder is a real-time, simultaneous search across all the content of 17 different sources of open educational materials.
CC (Creative Commons) Search
Search for free content in the public domain and under Creative Commons licenses. CC Search searches images across 19 collections pulled from open APIs and the Common Crawl dataset, including cultural works from museums (the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cleveland Museum of Art), graphic designs and art works (Behance, DeviantArt), photos from Flickr, and an initial set of CC0 3D designs from Thingiverse. Use this prototype to find images that you can use and remix across several open archives.
OASIS
Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) is a search tool that aims to make the discovery of open content easier. OASIS is being developed at SUNY Geneseo's Milne Library.

Open Textbook Collections

Openstax College
Initiated by Rice University, their free textbooks are developed and peer-reviewed to ensure they meet the scope and sequence requirements of college courses.
Teaching Commons
The Teaching Commons brings together high-quality open educational resources from leading colleges and universities. Curated by librarians and their institutions, the Teaching Commons includes open access textbooks, course materials, lesson plans, multimedia, and more.
OER Commons
Provides college-level open textbooks from higher education institutions around the world.
SUNY Open Textbooks
With the initiative of the SUNY Libraries, Open SUNY Textbooks publishes high-quality, peer-reviewed textbooks for use in higher education.
Saylor Academy
Collection of freely available open textbooks for download, online reading, and sharing.
BC Campus OpenEd
Open textbooks for the 40 highest enrolled first- and second-year subject areas in the British Columbia's public, post-secondary system.
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OpenTextbookStore
A free collection of mathematics-related open textbooks. Includes supplements and a link to order print copies of the book.
Textbook Equity
Creator, publisher, distributor, and seller of open textbooks and ancillary materials to college-level students.
Bookboon
European eBook publisher with 1000+ textbooks freely available to download. E-books are primarily in business/economics, engineering/natural sciences and IT.
Lumen Learning
Supports faculty in identifying and selecting high quality OER, aligning these to learning outcomes, and assembling them to create OER-based courses.
MIT Open CourseWare/ MIT Open Learning Library
MIT OpenCourseWare is a free and open collection of material from thousands of MIT courses, covering the entire MIT curriculum. It has been creating new opportunities for millions of learners and educators, sharing Open Educational Resources (OER) from MIT and helping to lead a global revolution in free access to knowledge.

OER Repositories

AMSER (Applied Math and Science Education Repository)
Portal of educational resources and services built specifically for use by those in community and technical Colleges.
California Open Online Library for Education (Cool4Ed)
Library of free open source textbooks and other materials from the State of California Higher Educations Systems.
Internet Archive
This library contains downloadable free courses, video lectures, and supplemental materials from universities across the globe.
The OrangeGrove
Florida's digital repository for instructional resources.
Preprint Archive Service
This platform brings together LawArXiv, SocArXiv, PsyArXiv, and engrXiv to enable users to search across pre-prints in these fields.
TeachOER
A guide to Open Educational Resources across the web by discipline and by type (e,g, lesson plans, assignments, etc).
Standard Ebooks
Using public domain books from Project Gutenberg, volunteers clean up the formatting and make the books available for download in multiple formats.
Open Courseware Consortium
Free and open collection of high-quality learning materials presented in the form of courses.
Open Course Library
Collection of shareable course materials, including syllabi, course activities, readings, and assessments.