Loras College Library: OER: Open Educational Resources: Find OER

Use George Mason University's OER Metafinder Search Tool

Mason OER Metafinder searches fifteen of the leading OER repositories with a single query. Users can perform broad queries across all sources or they can search for terms in full record, title, or author(s). They can also specify a date range and narrow their searches to a specific date range.

Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) is a search tool that aims to make the discovery of open content easier. OASIS currently searches open content from 98 different sources and contains 368,234 records. OASIS is being developed at SUNY Geneseo's Milne Library.

OER Repositories: Find OER and Open Textbooks

Open textbooks are free, online learning materials with Creative Commons licenses. Many of the collections will have links to the same books, but each will have a particular focus, and items you can't find in other collections.

Open Textbook Library
Created by the University of Minnesota to support development of high-quality open textbooks in various subjects.
MERLOT Open Textbook
Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT) is a curated resource of free and online textbooks for use in teaching and learning.
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.
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.
OER Commons
Provides college-level open textbooks from higher education institutions around the world.
Saylor Academy
Collection of freely available open textbooks for download, online reading, and sharing.
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.
State University of New York (SUNY) Open Textbooks
With the initiative of the SUNY Libraries, Open SUNY Textbooks publishes high-quality, peer-reviewed textbooks for use in higher education.

OER repositories contain more than just open textbooks. All content featured within these pages is free but usage rights vary. Materials in these repositories are released under a Creative Commons license while some are in the public domain.

MERLOT II
Free, peer reviewed collection of online teaching and learning materials maintained by the California State University System.
OER Commons
Funded by ISKME, OER Commons is a library of OER materials containing over 50,000 high-quality OER.
Openstax CNX (formerly Connexions)
Contains textbooks, articles, supplements, and other learning resources that can be read online or downloaded for free.
The OrangeGrove
Florida's digital repository for instructional resources.
California Open Online Library for Education (Cool4Ed)
Library of free open source textbooks and other materials from the State of California Higher Educations Systems.
Open Education Global
Free and open collection of high-quality learning materials presented in the form of courses.
AMSER (Applied Math and Science Education Repository)
Portal of educational resources and services built specifically for use by those in community and technical Colleges.
Internet Archive
This library contains downloadable free courses, video lectures, and supplemental materials from universities across the globe.

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 OpenCourseware
A web-based publication of materials from thousands of MIT courses. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity.
Saylor Academy
Open Course Library
A collection of high quality, free-to-use courses that you can download and use for teaching. All content is stored in Google docs making it easy to access, browse and download.

CK-12
Math, Science, etc.
CTE Online
Career Technical Education.
Skills Commons
Career Technical education.
PhET Interactive Simulations
Science and math.
The American Yawp
U.S. history.
The Noba Project
Psychology.
Writing Commons
English and writing.

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OER Repositories: Find OER and Open Textbooks