LibGuides: Open Educational Resources at UAlbany: Find OERs

OER Search Tools

This group of links provides search engines for locating OER content across platforms and organizations.

Mason Metafinder (MOM)
Federated, multi-search platform for OERs
OASIS
A tool for searching open content from multiple sources such as textbooks, course materials, interactive simulations, open access and public domain resources
ODEPO: Open Database of Educational Projects and Organizations
Search for OER repository sites by organization

This list of links provides general sources where OERs are hosted or available.

Lumen Learning
Offers enriched OER courses materials that can be copied and adapted for free. It also offers data-driven, personalized study plans to guide the students.
Open SUNY Textbook Database
The OER resource for content created by SUNY authors.
OER Commons
A public digital library of open education resources which helps in planning, building OER's and publishing them.
OTL: Open Textbook Library
Repository for free, peer-reviewed, and openly-licensed textbooks.
OpenStax
OpenStax is a repository for high-quality, peer-reviewed, openly licensed educational materials.
MERLOT
Funded by the California State Unviersity System, MERLOT Is a repository of a wide variety of Open Educational Resources and supports.
Open Michigan
Open access to research, teaching and creative works from the University of Michigan.
OKR: Open Knowledge Repository
The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (OKR) is a repository for its research outputs and knowledge products.
Open Course Library
Teaching resources stored as Google Docs for easy reuse, remixing, etc.
Internet Archive OER Library
University lectures, course materials and other content from US and China.
WikiBooks
Textbooks openly editable by anyone.

Sound and Audio

Audio Archive
Free music and audio from the Internet Archive.
BandCamp
Creative Commons - licensed music resources.
CC-Mixter
Openly licensed music for all kinds of projects. Just give attribution to the creator.
FreeSound
Sound effects and other audio samples under Creative Commons licensing.
Wikimedia Commons Sound Repository
Subject directory of sound by source, type and other categories.
Wold Hip Hop Beats
Freely licenced instrumental music in the hip hop and rap genres.

Digital Image, Video and Multimedia

Flickr: Creative Commons Search
Image files from Flickr available under a variety of Creative Commons licenses.
Getty Search Gateway
Open images from the noted Getty Images (J. Paul Getty Trust).
Moving Image Archive
Over 5 million user-uploaded digital movies, films and video. A wide variety of topics and formats.
New York Public Library Digital Collections
Almost one million files of digitized images including maps, manuscripts, photographs, and videos from the New York Public Library's collections.
Open Video Project
Educational shared video collection.Browse by genre, color/b&w, various sub-collections.
Public Domain Project
HIstorical film footage, sound, images and 3D models for reuse, sharing and remixing.
USA.gov: Image Search
Digitized images from the US Federal government.

Guide Authors: Library: Elaine M. Lasda, Associate Librarian and Keerthi Padamata, Radkowski-Lee Graduate Assistant 2019-2020