Open Educational Resources (OERs) by Subject
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Open Access Books
- Open Stax: Rice Connexions is providing peer reviewed, quality open textbooks.
- Open Textbook Library: Hundreds of complete, open college-level textbooks. University of Minnesota collection of open textbooks with full reviews.
- BC OpenEd a curated collection of open textbooks, many reviewed by British Columbia faculty.
- LibreTexts an infinitely large library through which new texts can be developed & shared, and supported by the Department of Education Open Textbook Pilot Project, the UC Davis Office of the Provost, the UC Davis Library, the California State University Affordable Learning Solutions Program, and Merlot.
- Wikibooks: A project of the Wikimedia Foundation, this collection of group written textbooks in a variety of sources follows rules similar to Wikipedia.
- Project Gutenberg: Find the full text of classics and public domain works from the first massive ebook creating organization in existence. Nothing fancy here, just files with the full text.
- Bloomsbury Academic: A well-respected and long time UK publisher who has released some of their academic titles for open access/open education.
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Large Repositories
- OASIS: A large user friendly OER search engine that allows for users to search by subject or by course material type (e.g. textbooks, simulations, audio).
- Mason OER Metafinder (MOM): This search engine from George Mason University is connected to 15 major OER repositories.
- OER Commons: This resource seeks to collect and distribute a variety of OER at a variety of levels and subjects.
- Edsitement!: Learning objects and lessons from the National Endowment for the Humanities. It offers a large collection of peer evaluated websites.
- Google Advanced Search (with "Usage Rights" filter): Use the "Usage Rights" filter on Google's Advanced Search (and Advanced Image Search) to find Creative Commons-licensed works.
- OpenCulture: This blog formatted repository seeks to bring together free resources on culture and education. The list of movies here is impressive.
- Smarthistory: A free resource for the study of art history created by art historians Beth Harris and Steven Zucker. Smarthistory is an independent not-for-profit organization and the official partner to Khan Academy for art history
- OpenLearn: Free learning from The Open University. Are you looking for a new topic to explore, or wanting to dig deeper into something you've already discovered? Whether it’s a 60-second animated video or a 24-hour course you are after, you will find it on OpenLearn for free.
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More ways to find free online resources:
- Wikipedia List of Free Resources: Scroll down for list by subject.
- HathiTrust: A digital repository providing long-term preservation and access services for public domain and in copyright content from a variety of sources, including Google, the Internet Archive, Microsoft, and in-house partner institution initiatives. (Hathi Trust)
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