LibGuides: Open Educational Resources (OER): Searching OER Collections

OER Search Engines

OASIS
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 61 different sources and contains 160,072 records.
Pressbooks Directory
The Pressbooks Directory works by collating public books created on PressbooksEDU networks and allowing users to search the metadata written by the authors of the books.
CC Search (Creative Commons)
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.
OER Metafinder
The OER Metafinder is a real-time, simultaneous search across all the content of 17 different sources of open educational materials.

Open Textbook Collections

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.

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.
Directory of Open Access Books
Academic peer-reviewed books and chapters from 220 publishers
Lumen Learning
A list of OER courses developed by Lumen Learning.
MERLOT
Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT) is a curated resource of free and online textbooks for use in teaching and learning.
MIT Online Textbooks
This page is an index to the online textbooks in MIT OpenCourseWare. Each link goes to a course or resource page that contains the textbook files. Some of these online textbooks are open-licensed electronic versions of print books. Others are self-published online books, or course notes which are so thorough that they serve as an alternative to a conventional textbook.
OER Commons
Provides college-level open textbooks and other materials from higher education institutions around the world.
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.
Open Textbook Library
Created by the University of Minnesota to support development of high-quality open textbooks in various subjects.
Saylor Academy
Collection of freely available open textbooks for download, online reading, and sharing.
SUNY (State University of New York) Open Textbooks
With the initiative of the SUNY Libraries, Open SUNY Textbooks publishes high-quality, peer-reviewed textbooks for use in higher education.
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 Repositories

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.

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.
Community of Online Research Assignments (CORA)
A repository focused on developing information literacy through research assignments across a variety of disciplines.
Creative Commons Search
Use this prototype to find images that you can use and remix across several open archives.
Internet Archive
This library contains downloadable free courses, video lectures, and supplemental materials from universities across the globe.
MERLOT
Free, peer reviewed collection of online teaching and learning materials maintained by the California State University System.
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.
OER Commons
Funded by ISKME, OER Commons is a library of OER materials containing over 50,000 high-quality OER.
Open Course Library
Collection of shareable course materials, including syllabi, course activities, readings, and assessments.
Open Courseware Consortium
Free and open collection of high-quality learning materials presented in the form of courses.
Open Culture
Free courses from top universities including Oxford, MIT, Harvard, and Yale.
Open Michigan
A hub that helps people find, use, and create openly licensed content and provides a space to share their educational content. through partnerships with community of schools & colleges, campuses, faculty, students and alumni.
Openstax CNX (formerly Connexions)
Contains textbooks, articles, supplements, and other learning resources that can be read online or downloaded for free.
Preprint Archive Service
This platform brings together LawArXiv, SocArXiv, PsyArXiv, and engrXiv to enable users to search across pre-prints in these fields.
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works. Most of the items in its collection are full texts of books in the public domain.
Standard Ebooks
Using public domain books from Project Gutenberg, volunteers clean up the formatting and make the books available for download in multiple formats.
teachOER
A guide to Open Educational Resources across the web by discipline and by type (e,g, lesson plans, assignments, etc).