Research Guides: Open Educational Resources (OER): Big List of Resources

OER Search Engines

OER search engines can make finding resources easier by searching multiple repositories with a single search.

Mason OER Metafinder (MOM)
Use the Mason OER Metafinder to search 16 major OER repositories with a single search.
OASIS - OER Metafinder
A search tool that aims to make the discovery of open content easier. OASIS currently searches open content from 64 different sources and contains 160,546 records.
OERTX
Collections of curated resources are added and updated regularly, including materials aligned to the Texas Core Curriculum requirements.

Complete Courses

MIT Open Courseware
MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content.
Open Course Library
Collections of course materials that cost $30 or less for the 81 highest enrolled courses in the state of Washington public university system.
Saylor Academy
Nearly 100 full-length courses at the college and professional levels.
Open Learn - the Open University
An open education initiative from the United Kingdom.

Open Access Books

Open Textbooks

BC Open Ed
Search for quality open textbooks offered in a variety of digital formats; the first step in adopting open educational resources. Search by subject and download them to your computer.
Galileo Open Learning Materials
All open textbooks hosted or created by the University of Georgia.
LibreTexts
initiated at the University of California, Davis, and is supported by a $5 million grant from the Department of Education Open Textbook Pilot Project. Its "Explore the Libraries" tab features OER in a range of subjects plus workforce materials. Ancillary materials vary by subject but include laboratory experiments, case studies, simulations, demonstrations and techniques, and interactive fossils.
Milne Open Textbooks (previously called Open SUNY Textbooks
Milne Library Publishing at SUNY Geneseo manages and maintains Milne Open Textbooks, a catalog of open textbooks authored and peer-reviewed by SUNY faculty and staff.
OpenStax - Books by subject
Located at Rice University, OpenStax provides peer-reviewed, quality open textbooks for lower division courses.
Open Textbook Library
Hundreds of complete, open college-level textbooks. Many include peer-reviews.

Open and/or Free Books

Google Books
Not all books are openly accessible, but many are. Many books cited in Google's database, however, are still under copyright.
Project Gutenberg
Contains thousands of free, electronic books--from the public domain.
Directory of Open Access Books
This is a growing collection of academic books useful to readers interested in having access to reasonably current, freely available ebooks.
J-STOR Open Access E-Books
A selection of Open Access monographs from the following University Press publishers: Cornell University Press, UCL Press, University of California Press, and the University of Michigan Press.

Large Repositories

MERLOT
MERLOT is a free and open peer reviewed collection of online teaching and learning materials primarily for faculty and students in higher education.
Open Professionals Education Network (OPEN) List
OER Commons
The network that brings together 49,304 Open Educational Resources, tools for sharing curriculum with the world.

Multimedia

TED Talks
TED talks can be shared and viewed in educational contexts without restricts but the license does not allow derivatives, so they cannot be remixed or edited in any way.
Khan Academy
A popular free library of over 3,000 videos, about 10 minutes each, covering math, science, and even finance and history. Khan Academy materials have a CC-BY-NC-SA license.
PhET: Free Online Science Simulations
From the University of Colorado - Boulder. Free interactive math and science simulations. PhET sims are based on extensive education research and engage students through an intuitive, game-like environment where students learn through exploration and discovery. All CC-BY licensed.
Wikimedia Commons
A media file repository making available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips) to everyone.
Creative Commons Image Search
Search for free content in the public domain and under Creative Commons licenses.
Youtube
Youtube's search engine allows you to search for videos by keyword and to filter your results by creative commons license and closed captioning (an important accessibility consideration).
Vimeo
Vimeo also allows you to filter search results to Creative Commons-licensed videos, but you can't search by closed-captioning.

Research Articles

Increasingly, open access is becoming a publishing option for authors. Research articles published in open access journals are available for free online.

Public Library of Science (PLoS)
“PLoS is an initiative by scientists and doctors to publish quality, peer-reviewed literature and make it freely available to the public and other researchers. It publishes journals in biology, medicine, clinical trials, and genetics”

Directory of Open Access Journals This link opens in a new window
The Directory of Open Access Journals is a directory of free, full-text, quality-controlled scientific and scholarly journals. The goal of the directory is to cover all subjects and languages. Thousands of full-text articles are included in the service. DOAJ is hosted and maintained by Lund University.

Articles from Library Databases
It is also possible to provide access to articles from TAMUCC subscriptions electronically, but it's important to observe copyright rules. Contact libreserves@tamucc.edu or x5906) for more information.