LibGuides: OER: Open Educational Resources: Finding OER

Favorite Pages for finding OER

The links below will help you find Open Educational Resources. This is the complete library OER guide.

ASCCC OERI Discipline Leads
ASCCC OERI Discipline Leads are tasked with curating resources for their discipline and serving as a resource for their discipline colleagues.
ASCCC OERI Finding OER
The first page to use when looking for OER for your courses!
ASCCC OERI Supported Resources
ASCCC OERI resource list that covers finding OER, developing OER, printing OER, and more.
Image Sources from ASCCC
Resources for finding openly licensed images.
OER Resources by Discipline
The ASCCC OERI has worked with its Discipline Leads to provide a curated lists of resources.

Faculty Select Database

The library has a subscription to Faculty Select. Through Faculty Select, faculty can use a single interface to search and access quality open textbooks, Open Educational Resources (OER), and EBSCO’s eBook Open Access (OA) Collection. The OER textbooks are free, but the EBSCO ebooks must be requested and purchased. By leveraging free open materials and low-cost library-licensed resources, faculty can provide digital access to resources and reduce the cost burden for students.

Since the database is faculty-use only, the library doesn't post the Faculty Select link online. Please request the link from Jane Ishibashi at jishibashi@fullcoll.edu

Finding OER

Tools for Finding OER

Here are some useful websites for OER searching:

COERLL: Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning
The Center for Open Educational Resources & Language Learning (COERLL) is one of 16 National Foreign Language Resource Centers (LRC's) funded by the U.S. Department of Education.COERLL's mission is to produce and disseminate Open Educational Resources (OER) for the Internet public (e.g., online language courses, reference grammars, assessment tools, corpora, etc.).
Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER)
The CCCOER promotes the awareness and adoption of open educational policies, practices, and resources. The CCCOER has compiled a list of resources for finding OER. Content on www.cccoer.org is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
COOL4ED California Open Library for Education
The three State of California Higher Education Systems are working together to provide you easy access to quality FREE and OPEN eTextbooks that everyone and anyone can use for teaching and learning.
CORA: Community of Online Research Assignments : An Open Access Resource for Faculty and Librarians
It is intended to be a collaborative space for adapting and experimenting with OER research assignments and sharing the success or lessons learned so that others may benefit. The site contains multiple, reliable and reproducible research assignments that do not live as isolated entities, but are enhanced by user feedback in order to build a rich corpus of best practices. There is also a Teaching Toolkit featuring a wide range of resource types including pedagogy/theory, assessment, classroom activities, technology tips, subject guides, citation tools, and information literacy tutorials.
Directory of Open Access Journals
Find open access journals and articles
Find Open Textbooks
A web site by BCcampus Open Education, a project started by the British Columbia Minister of Advanced Education, to make higher education more accessible by reducing student costs.
George Mason University OER Metafinder
The OER Metafinder performs a simultaneous search across 18 different sources of open educational materials. Because it is a real-time, federated search, it can take a bit longer than searches of pre-indexed, curated content; however, as compensation the results returned are absolutely up-to-the-minute for each search target.
JSTOR Open Content
JSTOR's partnerships with libraries and publishers help make content discoverable and freely accessible worldwide. Users can search using "Search within Open Content on JSTOR" to limit results to the Open Access materials.
LibreText
The LibreTexts mission is to unite students, faculty and scholars in a cooperative effort to develop an easy-to-use online platform for the construction, customization, and dissemination of open educational resources (OER) to reduce the burdens of unreasonable textbook costs to our students and society.
MERLOT
Helps Higher Education Partners to:
Improve the quality of online materials and pedagogy
Reduce the costs of developing and integrating technologies into academic programs
Increase the speed of quality online course creation
Support the diverse needs of faculty across disciplines and across a wide range of readiness to use technology
Pursue and acquire grants to achieve shared goals with MERLOT.
MERLOT started at CSU then expanded to included other educational partners.
Milne Open 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.
OER Commons
Was created by ISKME, an independent, education nonprofit whose mission is to improve the practice of continuous learning, collaboration, and change in the education sector. Established in 2002, ISKME conducts social science research, develops research-based innovations, and facilitates innovation that improves knowledge sharing in education. This group also has a curated OER Commons Collection.
OER Repositories and Collections
from the Open Educational Resources Initiative of the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges.
OER World Map
Thinking about a sabbatical? This guide helps you locate OER projects, people, events, organizations, etc. around the world. (If you get an error message, change to a different internet browser.)
Open Textbook Library
Provides a growing catalog of free, peer-reviewed, and openly-licensed textbooks. The resources are compiled by the Center for Open Education (open@umn.edu) at the College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota.
OpenVerse
Browse through over 600 million images and audio to reuse
QUBES
QUBES
Quantitative Undergraduate Biology Education and Synthesis
The QUBES platform, a BioQUEST project, is a social cyberinfrastructure that provides an open and inclusive virtual space for sharing STEM classroom activities and resources, discussing teaching and the adaptation of educational materials to specific institutional contexts, and working together to develop new ideas and insights that contribute to STEM education reform.
Skills Commons
The US Department of Labor’s Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT) program created a free and open online library called SkillsCommons containing free and open learning materials and program support materials for job-driven workforce development. The $1.9 billion investment by the US Department of Labor produced a comprehensive collection of workforce-related Open Educational Resources (OER) created by over 700 community colleges across the nation. The OER can be found, reused, revised, retained, redistributed and remixed by an individual, institution, and industry for FREE with the proper attribution to the original author of the resources.

Discipline-specific and Miscellaneous Sources

This list contains OER resources as well as digital resources that may not be Open Educational Resources.

American Institute of Mathematics List of Approved Open Textbooks
All the books have been judged to meet the evaluation criteria set by the AIM editorial board.
Applied Math and Science Education Repository
AMSER (the Applied Math and Science Education Repository) is a portal of educational resources and services built specifically for use by those in Community and Technical Colleges but free for anyone to use. AMSER is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) as part of the National Science Digital Library, and is being created by a team of project partners led by Internet Scout.
ASCCC Science Laboratory Modifications for Online Environments
Use the small link at the bottom of the page: Online Resources for Science Laboratories
Dance Research Online Resources
Dance resource list compiled by the Association of College & Research Libraries
Galileo Open Learning Materials
GALILEO Open Learning Materials brings together open educational resources throughout the University System of Georgia, including open textbooks and ancillary materials.
History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web
History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web was first developed in 1998 by the American Social History Project/Center for Media & Learning, City University of New York, and the Center for History and New Media, George Mason University, with initial funding from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation. Over the past several years, it has become a highly regarded gateway to web resources as well as a repository of unique teaching materials, first-person primary documents, and guides to analyzing historical evidence for high school and college students and teachers of American history.
Human Relations Area Files
The mission of Yale University's Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) is to promote understanding of cultural diversity and commonality in the past and present. To accomplish this mission, HRAF produces ethnographic and archaeological scholarly resources and infrastructure for research, teaching and learning, and supports and conducts original research on cross-cultural variation. They are developing online workbooks and currently offer a workbook for Introduction to Cultural Anthropology.
Leeward Community College OER Guide
Leeward Community College LibGuide page on finding OER resources organized by subject discipline.
Library of Congress Digital Collections
The Library of Congress digital collections cover history, government, world cultures, performing arts, military, folklife, art, and more. Manuscripts, music, correspondence, photographs, artwork are some of the sources found in this rich resource.
Los Angeles Valley College Library OER by Discipline Guide
Los Angeles Valley College list of OER resources organized by subject discipline.
National Archives Catalog
The National Archives Catalog lets users search multiple National Archives resources at once. The catalog searches across archival descriptions, digitized and electronic records, authority records, and web pages from Archives.gov and the Presidential Libraries.
National Museum of American History
The National Museum of American History offers online exhibitions and teachers resources with engaging visuals to enhance course content.
National Museum of American History: Object of History
The National Museum of American History offers some teaching materials and short videos centered around the historical significance of objects such as the lunch counter, the voting machine, and the gold nugget.
National Science Digital Library
The National Science Digital Library (NSDL) provides high quality online educational resources for teaching and learning, with current emphasis on the sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines—both formal and informal, institutional and individual, in local, state, national, and international educational settings. The NSDL collection contains structured descriptive information (metadata) about web-based educational resources held on other sites by their providers. These providers have contribute this metadata to NSDL for organized search and open access to educational resources via this website and its services.

Most resources in the library adhere to principles of Open Educational Resource (OER) access, although some resources are restricted to provider site membership, or may have a cost associated with them (indicated in the full record of the resource).
New York Public Library Digital Collections
The NYPL digital collections features prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts, streaming video, and more.
OER by Discipline Guide : A Reference of OER listed by Subject Area and Discipline
edited by Josie Gray for BCcampus Open Education in British Columbia. Textbooks listed on the "Find Open Textbooks" pages above are not included in this guide.
Open Oregon
This page lists course materials that Oregon community college and university instructors are using to reduce textbook costs in their courses.
OpenStax
A nonprofit educational initiative based at Rice University. OpenStax publishes peer-reviewed, openly licensed textbooks that are free online. Organized by subject.
OPoliSci: Political Science OER and Practices for Faculty and Students
Open Political Science, or OPoliSci for short, explores open educational resources (OER) and practices (OEP) for political science faculty and students. The mission of OPoliSci is to serve as a stable repository of political science OER materials, promote the curation and creation of political science OER materials, and facilitate the exploration of OEP.
Oyez: Supreme Court Multimedia Archive
Oyez (pronounced OH-yay)—a free law project from Cornell’s Legal Information Institute (LII), Justia, and Chicago-Kent College of Law—is a multimedia archive devoted to making the Supreme Court of the United States accessible to everyone. It is the most complete and authoritative source for all of the Court’s audio since the installation of a recording system in October 1955. Oyez offers transcript-synchronized and searchable audio, plain-English case summaries, illustrated decision information, and full-text Supreme Court opinions (through Justia). Oyez also provides detailed information on every justice throughout the Court’s history and offers a panoramic tour of the Supreme Court building, including the chambers of several justices.
Physical Geography Lab Manual
A physical geography lab manual authored by Waverly C. Ray, Faculty Lead (San Diego Mesa College); Taya C. Lazootin (San Diego State University); Scott J. Crosier (Cosumnes River College);l Jeremy G. Patrich (College of the Canyons); Aline Nortes Gregorio (Fullerton College). 1st Edition, 2020
QUBES
QUBES
Quantitative Undergraduate Biology Education and Synthesis
The QUBES platform, a BioQUEST project, is a social cyberinfrastructure that provides an open and inclusive virtual space for sharing STEM classroom activities and resources, discussing teaching and the adaptation of educational materials to specific institutional contexts, and working together to develop new ideas and insights that contribute to STEM education reform.
San Bernardino Valley College OER by Discipline Guide
San Bernardino Valley College list of OER resources organized by subject discipline.
Serlo: La Plataforma para el Aprendizaje Abierto
Puedes encontrar contenido de recursos educativos abiertos (REA) en la lista de repositorios, motores de búsqueda y páginas web.
Smithsonian Institution American Democracy Digital Resources
Smithsonian Affiliations are highlighting a diverse array of the Smithsonian’s digital resources that engage audiences around voting, elections, civic engagement, and citizenship. Every two weeks between July 2020 and Election Day 2020 (November 3), they will post a new set of resources surrounding a specific theme related to democracy in America.
SUNY Open Textbooks
SUNY Open Textbooks is an open textbook publishing initiative established by State University of New York libraries and supported by SUNY Innovative Instruction Technology Grants and SUNY Geneseo.
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Digital Resources
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service portal for digital images, videos, documents, audio, and maps.
Washtenaw Community College OER Resources by Subject Disciplines
The librarians at the Washtenaw Community College in Michigan have compiled an extensive list of OER in many disciplines.

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OER: Open Educational Resources

Favorite Pages for finding OER

Faculty Select Database

Finding OER

Tools for Finding OER

Discipline-specific and Miscellaneous Sources

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