Open Access Educational Resources: Finding OERs

A platform which provides about 30 000 academic peer-reviewed books from almost 400 publishers on a large range of subjects.

one of the world’s largest nonprofit digital learning platforms and publisher of free, open education resources.

Textbooks in the Open Textbook Library are considered open because they are free to use and distribute, and are licensed to be freely adapted or changed with proper attribution

A catalog of open textbooks authored and peer-reviewed by SUNY faculty and staff.

Open Textbook Collection come in multiple formats. Many can be read online or delivered via PDF, EPUB (for most e-readers) and MOBI (for Kindle) format for free, or can be printed via our print-on-demand service for a nominal fee.

Catalog of peer-reviewed OER textbooks

Textbooks specifically designated for free use. MERLOT also has tutorials, lesson plans, and other educational resources.

Data from many UN organizations.

Create a free account to search and download statistics on a wide variety of issues related to women

Social, economic, and environmental data from around the world

The World Factbook provides basic intelligence on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation, military, terrorism, and transnational issues for 266 world entities.

Define and request datasets for content on JSTOR, or download a sample dataset for teaching text mining techniques.

A searchable collection of research data repositories. DOIs available for citing datasets.

The Yahoo Webscope Program is a reference library of interesting and scientifically useful datasets for non-commercial use by academics and other scientists.

A library of over 60,000 free eBooks, available for downloading or reading online.

Access to over 600 open access (OA) books from several distinguished university presses and scholarly societies.

Offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.

More than 6,500 Open Access ebooks from 90 publishers, including Brill, Cornell University Press, De Gruyter, and University of California Press, are now available at no cost to libraries or users.

The La Trobe eBureau publishes engaging, high quality, open-access ebooks. The mission of the eBureau is to invest in the development of quality open access resources to support online and blended learning.

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy organizes scholars from around the world in philosophy and related disciplines to create and maintain an up-to-date reference work.

Learn 100% online with world class universities and industry experts. Develop hobbies, new skills and career-changing expertise with our flexible courses.

Free Learning from The Open University

Google Arts & Culture is a non-profit initiative. We work with cultural institutions and artists around the world. Together, our mission is to preserve and bring the world’s art and culture online so it’s accessible to anyone, anywhere.

Public seminars from the Department of Education.

"MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity."

"Khan Academy offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empower learners to study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom. We tackle math, science, computer programming, history, art history, economics, and more. Our math missions guide learners from kindergarten to calculus using state-of-the-art, adaptive technology that identifies strengths and learning gaps."

Free Lesson Plans and Projects

Open Yale Courses provides free and open access to a selection of introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale University. The aim of the project is to expand access to educational materials for all who wish to learn.

"The DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals." (DOAJ). The website enables users to search and find Open Access journals and articles which you the user can then download from the site of the publisher. All journals and articles on DOAJ have a full open access licence, making them 'free to share'. You can link content found through the DOAJ to your module's online reading list. Search the DOAJ using the box above.

The Digital Commons Network brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. This portal provides access to to content produced and stored using bepress’s widely used Digital Commons publishing and institutional repository platform. the interface allows you to explore by subject area.

OER Commons is a public digital library of open educational resources. Explore, create, and collaborate with educators around the world to improve curriculum.

Allows you to search for CC content through various image search browsers

A search engine for free photos which come from many sources. You can view the attribution license to determine under what conditions each photo can be used.

Over 25,000 CC0-Licensed photos that have been scanned and indexed from top stock sites.

American Memory, Prints & Photographs, Maps, Film, National Jukebox, and many more digital collections.

The most of the TED talks videos are licensed under Creative Commons, and can be used for personal/educational purposes.

Use videos licenced under creative commons licence, do a search by keyword and filter accordingly