Open Educational Resources Guide

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.

An approved list of open mathematical textbooks for traditional undergraduate college courses.

Access British Columbia open textbook library and information about the BC campus open textbook project.

Over 70,500 academic peer-reviewed books from 674 publishers.

Find textbooks, ancillary materials, and other learning resources from Affordable Learning Georgia, an initiative of the University System of Georgia

HathiTrust Digital Library is a digital preservation repository and highly functional access platform. It provides 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.

Collection of general subject area multimedia videos, animations and simulations for middle school to college students. A project of NROC.

This site is a freely available archive of electronic texts about religion, mythology, legends and folklore, and occult and esoteric topics. Texts are presented in English translation and, where possible, in the original language.

The ebooks, which reflect JSTOR’s high standards for quality content, are freely available for anyone in the world to use. Each ebook carries one of six Creative Commons licenses determined by the publisher. Users will not need to register or log in to JSTOR.

This online resource offers open access to numerous instructional videos and practice exercises in many subject areas including: math, biology, physics, chemistry, computer science, computer programming, economics, finance, history, art history, test prep and more.

A multi-institutional collaborative project to develop open textbooks and other OER. Use the Explore the Collections menu to search academic discipline areas.

This digital library of OER can be used to discover, collaborate, and create with educators to improve curricula and features innovative search features and curated collections of resources.

Peer-reviewed digital repository of over 100,000 open education resources created and supported by a user community of over 203,000 members. Search, build, contribute, maintain, and share open course materials using MERLOT. A project of the California State University System and other institutions.

MyOpenMath runs on the open source, IMathAS platform, providing free hosted use of this platform in support of free, open textbooks like the ones listed on OpenTextBookStore.com. The intent is to provide classroom use of the platform, without any required cost to students, for schools wanting a managed install of the IMathAS platform, and to provide students self-study opportunities.

OASIS is a search tool developed at Milne Library at SUNY Geneseo that aims to make the discovery of open content easier. As of September 2023, OASIS currently searches open content from 115 different sources and contains 455,492 records.

A project of the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME), OER Commons is a hub for open resources for all grade levels up to the graduate level. A variety of course materials including modules, lesson plans, assignments, and 265 textbooks for community college-level courses.

Open Folklore is a partnership of the American Folklore Society and the Indiana University Bloomington Libraries devoted to increasing the number of useful resources, published and unpublished, available in open access form for folklore studies and the communities with which folklorists partner.

University of Michigan open education resource portal.

Working towards textbook cost reduction at Oregon's community colleges.

Formerly Connexions. A repository for open educational materials for K-12, community colleges, and universities to improve learning outcomes. Content is organized into pages (learning objects) and textbook-style books. Supported by Rice University.

Florida's digital repository for instructional resources.

Workforce development OER from the Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT) grant. Over 700 universities represented.

From the website: "Smarthistory is a radical collaborative of more than five hundred art historians, curators, archaeologists, and artists committed to rewriting the colonial legacies of art history and unlocking the expertise of hundreds of leading scholars, making the history of art accessible to more people, in more places, than any other publisher."

From BCcampus Open Education, this Pressbooks text lists free science resources designed to support remote science education. Please note that while all resources in this directory are free, not all are open.

Repository of digital learning objects developed by faculty from the Wisconsin Technical College System.