Textbooks & Readings
These resources are collections of textbooks, e-books, and digitized public domain works.
- Directory of Open Access Books This link opens in a new windowDOAB is a community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books and helps users to find trusted open access book publishers.
- Community College Consortium for OERThe CCCOER collects open access resources for the creation of textbook alternatives, in addition to open content repositories and developmental tools. Access to over 500 open textbooks, as well as a useful guide to creating and implementing your own open access textbook.
- Google Books SearchScanned copies of millions of books from libraries around the world. Many are openly and fully available online, while others have a preview option. Google will connect you to libraries and bookstores where the print versions are available. Some features require free account registration with Google.
- Learning and Technology LibraryConference papers, eBooks, and journals in the education and information technology fields.
- Lever Press This link opens in a new windowSearch open access books published by Lever Press. All titles on Lever Press are licensed under Creative Commons licenses.
- Milne Open TextbooksOpen access textbook publishing initiative established by State University of New York libraries and supported by SUNY Innovative Instruction Technology Grants.
- OAPEN This link opens in a new windowOpen access academic books, primarily in the humanities and social sciences disciplines. OAPEN works directly with publishers to build a quality controlled collection of open access books.
- OER CommonsThis catalog contains hundreds of college-level open textbooks from higher education institutions around the world.
Open Educational Resources licensed under Creative Commons. - Open Textbook LibraryA catalog of open access textbooks to be reviewed by faculty members, made available by the University of Minnesota's College of Education and Human Development. All textbooks in this catalog are openly licensed, complete, and available in print at very little cost.
- Project GutenbergProject Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books from the public domain. Full-text downloads are available in a variety of formats for computers and mobile devices.
- Hathi TrustA large-scale preservation project that includes many books that are in the public domain (published before 1922) which can be viewed full-text. You can limit your search results to these titles by selecting "Full View Only" in the search interface.
Open Access Journals
- BioMed CentralBioMed Central is an STM (Science, Technology and Medicine) publisher of 251 open access, online, peer-reviewed journals, primarily in biology and medicine.
- Digital Commons NetworkBrings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. Curated by university librarians and their supporting institutions, the Network includes a growing collection of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work.
- PLOS (Public Library of Science)PLOS publishes seven peer-reviewed open-access journals. The journals vary in their selectivity and contain differing amounts of commentary articles from opinion leaders in a variety of scientific disciplines.
- Wiley Open Access JournalsWiley Open Access publishes authoritative peer reviewed open access journals across biological, chemical and health sciences.
- Law Review CommonsOver 250 open-access law reviews · Over 185,000 articles · Free current issues & archives from 1852
- Directory of Open Access Journals This link opens in a new windowSearch through over 13,000 open access journals, primarily published by academic institutions.
Finding Images on the Web
Images from any website may require permission. Be sure to read the terms and conditions, legal, copyright, or equivalent sections of each website whose images you use to determine their requirements for permission and credit.
Image Search Engines
- Creative CommonsCC Search is a tool that allows openly licensed and public domain works to be discovered and used by everyone.
- Wikimedia CommonsFreely accessible repository of video, images and sound files available to reuse, copy and modify.
- PixabayOver 1 million photos and videos that are nearly all published under Creative Commons Zero License (CC0).
Image Collections
- New York Public Library Digital CollectionsA living database with new materials added every day, featuring prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts, streaming video, and more. Some of the images in the Digital Gallery may be subject to third party rights such as copyright and/or rights of privacy/publicity.
- Library of Congress Digital CollectionsAccess to print, pictorial and audio-visual collections and other digital services from the Library of Congress.
- Digital Public Library of AmericaThe DPLA offers a single point of access to millions of items from libraries, archives, and museums around the United States. Many items are in the public domain.
- EuropeanaSearch across combined collections of thousands of European archives, libraries and museums
- World Digital LibraryPrimary materials from countries and cultures around the world. Most are in the public domain.
Videos
Please check the terms of use prior to using videos.
- Khan AcademyAn online collection of thousands of video tutorials on subjects such as mathematics, history, finance, physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, and economics.
- Moving Image ArchiveContains digital movies uploaded by Archive users which range from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to cartoons and concerts.
- TED TalksLearn something new all the time.
Courses & Lectures
- Academic EarthFree online lectures from universities such as Berkeley, UCLA, Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford and Yale.
- Annenberg LearnerTeaching materials, lesson plans and a huge library of online videos from the Annenberg Foundation. Videos available for streaming online only, not download.
- MIT Open CoursewareVideo lectures, course materials, and readings from Massachusettes Institute of Technology. No registration required.
- Open Course LibraryA collection of high quality, free-to-use courses that you can download and use for teaching. All content is stored in Google docs making it easy to access, browse and download.
- Open Education GlobalFree and open digital publication of high quality educational materials, organized as courses. A collaboration of more than 200 higher education institutions and associated organizations from around the world creating a broad and deep body of open educational content using a shared model.
- Open YaleAnother freely accessible, online collection of courseware, this from Yale University. Lectures and course material available through YouTube and iTunes; no registration required.
- OER CommonsThis catalog contains hundreds of college-level open textbooks from higher education institutions around the world.
Open Educational Resources licensed under Creative Commons. - Internet Archive: OERsProvided by the Internet Archive library, hundreds of free courses, video lectures, and supplemental materials from universities in the United States and China. Many of these lectures are available for download.