Kreitzberg Library: Course Developer Library Guide: Open Educational Resources

Textbooks & Readings

Community College Consortium for OER
The 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 Search
Scanned 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 Library
Conference papers, eBooks, and journals in the education and information technology fields.
Milne Open Textbooks
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Open access textbook publishing initiative established by State University of New York libraries and supported by SUNY Innovative Instruction Technology Grants.
OER Commons
This catalog contains hundreds of college-level open textbooks from higher education institutions around the world.
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Open Educational Resources licensed under Creative Commons.
OpenStax College
Free, open-source, peer-reviewed textbooks.
Open Textbook Library
A 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 Gutenberg
Project 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 Trust
A 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.

Lever Press
Search open access books published by Lever Press. All titles on Lever Press are licensed under Creative Commons licenses.
Directory of Open Access Books
DOAB 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.

Open Access Journals

BioMed Central
BioMed Central is an STM (Science, Technology and Medicine) publisher of 251 open access, online, peer-reviewed journals, primarily in biology and medicine.
Digital Commons Network
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Brings 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 Journals
Wiley Open Access publishes authoritative peer reviewed open access journals across biological, chemical and health sciences.
Law Review Commons
Over 250 open-access law reviews · Over 185,000 articles · Free current issues & archives from 1852

Directory of Open Access Journals
Search 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 Commons
CC Search is a tool that allows openly licensed and public domain works to be discovered and used by everyone.
Google Images
Use the Usage Rights filter to limit results to images you are free to use.
Wikimedia Commons
Freely accessible repository of video, images and sound files available to reuse, copy and modify.
Vecteezy
Search tool for locating reusable images.
Pixabay
Over 1 million photos and videos that are nearly all published under Creative Commons Zero License (CC0).
Unsplash
A massive collection of high-resolution, freely-usable images

Image Collections

New York Public Library Digital Collections
A 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 Collections
Access to print, pictorial and audio-visual collections and other digital services from the Library of Congress.
Digital Public Library of America
The 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.
Europeana
Search across combined collections of thousands of European archives, libraries and museums
World Digital Library
Primary 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 Academy
An online collection of thousands of video tutorials on subjects such as mathematics, history, finance, physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, and economics.
Library of Congress Webcasts
Moving Image Archive
Contains digital movies uploaded by Archive users which range from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to cartoons and concerts.
Open Video Project
Open Yale Course Videos
TED Talks
Learn something new all the time.

Courses & Lectures

Academic Earth
Free online lectures from universities such as Berkeley, UCLA, Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford and Yale.
Annenberg Learner
Teaching materials, lesson plans and a huge library of online videos from the Annenberg Foundation. Videos available for streaming online only, not download.
MIT Open Courseware
Video lectures, course materials, and readings from Massachusettes Institute of Technology. No registration required.
Open Course Library
A 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 Global
Free 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 Yale
Another freely accessible, online collection of courseware, this from Yale University. Lectures and course material available through YouTube and iTunes; no registration required.
OER Commons
This catalog contains hundreds of college-level open textbooks from higher education institutions around the world.
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Open Educational Resources licensed under Creative Commons.
Internet Archive: OERs
Provided 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.

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