Salisbury University GENERAL OER

This is a general collection of non-discipline specific OERs available. You can find discipline specific books within this general database. Please let us know if any links are broken or if there are resources we should add to this page.

Hathi Copyright Review Program - research & review program that determines which publications are now in the public domain.

EBSCOHost Faculty Select through Salisbury University Library

Articles, Journals, Research

Directory of Open Access Journals - journals and articles

Open Michigan - makes Univ of Michigan research, teaching, and creative work available to the world

Adopting OER in the Classroom: A Faculty Resource for Adopting, Using, and Re-Purposing Openly Licensed Educational Resources.

An Open Education Reader

OERs: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Open Education Fact Sheet

Opening the Textbook: Open Education Resources in U.S. Higher Education, 2017.

Survey of U.S. faculty on OER experiences

Open 101: An Action Plan for Affordable Textbooks

The latest report on OER from the Student PIRGs contains an overview of textbook affordability issues and recommendations for colleges and universities, faculty, students, and policymakers.

Assignments & Materials

CORA - collaborative OER research assignments

Galileo Open Learning Materials - textbooks & materials through the Univ of Georgia

Hathi Trust Digital Library - non-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries 17+ million digitized items

Hathi Trust US Federal Government Documents Program - expand and enhance digital access to U.S. federal publications

Library of Congress - books, maps, exhibits, laws, etc.

Merlot - curated online learning, materials & content creation tools

National Archives Doc Teach - primary sources photos, maps, videos, documents

NY Public Library Digital Collection - prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts, streaming video, and more

Open Culture - courses, books, movies, podcasts

Open Education - SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition).

Open Michigan - makes Univ of Michigan research, teaching, and creative work available to the world

OpenStax CNX - material that can be organized as books or assignments

Teaching Commons - OER from leading colleges & universities

Collections

Hathi Trust Research Center - enables computational analysis of digital records

Hathi Trust US Federal Government Documents Program - expand and enhance digital access to U.S. federal publications

OER Commons - open content also available for collaboration

OER Hewlett Foundation - Grants for developing OER available

Hewlett Foundation White Paper

Open Access Directory - brings OA related lists together

Open Michigan - makes Univ of Michigan research, teaching, and creative work available to the world

OER UNESCO - OER through the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization

Teaching Commons - OER from leading colleges & universities

University of Nevada Open Access Database - best library databases for research

University of Pittsburgh Big List of Resources - database of OERs they have collected

Courseware

Academic Earth - free online academic courses

Campus Bookshelves - textbooks & course shells exportable to LMSs

Carnegie Mellon Univ - Open Learning Initiative - courseware

Lumen Learning - books & courseware, was free, might have some for pay areas

M.I.T. Open Courseware - M.I.T. sponsored open courseware

OER Project - OER Project Courses

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.

Open Culture - courses, books, movies, podcasts

Open Michigan - makes Univ of Michigan research, teaching, and creative work available to the world

Open Washington - courseware

Saylor - free courseware

Libraries, ebooks, Publishers

BC Open Textbook - find or publish open textbooks

Digital Public Library of America - e-books available from libraries across the country

Directory of Open Access Books - scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books & publishers

Educause - OER Resource Library

Hathi Trust Digital Library - non-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries 17+ million digitized items

Hathi Shared Print Program - ensures preservation of print & digital collections by linking the two

JSTOR open access e-books - selected monographs from Cornell Univ Press, UCL Press, Univ of CA Press, Univ of MI Press

Library of Congress - books, maps, exhibits, laws, etc.

NY Public Library Digital Collection - prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts, streaming video, and more

OAPEN - open access publishing in European Networks

OASIS - S.U.N.Y. Geneseo OER Library

Open Access Directory - brings OA related lists together

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.

Open Culture - courses, books, movies, podcasts

Open Education - SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition).

Open Textbook Library - Open textbooks licensed by authors & publishers to be freely

Teaching Commons - OER from leading colleges & universities

University of Nevada Open Access Database - best library databases for research

University of Pittsburgh Big List of Resources - database of OERs they have collected

Networking, Conferences

OER Hewlett Foundation - Grants for developing OER available

Hewlett Foundation White Paper

Open Education Consortium - membership, conferences to implement UNESCO efforts

Peer 2 Peer University - study groups for people to take online courses together

Textbooks

BC Open Textbook - find or publish open textbooks

Book Boon - free textbooks with ads

Campus Bookshelves - textbooks & course shells exportable to LMSs

Galileo Open Learning Materials - textbooks & materials through the Univ of Georgia

LibreTexts - textbooks

Lumen Learning - books & courseware, was free, might have some for pay areas

Lumen Learning - books & courseware, was free, might have some for pay areas

Milne Open Textbooks - S.U.N.Y. sponsored open textbooks

M.I.T. Open Courseware Textbooks - textbooks that go with their courseware

Open Education Network - open licensed academic peer-reviewed textbooks

OpenStax - free & flexible textbooks & resources

OpenStax CNX - material that can be organized as books or assignments

Open Textbook Library - Open textbooks licensed by authors & publishers to be freely

Open Textbook Store - source for ready-to-adopt open textbooks