A tool developed by George Mason University Libraries that allows for searching across OER repositories including MERLOT, OER Commons, Open Textbook Network, and many more!
The three State of California Higher Education Systems are working together to provide you easy access to quality FREE and OPEN eTextbooks that everyone and anyone can use for teaching and learning.
Provides customizable courses and course content and textbooks. Sometimes fees apply.
The MERLOT Collection is made up of over 40,000 materials in 19 different material type categories and growing.
Features the materials from 2,015 MIT courses. Many courses provide video lectures and actual recordings of MIT classrooms.
OAister is provided by WorldCat and searches for only open access materials cataloged in libraries worldwide, including dissertations and theses.
OER Commons has forged alliances with over 500 major content partners. Users can search across over 42,000 vetted and fully-indexed OER ensuring a high level of resource relevancy and discovery.
A repository of OER, very useful for finding lectures and videos.
Open resources created and used by Oregon community college and university instructors to reduce textbook costs in their courses.
Contains videos, images, course materials, and textbooks, and modules for learning about OER!
Florida's digital repository of open textbooks, open course ware, and open resources for K12 and Higher Education.
An open-access resource for librarians and faculty. Includes information literacy and research assignments that can be modified for your classes.
Curated by Universities, includes open textbooks, course materials, multimedia, and more.
Harvests open access eBooks, and provides an option to purchase print copies.
Contains a wide range of fiction, popular books, children's books, historical texts, and academic books.
JSTOR offers a growing list of Open Access eBooks from respected presses, such as University of California Press, University of Michigan Press, and ANU Press. More than 6,500 titles are now available at no cost to libraries or users. Check out this page to view a title list and access eBooks!
Provider of free eBooks. Especially useful for literature classes and children's books.
Project MUSE offers open access (OA) books and journals from several distinguished university presses and scholarly societies. Through our open access hosting programs, we are able to offer publishers a platform for their OA content which ensures visibility, discoverability, and wide dissemination. These books and journals are freely available to libraries and users around the world.
The Portal contains over 200,000 titles from VIVA’s shared library collections, open access textbooks, and ebooks available for VIVA to purchase on behalf of public colleges and universities throughout the state.
See also our guide on Images, Audio, Video for more open resources.
Digital Collections
Many museums, universities and organizations have made their primary source materials (ie, images, documents, media) available online under an open license and available for use as Open Educational Resources. Below are just a few searchable collections to consider.
Use our Research Data Management guide to search data repositories for open data.
In order to promote OER textbook adoptions, faculty are encouraged to review textbooks from the following list of physical copies of OER textbooks we were able to acquire in 2019 for the ODU Libraries. Hopefully, some of these textbooks will be adopted or can serve as examples of what is possible.