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Open Educational Resources (OER) and Affordable Course Content (ACC)

Learn about OER and ACC, including how to find, evaluate and create open resources, and how to acquire affordable course materials through the libraries.

Find Open Educational Resources

"One Stop" Search Engines

Mason OER Metafinder (MOM)
 
Advanced Search

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!

Open Textbooks

Open Course Materials

Open eBook Collections

Open Images & Media

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.

Open Data

Use our Research Data Management guide to search data repositories for open data.

Sample Open Textbooks for Review in the ODU Libraries

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.

  • Abnormal Psychology. Bill Pelz and Herkimer County Community College. SUNY OER Services. Call Number: RC454 .A242 2018
  • Applied Combinatorics. Keller, Mitchel. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. Call Number: QA164 .K45 2016
  • Business Communication for Success. University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing. Call Number: HF5718 .B875 2015
  • Business Information Systems: Design an App for That. Saylor Academy. Saylor. Call Number: HF5548.375 .F76 2012
  • Contemporary Mathematics. David Lippman and Herkimer County Community College. SUNY OER Services. Call Number: QA11.2 .C66 2018
  • Creative Clinical Teaching In The Health Professions. Sherri Melrose, Caroline Park, and Beth Perry. BC Open Textbooks. Call Number: E-Text
  • Economics Principles: V. 2.0. Tompkins Cortland Community College. SUNY OER Services. Call Number: HB74.5 .E26 2018
  • Entrepreneurship and Innovation Toolkit. Lee A. Swanson. Call Number: HB615 .S985 2017
  • Environmental Biology. Matthew Fisher. Open Oregon Educational Resources. Call Number: QH541 .E58 2018
  • Euclidean plane and its relatives. Petrunin, Anton. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. Call Number: QA37.3 .P487 2019
  • Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering 1. Johnson, Don. Connexions. Call Number: TK165 .J64 2012
  • General Biology I. Lisa Bartee and Christine Anderson. Open Oregon Educational Resources. Call Number: QH631 .B378 2018
  • General Biology II. Lisa Bartee and Christine Anderson. Open Oregon Educational Resources. Call Number: QH631 .B3782 2018
  • General Chemistry I. Adelaide E. Clark. Open Oregon Educational Resources. Call Number: QD31.3 G46 2018
  • General Chemistry II. Adelaide E. Clark. Open Oregon Educational Resources. Call Number: QD31.3 G462 2019
  • How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python. Downey, Allen. Green Tea Press. Call Number: QA76.73 P98 D69 2002
  • The Information Literacy User’s Guide: An Open, Online Textbook. Editors: Greg Bobish and Trudi Jacobson. Open SUNY Textbooks. Call Number: ZA3075 .B47 2014
  • Introduction to Business. Lumen Learning. SUNY OER Services. Call Number: HF1008 .I58 2018
  • An Introduction to Formal Logic. Magnus, P.D.. SUNY OER Services. Call Number: BC108 .M34 2018
  • Introductory Statistics with Randomization and Simulation. Diez, M David. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. Call Number: QA276.12 .D538 2014
  • Light and Matter. Crowell, Benjamin. . Call Number: QC30 .C76 2019
  • Marketing Principles. Larry Chase and Tompkins Cortland Community College. SUNY OER Services. Call Number: HF5415 .M32 2018
  • Math in Society. Lippman, David. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. Call Number: QA11.2 .L57 2013
  • Mathematical Reasoning: Writing and Proof, Version 2.1. Sundstrom, Ted. CreateSpace Independent Publishing. Call Number: QA9.54 .S86 2019
  • Nursing Care at the End of Life: What Every Clinician Should Know. Lowey, Susan. SUNY Brockport. Call Number: RT87.T45 L69 2015
  • Organizational Behavior. University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing. Call Number: HD58.7 .O677 2017
  • Together - The Science of Social Psychology. Noba Project. Noba Project. Call Number: BF121 .T653 2016
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