Open Educational Resources for Faculty

The following are OER repositories where you can find content to freely use in your courses. 

• OpenStax (Rice University)
• Open Textbook Library (University of Minnesota)
• BC Campus 
• Open SUNY
• Cornell Open (Cornell University)
• MERLOT
• OER Commons
• LibreTexts
• Skills Commons

Use this worksheet to help you find and evaluate resources for your course. 

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Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) is a search tool that aims to make the discovery of open content easier. OASIS currently searches open content from 98 different sources and contains 368,237 records. Filter results by format to narrow results. 

OASIS is being developed at SUNY Geneseo's Milne Library.

Mason OER Metafinder (MOM)

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The OER Metafinder launches a real-time, simultaneous search across 21 different sources of open educational materials, including: 

• American Memory Project (Library of Congress)
• AMSER – Applied Math and Science Education Repository 
• BC Campus:Open Ed
• College Open Textbooks
• Digital Public Library of America
• Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)
• HathiTrust – Full View Available
• JSTOR Open Access Books
• Library of Congress (limit to available online)
• Merlot.Org
• MIT OpenCourseware
• New York Public Library Digital Collections
• OAOpen.org
• OASIS
• OER Commons
• OERs at Internet Archive
• Open Michigan
• Open Research Library
• Open Textbook Library
• OpenStax CNX
• Project Gutenberg
• World Digital Library

Need help locating OER, Open Access, or library-licensed materials for your courses?

Schedule a research consultation with a librarian: https://spalding.libcal.com/appointments/