LibGuides: Open Access Resources: OERs

Open Access Educational Resources

Open Access Education Resources (OER) are much more than just textbooks. They include books in general, images, audio clips, and other media that can be used for education and that is freely available--where the item is in the public domain. Below you will see a search engine that searches for OER items across several repositories followed by a listing of some prominent OER repositories.

OER Repositories

OER Commons
OER Commons is a library of OER materials containing over 50,000 high-quality OER.
Teaching Commons
Brings together OER that have been curated by librarians at colleges and universities throughout the US.
MIT OpenCourseWare
A web-based publication of materials from thousands of MIT courses. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity.

OER Repositories

MERLOT II
Free, peer reviewed collection of online teaching and learning materials maintained by the California State University
Open Courseware Consortium
Free and open collection of high-quality learning materials presented in the form of courses.
AMSER (Applied Math and Science Education Repository)
Portal of educational resources and services built specifically for use by those in community and technical Colleges.