Guides: Open Education Resources: General Resources For Educators

Search for Open Education Resources: OASIS

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 71 different sources and contains hundreds of thousands of resources. (OASIS is developed at SUNY Geneseo's Milne Library).

Search for Open Education Resources: Mason OER Metafinder (MOM)

From George Mason, the OER Metafinder helps find Open Educational Resources. The OER Metafinder launches a real-time, simultaneous search across 22 different sources of open educational materials.

Given the many “standards” of metadata in the OER universe, we can’t guarantee that every item retrieved is “Open” in the strictest interpretation of that term…so make it a practice to check the rights of any item you use.

OER Repositories at a Glance

OER Repositories Chart
The chart was developed by a group of Michigan Academic Libraries Association OER Librarians. It easily communicates the different characteristics of specific OER collections, including strengths and weaknesses of collections. Not all resources are listed on this spreadsheet.
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Open Access Textbook Collections

B.C. Open Collection
A curated selection of open educational resources (OER) that can be accessed by educators in British Columbia and beyond to use in the classroom, in an institutional learning management system, or on other teaching and learning platforms. All materials are openly licensed. This means they are free to use, customize, and share. The collection includes courses and textbooks, and new resources are being added all the time.
LibreTexts
16 domain-specific libraries help organize the collection of 4000+ OER textbooks authored or curated by the LibreTexts community. Supported by the Department of Education Open Textbook Pilot Project and the California Education Learning Lab.
Lyryx
Publishes open textbooks and supplements with Creative Commons licenses with a variety of permissions to adapt the material. Subject focus: Business, Economics, and Mathematics and Statistics.
MIT OpenCourseWare
A free and open collection of material from thousands of MIT courses, covering the entire MIT curriculum. No enrollment or registration. Freely browse and use OCW materials at your own pace. Modify, remix, and reuse (just remember to cite OCW as the source.)
OER Commons (Catalog)
Search for open textbooks by selecting textbook under Material Type.