Finding OER

• Search by discipline/subject, as keyword searching is often limited.  The OER by Discipline Directory curated by BC Campus Open Education may be a useful starting point.

• If searching by keyword start with a broader concept (e.g. ‘disease’ instead of ‘cancer’) and then narrow down.

• Use the advanced search if available.

• Use limiters (material type, education level, licence type)

• For an explanation of the different Creative Commons licences and their permissions see Creative Commons licences

• Remember to critically evaluate any resource you want to use. See the evaluating OER page.

• OER Commons
  Search and locate a large variety of OER resources as well as the tools to create your own OER resources, lessons, or modules.

• MERLOT
  Search by keyword or browse by discipline to find OER materials. MERLOT also has tools to create your own OER materials.

• OASIS
  OER search tool from SUNY Geneseo.  OASIS currently searches open content from 114 different sources and contains 440,452 records. Includes more than 3,600 textbooks and 99,000 open access books. Also has a section of OER by subject 

• GALILEO Open Learning Materials
  Repository of OER from the University System of Georgia including open textbooks and ancillary materials.

• M.O.S.T. Commons
  The Maryland Open Source Textbook (M.O.S.T.) Commons is a digital library of open educational resources.

• Mason OER Metafinder 

Real-time searching across 22 OER repositories.

• Wikimedia Commons 

A collection of freely available media that anyone can use.

• Open Textbook Library
  Hundreds of complete college-level textbooks browseable by subject, and collected by the University of Minnesota. Free to use and adapt.

• OpenStax
  Compiled by Rice University, a collection of peer-reviewed, quality open textbooks.

• LibreTexts
  Open textbooks and other materials for higher education, LibreTexts is constantly being revised by students, faculty, and outside researchers and is supervised and directed by UC Davis Professor and project Founder Delmar Larsen.

• Pressbooks Directory

An index of over 3,500 open books and textbooks published by more than 100 Pressbooks Networks. 

• Directory of Open Access Books

DOAB indexes and provides access to over 50,000 scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books.  Many have a CC-BY licence, and could be adapted for teaching.

• MERLOT Open online textbooks from the MERLOT collection

• Internet Archive
  Non-profit, freely available resources including books, streaming audio and video, images, software, and more.

• Open Book Publishers
  Leading Open Access publisher in the Humanities and Social Sciences in the UK.

• BC Campus OpenEd

University of British Columbia’s portal for searching open textbooks. Search by subject.