Open Educational Resources: Find OER

Searches multiple OER sites and other sites with open access or public domain content. Opens a new tab.

An open educational resources database curated by MERLOT, a non-profit organization created in a collaboration between 15 higher education institutions or governing bodies, including the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education (Opens a new tab).

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. (Opens a new tab).

OER Commons is a database of open educational resources, which allows educators to collaborate on curriculum (Opens a new tab).

Find entire courses on a variety of subjects and levels. (Opens a new tab).

Khan Academy, a nonprofit organization, creates and maintains a collection of instructional videos on a wide range of subject matter. Khan is partnered with NASA, the Museum of Modern Art, the California Academy of Sciences, and MIT (Opens a new tab).

Created and maintained by the University of Colorado, PhET is a collection of "free interactive math and science simulations" (Opens a new tab).

BioDigital is the "World's First Human Visualization Platform," allowing users to "explore the human body in interactive 3D" (Opens a new tab).

Knowledge Unlatched is an online database of open access scholarly resources, including books and journals (Opens a new tab).

OpenEd is an open access textbook creation project created by the British Columbia's department of advanced education (Opens a new tab).

A publishing house, located at Rice University, focused on free academic textbooks. Several textbooks available for general education courses. (Opens a new tab).

Supported by the Center for Open Education and the Open Textbook Network, Open Textbook Library is a collection of open access textbooks (Opens a new tab).

Orange Grove Texts Plus is an open access textbook initiative of the University of Florida Press and the LibraryPress@UF (Opens a new tab).

An index of 1,500+ books published on Pressbooks. Most books have an open license. Opens a new tab.

The American Yawp is a "free and online, collaboratively built, open American history textbook designed for college-level history courses" (Opens a new tab).

OAPEN is a library of open access academic textbooks, particularly focused on the areas of humanities and the social sciences (Opens a new tab).

Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing is a book series containing peer-reviewed collections of essays—all composed by teachers for students—with each volume freely available for download under a Creative Commons license. Writing Spaces aims to build a library of quality open access textbooks for the writing classroom as an alternative to costly textbooks.

The American Institute of Mathematics (AIM) maintains a list of open access textbooks deemed appropriate for use in a traditional course (Opens a new tab).

INTECH is a publisher of open access textbooks in the subject matters pertaining to science, technology, and medicine (Opens a new tab).

A non-profit publishing company operated by Allen Downey, a professor of computer science at Olin College, who writes free textbooks related to the computer and data sciences (Opens a new tab).

Creative Commons' collection of open educational resources and current projects (Opens a new tab).