Research by Subject: Open Educational Resources

An easy-to-use online platform for the construction, customization, and dissemination of OER relevant to academic programs.

OpenStax publishes high-quality, peer-reviewed, openly licensed college textbooks that are free online and low cost in print.

Open textbooks are licensed by authors and publishers to be freely used and adapted. Download, edit and distribute them at no cost.

Simultaneously searches up to 22 OER repositories from a selectable list.

Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT) is an aggregator of online tools, built by and for higher education instructors. Advanced functions allow you to filter results by discipline, material type, and audience.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) OpenCourseWare is a free and open collection of material from thousands of MIT courses.

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 115 different sources and contains 440,380 records.

OER Commons offers a comprehensive infrastructure for curriculum experts and instructors at all levels to identify high-quality OER and collaborate around their adaptation, evaluation, and use to address the needs of teachers and learners.

Open Illinois facilitates the use of Open Educational Resources (OER) and supports training, advocacy, and coordination of cooperative effort for the benefit of members of Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI) and other Illinois stakeholders.

High-quality open educational resources from leading colleges and universities that includes open-access textbooks, course materials, lesson plans, multimedia, lectures, k-12 materials, and more.

An online collection of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) licensed under public domain.

Photographs and images are free to use without asking for permission or giving attribution.

A media file repository making available public domain and freely licensed educational media content to everyone, in their own language.