Open Educational Resources (OERs) @ Hostos: FIND existing OER materials
Best Bets
1. Use Google's Advanced Search to find openly licensed material:
2. OASIS Search Engine:
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Search OASISA search engine built by the folks at SUNY Geneseo, to help locate open access materials in all topic areas.
Open Textbook Collections
Open textbooks are free, online learning materials with Creative Commons licenses. Many of the collections will have links to the same books, but each will have a particular focus, and items you can't find in other collections.
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BC Campus OpenEdOpen textbooks for the 40 highest enrolled first- and second-year subject areas in the British Columbia's public, post-secondary system.
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MERLOT Open TextbookMultimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT) is a curated resource of free and online textbooks for use in teaching and learning.
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Openstax CollegeInitiated by Rice University, their free textbooks are developed and peer-reviewed to ensure they meet the scope and sequence requirements of college courses.
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Open Textbook LibraryCreated by the University of Minnesota to support development of high-quality open textbooks in various subjects.
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OpenTextbookStoreA free collection of mathematics-related open textbooks. Includes supplements and a link to order print copies of the book.
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State University of New York (SUNY) Open TextbooksWith the initiative of the SUNY Libraries, Open SUNY Textbooks publishes high-quality, peer-reviewed textbooks for use in higher education.
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Textbook EquityCreator, publisher, distributor, and seller of open textbooks and ancillary materials to college-level students.
OER Repositories
OER repositories contain more than just open textbooks. All content featured within these pages is free but usage rights vary. Some materials in these repositories are released under a Creative Commons license while some are in the public domain.
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AMSER (Applied Math and Science Education Repository)Portal of educational resources and services built specifically for use by those in community and technical Colleges.
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California Open Online Library for Education (Cool4Ed)Library of free open source textbooks and other materials from the State of California Higher Educations Systems.
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Lumen LearningSupports faculty in identifying and selecting high quality OER, aligning these to learning outcomes, and assembling them to create OER-based courses.
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MERLOT IIFree, peer reviewed collection of online teaching and learning materials maintained by the California State University System.
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MIT OpenCourseWareA web-based publication of materials from thousands of MIT courses. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity.
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OER CommonsFunded by ISKME, OER Commons is a library of OER materials containing over 50,000 high-quality OER.
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Open Course LibraryCollection of shareable course materials, including syllabi, course activities, readings, and assessments.
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Open Courseware ConsortiumFree and open collection of high-quality learning materials presented in the form of courses.
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The OrangeGroveFlorida's digital repository for instructional resources.
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Saylor AcademyCollection of freely available open textbooks for download, online reading, and sharing.
Index to OER Materials by Subject
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Index to Shared OERDr. Larry Green, from Lake Tahoe Community College, CA, provides links to materials in use at colleges across the country, indexed by subject. Compiled from a Community College OER listserv.
Finding Images
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Creative Commons Search ToolSearch websites for images you can share, use, and remix. Creative Commons allows creators of works to release them into the public domain or license works by placing some restrictions on their use.
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Google Advanced Image SearchLimit your Google image search to images that that you can reuse.
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The MET (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)Images of Artworks in the Public Domain
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New York Public Library Digital CollectionsSelect "Search only public domain materials."
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PexelsAll photos are licensed under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license. This means the pictures are completely free to be used for any legal purpose.
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PixabayFree images or videos that you can use anywhere.
Other Kinds of Materials
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Open Access materials from Project MuseScroll down for the extensive list of titles, primarily in the humanities.
Sharing this Information
This guide is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
This guide was adapted, in part, from Lansing Community College's Library Research Guide on Open Educational Resources (OER) by Regina Gong, which is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.