OER Resources Toolkit: Finding and Evaluating OER

"OER Commons offers a comprehensive infrastructure for curriculum experts and instructors at all levels to identify high-quality OER..."

"The MERLOT collection consists of tens of thousands of discipline-specific learning materials, learning exercises, and Content Builder webpages..."

"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 114 different sources and contains 440,269 records."

"Real-time federated search for OER content"

Find openly licensed media elements to use within your courses including photo, image, video, audio, and music sources

"SkillsCommons is a free and open online library containing free and open learning materials and program support materials for job-driven workforce development. The Open Educational Resources (OER) are produced by community colleges across the nation and can be found, reused, revised, retained, redistributed and remixed by individuals, institutions, and industry."

FREE and OPEN eTextbooks and course materials from the three State of California systems of higher education

Part of Rice University, this nonprofit charitable corporation, publishes high-quality, peer-reviewed, openly licensed college textbooks that are free online and available at low cost to print.

Textbooks that have been funded, published, and licensed to be freely used, adapted, and distributed. These books have been reviewed by faculty from a variety of colleges and universities to assess their quality. These books can be downloaded for no cost, or printed at low cost.

A a leading, non-commercial open textbook organization initiated at the University of California, Davis.

Free text books by Allen B. Downey on data science, programming and systems.

The American Institute of Mathematics' (AIM) Editorial Board has developed evaluation criteria to identify books that are suitable for use in traditional university courses. The Editorial Board maintains a list of Approved Textbooks which have been judged to meet these criteria.

A free, comprehensive, peer-reviewed, award-winning Open Text for students and faculty in college-level courses that require writing and research.

Textbooks in a variety of subject areas created by MSU faculty using Pressbooks, a web-based publishing tool that allows authors to easily import content and export the resulting publication to a variety of formats, including MOBI, EPUB, and PDF.

Textbooks in a variety of subject areas created by Iowa State University faculty using Pressbooks, a web-based publishing tool that allows authors to easily import content and export the resulting publication to a variety of formats, including MOBI, EPUB, and PDF.

A catalog of open textbooks authored and peer-reviewed by SUNY faculty and staff.

Searchable by subject

Searchable by subject

"CC Search searches across more than 300 million images...Currently CC Search only searches images, but we plan to add additional media types such as open texts and audio"

A great selection of image sources compiled by Virginia Tech University Libraries.

Provides over 2 million free high-resolution images. No attributions required.

Dogs barking? Whales singing? You can find it here.

Search by keywords, type of cc license, genre, duration, and more.

A community music remixing site featuring remixes and samples licensed under Creative Commons licenses.

A list of sites compiles by Creative Commons

Provides tips on how to add free and cc copyrighted music and audio to your content.