Research Guides: Open Educational Resources and Zero Textbook Cost: Finding OER

Best Bets for Finding OER

There are a dizzying number of repositories for openly licensed materials. So where do you start? These are some of the most comprehensive repositories and federated search tools, and they're a great place to start your search.

BCCampus Open Textbooks
Collects resources created, reviewed, or adopted by instructors at British Columbia universities. Materials can be filtered by Accessibility as well as whether they have been adopted by BCCampus courses, include ancillary materials, or have been reviewed by faculty.
CUNY Academic Works
Our institutional repository. Includes syllabi, lesson plans, and more.
CUNY Open Education Curated Collections
Digital librarians develop our curated collections to bring you the best of our digital library offerings.
MERLOT
MERLOT is a project that was started in 1997 by the California State University system. The repository includes thousands of resources contributed by members, including original content and links to resources found through other platforms.
OpenStax
Peer-reviewed textbooks specializing in math and sciences.
The Open Textbook Library
A great resource for finding open textbooks. If you want a textbook and nothing more, this is the place to start.
Open Textbook Library
Provides a growing catalog of free, peer-reviewed, and openly-licensed textbooks. They are usually formatted like traditional print textbooks.
SUNY’s Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS)
OASIS is a search tool that aims to make the discovery of open content easier by searching multiple sources for OER and other open content at once. OASIS currently searches for open content from 79 different sources and contains approximately 330,000 records.

Open Educational Resources and Zero Textbook Cost

Best Bets for Finding OER

Other Open Content

Open access publishers and repositories

Openly licensed media