Olin Library Research Guides: Open Educational Resources (OER): Finding OER Materials

OER Repositories

These are some of our recommended OER repositories that contain materials on a wide variety of disciplines to begin your search for OER.

OpenStax
A nonprofit initiative of Rice University, OpenStax is the largest publisher of OER. They have been publishing high quality OER for 25 years, with 70 published titles across disciplines.
MERLOT
The MERLOT system provides access to curated online learning and support materials and content creation tools, led by an international community of educators, learners and researchers.
MIT OpenCourseWare
Search MIT for courses, materials & teaching resources.
OASIS
From SUNY, "Openly Available Sources Integrated Search" OASIS currently searches open content from 73 different sources and contains 171,998 records.
OER Commons
A repository of OERs from many disciplines in multiple formats including textbooks, syllabi, activities, video, images and more.

Searching for a Comparable Textbook

Merlot ISBN Search
Search MERLOT library by ISBN for open courses, journal articles, and other learning materials that you can use to complement or replace textbooks.
Open Textbook Library
Open Textbook Library offers textbooks along with reviews from faculty who have adopted/adapted the text for their course.
Pressbooks Directory
A directory of OER textbooks published on Pressbooks.

Additional OER Resources

Continue your search for OER using these resources.

B.C. Open Textbook Collection
BCcampus maintains a growing collection of open textbooks, categorized by subject or specialty.
Directory of Open Access Books
A collection of OER resources from multiple sources.
eCampusOntario Open Library
A curated collection of OER, many published using Pressbooks.
LiveLingua
A collection of U.S. Government created public domain language eBooks and a/v resources for almost every language.
NanoHub
Provides over 1600 open teaching and learning resources: online presentations; course material; learning modules; podcasts; simulation tools.
Created by the NSF-funded Network for Computational Nanotechnology.
OER MetaFinder
A search engine for finding OER content.
SkillsCommons
A repository of OER supported by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT) program that lets you browse by material type, discipline, credential type and more. Includes materials relevant to future educators, scientists, technologists, etc
Teaching Commons
A showcase of high-quality open educational resources from leading universities.
Curated by librarians and their institutions and hosted by bepress, the Teaching Commons includes open-access textbooks, course materials, lesson plans, multimedia, lectures, k-12 materials, and more.
WikiEducator
An evolving online community intended for the planning of education projects linked with the development of free content and the development of free content on WikiEducator for free learning.