Open Educational Resources: Finding OER

Free and open online community of resources designed primarily for faculty and students in higher education.

Open-source, peer reviewed textbooks. Free online, low cost in print.

Provides "affordable course materials designed to strengthen learning using open educational resources (OER)."

Maricopa Open Digital Press facilitates the creation and sharing of high-quality ebooks both for publication and classroom use. To learn more, please go to https://mcli.maricopa.edu/teaching-learning-resources/open-educational-resources/mod-press

"Promotes access, affordability, and student success through the use of open textbooks." Over 700 textbooks, searchable by subject.

"A University System of Georgia (USG) initiative to promote student success by providing affordable textbook alternatives."

OER Math Textbooks approved by the American Institute of Mathematics

"Search for quality open textbooks offered in a variety of digital formats."

Includes hard to find content such as CTE content.

Initiated at the University of California, Davis. "The project ensures the OER “5Rs” (Retain, Reuse, Revise, Remix, and Redistribute) design are fully met enabling faculty to build course-specific LibreTexts to meet the needs of their students."

"Open SUNY Textbooks is an open textbook publishing initiative established by State University of New York libraries and supported by SUNY Innovative Instruction Technology Grants and SUNY Geneseo." Faculty are the authors and peer reviewers of these textbooks with the libraries serving as the publishing service and infrastructure.

"Open textbooks are 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. All textbooks are either used at multiple higher education institutions; or affiliated with an institution, scholarly society, or professional organization. The library currently includes 708 textbooks, with more being added all the time."

"These books are available for you to use, keep, revise, and share under open licenses. Saylor Academy does not own the copyright to any books on this page. Each book’s open license is an agreement between you as the end user and the copyright holder."

"The open-content textbooks collection that anyone can edit."

The photos show a more realistic depiction of ageing – to help challenge stereotypes of older people. The library contains over 3,000 images and is available for anyone to use for free.

All clip art images are distributed under the CC0 "No Rights Reserved" license. You can copy, modify, and distribute these images, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission.

Browse over 500 million images, available for reuse.

"Disabled And Here is a disability-led stock image and interview series celebrating disabled Black, Indigenous, people of color (BIPOC)."

Photographs of families around the world, their homes, and how they live. Organized by income, topic, and geography. CC-BY

The Encyclopedia of Life aims to increase awareness and understanding of living nature by gathering, generating and sharing knowledge in an open, freely accessible and trusted digital resource.

"At Europeana we work with thousands of European archives, libraries and museums to share cultural heritage for enjoyment, education and research. Europeana provides access to millions of books, music, artworks and more – with sophisticated search and filter tools to help you find what you’re looking for."

Filter by license type.

"The Gender Spectrum Collection is a stock photo library featuring images of trans and non-binary models that go beyond the clichés. This collection aims to help media better represent members of these communities as people not necessarily defined by their gender identities—people with careers, relationships, talents, passions, and home lives."

"[L]ibrary of images celebrating women's lives and their work in 11 countries around the world"

"[W]e launched nappy ... to provide beautiful, high-res photos of black and brown people to startups, brands, agencies, and everyone else. Nappy makes it easy for companies to be purposeful about representation in their designs, presentations, and advertisements."

Mostly Public Domain images.

"Free stock photos, textures, images, pictures & clipart for any use including commercial."

"We are a coop of stock image photography. We recognize that most other FREE stock image sites have very few or no images of people of color. We sought out to create a space where publishers, bloggers, website owners, marketers, designers, graphic artists, advertisers and the like can easily search and find diverse multi-racial images."

" All content on Pixabay can be used for free for commercial and noncommercial use across print and digital, except in the cases mentioned in "What is not allowed". Attribution is not required. Giving credit to the contributor or Pixabay is not necessary but is always appreciated by our community. You can make modifications to content from Pixabay."

"We created this photo set to promote the visibility of queer and gender-nonconforming (GNC) people in technology, who are often under-represented as workers powering the creative, technical, and business leadership of groundbreaking tech companies and products."

Nearly 3 million 2D and 3D digital items from our collections; includes images and data from across the Smithsonian’s 19 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo. Also, includes the Learning Lab, which you can use to build lessons.

All photos on StockSnap fall under the Creative Commons CC0 license. That means you can copy, modify, distribute any photo on the site.

Free high-resolution photos.

Freely usable archive of images, sounds and videos.

This collection was created to address "the problem of not having visible representations of women of color engaging in technical tasks in stock images."

"DOE ScienceCinema is a multimedia search tool provided by the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Scientific and Technical Information, with video and audio files produced by DOE National Laboratories, other DOE research facilities, and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)...Users can search for specific words and phrases, and precise snippets of the video where the search term was spoken will appear along with a timestamp...Users may then select a snippet or a segment along the timestamp to begin playing the video at the exact point in the video where the words were spoken."

Here we feature the best movies of the United States Government, from training films to history, from our national parks to the U.S. Fire Academy and the Postal Inspectors, all of these fine flix are available for reuse without any restrictions whatsoever.

"We provide free licenses and other legal tools to mark creative work with the freedom the creator wants it to carry, so others can share, remix, use commercially, or any combination thereof...Much of the music found on the Free Music Archive is released under Creative Commons licenses."

"Creative Commons allows free non-commercial use of our music - just Attribute. (CC-BY tracks can even be used commercially with Attribution!)"

Free and open online community of resources designed primarily for faculty and students in higher education.

"DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.... All DOAJ services are free of charge including being indexed in DOAJ. All data is freely available."

Interactive simulations for physics, chemistry, math, earth science, and biology.

"Since 1994, the Concord Consortium has been developing open educational resources that expand and deepen STEM inquiry with technology. These scientifically accurate models and activities have been funded by the National Science Foundation and other private and federal granting agencies, and developed by curriculum experts—so you know you can trust them in your classroom! Our cutting-edge tools and resources have brought STEM practices to life for over a million learners worldwide. They’re all available to you for free!"