Open Educational Resources (OER) - Resource Guide: Repositories

Open textbooks that have been approved by the American Institute of Mathematics.

BCcampus has curated a collection of open textbooks that align with the top 40 highest enrolled first and second year post-secondary subject areas in British Columbia. Many books have been reviewed by faculty and include ancillary resources.

A free, collaboratively-built collection of manuals about free and open source software.

InTech is the publisher of one of the largest open access collection of books in the fields of Science, Technology and Medicine.

An index of online textbooks in MIT OpenCourseWare, including open-licensed electronic versions of print books, self-published online books, or course notes which are so thorough that they serve as an alternative to a conventional textbook.

OpenStax from Rice University offers free, online educational materials and textbooks, some of which can be printed at an affordable price.

The Open Textbook Library at the University of Minnesota offers a catalog of open, peer-reviewed textbooks that can be downloaded for free.

In addition to other open educational content, Saylor Academy offers over 100 open textbooks under a variety of Creative Commons licenses.

Milne Open Textbooks began as the project Open SUNY Textbooks: an open access textbook publishing initiative established by State University of New York libraries and supported by SUNY Innovative Instruction Technology Grants. This pilot initiative published high-quality, cost-effective course resources by engaging faculty as authors and peer-reviewers, and libraries as publishing service and infrastructure.

The name was altered to Milne Open Textbooks in 2020 when the Open SUNY initiative transitioned to SUNY Online.

Use the "Usage Rights" filter to find images with Creative Commons licenses.

Flicker is a photo management and sharing platform. Browse recently added photographs marked with Creative Commons licenses or used the advanced search to find photos released under a particular license.

The UWM Libraries Digital Collections draw from materials in Archives, Special Collections, the Curriculum Collection, Music Library, and the American Geographical Society Library. Images may be downloaded by individuals or libraries for personal use, research, teaching or any "fair use" as defined by copyright law.

The University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center provides access to digital resources that support the teaching and research needs of the UW community, uniquely document the university and State of Wisconsin, and provide access to rare or fragile items of broad research value. Images may be downloaded and reused for educational purposes.

NYPL holds more than 180,000 public domain items in its digital collections. Easily limit your search to "public domain" images or explore the public domain collections.

The Library of Congress provides access to noncommercial, high-quality content, from digitized photographs, manuscripts, maps, sound recordings, motion pictures, and books, to "born digital" materials, like Web sites. Whenever possible, the Library of Congress provides factual information about copyright holders of the materials but it is up to the user to make decisions about fair use of the materials.

This repository deals heavily in math and science resources, but also gives users access to content dealing with subjects like history, education, and the fine arts.

Bookshelf is a collection of free, openly published books and documents relating to healthcare and life science.

CCCOER is a growing consortium of community and technical colleges committed to expanding access to education and increasing student success through adoption of open educational policy, practices, and resources.

The Library of Congress offers classroom materials and professional development resources to help teachers use primary sources from the Library's vast digital collections.

Seven chapter online book in OER.

Merlot is a repository of peer reviewed, open access resources designed to aid in teaching, learning, and faculty development.

The MOspace Institutional Repository is an online repository for creative and scholarly works and other resources created by faculty, students, and staff at the University of Missouri-Columbia and the University of Missouri-Kansas City. MOspace makes these resources freely available on the web and assures their preservation for the future.

The New Literacies Alliance is a dynamic curricular project led by librarians from multiple institutions across the United States. The purpose is to address new literacies needed for academic success and lifelong learning. Lessons are provided in free open education resources.

A collection of open education resources from the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME).

A collection of shareable course materials, including syllabi, course activities, readings, and assessments. Materials are licensed under Creative Commons License unless otherwise noted.

Openstax gives educators and students access to tens of thousands of educational pages, which can be downloaded in the form of preexisting textbooks, or remixed by teachers into a unique collection designed specifically for their classroom.

Open Textbooks and OER from the Open Educational Resources Network.

Florida's digital repository of open educational resources which allows users to find, remix, and share new materials with fellow educators.

PRIMO is a means to promote and share peer-reviewed instructional materials created by librarians to teach people about discovering, accessing, ethically using and evaluating information in networked environments. The Committee hopes that publicizing selective, high quality resources will help librarians to respond to the educational challenges posed by still emerging digital technologies.

A tutorial from Open Washington that walks through the steps of finding YouTube videos with Creative Commons licenses.

A tutorial from Open Washington that walks through the steps of finding Flickr images with Creative Commons licenses.

Contributors to YouTube can license their videos for reuse or reuse with attribution. Users can use filters to find Creative Commons licensed videos.

Vimeo is a video-sharing website where users can upload, share, and view videos. Search filters allow users to find Creative Commons licensed videos.

TED Talks are available under the Creative Commons license "Attribution - NonCommercial - NonDerivative" (BY-NC-ND).

Khan Academy offers free practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard so that learners can study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom. Khan Academy's content is available for personal, non-commercial purposes.

The World Digital Library (WDL) is a project of the U.S. Library of Congress, carried out with the support of the United Nations Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (UNESCO), and in cooperation with libraries, archives, museums, educational institutions, and international organizations from around the world.
The WDL makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from all countries and cultures.