Instructor Resources: Open Educational Resources

250 book titles from Getty Museum Virtual Library.

Art Images for College Teaching (AICT) began as a personal project dedicated to the principle of free exchange of image resources for and among members of the educational community.

These 106 in-depth tutorials are designed to illustrate and explain some of the many complex topics in biology.

BMC has an evolving portfolio of some 300 peer-reviewed journals, sharing discoveries from research communities in science, technology, engineering and medicine.

The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and gives access to the world’s most comprehensive research collection. They provide information services to academic, business, research and scientific communities.

Digital collections of images, texts, and recordings from California's libraries, museums, and archives.

The Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) promotes the awareness and adoption of open educational policies, practices, and resources.

Books for children from around the world.

The mission of the library is to provide Colorado residents with free permanent public access to information produced by state government.

Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that helps overcome legal obstacles to the sharing of knowledge and creativity to address the world’s pressing challenges. CC provides Creative Commons licenses and public domain tools that give every person and organization in the world a free, simple, and standardized way to grant copyright permissions for creative and academic works; ensure proper attribution; and allow others to copy, distribute, and make use of those works.

Built for discovery, this cloud-hosted institutional repository software features a professional grade publishing platform for journals, conference proceedings, open educational resources, books, campus newsletters and magazines. Nearly 600 institutions – and growing – use Digital Commons to preserve and promote their intellectual output and expertise.

Search the hundreds of digital collections in this database that have received support from IMLS (Institute of Museum and Library Services). Add the word "image" to the keyword search to restrict retrieval to images.

(Stopped publishing in 2015). ECRP is a peer-reviewed multilingual journal on the development, care, and education of young children.

EduTube focuses specifically on videos which are very popular, highly rated, and of high educational value.

Explore your interests, discover something new, or spark a memory. The Smithsonian's vast collections and the research surrounding them are available to you online on a kaleidoscope of topics—from art to zoology.

The Health Education Assets Library (HEAL) is a collection of over 22,000 freely available digital materials for health sciences education.

Fosters the creation, collection, evaluation, and dissemination of interactive Java-based courseware for exploration in science and mathematics (a resource of CSERD - the Computational Science Education Reference Desk - a pathways portal of the National Science Digital Library).

Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.

Khan Academy offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empower learners to study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom.

LibriVox records and hosts free public domain audiobooks.

MediaCollege.com is a free educational website for all forms of electronic media.

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 (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity.

From the Utah Education Network. These links provide access to Web sites with resources educators can use in multimedia presentations.

The NLVM is a resource from which teachers may freely draw to enrich their mathematics classrooms (K-12 emphasis).

NROC partners with educators to create open and low-cost courses and tools designed to recognize every student’s unique learning needs and preferences. These resources can be adapted and scaled to meet programmatic goals in a variety of instructional settings.

The National Science Digital Library provides high quality online educational resources for teaching and learning, with current emphasis on the sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines—both formal and informal, institutional and individual, in local, state, national, and international educational settings.

In addition to its weekly television broadcast, NOVA extends its award-winning science reporting both online and in classrooms, producing an extensive list of resources and original content—including short-form videos, science and education blogs—available on our website, pbs.org/nova.

Nursing Education and Technology (NEAT) from the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB).

Open Education Global (OEG) is a global, members based, non-profit organization supporting the development and use of open education around the world.

OpenDOAR is the quality-assured, global Directory of Open Access Repositories. You can search and browse through thousands of registered repositories based on a range of features, such as location, software or type of material held.

OER Commons is a public digital library of open educational resources.

The home of free learning from The Open University.

OLI provides dozens of college-level courses, and a platform that enables research and experimentation with any aspect of the learning experience.

OpenStax publishes high-quality, peer-reviewed, openly licensed textbooks that are absolutely free online and low cost in print.

The open textbooks below have been published by the University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing and are licensed to be freely used, adapted, and distributed. We can help faculty and instructors author and use open textbooks in their courses.

PBS has curated FREE, standards-aligned videos, interactives, lesson plans, and more for teachers.

Project Gutenberg is an online library of free public domain eBooks.

PLOS is a nonprofit, Open Access publisher empowering researchers to accelerate progress in science and medicine by leading a transformation in research communication.

PubMed comprises more than 32 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.

A listing of over 5000 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar

(Older site, not updated since 2014). Map of Repositories, data provided by ROAR and OpenDOAR.

Collaborative effort of hundreds of volunteers in 102 countries to enhance the dissemination of research in Economics and related sciences.

Online catalog of the Academy's collection of recordings.

Rutgers Community Repository (RUcore) is a repository of digital research and educational materials created and used by the University community and its strategic collaborators. The goal of the Rutgers University Community Repository is to advance research and learning at Rutgers, to foster interdisciplinary collaboration, and to contribute to the development of new knowledge through the archiving, preservation, and presentation of digital resources. Original research products and papers of the faculty and administrators and the unique resources of the libraries will be permanently preserved and made accessible with tools developed to facilitate and encourage their continued use.

(Older site, not updated since 2010). A collective collection of reusable learning objects for higher education which could be used in learning management systems such as Moodle.

Shodor is a national resource for computational science education.

From Bibliomania. Free online literature with more than 2,000 classic texts.

Smithsonian Research Online (SRO) is an ever-expanding collection of published research from Smithsonian scholars.

TeacherTube is an online community for sharing instructional videos and seeks to fill a need for a more educationally focused, safe venue for teachers, schools, and home learners.

Wikibooks is an open-content textbooks collection that anyone can edit.

Wisc-Online is a repository of high-quality educational learning materials free to learners and educators.

The Clearinghouse is an open-access publishing collaborative that is supported by the efforts of more than 170 scholars who serve in various editorial roles, including as journal and book series editors, editorial staff, reviewers, and editorial board members.