Library Guides: Open Educational Resources: Open Resources

Open Access and OERs

Get Started with OER
OERs and information on how Penn State faculty can get started with adopting, adapting, and/or creating content for their classes
Open Access
This guide provides an overview of open access, including green open access, gold open access, funder open access policies, and open access at PSU

OAPEN This link opens in a new window
A central repository for hosting and disseminating OA books
"The OAPEN Library is set up to host and disseminate OA books."

OER and Low Cost Materials
Search for open course materials in OER Course Repositories
Open Educational Textbooks
High quality OER sites

Safari Learning Platform: Academic Edition This link opens in a new window
35K+ books, 30K+ hours of video, proven learning paths, case studies, and interactive tutorials from O’Reilly.
Safari Academic Edition includes more than 35K book titles plus 30K+ hours of video, proven learning paths, case studies, interactive tutorials, audio books, and videos from O’Reilly's global conferences. Includes access to exclusive O’Reilly content and resources from more than 200 other publishers.

Saylor Academy
Free and peer reviewed college courses using open content
Skillscommons
Terrific for industry and workforce development
Top Hat
Cloud based teaching tool that allows instructors and students to communicate and collaborate, create assignments on the fly, and check for knowledge.

Arts and Humanities

Business, Engineering, and Information Sciences and Technology

Free and Open Business Case Studies
InTechOpen
Also crosses other academic divisions. These are open access however, they are not openly licensed. It is not possible to adapt them like OERs.
Lyryx
For business and economics. Also contains math.
MIT Open Courseware
Open Textbooks for Engineering
Aggregated content from OER websites organized by engineering disciplines and subdisciplines.

Education, Human Development, and Social Sciences

Mathematics and Natural Sciences

BCcampus
Browse by subject
GRANTA Education Hub
Browse eco/industrial design, civil/mechanical engineering, materials science, and much more.
LibreTexts
"Explore the Libraries" tab features OER's in a range of subjects. Ancillary materials available.

MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning and Online Teaching) This link opens in a new window
Browse the collection by discipline
The Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and On-Line Teaching (MERLOT) is a high quality collection of interactive learning materials, assignments, reviews, and people.

MOM (Mason OER Metafinder)
A real-time, simultaneous search across 21 different sources of open educational materials
MIT OpenCourseWare
Browse online textbooks by department
Milne Open Textbooks
Browse textbooks by subject or author
National Academies Press
Browse by division in science, engineering, and medicine
OASIS
Browse OERs by subject
OER Commons
Browse by subject in a digital library of open educational resources
Open Book Publishers
Browse by disciplines in the humanities and social sciences
OpenStax
Peer-reviewed OER textbooks in math, science, history, business, and the social sciences with free ancillaries
Open Textbook Library
Browse by subject
Pressbooks Directory
Browse by subject
Teaching Commons
Search by subject area
Textbook Equity Open Education
Browse by discipline