Library Guides: Affordable Course Content (Greater Allegheny): Open Resources

OA & OER at Penn State

OER @ PSU
Provides introduction to Open Educational Resources, and information on how Penn State faculty can get started with adopting, adapting, and/or creating content for their classes.
Guide to Open Access at Penn State
Created by the library's Office of Scholarly Communication and Copyright.
Penn State Repository of Open Access Materials (ROAM)
Provides access to high-quality educational materials created by Penn State faculty, free and open for all to use.

Open Resources & Searches

Here are some of the best repositories and search tools for open textbooks and course materials. For a more complete list of resources, go to https://oer.psu.edu/high-quality-open-educational-textbook-sites-a-z/. Please don't hesitate to ask your librarian for assistance.

Directory of Open Access Books
Searches a catalog of over 27,000 peer-reviewed books.
LibreTexts
Provides access to over 2,000 open textbooks from a network of institutional partners.
Luminos
OA books published by the University of California Press.
MERLOT Open Course Materials
Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT) includes open textbooks, course modules, quizzes, and much more. Sponsored by the California State University System.
National Academies Press
Provides access to almost 10,000 books and reports.
OASIS
Search tool from SUNY OER Services and SUNY Geneseo that searches 40+ sources for OER of all types.
OER Commons
Search a repository of thousands of open textbooks, courses, assignments, and more.
Online Textbooks from MIT OpenCourseWare
Includes many open textbooks for undergraduate courses in STEM fields.
Open SUNY Textbooks
OER textbooks and courses (with open reading lists) in a variety of subject areas.
Open Textbook Library
Maintained by the University of Minnesota, this repository includes almost 700 OER textbooks.
OpenStax
Sponsored by Rice University, this repository includes peer-reviewed OER textbooks in math, science, history, business, and the social sciences.
Pressbooks Directory
Provides a searchable index of over 5,000 titles that have been created in the Pressbooks publishing platform.
Teaching Commons OER Resources
Pulls together OER textbooks from several universities, including the University of Massachusetts and Penn.
Textbook Equity Open Education
Provides free access to download open textbooks in a wide range of disciplines, as well as for-fee print service.