Open Educational Resources (OER) are free and accessible teaching, learning, and research resources that are found in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their use and re-purposing by others.
McGaw Library Catalog
Textbooks
- OpenStax
- OpenStax contains peer-reviewed, openly licensed, free textbooks.
- Open Textbook Library
- Textbooks in the Open Textbook Library are open because they are free to use and distribute and licensed to be freely adapted or changed with proper attribution.
- LibreTexts
- BCCampus Open Ed
- https://milneopentextbooks.org/
Textbooks and Other Resources and Support Materials
- https://oasis.geneseo.edu/
- http://teachingcommons.us/
- https://www.hathitrust.org/
- https://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm
- https://www.saylor.org/books/
- https://www.doabooks.org/doab?func=subject&uiLanguage=en
- Where to Find – Open Educational Resources – Library Guides at University of Nevada, Reno (unr.edu)
Discipline Specific Resources
- https://www.nap.edu/ – Science, Engineering, and Medicine
- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=Books – Medicine/Biotechnology Information
- American Institute of Mathematics: Approved Textbooks – Mathematics
- NOBA Project (Psychology) – Psychology
- SCIREA- Publisher of Open Access Journals – Mathematics and Science
Appalachian College Association Resources
Other OER sites and Open Libraries
- OER on OER (google.com)
- GALILEO Open Learning Materials (usg.edu)
- OER Commons
- Open Research Library
- OER Search Basics – Open Educational Resources (OERs) – Research Guides at Fort Hays State University (fhsu.edu)
- https://www.oercommons.org/groups/iowa-colleges-and-universities/6023/
- https://mason.deepwebaccess.com/mason__MasonLibrariesOpenEducationResources_5f4/desktop/en/search.html
- http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
- https://guides.library.unr.edu/az.php?t=1482
- Homepage – Open Education Network (umn.edu)