Open Educational Resources (OER)
Teaching and learning materials freely available to anyone under the creative commons license. Reuse, redistribute, revise, and remix content according to the CCL listed with each resource.
- BCcampus - OpenEdAt BCcampus, we’re using open technologies to facilitate, evaluate, and create open educational resources to share across the province and around the world; saving millions of student-dollars through hundreds of open textbooks adopted in thousands of classrooms.
- BookBoonFree textbooks written by professors from the world’s top universities, all on one easy-to-use online ebook platform. You need to sign up for an account to use.
- LibretextsThe LibreTexts mission is to unite students, faculty and scholars in a cooperative effort to develop an easy-to-use online platform for the construction, customization, and dissemination of open educational resources (OER) to reduce the burdens of unreasonable textbook costs to our students and society.
- MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching)Find peer reviewed online teaching and learning materials
- MIT OpenCouseWare (OCW)A web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity.
- OASISOpenly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) is a search tool that aims to make the discovery of open content easier. OASIS currently searches open content from 117 different sources and contains 388,707 records. OASIS is being developed at SUNY Geneseo's Milne Library.
- OER CommonsOER content, training, and support services
- OER Consortium (Community College Consortium)Find open and free textbooks that may be suitable for use in community college courses
- OhioLINK Open Course Content LibrarySearch for free and openly available course materials for high enrollment college courses in Ohio
- Open Education NetworkOpen textbooks are licensed by authors and publishers to be freely used and adapted. Download, edit and distribute them at no cost. The Open Textbook Library is supported by the Open Education Network.
- openstax CNXA place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc.
- Orange Grove: Florida's Open Educational Resource RepositoryFlorida's digital repository for instructional resources; search for, use, remix, share, and contribute educational resources.
eTextbooks
These are a few sources for locating electronic copies of textbooks.
- Amazon TextbooksFind new, used, or rental print and digital textbooks
- CampusBooksBuy, sell, or rent textbooks
- CheggBut or rent digital textbooks
- VitalSourceBuy or rent digital textbooks, subscription packs
- SwapBooksBuy, sell, or swap textbooks
- Textbooks.comeTextbook search of textbooks.com
