Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Check out these openly licensed titles. Open Educational Resources are remixable, revisable, and redistributable, and as such, are ideal for curating culturally inclusive and diverse perspectives in course materials that support equitable learning.
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OER in the News
Looking to search the widest possible collection of OER and OA?
Start with these search engines.
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George Mason University's OER MetafinderThe Mason OER Metafinder helps you find Open Educational Resources by searching well-known OER repositories like OpenStax, OER Commons, MERLOT but also sites like HathiTrust, DPLA, Internet Archive and NYPL Digital Collections where valuable but often overlooked yet often “open” educational materials may be found. Given the many “standards” of metadata in the OER universe, we can’t guarantee that every item retrieved is “Open” in the strictest interpretation of that term…so make it a practice to check the rights of any item you use.
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Pressbooks DirectoryThe Pressbooks Directory provides an index of thousands of public books published across dozens of PressbooksEDU networks.
Find Open Textbooks (OER)
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Open Textbook LibraryA collection of freely available textbooks in accounting, business, economics, education, foreign languages, humanities, information systems, law, marketing, natural and physical sciences, statistics, and more.
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LibreTextsThe libraries are part of a huge network that provides not just single textbooks, but an infinitely large library through which new texts can be developed & shared.
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Open SUNY TextbooksOpen SUNY Textbooks offer services to support wide faculty adoption of OER that can be effectively sustained, improved and shared, as well as delivered to students to give them the day-one access to course materials they need for academic success.
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NOBA ProjectNoba is a free online platform that provides high-quality, flexibly structured Psychology textbooks and educational materials. These textbooks and materials are licensed under the Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 International License.
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American Institute of MathematicsA list that groups open textbooks by course title. All the books have been judged to meet the evaluation criteria set by the AIM editorial board.
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Open TextBook StoreOpenTextBookStore was created by Math educators frustrated with the time involved in finding adoptable open textbooks, with the hope to make open textbook adoption easier for other faculty.
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Open Educational Resource 2017 Textbook ListThis is an updated, discipline specific OER textbook list for departments at Sacred Heart University, compiled by Zach Claybaugh and Chelsea Stone.
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EdTech BooksEdTech Books only includes content on this site that is gratis (free as in no cost), but not all content may provide freedoms to users for remixing, etc. (free as in freedom). Each book included in this site is released under its own license, and some include chapters or other content that may be released under yet another license.
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Open Social Work TextbooksOSWE serves as a publisher of open textbooks and as a clearinghouse for open textbooks in social work and related disciplines.
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Smarthistory booksSmarthistory provides art history resources and supports AP art history and A-level curriculum.
Open Access books
Open Access books are free to use, but are NOT remixable or revisable. These are good resources for affordable course materials to adopt "as is".
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Library of Congress Open Access BooksA growing online collection of contemporary open access eBooks from the Library of Congress website
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JSTOR Open Access e-BooksThe ebooks, which reflect JSTOR’s high standards for quality content, are freely available for anyone in the world to use. Each ebook carries one of six Creative Commons licenses determined by the publisher.
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OAPENThe OAPEN Library contains freely accessible academic books, mainly in the area of humanities and social sciences and in many different languages.
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University of Michigan PressMichigan Publishing publishes scholarly and educational materials in a range of formats for wide dissemination and permanent preservation and advocates for the broadest possible access to scholarship everywhere.
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OpenEdition BooksOpenEdition Books is a French language platform for books in the humanities and social sciences. Most are Open Access and freely available, but check the licensing and permissions before using.
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Bloomsbury open access book collectionA leading global independent publisher focusing on the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences with several hundred open access titles.
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SpringerOpen open access booksOpen access allows unrestricted online access to ebooks with no reading or subscription fees. Authors retain copyright and are able to comply with funders' open access mandates.
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EdTech BooksEdTech Books only includes content on this site that is gratis (free as in no cost), but not all content may provide freedoms to users for remixing, etc. (free as in freedom). Each book included in this site is released under its own license, and some include chapters or other content that may be released under yet another license.
Open Access Journals
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Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)A community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.
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COREAggregating the world’s open access research papers. We offer seamless access to millions of open access research papers, enrich the collected data for text-mining and provide unique services to the research community.
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Open Library of the HumanitiesThe Open Library of Humanities (OLH) is a charitable organisation dedicated to publishing open access scholarship with no author-facing article processing charges (APCs). We are funded by an international consortium of libraries who have joined us in our mission to make scholarly publishing fairer, more accessible, and rigorously preserved for the digital future.
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IET Research JournalsThe Institution of Engineering and Technology has now completed the transition of its entire journals portfolio (back to 2013) to Open Access in partnership with Wiley.
Law School Casebooks
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CALI - Center for Computer-assisted Legal InstructionCALI is a 501(c)(3) non-profit consortium of mostly US law schools that conducts applied research and development in the area of computer-mediated legal education.
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H2O CasebooksH2O offers a platform for making and sharing open-licensed casebooks and other course materials online for law faculty and students.
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Open Intellectual Property CasebookThis book is an introduction to intellectual property law, the set of private legal rights that allows individuals and corporations to control intangible creations and marks—from logos to novels to drug formulae—and the exceptions and limitations that define those rights.
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Open Source Property: A Free CasebookOpen Source Property: A Free Casebook is a free resource for instructors and students of the first-year Property Law course at American law schools, and anyone else with an interest in the subject.
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Professional Responsibility: An Open-Source CasebookThis casebook includes not only cases, but also the text of the rules and restatements, as well as concise explanations of the relevant law.
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University of Pittsburgh courses by Michael MadisonCourses include:
- Copyright Law (any term / any semester)
- Trademark Law (any term / any semester)
- Foundations of Intellectual Property Law (any term / any semester)
- Contracts (any term / any semester)
Full Courses (OER)
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Lumen Learning CandelaCandela courses provide an extremely low cost e-book alternative to expensive commercial textbooks in high enrollment college courses. More than just an open textbook, Candela offers “value-added” OER.
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MIT Open CoursewareMIT 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. While the course structure is openly- licensed, some course content may not be openly-licensed.
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Open Learning Initiative (OLI)The Open Learning Initiative (OLI) is a grant-funded group at Carnegie Mellon University, offering innovative online courses to anyone who wants to learn or teach. Our aim is to create high-quality courses and contribute original research to improve learning and transform higher education.
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OERu coursesA small number of university-level online courses.
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Open Course LibraryThe Open Course Library (OCL) is a collection of shareable course materials, including syllabi, course activities, readings, and assessments designed by teams of college faculty, instructional designers, librarians, and other experts and managed by the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges
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Resources for a business communications open online courseThe goal of this course is to help students make effective communication decisions because when we teach the WHY, we enable our students to understand the HOW, giving them the ability to know how to be effective communicators where they can lead in our ever-changing world. This course is designed for instructors who have the option of delivering the content either synchronously or asynchronously, depending on the needs of their classes and students.
Other Course Materials (OER)
Check out these links for lesson plans, activities, modules, and assessments. These materials can be interactive, simulations, case studies, oral histories, images, and videos among others.
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OER CommonsOER Commons is a dynamic digital library and network. Explore open education resources and join our network of educators dedicated to curriculum improvement.
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VIVA OpenLibrarians develop our curated collections to bring you the best of our digital library offerings. Efforts were made to identify educational resources in subject areas offered at Virginia’s institutions of higher education.
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openNCCCOffer a comprehensive infrastructure that provides high-quality OER content and the opportunity for collaboration around the adaptation, evaluation, and instructional needs of faculty and learners.
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OER Commons GreenOER Commons Green is dedicated to sustainability and resource conservation teaching and learning materials for K-12 and higher ed.
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Humanities CommonsWelcome to Humanities Commons, the network for people working in the humanities. Discover the latest open-access scholarship and teaching materials, make interdisciplinary connections, and increase the impact of your work by sharing it in the repository.
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MERLOTThe MERLOT collection consists of tens of thousands of discipline-specific learning materials, learning exercises, and Content Builder webpages, and many undergo the more extensive "peer review" for which MERLOT is famous.
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WeBWorKAn open-source online homework system for math and sciences courses. WeBWorK is supported by the MAA and the NSF and comes with a National Problem Library (NPL) of over 20,000 homework problems.
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MyOpenMathOpen and free online interactive platform for math homework.
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Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning (COERLL)The Center for Open Educational Resources & Language Learning (COERLL) is one of 16 National Foreign Language Resource Centers (LRC's) funded by the U.S. Department of Education. The overall mission of these federally-funded centers is to improve the teaching and learning of foreign languages by producing resources (materials and best practices) that can be profitably employed in a variety of settings.
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Language CollaborativeAn open platform for sharing lessons and learning languages.
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The German Studies CollaboratoryThe project offers links to existing materials found on the ‘net, including teaching resources, scholarly lectures, and research materials. At the centre is an ethos of sharing, of professionalism and collegiality, of working through these challenging times together in the spirit of community.
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Open Greek and LatinAn international collaboration committed to creating an open educational resource featuring a corpus of digital texts, deep-reading tools, and open-source software.
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Open Case StudiesThe Open Case Studies project at UBC brings together faculty and students from different disciplines to write, edit, and learn with case studies that are free and open--they are publicly available free of cost, and they are licensed to allow others to revise and reuse them.
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CALI - Center for Computer-assisted Legal InstructionCALI is a 501(c)(3) non-profit consortium of mostly US law schools that conducts applied research and development in the area of computer-mediated legal education.
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The Public Domain ReviewThis online journal and not-for-profit project explores curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas.
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LibriVoxFree public domain audio books
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International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)Originally created as a wiki for virtual library for public domain music scores, the site now also includes works of various copyright designations, yet it is still a fantastic source for public domain scores.
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GoOpenVAA collaborative initiative that enables educational entities throughout Virginia to create, share, and access openly-licensed educational resources (PK-12).
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Making Connections: PreK-12 OER in PracticeA guide for getting started with OER in PreK-12 districts and systems.
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Open ModernismsOpen Modernisms is a Creative-Commons-licensed (CC-BY), social-knowledge resource that allows scholars of modernism to build custom anthologies or coursepacks of out-of-copyright primary materials. Support for this site will cease November 1, 2019, but coursepacks will remain accessible as long as this version of Islandora is supported.
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Everyday Social JusticeAn Open Educational Resource website with the complete curriculum and all prep, assessment, and discussion materials for 4 separate Women's and Gender Studies Courses.
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Smithsonian Open AccessDownload, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian’s images—right now, without asking. With new platforms and tools, you have easier access to nearly 3 million 2D and 3D digital items from our collections—with many more to come.
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smarthistorySmarthistory is the most visited art history resource in the world. We are the official provider of art history for khanacademy.org, and we support AP art history and A-level curriculum. Smarthistory supports students, instructors, and lifelong learners everywhere.
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Voices of VirginiaVoices of Virginia pulls together stories from oral history collections from across decades and archives to create an all-audio source companion for Virginia’s high school and college students. You’ll also find a brief introduction to each narrator, historical context adapted from experts at Encyclopedia Virginia, American Yawp, and Public Domain sources, and helpful classroom tools like discussion questions, activities, and lesson plans that fit into both the Virginia high school and college U.S. History curriculum.
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History HarvestFrom the Department of History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, this collaborative, team-oriented, student-centered and community-based project seeks to create a popular movement to democratize and open American history by utilizing digital technologies to share the experiences and artifacts of everyday people and local historical institutions.
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SourceLabThe Department of History at the University of Illinois created this series of publications, a set of online editions of historical materials, in response to the needs of teachers and researchers.
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Skills CommonsA free and open online library containing free and open learning materials and program support materials for job-driven workforce development created for the US Department of Labor’s Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT) program.
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Cineteca (University of Chile)The Cineteca (University of Chile), the oldest film archive in the country, has made over 150 films spanning the entire history of national cinema freely available to download or stream online.
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EUscreenEUscreen offers free online access to videos, stills, texts and audio from European broadcasters and audiovisual archives. We publish selected EUscreen content under a Creative Commons license on the Open Images portal.
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Prelinger ArchivesRick Prelinger and The Internet Archive hereby offer public domain films from Prelinger Archives to all for free downloading and reuse. You are warmly encouraged to download, use and reproduce these
films in whole or in part, in any medium or market throughout the world. You are also warmly encouraged to share, exchange, redistribute, transfer and copy these films, and especially encouraged to do so for free. -
Guided Inquiry Activities for Programming Language ConceptsGuided Inquiry Activities for Programming Language Concepts is a collection of activities intended to support the use of POGIL in intermediate-level undergraduate computer science courses on functional programming and the implementation of programming languages.