Help finding OER
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OER repositories and referatories (find a variety of materials)
- OASIS - Openly Available Sources Integrated Search
A search tool that aims to make the discovery of open content easier - OER Commons
A digital content hub, from diverse content providers internationally - MERLOT
A curated collection of free and open resources - Skills Commons
Free and open workforce training materials - Europeana
Europeana provides access to millions of books, music, artworks and more. - SSRN ('Social Science Research Network')
SSRN´s eLibrary provides over 950,000 research papers from thousands of researchers in more than 55 disciplines. - Pressbooks Directory
A publishing platform for Australian and international open textbooks.
Open books and journals
Australian
- ANU PressBooks can be downloaded for free. Conditions of use vary
- La Trobe eBureauPublishes a range of open-access ebooks
- Sydney Open LibraryAcademic monographs and textbooks published by Sydney University Press in open access
- UTS ePressThe open access publishing arm of the University of Technology Sydney (UTS)
- University of Adelaide PressMost titles available as a free eBook, some additionally available for print purchase
- CDU Open Book Publishing
Open Access textbooks from Charles Darwin University - USQ Open Access Textbooks
Open Access textbooks from University of Southern Queensland - Open Educational Resources (OER) - Textbooks
Collection of OER curated by Southern Cross University
International
- Open Research LibraryOffers access to more than 20,000 Open Access books
- Pressbooks DirectoryDirectory of all Pressbooks content
- BCcampus OpenEdSearch for open textbooks offered in a variety of digital formats and subjects
- Open Textbook LibrarySearch for textbooks licensed to be freely used, adapted, and distributed
- Directory Of Open Access BooksSearch for Open Access books
- LibriVoxFree public domain audiobooks
- OpenStax
Search for textbooks that are peer-reviewed by educators to ensure they are readable and accurate - Milne Open Textbook
Milne Open Textbooks is an open access textbook publishing initiative established by State University of New York libraries and supported by SUNY Innovative Instruction Technology Grants - Internet Archive: Open Source Text Books
A range of multidisciplinary open source textbooks - LibreTexts
Provides a range of multidisciplinary open source textbooks - Intech Open
Read, share and download more than 5,000 peer-reviewed Open Access books - DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals
Launched in 2003 DOAJ includes over 300 open access journals - MDPI Open Access Journals
MDPI is a pioneer in scholarly open access publishing and has supported academic communities since 1996
Other resources
Use the Creative Commons meta search tool CC Search to search for a wide range of openly licensed images, audio and videos:
- CC SearchA tool to enable openly licensed and public domain works to be discovered and used by everyone.
Find videos
- Open CultureProvides access to free cultural and educational media such as audiobooks, ebooks, textbooks, online courses & movies
- Pixabay: videosIncludes thousands of free stock video clips & footage. Note: sponsored videos from iStock are not freely available.
- YouTubeLarge video-sharing platform. Videos are free to view but cannot necessarily be adapted or modified.
Find images
- CSIRO Science Image libraryAll images are available under a creative commons license
- FlickrUse the advanced search option to find creative commons images within Flickr
- Google Arts & CultureExplore collections, artworks, places, articles, AI and more with Google Arts & Culture
- Life of PixFree high-resolution photos in the public domain (CC0 1.0)
- OpenverseBrowse through over 600 million items to reuse
- Google Images
Use the "Usage rights" option under "Tools" to refine your results to Creative Commons licensed images. - NASA image galleries
According to their 'Media Usage' page, images and audio are "...generally not copyrighted. You may use this material for educational or informational purposes..." - Metropolitan Museum of Art CC Search
All public domain images in its collection are now shared under a CC0 license - New York Public Library Digital Collections
Explore prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts, streaming video, and more. Images and content include statements on how you can reuse them - Open clip art
Clip art in the public domain (CC0 1.0) - Pexels
All photos are in the public domain (CC0 1.0) - Photos for Class
Allows access to images that are available for educational purposes - Pixabay
Over 380,000 public domain photos, vectors and art illustrations - Unsplash
Free high-resolution photos in the public domain (CC0 1.0) - Moose Lake Cartoons
Over 980 free cartoons separated into subjects - The Noun Project
A diverse and extensive collection of iconography created by a community of designers from 120+ countries - StockSnap.io
Free stock photos (CC0) - WebDonuts
Daily web comics with a Creative Commons licence - Wikimedia Commons
A collection of over 79 million freely usable media files
Find and create diverse images
- The Gender Spectrum CollectionStock photo library featuring images of trans and non-binary models
- UKBlackTechDiverse images of people in tech
- NappyBeautiful photos of Black and Brown people
- WOCinTechStock photos of women of color in tech, now free to use
- HumaaansMix and match illustrations of people with a design library
Find audio
- BensoundFind royalty, free music, licensed under creative commons
- Free Music ArchiveFree to download music licensed under Creative Commons
- FreesoundAudio snippets and sound effects licensed under creative commons licenses. Sign up for a free account to download
- JamendoOver 400,000 music tracks licensed under creative commons
- SoundBibleOffers thousands of free sound effects, sound clips, and sounds
- MusOpen.orgRecordings, sheet music and textbooks available for free
- PD InfoMusic in the Public Domain
- CC MixterFree music to download, sample, cut up and share
Find teaching resources
- Khan AcademyIncludes professional learning resources, standards-aligned content, practice exercises, videos and articles
- MIT OpenCourseWareAn open web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content
- H5P PB KitchenInformation and support with creating H5P for use in Pressbooks
- OpenStaxAdditional teaching resources supporting OpenStax textbooks such as test banks, answer guides and powerpoint slides
