Guides: Open Educational Resources: Find

Help finding OER

Library staff would be happy to help find suitable resources for your courses. Please contact Ask the Library for assistance.

Find a variety of materials (textbooks and more) using the links below.

Pressbooks Directory
A publishing platform for Australian and international open textbooks.
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 open resources
Europeana
Europeana provides access to millions of books, music, artworks and more.
LibreCommons
LibreCommons hosts curated OER from all 14 LibreTexts libraries in one convenient location

CAUL OER Collective
Find Australian OER created by CAUL OER Collective institutions
ANU Press
Open books published by Australian National University on a wide range of topics
La Trobe eBureau
A wide range of open books published by La Trobe University.
Sydney Open Library
Academic monographs and textbooks published openly by Sydney University Press
UTS ePress
The open access publishing arm of the University of Technology Sydney (UTS)
UniSQ Open Access Textbooks
Open textbooks from University of Southern Queensland

Open Textbooks @ UQ
Open textbooks from The University of Queensland
RMIT Open Textbooks
Open textbooks from RMIT University
CDU Open Book Publishing
Open textbooks from Charles Darwin University
University of Adelaide Press
Most titles available as a free eBook, some additionally available for print purchase. Note: press no longer publishing since 2018.
Open Educational Resources (OER) - Textbooks
Collection of OER curated by Southern Cross University
Western Open Books
Open textbooks published by Western Sydney University
QUT Open Texts
Collection of OER published by Queensland University of Technology

BCcampus Open Collection
Search for open textbooks offered in a variety of digital formats and subjects
Open Textbook Library
Search for textbooks licensed to be freely used, adapted, and distributed
OpenStax
Search for textbooks that are peer-reviewed to ensure they are readable and accurate
Directory Of Open Access Books
Search for Open Access books
Open Research Library
Offers access to more than 20,000 Open Access books
LibriVox
Public domain audiobooks

Use the Creative Commons meta search tool CC Search to search for a wide range of openly licensed images, audio and videos:

CC Search
A tool to enable openly licensed and public domain works to be discovered and used by everyone.

Open Culture
Cultural and educational media such as audiobooks, ebooks, textbooks, online courses and movies
Pixabay: videos
Stock video clips and footage. Note: sponsored videos from iStock are not freely available.
YouTube
Videos are free to view but cannot necessarily be adapted or modified. Use the Creative Commons filter to find CC-licensed content.

CSIRO Science Image library
All images are available under a creative commons license
Flickr
Use the advanced search option to find creative commons images within Flickr
Google Arts & Culture
Explore collections, artworks, places, articles, AI and more
Life of Pix
High-resolution photos in the public domain
Openverse
Browse 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
Images and audio are "...generally not copyrighted. You may use this material for educational or informational purposes..."
Metropolitan Museum of Art CC Search
Public domain images
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
Pexels
All photos are in the public domain
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
Moose Lake Cartoons
Over 980 free cartoons separated into subjects
The Noun Project
Collection of iconography created by a community of designers from 120+ countries
StockSnap.io
Free stock photos
WebDonuts
Daily web comics with a Creative Commons licence
Wikimedia Commons
A collection of over 79 million media files

The Gender Spectrum Collection
Stock photo library featuring images of trans and non-binary models
UKBlackTech
Diverse images of people in tech
Nappy
Beautiful photos of Black and Brown people
WOCinTech
Stock photos of women of color in tech
Humaaans
Mix and match illustrations of people with a design library

Bensound
Find royalty, free music, licensed under creative commons
Free Music Archive
Downloadable music licensed under Creative Commons
Freesound
Audio snippets and sound effects licensed under creative commons. Sign up to download
Jamendo
Over 400,000 music tracks licensed under creative commons
SoundBible
Thousands of free sound effects, sound clips, and sounds
MusOpen.org
Recordings, sheet music and textbooks available for free
PD Info
Music in the Public Domain
CC Mixter
Music to download, sample, cut up and share

Khan Academy
Professional learning resources, standards-aligned content, practice exercises, videos and articles
MIT OpenCourseWare
An open web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content
H5P PB Kitchen
Information and support with creating H5P for use in Pressbooks
OpenStax
Resources supporting OpenStax textbooks such as test banks, answer guides and PowerPoint slides