Find OER
Find and Explore Open Educational Resources
How to Attribute or Cite OER with Creative Commons Licenses
The following links include an extensive list of directories and websites you can access to find OER educational content, images, videos, and music. Also included are OER collections containing a variety of course materials, such as readings, quizzes, simulations, and assignments.
OpenStax Textbooks
Open Stax and Canvas Commons
- Find Open Stax OER Textbooks Canvas Shells in your Canvas Commons Account
Intellus Learning OER Database (Contact rpires@valleycollege.edu for log-in information)
- What Can You Do with Intellus?
- You Tube Channel - Intellus Orientation Videos or you can schedule a webinar orientation.
- Intellus Login
California Open Online Library for Education
Creative Commons
Here is an example how to look for materials using Creative Commons.
- Type: critical thinking english textbook
- Click the Google Box
- Click Search
- OER Commons
- MERLOT
- SEARCH TIP: OER Commons and MERLOT allow you to further limit results by sub-disciplines and material type.
- BC Open Ed Tech Collaborative
- Copyright Advisory Group
- How to Search YouTube for OER Videos
- Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
- Collections of open resources, including textbooks, and open journals.
- SAGE Open
- An open access publication from SAGE.
- Open Culture
- Merlot OER Resources
- Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources
- Lumen Learning
- Databases for OER instructional lesson plans, lectures, and activities, etc.
- Canvas Commons (found in your Canvas campus account)
- Soft Chalk
- Amazon Inspire (K-12)
- California Community College Online Education Initiative – Basic Skills Resources
- Directory of Open Access Books - Humanities
- Wikimedia Commons
- Pixabay Images
- Pikwizard Images
- Foter Images
- Free Pik Images
- Europa Art Collection
- Getty Research Portal
- Free Getty Images Portal
- The New York Public Library Digital Collection
- The Metropolitian Museum of Art Collection
- World Images
- Smithosian Collection
- Mason OER Metafinder (MOM)
- Digital Public Library of America
- Internet Archive
- The Public Domain Review
- Federal Government Agencies - Federal Materials are Public Domain
- Library of Congress
- Open Knowledge Repository
- Hathi Trust Digital Library
- Intech Open - Science, Technology, and Medicine Open Access Publisher
- The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine
- Book Boon - Free Books Supported by Advertisements
- TED Talks
- TED ED
- STEM Concept Videos
- Hippo Campus Videos
- Snag Films - Streamed Videos
- Top Documentary Films - Streamed Videos
How to Use Google Advance Search to Find OER
How to Search OER Commons
How to Make Attributions When Using Creative Commons Licensed OER
OER Search Tips
How to Search Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
