LibGuides: Open Educational Resources: Finding Resources

Finding Books and Textbooks

Washington 45
The Washington 45 are “courses selected from within the general education categories… at a public community, technical, four-year college or university in Washington state that will be able to transfer and apply a maximum of 45 quarter credits toward general education requirement(s) at any other public and most private higher education institutions in the state.”
OpenStax
Open Education Resource (OER) Commons (Advanced Search)
Merlot II
"MERLOT is a program of the California State University System partnering with education institutions, professional societies, and industry."
cita
"cita is a library and press devoted to highlighting, publishing and promoting works written by women. We pair contemporary authors and designers with open access texts, and make carefully designed books available for free!"
Curriki
Find lesson plans or resources for various disciplines, and levels of education.
Temoa
"Tools for Energy Model Optimization and Analysis (Temoa) is an open source modeling framework for conducting energy system analysis."
Flatworld
Adaptable peer-reviewed textbooks. Not always free.
Wikibooks
Collaborative writing of open-content textbooks
Bookboon
"All our textbooks for students – and there are over a thousand – are completely free and can easily be downloaded in PDF format. They are all written exclusively for Bookboon by professors from the world’s top universities."
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Open Culture
Open Culture's mission is to bring together "cultural & educational media for the worldwide lifelong learning community."
BioInteractive
Free science education resources
Boundless Course Catalog
Directory of Open Access Books
directory of academic, peer reviewed open access books.
Google Books
Google Books provides full-text of books which are in the public domain or where Google received permission from the publisher to reproduce in a digital format.
Open Textbook Library
supported by the Open Education Network

Hathi Trust Digital Library
HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.

Because Central Washington University Library is a HathiTrust member, when you log in using your institutional login and password, you have access to a larger number of volumes and features. Including the ability to download full volumes of public domain works.

To login to Central Washington University's instance of HathiTrust click on the large yellow "Log In" button. Select "Central Washington University" as your partner institution and click "Continue." Once prompted, login in using your CWU username and password.

Repositories

Smithsonian Open Access
Welcome to Smithsonian Open Access, where you can download, 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. This includes images and data from across the Smithsonian’s 19 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo.
eCommons: Cornell's digital respository
Thousands of theses and dissertations, conference proceedings, technical reports, presentations, etc.
Open Course Library
Internet Archive
Open Education Consortium
Open Professionals Education Network
Resource portal funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

University and college-sponsored courseware

Ohio State U Open Courseware
Canvas-specific, brand new as of 2018
Open Michigan
Open Michigan enables the University of Michigan community to make the products of its research, teaching, and creative work available to the world beyond campus.
Open Yale Courses
Free courses and course content through Yale University
MIT OpenCourseWare
MIT programs have lists of texts and material that are open and viewable online, or downloadable files. Explore their academic programs to find specific material.
Milne Open Textbooks
Milne Library Publishing at SUNY Geneseo manages and maintains Milne Open Textbooks, a catalog of open textbooks authored and peer-reviewed by SUNY faculty and staff.
Carnegie Mellon Online Learning Initiative
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.

Free Online Courses

Open Course Library
A collection of high quality, free-to-use courses that you can download and use for teaching. All content is stored in Google docs making it easy to access, browse and download.
Online Colleges: Open Online Courses
This website summarizes some of the platforms available that offer free, online courses. It also includes school summaries and a few of their most popular courses.
edX
edX is a resource that hosts free courses produced by a variety of universities and educational facilities. Most courses hosted here are free. However, some charge a fee for their certificate of completion.
Coursera
Free online courses.
Lumen Learning
OER courses

Open Educational Resources

OER Guides

OER Related Research Guides

Finding Books and Textbooks

Repositories

University and college-sponsored courseware

Free Online Courses