Research and Course Guides: Open Educational Resources (OER): Finding OER

Textbooks

Discover high-quality OER textbooks that can be freely used, adapted, and shared to meet the needs of your courses. These textbooks cover a wide range of subjects and are often peer-reviewed to ensure quality and accuracy. Please note, this is not an exhaustive list but rather a curated selection of resources to serve as a starting point. At any time, feel free to contact your subject area liaison librarian for personalized assistance with your search.

American Institute of Mathematics
A list of open textbooks in various subdisciplines of mathematics approved by the AIM editorial board.
B.C. Open Textbook
Collection of open textbooks, covering a variety of subjects, from BC Campus.
Bloomsburg Academic
Established publisher who has released some of their academic titles for OER.
LibreTexts
Offers a vast platform of OER materials, including textbooks, across various subjects.
Lyryx Open Texbooks
High quality, open textbooks in the fields of accounting, mathematics, and economics.
Milne Open Textbooks
Catalog of open textbooks authored and peer-reviewed by SUNY faculty and staff.
OASIS
Search tool for OER content from 127 different sources.
OER Commons
Tailored, context-specific resources for a variety of levels and subjects.
OpenStax
Peer reviewed, quality, open textbooks with interactive components from Rice University.
Open Textbook Library
Open, college-level textbooks collected by the University of Minnesota.
Project Gutenberg
Online library of free eBooks

Courses

Explore OER courses designed to provide complete, adaptable teaching materials, including syllabi, lecture slides, assignments, and more. These resources are ideal for supplementing your current courses or building new ones with ready-made, flexible content. Please note, this is not an exhaustive list but rather a curated selection of resources to serve as a starting point. At any time, feel free to contact your subject area liaison librarian for personalized assistance with your search.

Academic Earth
Offers free access to high-quality educational resources, including video lectures and courses from top universities, to make learning accessible to everyone worldwide.
Lumen Learning
Courses composed of mostly open materials that can be copied and adapted for free.
MIT Open Learning Library
Curated educational materials from MIT OpenCourseWare and MITx courses. All resources are freely available, offered for download, remixing, and reuse for non-commercial purposes.
NOBA Project
Expertly compiled from Noba modules to fit the scope and sequence of common courses. Use them as-is or customize them to fit your needs. Instructor manuals, PowerPoint presentations, and test bank available for many modules.
OERu
OERu offers a number of full courses in fields like business, economics, digital literacy, and history from universities around the world.
Open Course Library
All content is stored in Google docs making it easy to access, browse, and download.
Open Learning Initiative
Complete courses offered by Carnegie Mellon University.
Saylor.org
Offers full courses online.