LibGuides: OER Student Advocacy: Find Open Resources

Finding OER

So now that you've learned about OER and expensive textbooks, as well as what you can do to advocate for OER, you probably want to search for OER. The following links are great places to get started.

Find Open Textbooks

Open Textbook Library
This curated collection includes hundreds of complete, open, college-level textbooks. Includes reviews. Faculty members from anywhere, including UAA, can submit reviews of the texts. By Univ. of Minnesota. Content is searched within both the OASIS and Mason metafinders as well.
Pressbooks Directory
Pressbooks is a publishing platform where many OER books are published. This link will allow you to search cataloged Pressbooks made discoverable by their publishing institutions.
BC Campus OpenEd Textbook Directory
Directory of 117 hand-picked open textbooks, many reviewed by British Columbia faculty. Some include supplementary materials. Content is searched within both the OASIS and Mason metafinders as well.

Search Other Kinds of OER

Not every OER is a textbook! You can find lessons, slides, study guides, and more in these OER repositories.

OER Commons
A search engine that covers OER for higher education as well as K-12. Be sure to use the filter menu on the results page to narrow to the types of material you're interested in.
Mason OER Metafinder
Simultaneously search a number of OER and open access repositories with this single search box from George Mason University. An excellent place to see a wide variety of types of resources. Allows for searching full records for terms, whereas OASIS does not.
OASIS OER Metafinder
Simultaneously search many OER and open access repositories with this metafinder from SUNY. An excellent place to see a wide variety of types of resources.