LibGuides: Open Educational Resources: Finding OER

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OER Repositories

Browse these repositories by subject or search for materials using relevant keywords.

OER Commons
Pros: One of the largest OER repositories, covers multiple disciplines, allows for sorting by education level, reuse options, and by standard.
Cons: Rating system is a bit unclear.
OpenStax
Pros: High quality textbooks for introductory level college courses.
Cons: Little content for upper level courses. Not much coverage in the humanities.
Open Textbook Library
Pros: Large collection of textbooks with published peer reviews by professors, does include some upper level/graduate textbooks, easy to use interface.
Cons: As the name suggests, the content is limited to textbooks.
MERLOT II
Pros: There are lots of filtering and limiting options when searching, wide range of disciplines represented, wide variety of material types.
Cons: Search interface is a bit clunky.
OASIS
Pros: Searches content from over 60 different sources, you can sort by license type and type of resource.
Cons: Can't sort by education level.
OER Metafinder
Pros: Simultaneously searches multiple repositories, could give you good ideas of other repositories to look in.
Cons: Search interface is difficult to use, search results sometimes take you to the main page of different repository and then you have to redo your search, not easy to determine licenses for items.

Discipline-Specific OER

The University of Oklahoma Libraries have compiled a comprehensive guide to many existing discipline-specific resources. You can review it here.

Grand Valley State University also has a nice collection of discipline specific OER repositories.

Looking for supplemental materials?

If you're interested in finding open materials that might be relevant to a text you're teaching, try using MERLOT II's ISBN search function. Just input the ISBN of the text you're currently using to see what materials could be supplemental.