Guides: Open Educational Resources: OER Repositories

OER Repositories

Digital Public Library of America
A collection of texts, images, and audio and video recordings from America's libraries, archives, and museums.
Access note: Freely available to the public.

Live Lingua
A collection of U.S. Government-created public domain language resources. Learn any of over 130 languages with free online e-book and audio courses.
MERLOT
Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT) was created in 1997 by California State University to provide access to freely available teaching materials for higher education. This is a curated collection of over 40,000 free and open online teaching, learning, and faculty development services contributed and used by an international education community.

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It can be useful to search Merlot II by community.
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg offers over 53,000 free ebooks: choose among free epub books, free kindle books, download them or read them online.
OER Commons
OER Commons is a repository with 73,000 kinds of OER, along with tools for creating OER, training on how to use OER and the ability to create OER.
LibreText Commons
A website which has a database of various Open Educational Resources based online textbooks which are freely available for use by you and by your students.

OpenStax
A nonprofit based at Rice University.
Access note: Freely available to the public. To access faculty-only materials, you can create an OpenStax account and request faculty access. See their FAQ for more info (https://openstax.org/faq)

Mason OER Metafinder (MOM)
This metafinder from George Mason University searches across 19 different OER repositories and sites including OpenStax, OER Commons, MERLOT, HathiTrust and NYPL Digital Collections.
OASIS
This integrated search engine developed at SUNY Geneseo's Milne Library searches 76 different sources and contains over 177,000 records.