Research Guides: Open Educational Resources: Geography OER

Open Textbooks

By Whole world - land and oceans.jpg: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center derivative work: ויקיג'אנקי [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Government Resources

Search for government resources at USA.gov.

Major Repositories

From BCCampus

LardBucket 2012

OER Geography Textbooks

Visualization Tools

Gapminder is a tool to help create free teaching resources based on reliable statistics.

If it were my home.com
If It Were My Home is a tool to compare living conditions in your own country to those of another.

Links to variety of resources in different formats

USGS National Geological Map Database

Library resources

The library pays for access to databases and ebooks which can be used as text materials. Although these resources are not OER, they are available to our students at no cost. Here are some examples:

Ebook Central This link opens in a new window

South Pole: Nature and Culture by Elizabeth Leane
Publication Date: 2016

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Van Wylen Library LibGuide on Open Educational Resources (OER) is a derivative/remix of Northwestern Michigan College (NMC) Library Research Guide on Open Educational Resources (OER) by NMC Librarians.and Eastern Michigan University's Textbook Alternatives Library Research Guide by Kate Pittsley-Sousa.