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Open Educational Resources: Finding OER

Major Repositories

LardBucket 2012

Creative Commons-licensed copies of all the books which were available online from a specific publisher at the end of 2012.

Free and open learning materials for job-driven workforce development

Repository for the Open University in the United Kingdom.

Search the Library's Collections for Textbooks

The library already pays for access to many large collections of ebooks which contain many textbooks.

Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
SpringerLink ebooks - English/International Collections This link opens in a new window

OER Metafinder Search Tools

Mason OER Metafinder (MOM)
Mason OER Metafinder searches fifteen of the leading OER repositories with a single query. Perform broad queries across all sources or search for terms in full record, title, or author(s).
OASIS (SUNY Geneseo)
Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) is a search tool that aims to make the discovery of open content easier. OASIS currently searches open content from 52 different sources and contains 155,375 records. OASIS is being developed at SUNY Geneseo's Milne Library

OER Repositories

Evaluating Resources

Faculty Evaluation Guide
From the BC Open Campus, provides an excellent checklist and suggestions for evaluating OERs in your course.
OER Evaluation Tool Handbook from Achieve
This handbook has been designed to walk a user through the process of evaluating an online resource using the Achieve Open Education Resources (OERs) rubrics.

BC OER Guide for Evaluating Open Education Resources
Outline key features of researched resources that could be used in the BC OER assessment rubrics.

Want to Adopt this Guide?

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.