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OER Repositories by Format
Open textbooks for the 40 highest enrolled first- and second-year subject areas in the British Columbia’s public, post-secondary system.
Focused on driving awareness and adoptions of open and peer-reviewed textbooks to more than 2,000 community colleges.
Joint venture between the University of Georgia and University of Denver business schools. Provides a free library of thousands of texts on various topics.
Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT) is a curated resource of free and online textbooks for use in teaching and learning.
Provides college-level open textbooks from higher education institutions around the world. Search for the education level and subject area using the search features on the left side of the page.
Initiated by Rice University, their free textbooks are developed and peer-reviewed to ensure they meet the scope and sequence requirements of college courses.
Created by the University of Minnesota to support development of high-quality open textbooks in various subjects. Penn State became a member of the Open Textbook Network in 2017.
Collection of freely available open textbooks for download, online reading, and sharing.
Collection of freely available open textbooks for download, online reading, and sharing.
State University of New York (SUNY) Open Textbooks
With the initiative of the SUNY Libraries, Open SUNY Textbooks publishes high-quality, peer-reviewed textbooks for use in higher education.
Creator, publisher, distributor, and seller of open textbooks and ancillary materials to college-level students.
A list of open textbooks and course materials created by public community, technical, four-year college or university in Washington state from courses selected within the general education categories that will be able to transfer and apply a maximum of 45 quarter credits toward general education requirement(s) at any other public and most private higher education institutions in the state.
Wiki Book
Wiki books is a community effort where authors voluntarily start the book writing project, and readers can nominate them to be “featured books.” Anyone can contribute to an existing Wikibook or start a new Wikibook.
AMSER (Applied Math and Science Education Repository)
Portal of educational resources and services built specifically for use by those in community and technical Colleges.
California Open Online Library for Education (Cool4Ed)
Library of free open source textbooks and other materials from the State of California Higher Educations Systems.
Johns Hopkins School of Publich Health Open Course Ware (JHSPH OCW) 110 courses in Health and Medical areas are included in the repository. Full course packages are provided including syllabus, readings and assignments. Most courses are paired with completely free or highly affordable textbooks ($10-$30).
MERLOT II
Free, peer reviewed collection of online teaching and learning materials maintained by the California State University System.
MIT OpenCourseWare
A web-based publication of materials from thousands of MIT courses.
OER Commons
Funded by ISKME, OER Commons is a library of OER materials.
Open Course Library
Shareable course materials, including syllabi, course activities, readings, and assessments.
Open Courseware Consortium
Free and open collection of learning materials presented in the form of courses.
Open Education Consortium is NOT a content provider. Instead, they search available open educational materials and provide the links.
Open Learning Initiative
The Open Learning Initiative (OLI) is a grant-funded group at Carnegie Mellon University, offering innovative online courses to anyone who wants to learn or teach.
Open Michigan
A hub that helps people find, use, and create openly licensed content and provides a space to share their educational content.
Open Yale
Each course includes a full set of video lectures accompanied by other course materials such as syllabi, suggested readings, and problem sets.
Openstax CNX (formerly Connexions)
Textbooks, articles, supplements, and other learning resources that can be read online or downloaded for free.
PSU College of Earth and Mineral Sciences Open Courseware
The College of Earth and Mineral Sciences provides open course materials in topics including Energy and Mineral Engineering, Geography, Geoscience, and Materials Science. Each full course package includes a syllabus, readings, and assignments.
Saylor Academy
Free online, self-paced courses. Courses are displayed and organized based on the scope and level
Skills Commons
A repository of all deliverables from the US Department of Labor (DOL)’s Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT) Grant Program. You can browse the content by industry, grant project, material type, or credential type.
The OrangeGrove
Florida’s digital repository for instructional resources.
Use this multimedia search engine to find various types of CC licensed items from sources such as Google Images, Fotopedia, Jamendo, Flickr and more. They also have a community-built and maintained Content Directory that features hundreds of media resources from around the world and in a variety of different subject areas.
License: Creative Commons
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The A/V Geeks Film Archive is an ephemeral film collection curated by Skip Elsheimer. What started as a hobby more than ten years is now a lifetime commitment. His collection has grown to over 24,000 films gathered from school auctions, thrift stores, closets and dumpsters. The Archive features old civil defense & public service films shot by the government in the 40′s & 50′s.
License: Creative Commons
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Short, stylized, loopable video loops, typically used by VJ’s. Download from this archive or submit your own works to contribute to this growing community.
License: Creative Commons
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Images, audio and video recordings related to space flight, astronomy and aeronautics created by NASA, most of which are not copyrighted.
License: None
The SpinXpress search tool lets you define the type of media you are looking for, what license you want and you can restrict what source or search all of them to find just what you need.
License: Creative Commons
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TED Videos are not officially licensed with any kind of open licensing. However, TED allows the users to freely view and download the videos without restraint. The website is provided as a public service to promote the spread of good ideas.
You can go to the main site and use the search features in the left hand menu to narrow your search to openly licensed videos or you can go directly to the Creative Commons Licensed Videos Site.
Categorized stock video clips from WGBH TV. The WGBH Lab is an innovation of WGBH’s Boston Media Productions, a leader in local news, public affairs, arts and bi-cultural productions.
License: Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Use this multimedia search engine to find various types of CC licensed items from sources such as Google Images, Fotopedia, Jamendo, Flickr and more. They also have a community-built and maintained Content Directory that features hundreds of media resources from around the world and in a variety of different subject areas.
License: Creative Commons
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Much the same as the Free Media Library itself, Jason McCoy’s list of 31 Creative Commons licensed music sources is curated and easy to navigate. A great place to get started with finding your next soundtrack!
License: Creative Commons
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The world’s biggest free music library. Download thousands of free MP3s, all with Creative Commons licenses so that you can modify, adapt and build on most works in your own projects.
License: Creative Commons
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This portion of moby.com, Film Music, is for independent and non-profit filmmakers, film students, and anyone in need of free music for their independent, non-profit film, video or short. The music is free as long as it’s being used in a non-commercial or non-profit film, video, or short.
License: Author-Defined License
Freesound is a collaborative database of Creative Commons Licensed sound effects. Free registration required to download sounds.
License: Creative Commons Attribution
SoundCloud, launched in 2008 by Alexander Ljung and Eric Wahlforss, is a social sound platform that gives users unprecedented access to the world’s largest community of music and audio creators. This CC licensed search will allow you to find uploads to use in your projects.
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial