11 OER Repositories & Textbooks
Repositories with a wide range of educational fields and materials
The websites listed below may include everything from textbooks to ancillary materials, such as presentations, assessments, lesson plans, rubrics, videos, and others. Many can be searched by material type, subject matter, and/or advanced filters.
- OER Commons: Provides access to a vast collection of educational resources, including textbooks, lesson plans, quizzes, and multimedia content, all of which are openly licensed. You can search for resources by subject, education level, and material type and apply more advanced search filters to help you narrow your results. OER Commons allows users to contribute their own resources, fostering a collaborative environment where educators can share their knowledge and expertise.
- MERLOT: Another vast collection of OER that includes textbooks, assignments, case studies, drills and practice, online courses, online course modules, etc.
- Teaching Commons: A collection of resources from leading colleges and universities. Curated by librarians and their institutions, the Teaching Commons includes open access textbooks, syllabuses, course materials, lesson plans, lecture videos, other multimedia, and more. You can filter by institution, type of material, and subject matter.
- OASIS: A search tool from SUNY Geneseo that searches open content from 115 different sources and contains 455,499 records.
- Index of OER Resources: A list of sources that include learning objects, digitized library collections, OER encyclopedia, textbooks, course, courseware, and OER support tools.
- The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository: Contains thousands of research works that you can search with filters for author, date, topic, content type, keyword, region, etc.
- UCF’s Open Educational Resources Collections: Includes UCF-created OER artifacts, images, works, studies and reports, etc.
OER Textbook Libraries
The list below includes just a few places to start. There are countless other OER libraries online, but you can’t go wrong starting with some of these:
- Pressbooks Directory: A large collection of textbooks, many of which integrate interactive components like activities or videos. Pressbooks is integrated into Webcourses@UCF, so you can easily enable it in your course and post materials there for easy access. See more about Pressbooks in the chapter of this guidebook called Copying or Creating Pressbooks in Your Webcourse.
- OpenStax College Textbooks: Textbooks and ancillary resources.
- Open Textbook Library: Now offering 1524 open textbooks, the Open Textbook Library is supported by the Open Education Network.
- LibreText Commons: OER textbooks and ancillary materials.
- B.C.OpenCollection: OER textbooks and ancillary materials.
- OER by Discipline Directory: A directory of OER listed by subject area and discipline.
- GALILEO Open Learning Materials: Open educational resources throughout the University System of Georgia, including open textbooks and ancillary materials.
