LibGuides: Open Educational Resources: Home

Introduction

Three Reasons to Use
Open Educational Resources

Students can't always afford the high cost of textbooks and may be going without.

They are created by educators for educators, using the peer review process.

You can edit, adapt, and modify them, creating a custom resource for your course.

More Than
Just Textbooks

Use the links below to find textbooks, as well as a variety of materials that supplement both the textbook and your teaching. For a deeper dive into finding, using, and evaluating resources, along with some pointers on course redesign, take a look at the Zero-Cost Textbook Adoption Guide, created by the PALSave Team.

Textbook Quicklinks

Funderburg eBooks

Access Books, eBooks, DVDs and More

The library has access to a wide range of books on the platforms below. Explore individual collections or search all of them at once in the library catalog (above).

eBook Academic Collection (EBSCO)
Ebook Central (ProQuest)
EBSCO eBook Collection
JSTOR (Enter search, then scroll down to Item Type and check Books.)
Oxford Academic
Project Muse

Zero-Cost Textbook Adoption Guide

Created by members of the Private Academic Library Network of Indiana's PALSave Team, this guide provides more information on using open educational (a.k.a. "zero-cost") resources.

MERLOT

Based at California State University, Merlot is a repository of tens of thousands of discipline-specific open access learning materials including presentations, simulations, case studies, journal articles, textbooks, assignments, exercises, quizzes and tests.

OASIS

Find open educational content from 132 providers with this metasearch. Brought to you by SUNY Geneseo, OASIS includes: textbooks, course materials, interactive simulations, public domain books, audiobooks, modules, open access books, videos, podcasts, learning objects, and primary sources.

OER Commons

A growing collection of open educational resources coordinated by the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education. Material types include: activities/labs, data sets, lecture notes, lesson plans, modules, primary sources, and syllabi.

Open Pedagogy Portal

Open Pedagogy Portal
Find and contribute to teaching and learning resources that support open pedagogy. Includes case studies of renewable assignments and student work product by discipline.

CC Search

Search over 300 million openly licensed and public domain images to use in your instruction. This metasearch includes collections from the Animal Diversity Web, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the World Register of Marine Species.