Open Educational Resources (OER)

Search for resources that have been given a Creative Commons license by the rights holder.

Memorial Library, SUNY Cortland LibGuide on Free eBooks Collections

"The MERLOT collection consists of tens of thousands of discipline-specific learning materials, learning exercises, and Content Builder webpages, together with associated comments, and bookmark collections, all intended to enhance the teaching experience of using a learning material. All of these items have been contributed by the MERLOT member community, who have either authored the materials themselves, or who have discovered the materials, found them useful, and wished to share their enthusiasm for the materials with others in the teaching and learning community."

Milne Library Publishing at SUNY Geneseo manages and maintains Milne Open Textbooks, a catalog of open textbooks authored and peer-reviewed by SUNY faculty and staff. (Formerly known as "SUNY Open Textbooks.")

"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 90 different sources and contains 364,699 records."

This Internet Archive OER Collection contains Open Educational Resources, university lectures, and hundreds of free courses, video lectures, and supplemental materials from universities in the United States and China. Many of these lectures are available for download. Materials within the Open Educational Resources Archive are licensed according to each author's wishes. Please see specific collections or items for licensing information.

"The OER Commons website was created to help educators, students, and lifelong learners find Open Educational Resources that are already posted somewhere on the Internet....This site is a structured database of links to high-quality resources found on other websites. OER Commons provides a single point of access through which educators, students, and all learners can search,browse, evaluate, and discuss over 30,000 high-quality OER."

"OpenDOAR is an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories. Each OpenDOAR repository has been visited by project staff to check the information that is recorded here. This in-depth approach does not rely on automated analysis and gives a quality-controlled list of repositories."

"View and share free educational material in small modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports or other academic assignments."

"Textbooks in the Open Textbook Library are considered open because they are free to use and distribute, and are licensed to be freely adapted or changed with proper attribution. Many have been reviewed by faculty from Open Textbook Network member institutions." Browse by subject including: Accounting & Finance, Business , Human Resources, Management, Marketing, Computer Science & Information Systems, Economics, Education, Engineering, Humanities, Arts, History, Linguistics, Literature, Rhetoric & Writing, Philosophy, Journalism, Media Studies & Communications, Law, Mathematics (Applied & Pure), Medicine, Natural Sciences, Biology, & Chemistry.

SUNY OER Services (SOS) operates as part of SUNY’s Office of Library and Information Services. SOS works directly with SUNY campuses and faculty to provide assistance and knowledge to support the adoption of open educational resources (OER) and sustained use of OER as drivers of faculty choice and student success. This includes offering a ready-to-adopt course catalog, facilitating the seamless integration of openly-licensed content into learning management systems, the remixing of openly-licensed content from various sources, the offline (print) production of learning materials, as well as the services and resources of our partners.