LibGuides: Open Educational Resources: Finding Open Educational Resources

Finding Open Educational Resources

These search engines and repositories include all types of open educational resources in a wide range of subjects.

MASON OER Metafinder
An open educational resource search engine from George Mason University that searches several major open educational resource repositories.
MERLOT
A repository of open educational resources containing tens of thousands of discipline-specific learning materials in all disciplines.
OAsis
The Commonwealth of Learning’s online institutional repository for open learning resources and publications.
OER Africa
The OER Africa website provides a home for African OER courseware. Open educational resources focus on Agriculture, Foundation Skills, Health and Teacher education developed for the African context.
OER Commons
The OER Commons curated collection of open educational resources covers all subject areas at all levels of education.
Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS)
OASIS is a search tool for open educational resources searching open content from over 100 different sources.
Open Washington: Find OER
Open Washington's site provides links to a wide range of open educational resource repositories.

These search engines and repositories specialise in audio-visual open educational resources, including open images, videos and audio resources.

Creative Commons
Searches collections of Creative Commons licensed works including music, images, videos and icons created by independent organisations.
Europeana
A collection of digitized artworks, images, music, artefacts, and books from all over Europe. Each item lists its Creative Commons license and usage restrictions.
Google
The Google Image Advanced Search page enables you to limit your search by Usage rights. Select the option ‘Creative Commons licenses’ to find images published under a Creative Commons license.
Nappy
A collection of photographs of people from diverse backgrounds
Pexels
Searches photographs and videos licensed with a Pexels open license.
Pixabay
Searches images, music and videos licensed with a Pixabay open license.
Smithsonian Open Access Collection
This collection provides access to millions of open access digital images from the Smithsonian collection.
Unsplash
Searches images licensed with a Unsplash open license.
Wikimedia
A collection of media files, including images, videos and music that are either in the public domain or have open licenses.

Search engines and repositories for finding open access academic journals and journal articles.

Australasian Open Access Repositories
A list of repositories in Australian and New Zealand universities maintained by The Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL).
COnnecting REpositories (CORE)
CORE is an Open University initiative that searches for scholarly journal articles across many different Open Access repositories.
Digital Commons
A search engine for open access full-text peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers and conference proceedings from across the world.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
An online directory that indexes and provides access to peer-reviewed open access journal articles from across the world.
FINDit
FINDit, the USW search engine, includes some open access resources in its searches. To search for open access articles, enter your subject in the search box and use the Articles search option. Select Open Access from the filters on the left-hand side of the results lists to see open access articles.

These websites offer a range of different open course materials.

MIT Open Courseware
The course content of courses taught at MIT including syllabi, videos of lectures, assignments and exams in a variety of subject areas.
OpenLearn
The Open University’s open learning platform. It contains bite-sized course materials and short courses in all subject areas.
Slideshare
Millions of slide decks in a wide range of subjects.
TED-Ed videos
A curated collection of short video lessons in all subject areas.
TU Delft OpenCourseWare
Delft University of Technology have made a range of course materials in the subjects of health and the sciences available with open licenses.