Faculty Teaching and Learning Collection
Open Educational Resources
You can find our complete OER LibGuide here.
SPARC
"SPARC®, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, is an international alliance of academic and research libraries working to create a more open system of scholarly communication. SPARC believes that faster and wider sharing of the outputs of the scholarly research process increases the impact of research, fuels the advancement of knowledge, and increases the return on research investments. SPARC focuses on taking action in collaboration with stakeholders – including authors, publishers, and libraries – to build on the unprecedented opportunities created by the networked digital environment to advance the conduct of scholarship." (http://www.sparc.arl.org/about#sthash.Bi8oUFCn.dpu)
Open Access (Book)
Alliance for Taxpayer Access
A coalition of patient groups, physicians, researchers, educational institutions, publishers, and health promotion organizations that support barrier-free access to taxpayer-funded research.
OER Collections & Courses
Below is a partial list of some sites that offer OERs or that link to sites that offer OERs. Many of the sites allow users to create a free account and to search for and save OERs as well as to create new OERs and share them with others.
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CosmoLearningProvides courses, video lectures, documentaries, images, books and other multimedia in dozens of subjects.
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Internet ArchiveHundreds of free courses, video lectures, and supplemental materials from universities in the U.S. and China. Many are available to be downloaded.
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MERLOTFree and open online community of resources designed primarily for faculty, staff and students of higher education from around the world to share their learning materials and pedagogy.
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OER CommonsUses a variety of categories to organize resources. The categories are assigned by the resources' creators and OER Commons administrators, and they describe various aspects of the items, including grade level, subject area, and material type.
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Open Course LibraryManaged by the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges, this site contains material for numerous courses, all of which is stored in Google Docs so that it can be easily downloaded.
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Open Education ConsortiumA collaboration of higher education institutions and associated organizations from around the world creating a broad and deep body of open educational content using a shared model.
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OpenLearnOffers a full range of course materials from The Open University in various subject areas and at various levels.
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OpenStax CNXEducational materials for everyone from children to college students to professionals, organized in small modules that are easily connected to; formerly known as Connexions.
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Saylor AcademyContains numerous full-length courses at the college and professional levels.
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WikiversityA Wikimedia Foundation project devoted to learning resources, learning projects, and research for use in all levels, types, and styles of education from pre-school to university, including professional training and informal learning.
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YouTube EDUProvides access to a broad set of educational videos that range from academic lectures to inspirational speeches and everything in between.
University-affiliated Multidisciplinary OER Collections & Courses
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edXEdX is a non-profit created by founding partners Harvard and MIT. EdX offers MOOCs and interactive online classes in subjects including law, history, science, engineering, business, social sciences, computer science, public health, and artificial intelligence.
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MIT OpenCourseWareOne of the oldest and largest OER collections, MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) makes available nearly all content for undergraduate and graduate MIT classes.
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Open Yale CoursesOpen Yale Courses provides free and open access to a selection of introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale University.
Open Textbook Collections
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College Open TextbooksA collection of educational non-profit and for-profit organizations, affiliated with more than 200 colleges, that are focused on the mission of driving the awareness and advocacy for open textbooks.Funded by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, their efforts include providing training for instructors adopting open resources, peer reviews of open textbooks, and mentoring online professional networks that provide support to authors who open their resources, and other services.
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Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)Contains 1000+ open access academic peer-reviewed books from 40+ publishers.
Other Resources on Open Access
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Enabling Open ScholarshipAdvocacy for University OA policies.
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OA journal business modelsA list from the open access directory.
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OASIS (Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook)A compendium of practical steps for implementing open access.
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OASPA-Open Access Scholarly Publishers AssociationThe professional association of OA publishers.
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OpenDOARProvides access to the contents of a selected list of open access repositories around the world.
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The Rise of Open AccessThe accelerating pace of scientific publishing and the rise of open access, as depicted by xkcd.com cartoonist Randall Munroe.
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ROAD: Directory of open access scholarly resourcesProvides access to open-access resources that have been assigned an ISSN by the ISSN Network.
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ROAR-Registry of Open Access RepositoriesThe aim of ROAR is to promote the development of open access by providing timely information about the growth and status of repositories throughout the world.
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SHERPA-RoMEODatabase of journal publishing policies on OA archiving.
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Simmons College Open Access DirectoryA compendium of simple factual lists about open access (OA) to science and scholarship, maintained by the OA community at large.
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A Very Brief Introduction to Open AccessArticle on open access by Peter Suber,
Director, Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication.




