Subject Guides
Open Educational Resources (OER)
This guide provides details about how the open access movement is impacting academic education and how to find appropriate low cost or zero cost materials for academic courses.
More and more textbook authors are opting to share their textbooks open platforms. Use these links to browse through some of the major open textbook repositories or use MERLOT's ISBN search to find comparable open textbooks.
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*Image source: SUNY OER Services |
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. |
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The MERLOT system provides access to curated online learning and support materials and content creation tools, led by an international community of educators, learners, and researchers. |
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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. |
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An imprint of SUNY Press, 64 ink™ showcases the work of faculty from across SUNY, the largest comprehensive system of higher education in the United States. |
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Peer-reviewed. Openly licensed. 100% free. And backed by additional learning resources. |
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Open textbooks are textbooks that have been funded, published, and licensed to be freely used, adapted, and distributed. These books have been reviewed by faculty from a variety of colleges and universities to assess their quality. |
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The world's leading publisher of Open Access books. Built by scientists, for scientists |
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This directory provides an index of 2259 books published across 95 Pressbooks networks. Many, but not all, of these texts, are CC-licensed. You can filter the search to include only CC-licensed content. |
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The BCcampus Open Education OER by Discipline Directory lists a wide range of open educational resources organized by discipline. This directory is updated as new resources are identified. Note that textbooks in the B.C. Open Textbook Collection are not included in this directory. |
Also see LOCATE OER
